Brian Cahill

About Brian Cahill

I enjoy the creative challenge of tailoring IT solutions to fit business needs. At…

Experience

1. Head of IT

   Frogslayer

   Jun 2016 — Present · Bryan/College Station, TX, US

   Overview: When I joined Frogslayer it was still in startup phase. My first goal wasto understand the company culture and why things were done the way they were.Then I slowly implemented changes to enhance productivity and security while notimpacting the culture or freedom of the employees.• Remote Work: When COVID arrived, I spearheaded the remote work movement.This included security designs, and supplying and supporting a remote workforce.• SOC2 Security: I implemented an IT security strategy over a period of years. Thenwent through the process of preparation and auditing. This culminated in theachievement of the SOC2 Type 2 attestation.• Single Sign On: Conversions were completed on all internal systems to create aSingle Sign On environment. The project included migrating workloads anddirectory services to the cloud. Work was planned and staged causing minimaldisruption to employee productivity. Results include a self-documenting dashboardand auto creation and removal of employee accounts.• Cloud: Took a startup hosting business and designed a cloud infrastructure tosupport growth, security, simplicity and billing management. Setup the companyas an AWS Partner which required becoming proficient with and getting certifiedon the AWS platform. This partnership offered discounts on hosting as well asmarketing opportunities.• Networking: Implemented an active/active fully redundant network at the office(redundant ISP, firewalls, switches and APs). The system was affordable and fullydocumented.

Education

• Northcentral University

  MBA/MIS, Management Information Systems

  2007 — 2009

• International ALERT Academy

  Technical, Leadership and Management

  1998 — 2000

• North Tennessee Bible Institute

  BA, Biblical Counseling / Disaster Relief

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Adtran
• Rhel
• Switches
• Fedora
• Network Design
• Disaster Recovery
• Vpn
• Citrix
• Infrastructure
• Troubleshooting
• Firewalls
• Databases
• Security
• Cisco Ios
• Html
• Servers
• Mysql
• Vmware Esx
• Active Directory
• Xp
• Windows Server
• System Administration
• Data Center
• Sharepoint
• Apache
• Technical Support
• Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Network Engineering
• Dns
• Integration
• Cisco Routers
• Virtualization
• Load Balancing
• Ubuntu
• Network Administration
• Juniper
• Network Security
• Vmware
• Windows 7