Won Choi

About Won Choi

Won Choi (Cloud Security Architect) is an Information technology professional with an advanced degree in information systems, numerous industry certifications (CISSP, Microsoft, VMware, AWS) and over 12 years of experience in the areas of IT systems integration, cyber security, information assurance, cloud architecture and development, migration, and operations, as well as project management supporting the healthcare, commercial, government and defense sectors. He has led numerous system migration projects to include cloud migrations, greenfield deployments and re-platforming projects for DoD, Federal and commercial clients.

Experience

1. Cloud Security Architect

   Asm Research

   Jan 2019 — Present · Fairfax, VA, US

   Provide technical subject matter expertise to development and operations teams.Communicate architectural decisions and mentoring other technical staff.Provide guidance on securely migrating, re-platforming applications and services in on-premise and cloud infrastructures.Designed, deployed, and managed highly available microservices and traditional virtual machine workloads on cloud environments in AWS GovCloud using infrastructure as code (primarily Terraform, Ansible and Puppet) and Kubernetes. Developed the cloud network architecture for the platform (Fortigate, NGINX/F5, AWS VPCs, peering connections, etc.) and integration with customer networks.Developed continuous integration and deployment pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus Lifecycle and Fortify. Provide guidance on computer engineering and computer systems analysis support for the development of an enterprise security architecture.Develop a system security model and perform analysis of security services for existing and planned cloud infrastructures.Integrate security tools into CI/CD pipelines and leverage automation as well as further build and adapt tools to automate other aspects of security operations.Develop, harden and integrate infrastructure as code (IaC) assets using Terraform, Packer and Ansible for DoD and Federal customers.

Education

• The George Washington University

  B.S., Biology

  2002 — 2006

• University of Maryland Baltimore County

  M.S., Information Systems

  2013 — 2018

Skills

• Business Continuity
• Microsoft Certified Professional
• Dns
• Sharepoint
• Integration
• Sql
• Visio
• Security Patch Management
• Project Management
• Network Administration
• Windows
• Capacity Management
• Troubleshooting
• System Design
• Technical Training
• Windows 7
• System Architecture
• IT Service Management
• Information Assurance
• Training Delivery
• Network Security
• Microsoft Exchange
• Technical Support
• Virtualization
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Information Technology
• Scripting
• Vpn
• Firewalls
• Data Center
• Servers
• Itil
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Documentation
• Hyper-V
• Performance Tuning
• Blackberry Enterprise Server