Brandon B.

FreelancerTop Rated Plus

IT Infrastructure & Security Professional (VCP, CEH, CCNAx3, MCP)

Member since 2018 · 100% Job Success

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United StatesTop 0.35%

Information SecurityTop 0.18%

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$11k

MRR

est. monthly

#1,018

World rank

of 1,045,948

$659k

Lifetime earnings

since 2018

Total jobs

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About

I am a multi-talented IT professional who brings 20 years of experience to all areas of IT Infrastructure & Security. I'm a Master's degree holder and have 15+ IT certifications across many different technologies. I’ve held positions from Desktop/Phone Support, Systems Engineer/Administrator, Senior Technical Support Engineer for an Enterprise Technology Company to a "Hands On" IT Infrastructure Manager with overall responsibility for its multi-million dollar IT Infrastructure services.

My excellent work ethic and wide range of experience ("jack of all trades") is what separates me from many others that work in IT.

I have experience working for the largest financial institutions in the St. Louis Area:

-NISA Investment Advisors (Largest financial asset manager in St. Louis)
-Wells Fargo Advisors (Largest securities broker-dealer in St. Louis)
-Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. (4th largest securities broker-dealer in St. Louis)

I am a 2025 EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Hall of Fame Top 100 Awardee (Global recognition program awarded to CEH certified top 100 most distinguished Ethical Hackers)

I also have experience working with many high profile customers such as the Armed Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard), CENTCOM, DHS, DARPA, DISA, FBI, NSA, NYPD, FDA, FEMA, Disney, Universal, AT&T, Caesars Entertainment, FedEx, and Comcast.

Technical Skills:

Networking: Cisco Routing (2900/3900/4000 Series, ASR 1000), Cisco Switching (6500 Series, Nexus 3000/5000/9000 Series, 3750G, 3750-X, 2960-S), Cisco Meraki, Citrix NetScaler, F5 (BIG-IP)

Cloud: Microsoft 365 Administration, Intune, AWS S3 Administration

Systems Monitoring: Nagios, VMware vROps, VEEAM ONE, Cacti, LogicMonitor, NetApp OnCommand Balance, Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Security: Cisco IPS (Cisco ASA w/ FirePOWER Services), Cisco FireSIGHT Administration, Cisco ASA (5500 Series), Cisco ASASM/FWSM, Cisco ISE, Websense, RSA SecureID Administration, Nessus Administration (On-Prem & Cloud), SecureWorks Administration (IPS/Firewall Log Monitoring & RedCloak), Trend Micro Deep Security, Sophos, Webroot, OpenVAS, Metasploit, Burp Suite, Kali Linux, Nmap, Wireshark, Ninjio

Telephony & Collaboration: Cisco CUCM/Unity/CUPS, FXS/FXO, PRI, SIP, Voice Gateways, Trunks, IPFlex, InformaCast, Bridge Operator Console, Cisco Expressway/MRA, Microsoft Lync, Cisco Jabber, Slack

Rankings

Where Brandon B. ranks by monthly revenue, worldwide, in United States, and in every Upwork skill it competes in.

World#1,018 / 1,045,948Top 0.1%

United States#478 / 136,390Top 0.35%

Information Security#8 / 4,357Top 0.18%

Network Administration#2 / 1,765Top 0.11%

Troubleshooting#4 / 1,578Top 0.25%

Virtualization#1 / 519Top 0.19%

Server#1 / 1,364Top 0.07%

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On Upwork since2018

Rating100% Job Success

Skills tracked5

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Information SecurityNetwork AdministrationTroubleshootingVirtualization

Brandon B. works mainly in Information Security, ranking top 0.18% of freelancers in that skill.

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Brandon B. earns more than 99.9% of all freelancers we track.

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Brandon B. earns an estimated $11k/mo. That's 7.4× the typical freelancer and more than 99.9% of everyone we track.

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