Jerry Smith
Associate Director - Security Operations
Greater Birmingham, Alabama Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Smith is an experienced security operations leader with 10+ years of hands-on practice building and running SOCs, threat hunting programs, and incident response at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he now serves as Associate Director of Security Operations. He leads teams that execute red-team style adversary emulation, threat hunting, vulnerability assessments, forensics, and firewall operations across large enterprise environments. A Red Hat Certified Architect IV with deep practical skills in Splunk, Palo Alto, Tenable, Recorded Future, Microsoft Defender, Azure/AWS, and scripting (Python/PowerShell), he combines technical depth with a people-first leadership philosophy. Jerry also designs cybersecurity curricula and training—authoring courses for Udacity and teaching widely across universities—which informs his ability to translate complex security concepts into operational programs. Unusually for someone at his level, he has blended long-term academic study in history with engineering degrees, bringing a strategic, investigative mindset to cyber threat analysis.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Alabama at BirminghamMaster of Engineering - MEng Information Engineering & Management, Master of Engineering - MEng Information Engineering & Management at UAB School of Engineering
Github Skills (76)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
HarshaVardhanJ/study-env
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Automated deployment of Red Hat exam study environments
Contributions:49 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
devopsdeploymentautomated-deploymentdockerhat
dean1012/memes-with-friends
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:16 PRs, 73 pushes, 15 branches in 1 month
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