About

Donna Parsons

Information Technology Cyber Security Professional with an extensive knowledge, aptitude, and expertise managing, planning, and directing Government, Corporate and Academic enterprise solutions.  Strong experience writing compliance procedures through all phases of system integration efforts, including system design, architecture, requirements, auditing, testing, and support; access control analysis of system performance and optimization. Managed IT related course state budgets, curriculum regulations, and workflow; Project Management life cycles; conceptual planning, execution, and the termination phase; constraints and risks. Project Management skills include facilitating sensitive or controversial material coincident with Law Enforcement and security member coordination; communication in government, academic, Law Enforcement, and technical environments.  Responsible for creating a business plan for Academia that was submitted and accepted by one the largest computer and mobile phone retailers in the world.

Consistently maintains, positive C- Level relationships and outreach with department heads. HR management experience supervising employees while making sure all team project goals were met. Positive contract negotiations with vendors, experience implementing enterprise license system software audit and control, effectually tested enterprise security applications and procedures.                       

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Hardware: CompTIA Certified, A+
• Network Administration, Optical Drive certification, SCSI, RAID, Fujitsu High speed scanners factory trained and certified, HP Laser printers, Compaq server service engineer, Okidata laser printer division.

• Compliance Management: SOX, GLBA, US Patriot, COPPA, FISMA, FERPA, Vulnerability Assessment, Disaster Recovery, Due Diligence, 

• Platforms: Linux, Fedora 9, DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7. 8, 10, Server 2012.
• Web CT- E-Learning course development, WEBEX. Video Conferencing, Microsoft Lync and Soft chalk.

• Network: Active Directory TCP/IP, Novell Netware, IPX/SPX, Ethernet, FDDI, Fiber optics, RDP, VPN, SSH, PGP, PKI, VOIP IPSEC IDS Platform management. LAN, MAN, WAN

• Computer Forensics data recovery experience and technical analysis of computer evidence, chain of custody, maintenance, and investigative report writing