Paul Nodine
Central
Summary
Accomplished Splunk Security Engineer with extensive experience at Clemson University, specializing in data onboarding and security monitoring. Proven track record in custom app development and client training, enhancing system performance and compliance. Adept at tuning correlation searches to optimize threat detection and prevention, ensuring robust security solutions.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Splunk Security Engineer
Apex Systems
07.2025 - 12.2025
- Review client’s current architecture
- Upgrade and modify environment to meet best practices
- Create improvements and install Apps and Add-ons as needed
- Onboard additional logs
- Create documentation for the Splunk environment
Security Engineer
NuHarbor Security
Remote
02.2022 - 02.2025
- Onboard new data sources and ensure CIM compliance
- Create dashboards for users and departments
- Create applications and add-ons as needed
- Help tune Enterprise Security correlation searches and alerts
- Splunk MSSP Engineer for State and Local government
Splunk Consultant
Insight Global
Remote
10.2021 - 02.2022
- Review client’s current architecture
- Upgrade and modify environment to meet best practices
- Recommend improvements and additional Apps and Add-ons
- Create documentation for the Splunk environment
- Train administrators to manage the environment
Splunk Architect
Clemson University
Clemson
05.2020 - 10.2021
- Oversee three distributed Splunk deployments
- Manage all aspects of Splunk such as data onboarding, tuning, and upgrading
- Help train Splunk Administrators and end users
- Led project to separate logs into different indexes based on access needs and data sensitivity.
- Work with other departments to create use cases and provide useful visualizations of their data
- Configured and customized pre-built Splunk apps like Splunk Add-on for Cisco ASA and Splunk Add-on for Windows
- Validate incoming data for CIM compatibility.
- Wrote custom add-ons to onboard Cisco Prime and SenSource logs via API calls.
- Helped write advanced searches to extract data from covid testing results and correlate with other student records.
- Write extraction rules for custom data integration
- Specialize in threat detection and prevention via log analysis and correlation searches
Information Security Spec/Analyst III
Clemson University
Clemson
03.2017 - 05.2020
- Built and configured Splunk Enterprise Security server
- Customized correlation searches to better align with our data sources
- Built and configured Splunk Deployment server and deployment applications to automate log onboarding
- Developed security policy and monitoring for Clemson University’s AWS footprint
- Built firewall infrastructure and rule sets for mission critical applications
- Tested and configured security applications for the Security Operations Center
System Programmer/Developer II
Clemson University
Clemson
07.2014 - 03.2017
- Linux and Windows systems administrator for all campus and datacenter servers
- Blackboard Server Administrator
- Splunk Administrator
- Zabbix Monitoring Administrator
- Building/configuring Virtual Firewall Servers for CU and CUDR POD networks.
- Installing and configuring Splunk Universal Forwarder on Linux servers.
- Built HA Zabbix Cluster for server monitoring
- Installed and configured Splunk Universal Forwarder on all Linux and Windows servers
NOC Technician
Clemson University
Clemson
07.2008 - 07.2014
- Provided 24-hour network support for university staff on campus and remote sites throughout the state of SC.
- Provide Internet2 access services to several state Colleges and Universities and worked with multiple ISPs to diagnose last mile connectivity issues.
- Primary responsibilities include managing IP address assignments for a Class B network, ASA VPN account creation for vendors, DHCP and BIND DNS assignments and configurations, firewall/ACL modifications, remote switch and router modifications, and remote troubleshooting of all connectivity issues for thousands of network devices and users.
- Other responsibilities include procedural training of new employees and teaching configuration and troubleshooting techniques.
- Assisted senior network engineer with ACL implementations for new DHHS network and trained fellow staff so not to violate HIPPA or PCI compliance.
- Assisted in creation of out-of-band VLANs to connect hundreds of switches spanning two data centers.
- Self-trained for Linux Administration, IPv6 deployment best practices, Software Defined Networking using OpenFlow, penetration testing with Metasploit, and some penetration mitigation using Bro IDS.
Network Administrator
Anderson County Library System
Anderson
01.2006 - 01.2008
- Perform network, workstation, and server configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting for 150 employees, over 300 workstations, and 10 different locations.
- Initiated wiki project to link library staff with local schools, community organizations, and other external resources.
- Migrated main library and all branches from a Frame Relay WAN to a Metro Ethernet MPLS WAN.
- Performed setup and configuration for two new branch libraries.
Technical Support Analyst
CompuCom / GE Technology Services
Greenville
01.2006
- Provided phone and onsite hardware and software support for over 600 users and 1000 laptops and workstations at the GE Gas Turbine Technology Lab.
Education
BS - Information Technology
Capella University
Minneapolis, MN01.2006
Associates Degree - Computer Technology
Trident Technical College
Charleston, SC01.2003
Skills
- Splunk architecture
- Data onboarding
- Security monitoring
- Correlation search tuning
- Custom app development
- Client training
Certification
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator
- CISSP (expired)
- CompTIA A+
- GIAC Defending Advanced Threats (expired)
- GIAC Certified Detection Analyst (expired)
- CCNA (expired)
Timeline
Splunk Security Engineer
Apex Systems
07.2025 - 12.2025
Security Engineer
NuHarbor Security
02.2022 - 02.2025
Splunk Consultant
Insight Global
10.2021 - 02.2022
Splunk Architect
Clemson University
05.2020 - 10.2021
Information Security Spec/Analyst III
Clemson University
03.2017 - 05.2020
System Programmer/Developer II
Clemson University
07.2014 - 03.2017
NOC Technician
Clemson University
07.2008 - 07.2014
Network Administrator
Anderson County Library System
01.2006 - 01.2008
Technical Support Analyst
CompuCom / GE Technology Services
01.2006
BS - Information Technology
Capella University
Associates Degree - Computer Technology
Trident Technical College