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Corey M. B.

Arlington, Virginia

$200/hr
4.3
94 jobs
I have worked in the field as a Sr. Network, Security and Systems Engineer for over 25+ years, I can help troubleshoot most network issues on WAN / LAN with almost any network device vendor, administer Windows and Linux server environments from one small business office to large enterprises with multiple locations internationally. As a security expert in standards like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST, ISO-27001(2), I can also help recommend and provide guidance to secure all aspects of data and network integrity, by providing assessments and audits of current environments. After all these years of technical experience, i have developed the trouble isolation and resolution skills necessary system and network engineering and administration. In addition to my technical operational experiences I have used to build this business on I am the CISO for a large organization in Washington, DC. I would like to help small and medium sized business achieve the security postures the larger companies obtain on a much smaller budget. When I was in business school, I pushed the idea of fractional CISO services. A fractional CIO/CISO is targeted for small and large organizations that can benefit from a proven leader in delivering an IT security and operations program at a reduced cost for a Sr. executive leader. A fractional CISO/CIO would work with upper management of the organization to build an end to end security program strategy. Organizations with a security program can meet the due diligence requirements most businesses today have to comply with to reduce the risks of a data breach, loss of intellectual property, reputation damage and financial losses that would be associated with a breach. -Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) -Security Operations Center (SOC) -Application Security -Incident Management / Incident Response / Breach Response -Identity Management and Access control -Business requirements mapped to IT technologies for maximizing revenues and operational efficiency More importantly to me, I get to create a partnership with my clients to develop a well balanced security program for the business and technical counterparts for the entire organization. Certification and Skills • CISSP, CCSFP - PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HiTrust, Privacy Data / PII, ISO27001, CERT-RMM • ISO-27001 Implementer • CISCO CCNA Routing & Switching • CISCO CCNA Security • MySQL / MSSQL DBA • Linux Server Engineering and Administration • Windows Server Engineering and Administration (AD, SQL, Exchange) • Engineered LAMP (+Java) for high volume e-commerce platform • Engineered LAMP systems for 1500 node Linux / Windows network • AWS and Azure Design, Security and Administration • Apache Optimization, Website Security, Mod-Security • VMWare / VSphere architecture for auto provisioning or deprovisioning of infrastructure for maximum cost savings • Development and QA systems using complex Virtualization (Citrix / VMWare) • All system administration and system tasks scripts and management • Systems and Application tuning for optimal system performance, application availability and data optimization
  • Network Security
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  • Firewall
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Linux System Administration
  • Penetration Testing
  • MySQL
  • Apache Administration
  • Cisco Router
  • Windows Administration
  • ISO 27001
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Information Security
Jed S.

Arlington, Virginia

$70/hr
5.0
3 jobs
I help marketing agencies and service businesses eliminate 15-30 hours/week of manual work through custom data pipelines, AI automation, and intelligent reporting systems. Former digital marketer turned automation engineer. I spent 6 years drowning in manual reporting before teaching myself to code. Now I build the systems that agencies and SMBs actually need, not just what sounds cool. Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer with a proven track record of turning "we should automate this" into production systems that actually work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT I BUILD FOR CLIENTS 📊 Automated Reporting & Dashboards • Custom Looker Studio dashboards tracking 40+ KPIs across all platforms • Auto-generated client reports (eliminate manual copying) • Result: 15+ hrs/week saved on reporting 🔗 Data Integration & Warehousing • API integrations (Stripe, Google Ads, Facebook, CRM, CallRail, ServiceTitan) • BigQuery data warehouse migration from scattered spreadsheets • Real-time data pipelines connecting all your platforms • Result: Single source of truth, real-time visibility 🤖 AI & LLM Automation • Natural language data assistants (ask questions in plain English, get instant insights) • Voice AI phone bots (24/7 appointment booking, FAQ handling) • Lead enrichment & scoring with AI • Email & SMS automation with personalization • Result: >90% call automation, 80% fewer ad-hoc SQL requests 🔍 Web Scraping & Process Automation • Selenium bots for platform logins & CSV downloads • Multi-page crawlers with Playwright • SEO audit generators (39 signals analyzed) • Result: 2 hrs → 2 min per report, 100-150 audits/hour 🎯 Lead Generation Systems • Google Places API + web crawling + AI analysis • Reddit monitoring with LLM scoring • Personalized outreach automation at scale • Result: 100-200 qualified leads/hour vs 10-15 manual ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RECENT CLIENT RESULTS Marketing Agency (Imprint Digital) Custom reporting system tracking 42 KPIs across Stripe, Ads, CRM, ClickUp. Saved 15+ hours/week on manual reporting. Delivered in 2 weeks (prototype in 3 days). National Ad Agency (ESB Advertising) Migrated 100+ Google Sheets to BigQuery warehouse. Built LLM-powered analytics assistant for non-technical executives. Eliminated 80% of ad-hoc reporting requests. Shipped MVP → production in < 3 weeks. Ask Your Data (National Mattress Retailer) Natural language BigQuery assistant. Non-technical executives ask questions in plain English, get instant insights. Eliminated 80% of ad-hoc SQL requests. Built in 1 month. Voice Appointment Bot Phone AI with OpenAI Realtime API + Twilio. >90% calls scheduled without staff intervention. Reddit Lead Intelligence (Wealth Management Firm) Real-time monitoring scanning 1,871 posts/comments daily. AI scores opportunities (0-100) with personalized pitches. 40-60% response rate vs 1-2% cold outreach. SEO Audit Generator (Web Design Agency) 39-signal technical SEO analysis with dual viewport crawling. 100-150 audits/hour vs 45 min manual per audit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TECHNICAL STACK Core: Python, SQL, FastAPI, Docker Data: BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Firestore, Looker, Looker Studio Cloud: GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Cloud Scheduler) AI/LLM: OpenAI (GPT-4, Assistants API, Whisper, Realtime API), Ollama Automation: Selenium, Playwright, BeautifulSoup, REST APIs Integration: Gmail API, Twilio, Google Sheets API, Apps Script ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO I HELP Marketing Agencies (my sweet spot - I lived it for 6 years) Service Businesses (HVAC, home services, healthcare, legal) B2B SaaS Companies ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW I WORK I'm a builder who happens to be good at strategy. Not a consultant who hands you a roadmap and disappears. Process: Map workflows → Identify quick wins → Build & prove ROI → Expand systematically Why Me: • I speak business language, not tech jargon (6 years in marketing) • Custom solutions tailored to your processes (not duct-taped Zapier) • You own everything - code, workflows, docs (no vendor lock-in) • 30-day support included ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TYPICAL OUTCOMES ⏱️ 15-30 hrs/week eliminated from manual work 📊 80% reduction in ad-hoc reporting requests 🎯 100-200 qualified leads/hour (vs 10-15 manual) 🚀 Working prototypes in days, full systems in 2-4 weeks 💬 Prompt communication (Google Meet, Slack, email) 📚 Full documentation & handoff training included ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you're sitting on repetitive processes eating your team's time, let's connect. I'll tell you honestly if automation makes sense, and if it does, I'll build it. 📍 Arlington, VA (US-based, remote)
  • Automation
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Data Engineering
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • BigQuery
  • API
  • Data Warehousing & ETL Software
  • Analytics Dashboard
  • Google Sheets
  • LLM Prompt
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Web Scraping
  • Large Language Model
  • Lead Generation
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