Matthew Sponaugle

Nothing is impossible

About me

Greetings! Welcome to my web-based resume. I am Matthew Sponaugle and this is what I have done and can do. The best way to contact me is via LinkedIn.

Skills

This section is a bit jank on mobile. My bad

Soft Skills

Project Management
Technical Writing
Conflict De-escalation
Presentation skills

System administration

Windows Server
Linux
VMWare vCenter
Cisco Networking
Windows Workstations
VOIP/Telephony
LTO Tape Backups
Juniper Networking
Elasticsearch
Barracuda Security tools
Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft Azure
Public Key Infrastructure
Network Observability
Network Security
Ansible

Programming

Python
C#
PHP
SQL
Infrastructure as Code
Object Orient Programming
RESTful APIs
Powershell
CI/CD Pipelines
Puppet
BASH scripting
Dev Ops
Employment history

SYSTEN AND SECURITY ENGINEER

Artech

MARCH 2022 – PRESENT

Delivering security solutions to a multitude of clients from coast to coast, including fortune 500 clients. Responsible for securing, maintaining, and auditing security controls on critical infrastructure with minimal business impact. Client objectives are achieved through leveraging automation, use of custom-built tools, and development of comprehensive procedures. Presently developing a diverse set of security offerings to assist clients with resiliency, recovery, observability, and management.

NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR/ CISO

City of Charleston, West Virginia

JULY 2019 – MARCH 2022

Responsible for maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting the City’s applications, mixed-vendor network, and mixed-vendor servers in support of the City’s mission. Also serves as helpdesk technician, web-developer, and python programmer on an ad-hoc basis. In the midst of a global pandemic in March of 2021 I was selected to spearhead the City’s information security initiative as the City’s first CISO. In addition to daily responsibilities, I worked to build the city into a modern and secure organization through modernization of systems, creation of organizational policies, and application of security frameworks and best practices.

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

ARTECH

MARCH 2018 – JULY 2019

Responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, commissioning, decommissioning, and administering Windows servers in production, development, and test environments. Also responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting as necessary backups and the Cisco Unified Communications VOIP system.

LEVEL 2 HELPDESK

EDGEROCK

MAY 2017 – MARCH 2018

Provide timely first call resolution to issues with customer proprietary applications, the latest versions of Windows and various other supported products to a geographically dispersed population by utilizing call handling techniques, knowledge base articles and a diversified technical skill set.

Certifications
Earned Certifications
  • Cisco CCNA
  • Cisco CCNA Security
  • CompTIA Project+
  • CompTIA Linux+
  • LPI LPIC 1
  • CompTIA Security+
  • CompTIA Network+
  • CompTIA A+
Future Certifications
  • ISC2 CISSP
  • Cisco Devnet
  • Juniper JNCIA
  • Elasticsearch Engineer
  • Cisco CCNP
  • PMI PMP