OMAR EL-SAYED
Dallas, TX · omar.elsayed@email.com · (555) 010-5902 · linkedin.com/in/omarelsayed

SUMMARY
Cyber security analyst with 2+ years owning incident response and vulnerability management for a mid-size security team. Turns alert noise into prioritized, actionable findings.

SKILLS
SIEM (Splunk) · Incident response · Vulnerability management · Threat detection & triage · Firewall / IDS / IPS · NIST / ISO 27001 · Risk assessment · Security audits

EXPERIENCE
Cyber Security Analyst · Lone Star Financial Services · 2023-Present
• Lead Tier-2 incident response for 12 confirmed incidents; cut mean time-to-containment from 6 hours to 90 minutes.
• Own vulnerability-management program covering 500+ assets; reduced critical-finding remediation time from 30 to 12 days.
• Tuned SIEM correlation rules; cut false-positive alert volume 45% without missing true positives.
• Led quarterly access reviews and closed 20+ stale-privilege findings ahead of the annual audit.
• Documented incident-response runbooks now used by 2 junior analysts.
• Key project — SIEM tuning project: cut false-positive alerts by nearly half while holding true-positive detection steady.

Cyber Security Analyst · Chesapeake Security Group · 2021-2023
• Monitored SIEM alerts and triaged Tier-1 incidents within SLA.
• Ran vulnerability scans and tracked remediation to closure.
• Supported incident-response investigations and documentation.
• Reviewed firewall and IDS/IPS logs for anomalies.
• Assisted with quarterly access reviews.
• Key project — Alert-triage playbook: cut average alert-response time for the team.

EDUCATION
BS Cybersecurity · Lone Star Technical University · 2021