Mike Harris
Sr. Cybersecurity Consultant at Objective Area Solutions
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Harris is a senior cybersecurity consultant with 12+ years of hands-on experience securing federal and commercial systems, currently leading CMMC implementation and NIST compliance for Objective Area Solutions while supporting FAA National Airspace Systems defense programs. He blends deep platform knowledge across Linux, Windows, and Cisco IOS with practical SOC, incident response, and vulnerability management experience honed at Red Hat, Qualcomm, and Mosaic451. A founder of a security consulting and forensics practice, he excels at translating technical risk into operational controls, building CSIRTs, and modernizing vulnerability and SOC processes for diverse customers. Mike holds a Secret clearance and a track record of delivering high-value projects (including multi-week Red Hat platform engagements) and mentoring engineers across teams. He favors breadth over narrow specialization—comfortable from kernel-level Linux administration to program-level compliance—and is known for creating reusable tools and documentation that scale across organizations. Based in the Salt Lake City area, he pairs consulting pragmatism with a history of training and public-facing outreach, including sharing ethical hacking insights on industry podcasts.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Edmonds CollegeBachelor of Science Information Technology -- Security, Bachelor of Science Information Technology -- Security at Western Governors UniversityInformation Systems & Technology, Information Systems & Technology at Weber State UniversityHigh School, High School at Bonneville High SchoolAssociate’s Degree Information Technology, Associate’s Degree Information Technology at College of Southern Nevada
Github Skills (163)
permutation10
penetration-testing10
python10
phishing-attacks10
bash10
transmission10
security10
automation10
plex10
ssh10
scanner10
oh-my-zsh10
movie10
infosec10
cybersecurity10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
MikeDawg/Scripts
Sep 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
scriptlinuxbashautomationshell
MikeDawg/plexpy
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:29 pushes in 1 year 1 month
plex-mediapythonplextrackingmonitoring
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