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Don McClintock

Don McClintock
Co-Founder & CTO — CityEthics

Don McClintock

Enterprise Network Security & Technology Leader  ·  Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Don McClintock is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of CityEthics, the non-governmental organization he established with Carla Miller in 2000 to promote government ethics programs in cities and counties worldwide. With a career spanning four decades and three continents — beginning in Sydney, Australia, and extending across SE Asia, the U.K., and the United States — Don brings deep expertise in enterprise network security, infrastructure engineering, and technology leadership. He has held senior security operations roles at Bank of America and EY, and has long combined his technology career with a distinguished commitment to civic service and international anti-corruption work.

Career
Co-Founder & CTO
CityEthics (NGO) · cityethics.org
2000 – Present
Co-founded and built the technical infrastructure for CityEthics, the leading open-source resource for municipal ethics program development. Designed, deployed, and administered the server and CMS platform (Proxmox, Linux, Apache, MariaDB, Drupal) for more than two decades.
Information Security Operations Engineer
EY (Ernst & Young)
2018 – 2022
Supported enterprise information security operations including traffic monitoring for malware and DoS attacks, Netflow collection and monitoring, and automated data enrichment integrations feeding Splunk SIEM.
Architect, Network Data Analytics
World Wide Technology
2017
Conducted a comprehensive review of network monitoring tools for a Fortune 100 client. Delivered strategic and tactical recommendations for expanding network analytics including Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Solarwinds Orion, HP NNMi, Gigamon, StealthWatch, and Splunk Enterprise.
Event Management Specialist — Tools Engineering
Bank of America
2013 – 2017
Progressed through three roles over four years: Security Operations Situation Manager (incident triage for the bank's global security perimeter); Event Management Governance (ITIL process oversight, SNMP/Syslog alerting); and Tools Engineering, specialising in network event management platforms including HP NNMi, Splunk, and Remedy ITSM.
Network Performance Engineer
BG Group (British Gas) · Houston, TX
2012 – 2013
Sole administrator for a sophisticated multi-platform NMS environment across 1,500+ Cisco devices. Managed CA Spectrum, CA eHealth, Solarwinds Orion, RSA Envision, and Cisco MARS. Developed bash/Python scripted config management using RANCID/EXPECT.
Senior Network Consultant
Enterprise Integration · Jacksonville, FL
2010 – 2011
Network escalation engineering for multiple Fortune 500 clients. Data center transitions, routing administration (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), and IT audits across industrial environments in Mexico, Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.
Adjunct Instructor — Networking & Security
Florida State College at Jacksonville
2009 – 2010
Taught Cisco routing and switching (CCNA level) and the Bachelor's course CNT4704 – Internetwork Implementation and Design.
CEO / Senior Consultant
Jax Beach Technology Services · Jacksonville, FL
2007 – Present
Technology consulting for medical, legal, and SMB clients in Northeast Florida.
WAN Consultant
Rayonier Inc. · Jacksonville, FL
2002 – 2007
Managed all aspects of Rayonier's enterprise WAN across approximately 50 remote sites. Deployed Cisco ISRs, SolarWinds Orion, Cisco MARS, and SPLUNK. Implemented Frame Relay, IPSEC DMVPN, and Bellsouth MPLS (NetVPN).
SPECTRUM™ Product Manager, Asia/Pacific
Cabletron Systems · Sydney, Australia
1991 – 1996
Product Manager and Regional Manager for SPECTRUM™ enterprise network management across Asia-Pacific. Clients included BHP, Australian Government, Citibank Singapore, Hyundai Korea, Telecom New Zealand, and National Australia Bank.
R&D Manager, Group MIS
TNT Transport Australia · Sydney
1987 – 1991
Managed a team of five R&D staff providing technology consultancy across TNT's divisions. Led a pioneering packet-radio digital dispatch system for TNT courier fleets.
Education
A.S., Networking Services Technology
Florida State College at Jacksonville · 2008 – 2012
B.Sc. Track, Electronics & Chemistry
University of Technology, Sydney · 1984
B.Sc. Track, Physics, Applied Maths & Statistics
The Australian National University · 1978 – 1981
Science — Electronics
University of Canberra · 1980
Certifications
Cisco CCNA — passed July 2009 (score 944/1000)
CCNP track — A grade in all courses, FSCJ
CompTIA Security+ [SY0-301] — March 2012
CompTIA Linux+ / LPIC-1 — March 2011
Microsoft 70-642 — Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure
Aprisma Certified Engineer — SPECTRUM™ Network Management
Civic & Volunteer
Commissioner, Jacksonville Ethics Commission — appointed by Mayor John Peyton; spearheaded ethics legislation reforms; stepped down 2007 when Carla was appointed Ethics Officer
Commissioner, Jacksonville International Development Commission — appointed by Mayor John Delaney (2001–2003)
Lecturer, Markkula Center for Ethics, Santa Clara University — "Technology and Ethics" at Ethics Camp
Attended Harvard Safra Center for Ethics — with Carla's Network Fellowship (2013–2015)
Transparency International Conferences — Guatemala City (2006), Athens (2008), Panama City (2016)
Youth character education programs — Iraq and Middle East
Presentations alongside Carla to delegations from Kazakhstan & China (Duke Center for International Development)
Location
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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