Matthew Sponaugle

NETWORK SECURITY ENGINEER

Scalence

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.