Colin Edwards
IT Director at IUOE Local 478 Union and Benefit Funds
Cheshire, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Edwards is an IT Director and seasoned information security professional with nine years of formal experience and a career that began in hands-on systems administration. He has built and maintained enterprise infrastructure—Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, backups, patch management, encryption, and secure email—while aligning IT strategy and budgets with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA and PCI-DSS. Certified across Microsoft, (ISC)2 and multiple GIAC disciplines (GSEC, GCWN, GCIH, GMOB, CISSP), he blends operational rigor with incident response and mobile/device security expertise. Known for pragmatic policy development and vendor management, Colin also leads disaster recovery and media destruction aligned to NIST/DoD standards. Based in Cheshire, CT, he is a lifelong learner who stays current through courses, webcasts and industry networks, and has progressed from campus network support to directing IT for a union and benefit fund.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Management Information Systems (MIS) / Business, B.S. Management Information Systems (MIS) / Business at Southern Connecticut State University
Github Skills (35)
log-analysis9
endpoints9
incident-response8
shell8
compliance8
powershell8
pci-dss8
xdr8
command-line8
malware-detection8
linux8
cybersecurity8
windows8
security8
cloud-security8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EdwardsCP/powershell-scripts
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:77 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
EdwardsCP/HuntExes
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:48 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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