Andrew Burch

Senior Security Engineer

Professional Experience

2022present

Senior Security Engineer

Security Endpoint Engineering – Booz Allen Hamilton DeWitt, MI (remote)
  • Conduct tier 3 root cause analysis (RCA) for all network and endpoint security incidents
  • Deploy McAfee/Trellix products and data loss prevention (DLP) policy to all endpoints and servers
  • Maintain active Top Secret (TS) Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance
  • Monitor web security gateways, perimeter and endpoint security, and other network access controls
  • Pioneer data and security policy platform migration from F5 ACLs to Zscaler ZPA with Python automation
  • Streamline Zscaler ZIA URL filtering policy with Python and API automation for the entire firm
  • Update and troubleshoot Cisco AnyConnect Secure VPN connectivity for over 30,000 endpoints
20162022

Network Security Site Reliability Engineer

Data Networks Operations – Consumers Energy Jackson, MI (hybrid)
  • Assist network engineering teams with provisioning new networks, VLAN tagging in Cisco ACI
  • Design custom Bash, Expect/TCL, JavaScript, Python automation and monitoring scripts
  • HSM keyholder experience, participation in disaster recovery tests and on-call rotation
  • Maintain secure access control and credential vaults in Cisco ISE and CyberArk platforms
  • Present risk assessments for platform system upgrades to change management approval board
  • Schedule and perform quarterly Palo Alto firewall firmware upgrades at over 200 locations
  • Serve as subject matter expert (SME) in varied security assets, standards, procedures and documentation
  • Streamline Palo Alto firewalls, Juniper switches, F5/BIG-IPs and Ciena network operations support
  • Troubleshoot network incidents and system performance issues for agile root cause analysis
20152016

Software Engineer Intern

Customer Energy Management – Consumers Energy Kalamazoo, MI (hybrid)
  • Automate mass data analysis to improve business workflow productivity for over 200 employees
  • Automate SAP user interface interaction with Visual Basic scripts and macros in Microsoft Excel
  • Design web interfaces in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP to track gas/electric project timelines
  • Engineer workload forecasting solutions to ensure business continuity and project deliverability
20132016

System and Lab Administrator

Office of Information Technology – Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI
  • Deploy targeted policy changes to domain infrastructure via Active Directory and Group Policy
  • Develop Visual Basic and Batch file scripts to automate silent task sequence deployments in MDT
  • Maintain system integrity and availability of over 300 student workstations in 4 computer labs
  • Provide technical support expertise to students and fulfill customer software requests
  • Update Windows 7/8/10 system images and enterprise software licensing from over 50 vendors

Education

20122016

B.S. Computer Science, Minor: Mathematics

Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI
20082012

High School Diploma, GPA: 4.11/4.0

Grandville High School Grandville, MI

Security Clearance

Feb 2024present

Top Secret (TS), Active

Department of Defense defense.gov

Skills

Programming – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, VBA, Python, C, Prolog, C#, PHP, Ruby

Scripting – Bash, Expect/TCL, Visual Basic, Batch

APIs – AngularJS, Bukkit, BungeeCord, Google Maps, Ionic, jQuery, Microsoft Power Apps, Node.js, RESTful, Socket.IO/Express, Selenium, Spigot, Trellix ePO, Zscaler ZCC/ZIA/ZPA

Databases – MongoDB, NoSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

Webservers – Apache, Nginx, Flask

Operating Systems – Windows, UNIX/Linux, MacOS, Ubuntu, Mint, CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Arch, Android, iOS

Networking – Ciena, Cisco ACI/AnyConnect/ISE, F5/BIG-IP load balancers, Juniper switches, OSI, Palo Alto firewalls

Security – DLP, Hash/encryption algorithms, HSM keyholder, IDP/IPS, iptables/UFW, McAfee/Trellix, NERC CIP, Nmap, sandboxing/behavioral analysis, SIEM, SolarWinds, SSL/TLS, tcpdump, Wireshark, X.509, Zscaler ZCC/ZIA/ZPA

Software – Adobe, Gimp, Git, Jira, Microsoft Office, ServiceNow, Splunk

Projects

2020present

Personal Website

andrewburch.me andrewburch.me
  • Jekyll blog/portfolio of education, projects, achievements and interests
2018

MongoDB Management Bot

Personal andrewburch.me
  • Java app for automated maintenance of MongoDB replica set
2018

DuoAuth Plugin

SpigotMC Forums spigotmc.org
  • Adaptive and configurable RFC6238-compliant authentication with bcrypt
20172020

Firewall Version Map

Consumers Energy Jackson, MI
  • Node.js app monitoring geolocation, PanOS software version and per-core dataplane utilization of Palo Alto firewalls via SNMP/XML API polling and D3.js graphing
2016

Hybrid-Mobile App

Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI
  • Cross-platform mobile app used to report streetlight/power outages
2015present

Minecraft Server Network

Foncused Network foncused.net
  • Public Minecraft game server network developed with custom gamemodes via Java plugin development and 3-node geo-redundant replica set cluster for high-availability

Volunteer Experience

20192022

Student Mentor

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Jackson, MI
  • Mentor student lacking parental guidance
2017present

Forums Moderator

SpigotMC Forums spigotmc.org
  • Forum moderation overseeing 1.8 million members

Honors

2022

Leaving It Better Award

Consumers Energy Jackson, MI
  • Recognized for advancing company strategy
2017

Leaving It Better Award

Consumers Energy Jackson, MI
  • Recognized for advancing company strategy
2015

Dean's List

Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI
  • GPA exceeded minimum requirement of 3.5
2012

National Honor Society

Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI
  • Extra-curricular volunteer work on an honor-basis
2011

National Student Leadership Conferences

University of Chicago Chicago, IL
  • Varied university-level engineering challenges completed in high school
2010

FIRST Robotics Varsity Letter

Grandville High School Grandville, MI
  • Leadership mentoring for defined project goals

Interests

Computer Programming, Web Development, Network Security, Cyber Security, Data Networking, Data Analysis, Data Structures, Data Privacy, Automation Efficiency, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, System Administration, Interconnected Technology, Software, Hardware, Mathematics, Number Theory, Cryptography, Steganography, Hash Algorithms, Cryptocurrency, Chess

References

Letters

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LinkedIn

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Recommendations

“Andrew was one of the most creative and resourceful employees, I was privileged to work with. He never turns work away and is extremely loyal and trustworthy. He has an extensive background in network security and programming and was quite adept at solving problems through automation of processes with complex programming and scripting.
Any employer given the opportunity to pick him up, would certainly not regret it.”

“Andrew worked as an intern under my direction and one other leader between 2015 and 2016 at Consumers Energy. During this time, he used his experience and knowledge as a software engineer and technical assistant in an effort to improve business reporting processes. Andrew accomplished this task by partnering with leadership on the design while independently developing and coding the programs. The tools Andrew built supported the organization for roughly 3 years through metrics and visual management.

Andrew accepted a full-time position in 2016 and continued to provide Consumers Energy with performance enhancements not under my direct leadership. During the time Andrew worked under my leadership I considered Andrew as a valuable asset to my team and to any team. He has the ability to work with different levels of organizations to deliver a usable product that works for the end users and the management team.”

Contact

drew@andrewburch.me
andrewburch.me/contact
linkedin.com/andrew-burch-me
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