Case studies · Selected career experience
Work on regulated, critical, and high-volume systems.
These examples from the Secure Data Solutions (SDS) engineering team describe the situation, the work, and why it mattered.
01 — Selected work
Four projects, from plant floor to airport terminal.
- 01
Critical infrastructure
Multi-site security overhaul for a regulated utility.
Redesigned power-plant networks from the physical layer up, based on observed traffic and NERC CIP requirements. Replaced systems during planned outages and tested each cutover.
- 17
- Power plants in the program
- NERC CIP
- Requirements → design
- Offline
- Planned-outage cutovers
- 02
Payment infrastructure
PCI security for toll-payment data centers.
Designed PCI segmentation for two FDOT/SunPass data centers, each with two firewall clusters. Installed the firewalls and built the policies.
- 2
- Data centers
- 2
- Firewall clusters per data center
- PCI DSS
- Requirements → design
- 03
Ransomware response
Ransomware contained in under 24 hours.
Responded to a holiday-period attack on a new client's outdated data center. Rebuilt and hardened the environment after containment.
- <24 h
- Containment
- 8 yr
- Hardware age
- Months
- Rebuild & hardening
- 04
Enterprise wireless
Wireless for a major international airport.
Designed and implemented Miami International Airport's first internal and public wireless network, with more than 1,500 Aruba access points.
- 1,500+
- Access points
- Initial
- Airport wireless environment
- ≈60,000
- Network nodes, excluding wireless clients
02 — Organizations
Experience in high-consequence environments.
Our work spans critical infrastructure, payments, transportation, government, and enterprise.
- Adventist Health System
- American Airlines Arena
- Associated Grocers
- AvMed
- BAC Florida Bank
- Banco Pichincha
- BankUnited
- Becker & Poliakoff
- Bellin Health
- Byers Engineering Company
- City of Aventura
- City of Bradenton
- Condotte America
- The Corradino Group
- FDOT
- FDOT SunPass
- Fidelity Investments
- Finley Engineering Group
- FPL (Florida Power & Light)
- Goodwill
- Government of Anguilla
- Intercredit Bank
- IPC / Subway
- Komatsu
- Liberty Power
- Magnivision
- MAPFRE
- Miami International Airport
- Miami-Dade County Police Department
- Mutual of Omaha
- Muvico Theaters
- NextEra Energy
- Office Depot
- Partners Federal Credit Union
- Phelps Dodge International
- Polk County
- Sony Music Latin
- Starwood Hotels and Resorts
- Sunbeam
- Telefónica
- Time Warner
- Trump International Beach Resort
- University of Florida
- U.S. Century Bank
- Venali
- Waste Pro
Bring us the project your team doesn't staff for.
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