Yanek Korff is an accomplished information technologist. His specialties lie in information and systems security as demonstrated by the publication of Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security in 2005 and CISSP certification acquired in 2003. Yanek has worked for both small and large companies and seeks areas of the organization that are high energy and close-knit. His ideal position would give him the opportunity to leverage his technical and non-technical skills as he takes responsibility for an operations/technology team bringing technical solutions to business problems.
| Sr. Technical Manager | Reston, Virginia |
| AOL, LLC | April 2004 - PRESENT |
Managing the Security Engineering team consisting of Security Development and Systems Security sub-teams. Together these teams are responsible for the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of security systems supporting the IT Security department, Legal, AOL as a whole, and parts of Time Warner.
Before serving as a Sr. Technical Manager of Security Engineering, as a Technical Manager of Systems Security:
- Managed a team of 6-9 system administrators/engineers responsible for the administration of AOL's security infrastructure including UNIX kerberos, public key infrastructure (PKI), authorization management system, intrusion detection system (IDS) and a variety of other security related, operations infrastructure and applications.
- Implemented an SSL certificate vendor change affecting the Time Warner family of companies and reducing AOL's line item cost by over one third for 2006.
- Worked extensively with technical leaders of the security organization to help define a consistent view of user namespaces and management of account access and use. This supported both Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Payment Card Industry (PCI) audit requirements.
- Formalized and documented procedures and service level agreements associated with change control, especially relating to requests for QA services, and software installs. Achieved both team and customer buy-in to ensure smooth adoption and adherence to guidelines.
- Improved lines of communication and trust with customers ensuring a better working relationship and cooperation between teams.
Before serving as a Technical Manager, as a Senior System Administrator:
- Customized and deployed automation and open source software solutions to improve the efficiency of the team, to include: Nagios-based systems monitoring with graphing for trend analysis, modular post-install system for OS (re)build, and a centralized configuration management system based on CVS and shell script automation.
| Senior Systems Administrator | Dulles, Virginia |
| Cigital Inc. | November 1999 - April 2004 |
Lead systems administrator of heterogeneous UNIX/NT environment and LAN. Responsible for initial research, budgeting, project planning, and deployment for all IT projects including: migrating from Windows NT and Exchange 5.5 to 2000, optimizing system build process using Symantec Ghost, enhancing and consolidating storage and backup capacity using NAS and BakBone NetVault over NDMP, deploying Checkpoint Firewall-1/VPN-1, establishing traditional three-legged firewall, and redesigning the intenal network topology.
| Systems Engineer | Annandale, Virginia |
| Bell Atlantic | May 1999 - November 1999 |
Junior administrator assisting in installation and maintenance of 20+ Sun Ultra E450s, 40+ Sun Ultra E250s, and Sun Ultra E4500s. Built jumpstart system for automated builds of these systems and continued to manage the use of these systems by designing a web based system inventory and activity monitoring application.
| System Support / Web Designer | Williamsburg, Virginia |
| College of William and Mary | 1996 - 1999 |
Provided system support at the college help desk and participated in a variety of web projects for the college and affiliated organizations. Developed expertise in on-campus network configuration and troubleshooting and AIX based systems administration. Helped pioneer the Student Information Network portal.
