Phillip Watley
Senior Consultant at Google
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Watley is a Senior Consultant in information security with a 10-year professional track record and 15 years of combined networking and security experience that began in military communications. He has led SOC operations, incident monitoring, and tabletop attack simulations for enterprise and government-scale environments at organizations including Mandiant and Google. Phillip pairs hands-on network engineering—from Cisco configurations and CUCM phone setups to SQL server administration—with SOC process design and C-level reporting, demonstrating both technical depth and operational rigor. A US Army veteran who built battalion-wide training and identity access workflows, he brings disciplined change control and practical threat-hunting experience to cloud and corporate environments. Based in Chicago and holding a Cybersecurity degree from WGU with earlier system/network certifications, he’s comfortable translating complex security posture into actionable executive metrics.
10 years of coding experience
Associate's degree, System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager, Associate's degree, System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager at MTI CollegeNetwork and System Administration/Administrator, Network and System Administration/Administrator at Southeastern Technical CollegeBachelors, Cyber Security, Bachelors, Cyber Security at Western Governors UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Vidalia Comprehensive High School
English, German
Github Skills (69)
api-management10
github10
proxy10
security10
consul10
istio10
microservices10
monitoring10
service-mesh10
javascript10
sidecar10
fault-injection10
api10
proxies10
golang10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pitlv2109/shinimi
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
shaneneary/generator-elide
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 1 month
elideyahooyeoman-generatoryeoman
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