Rene Altagracia
Port Elgin,Canada
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Cyber security Subject Matter Expert
CSA Group
06.2018 - Current
- Cyber security task force reviewing the cyber security standard for nuclear power plants N290.7
Cyber Security Lead Engineer and SPOC
Bruce Power Nuclear Station
09.2017 - Current
- Lead a Team of Engineers implementing the CSA N290.7-14 cyber security for nuclear power plant and small nuclear reactors
- Project Evaluation, Feasibility and Planning reviews
- Engineering contract reviews and vendor selection
- Monitoring of cyber essential infrastructure construction and deployment progress for the nuclear plant operations
- Provide oversight and guidance on the upgrades to the physical security enhancements for cyber security
- Developed the program for engineering design and planning reviews.
- Oversight Cyber assets commissioning and verification of standard controls
- Cost/Benefit Analysis to determine controls based on risk and balancing the cost with the benefits presented.
- General reporting to project upper management based on project timelines, business competence and program compliance.
- Technical oversight on the digital initiative to modernize and connect the station components to enhance condition based maintenance.
Finance Department
Regional Municipality of Durham
06.2013 - 09.2017
- Create analysis of risk-benefits for software upgrade and report to senior management.
- Managed several software upgrades projects
- Implemented a process for securely deleting all data on computer equipment before being retired from service
- Test and evaluate hardware and software and recommending equipment purchases.
- Monitor several IT Security architecture and operating systems, MS Windows desktop, McAfee ePO, End-Point Protection.
Math Department
York University
Toronto, Canada
11.2012 - 06.2013
- Developed and maintained web content manager for the department
- Administered the various labs and the resources, maintaining high availability to students, faculty and staff
- Designed and deployed a secured environment for examination purposes using networked enabled computers.
Research lab administrator
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
, Canada
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Responsible for the servers at the research lab for master and PHD students
- Implemented and configure VMware VSphere hypervisor to allow server and resource sharing.
- Installed and Maintained MS Windows Server 2008 and Linux servers for the PHD and Master students
- Configure VPN access for students to access the servers assigned to them.
- Researching the smart grid AMI for security issues using network scanning tools (Wireshark and Nmap)
- Proved man-in the middle attach concept to secured websites using a compromised Wi-Fi-hotspots and developed documentation to explain the attack and how to prevent it.
IT Engineer and SQA team lead
Argentum Inc
08.2010 - 12.2011
- Implemented VMware Virtualization for servers and critical infrastructure.
- Installed and maintained internal cisco routers and switches
- Installed and Maintained MS windows servers 2008 R2 with the AD Services, DNS services and DHCP
- Organized and separate the network for the software development environment from the SQA environment for complete isolation and bug tracking control.
- Managed SQL Database for the MS SharePoint 2010, IBM Rational Quality Manager and Team Concert software.
- Installed, configured, Managed and troubleshoot, MS Exchange server, MS Forefront Firewall and VPN gateway
- Administer the internal asterisk PBX for internal VoIP communication and configured QoS to prioritized voice over data on the network.
- Created the backup task for automatic daily backups
Technical support
Checkbox Inc
02.2008 - 04.2010
- Company Overview: (VoIP- Telecommunication provider)
- Responsible for the testing the WEB VoIP application and web services for checkbox proprietary software and provide customer technical support with the application as needed.
- Monitor the system for VoIP fraud prevention looking for abnormal calling behavior
- Supporting customers with issues with the application
- Coordinate the test of the VoIP Application with developer
- Daily test VoIP connections for Quality Control
- (VoIP- Telecommunication provider)
Education
Master Degree - Information Security
Ontario Tech University
B.Sc - Computer System Engineering
APEC University
Professional Engineers (P.Eng) -
Engineers of Ontario
Cert. - Software and quality control process and methodologies
Ibero-American University
CompTIA A -
APEC University
Cisco CCNA -
APEC University
Skills
- Project management
- Personnel Management
- Nuclear Cyber Security
- CSOC Management
- Industrial Control Systems
- OPC/Modbus/OSISoft PI
- Communications
- Unidirectional Gateways
- Information Security
- Network Configuration
- Firewall administration
- ICS Security
- VPN and sFTP
- Data recovery tools
- IT Security risk analysis
- Shell scripting in DOS and Linux
- Data Historian
- Hardware testing experience
- Server configuration and management
- Domain Controller administration
- Linux server
References
- Eng. Jesus Jimenez, BMO, SQA Team Lead, (647) 244 6335
- Dr. Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario, Professor, Khalil.el-khatib@uoit.ca, (905) 721 8668 x 2884
- Steven Chen, York University, stevenc@mathstat.yorku.ca, (416) 736.2100 x 66236
Publications
CSA N290.7-21, Canada’s Cyber security for Nuclear Power Plants, CSA Group, Toronto, ON
Academic And Professional Qualifications
- Master Degree in Information Security, Ontario Tech University, Cyber Security for Smart Meters on the electrical grid
- B.Sc Computer System Engineering, APEC University
- Professional Engineers (P.Eng), Engineers of Ontario
- Cyber Security for Industrial Controls Systems, Government of Canada, Durham-York Energy Centre
- Cert. in Software and quality control process and methodologies, Ibero-American University
- SCCM 2007 Configuration and software deployment, Oshawa, ON
- Basics of Oracle DB 10g, Working with Oracle 10g express
- Cert. IBM Essentials of Manual Testing, IBM Online Training
- Cert. Test Management with IBM Rational Quality Manager, IBM Online Training
- CompTIA A+, APEC University
- Cisco CCNA, APEC University
Timeline
Cyber security Subject Matter Expert
CSA Group
06.2018 - Current
Cyber Security Lead Engineer and SPOC
Bruce Power Nuclear Station
09.2017 - Current
Finance Department
Regional Municipality of Durham
06.2013 - 09.2017
Math Department
York University
11.2012 - 06.2013
Research lab administrator
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
01.2012 - 01.2013
IT Engineer and SQA team lead
Argentum Inc
08.2010 - 12.2011
Technical support
Checkbox Inc
02.2008 - 04.2010
Master Degree - Information Security
Ontario Tech University
B.Sc - Computer System Engineering
APEC University
Professional Engineers (P.Eng) -
Engineers of Ontario
Cert. - Software and quality control process and methodologies
Ibero-American University
CompTIA A -
APEC University
Cisco CCNA -
APEC University