Uriel Duran
Technical Support & System Administrator
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolUriel Duran is a Technical Support and System Administrator based in Chicago with a decade of hands-on experience hardening infrastructure, streamlining IT operations, and improving security posture for businesses and financial institutions. He led initiatives that closed auditor findings, cut vulnerabilities by 92% at a bank, and implemented endpoint management, phishing training, and inventory systems that improved oversight and reduced troubleshooting time. Comfortable across Active Directory, Group Policy, VPNs, backups, encryption, and endpoint protections, he combines day-to-day systems work with policy-driven risk management and vendor due diligence. Uriel also builds practical knowledge bases and training programs, translating technical complexity into repeatable processes for teams and auditors. His early work spans SQL optimization, ticketing deployments, and even media/content production—showing a knack for solving problems across technical and non-technical domains. Colleagues know him for pragmatic security-first solutions and a wry sense of humor about preferring PHP.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Illinois Institute of TechnologyLincoln Park High School
Spanish, English
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Github contributions (5)
IIT-Web-Application-Development/fincal
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:86 commits, 49 pushes in 2 days
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