Ricárdo Soares

Project focused on Core Network and Security assessment and redesign to standardization, including the following tasks:

- Network & Security assessment: survey and inventory of all IT assets for LAN/WAN/Wireless/Security
- Define resources and requirements for network & security redesign
- Define a recommended network and communication architecture to comply with Network and Security best practices of Makro Group: access, monitoring and management security and network devices,… Mostrar más

Project focused on Core Network and Security assessment and redesign to standardization, including the following tasks:

- Network & Security assessment: survey and inventory of all IT assets for LAN/WAN/Wireless/Security
- Define resources and requirements for network & security redesign
- Define a recommended network and communication architecture to comply with Network and Security best practices of Makro Group: access, monitoring and management security and network devices, hardening, Syslog & SIEM solutions, risk assessment and governance
- Analyze and validate partners proposals with Makro Colombia IT Team
- Manage the project and coordinate partner’s activities with Makro Colombia IT Team Mostrar menos

Project focused on Core Network and Security redeg and standardization, including the following tasks:

- Define resources and requirements for network & security redesign
- Define a recommended network and communication architecture to comply with Network and Security best practices of Makro Group: access, monitoring and management security and network devices, hardening, Syslog & SIEM solutions, risk assessment and governance
- Analyze and validate partners proposals… Mostrar más

Project focused on Core Network and Security redeg and standardization, including the following tasks:

- Define resources and requirements for network & security redesign
- Define a recommended network and communication architecture to comply with Network and Security best practices of Makro Group: access, monitoring and management security and network devices, hardening, Syslog & SIEM solutions, risk assessment and governance
- Analyze and validate partners proposals with Makro Peru IT Team
- Manage the project and coordinate partner’s activities with Makro Peru IT Team Mostrar menos

Reviewing of practices for information security and deployment of security measures and controls including:

- 802.1x using certificates or names for network authentication: Wireless (internal and external laptops, mobiles and guests) Wired (IP Phones and devices behind of IP Phones, printers and other devices connected to wired network)
- hardening of network devices (Firewalls, Switches, WLan Controllers)
- optimization of controls for security (Firewall) and Internet access… Mostrar más

Reviewing of practices for information security and deployment of security measures and controls including:

- 802.1x using certificates or names for network authentication: Wireless (internal and external laptops, mobiles and guests) Wired (IP Phones and devices behind of IP Phones, printers and other devices connected to wired network)
- hardening of network devices (Firewalls, Switches, WLan Controllers)
- optimization of controls for security (Firewall) and Internet access (Web Filtering)
- update of policies and procedures for information security practices, covering Corporate Network and External Access to internal network. Mostrar menos

Project for migration of energy supplying to new billing system in Brazil, wich include:

- requirements for interconnecting Makro stores with energy suppliers, for new billing system "CCEE"
- following the physical connection instalations in electric power cabin
- logical network standards and security connections (NAT, IPSec VPN) to collect data from meter devices in power cabin
- set the communication and tests with each energy supplier and meter devices of Makro stores

Project for building regional MPLS WAN to connect Makro South America BUs to Regional DataCenter, with the following processes:

- requirements and objectives for network topology operations, metrics for capacity, availability and tecnologies (latency, redundancy and last-mille)
- RFP to assess the partners and proposals
- leadership for delivering physical and logical access, migration to new MPLS links and settings for routing and security in the access to Regional DC

Defining requirements, deg communication topology to deploy network infrastructure providing data and voice communication to new Makro Distribution Center.

Project focusing on upgrading WAN links (primary and secondary) to improve network communication for all Brazil stores.

Project for reviewing and deployment of security measures in Makro IT infrastructure: physical access, logical access, security firewall rules and threat prevention, Information Security policies and processes for corporate network access and external access.

Project for roll-out of new network devices for Brazil stores: switches access, WiFi devices, centralized management configurations.

Project for reviewing and deployment of security measures in Makro IT infrastructure: physical access, logical access, security firewall rules and threat prevention, Information Security policies and processes for corporate network access and external access.

Project for roll-out of central firewall, next generation firewall technology, adding improvements to security filtering and better throughput of processing.

Local Intranet development and web workflows automation, using MS-Sharepoint 2007:

Helpdesk
Project Management
E-Learning
Survey Apps

Development and deployment of Invoice Control to products received for all Brazil Greif plants, using MS-Access as front-end and Excel for automated reports controlled by Financial dept.

Project to deploy Cisco Wireless Infrastructure (Wlan Controller and LAPs) to extend network services and provide infrastructure to Production Management System for collecting and monitoring production.

Leading projects to deploy Production Management and Energy Monitoring systems for plants and operational efficiency, validating IT infrastructure to systems installation, employees training and technical .

Project for new CRM and BI tool, automating workflows for information extracting from ERP to the new tools, besides technical ing with Greif Global Team.

IT Services Integration and migration for new plants acquired by Brazil Greif:
- Network Integrations (site-to-site VPNs and MPLS Links, VoIP, telephony)
- Microsoft Network Services migrations to Brazil Greif domain
- Datacenters migration to HQ Brazil Greif (physical servers and systems ERP)

Excel VBA programming for:

Calendar Scheduling for IT Resources and Meeting Rooms (2008);
Excel Calendar Automation for requests from Logistic dept. to Commercial dept. (2010);
Excel NCR (Non Compliance Request) Controls for Quality dept. (2011).

Security Project to deploy CISCO Firewall ASA 5510 and Filtering Content IBM WebSense Express as the core of security filtering for network.

Network services restructuring for Brazil Greif: DH, DNS, Wins, Domain Forest, Active Directory Objects, deploy of GPOs/ scripts, scripts for BKP automation, Security updates policies ( WSUS e MCAfee Orchestrator ). Upgrades from Windows Server 2000 to 2003.