Edward Bertsch, CISSP, BMCS-CE
412 Wedgewood Drive
Saint Paul, MN 55115

Phone: (651) 967-7852
e-mail: Ed@Twin-Cities.com
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Willing to travel, willing to relocate.

PAST CLIENTS INCLUDE:

Allstate, Amazon, Bank of America, Blue Cross Florida, CAE, Capital One, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CIB Marine Bancshares, City of Edmonton, Client Logic, ConocoPhillips, Davidson Companies, Ecolab, EDS, Edwards Lifesciences, HealthNow Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New York, Infinera, International Truck and Engine/Navistar, LiveOps, Mobilkom (Austria), National Council on Compensation Insurance - NCCI, One Beacon, Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, Philip Morris Management Corp / Kraft, PJM Interconnection, Regence Blue Cross, Safeway, Santander Serfin Bank, Sunlife, Target, Total Systems, US Bank, USAA, Visa, Washington Mutual, White Electronic Designs Corporation, Williams, Zeneca

SKILLS SUMMARY:

Security: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
UNIX: IBM AIX (certified), SGI Irix (certified), Solaris/SunOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Unicos, TCL script programming; Unix shell script programming;
Other: pre-sales and post-sales engineering and enterprise consulting, field service; systems administration; computer programming; software quality control and troubleshooting; end-user training and courseware development; customer support; excellent analytical and communications skills; working independently and as part of a team.

SOFTWARE:

Tripwire Enterprise, Passlogix v-GO SSO, Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On, UNIX Shell scripting, TCL scripting, BMC Software CONTROL-SA (certified: BMCS-CE Security Management v3.2), BMC Identity Management Suite 5.5, Enterprise Security Station, Identity Management Suite

RELATED EXPERIENCE:

Advanced Integrated Solutions (AIS)
(2008 - 2009; Senior Consultant) Provider of Single Sign-On Consulting Services to the firm's clients throughout USA and Canada.

Logic Trends
(2007 - 2008; Senior Consultant) Provider of Identity/Access Management Consulting Services to the firm's clients throughout USA.

Midwave
(2004 - 2007; Eden Prairie, Minnesota; Senior Consultant) Provider of Security and Identity/Access Management Consulting Services to the firm's clients in the Upper Midwest and throughout USA.

2003 - 2004
Independent Computer Consultant, specializing in Computer Security and BMC Software's CONTROL-SA product line.

BMC Software, Inc
(1999 - 2003; Houston, Texas [field employee]; Senior Software Consultant)
Senior member of Professional Services team. Technical implementation of CONTROL-SA, a family of security products providing user administration for heterogeneous computing environments in large enterprises. Provider of technical services including installation and customization. Responsible for product line Education development and delivery. Deliver technical training (public and private classes) and mentoring to fellow team members, to end-users, and to the staff of partner firms.

North American Systems, Inc
(1998 - 1999; Eagan, Minnesota; Systems Engineer) Installation and support of high performance file servers and vertical market software for the pre-press segment of the printing industry, including Sun and SGI servers, gigabit ethernet networking, high performance RAID storage arrays, DLT tape changers and backup software, CD/DVD jukebox.

Supercomputing Institute -- a department of the University of Minnesota
(1998; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Unix Support Technician) Member of systems administration team, duties included user account management. Software summary: IBM AIX, Debian Linux, SGI Irix, NIS.

Cray Research -- which at the time was a division of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
(1997 - 1998; Eagan, Minnesota; Systems Specialist)

EDUCATION:

B.A., Computer Science, with a Minor in Mathematics, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota (1988), additional courses from the University of Minnesota and the University of Saint Thomas

HONORS:

Pi Mu Epsilon (National Mathematics Honor Society), Dewitt Wallace Scholarship