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Alex Morgan
Senior OT Security Engineer · Manufacturing & critical infrastructure
- Experience
- 12 years Engineering + cybersecurity
- Location
- Columbus, OH Hybrid · Up to 25% travel
- Target base
- $150k to $165k Full-time · Available in 4 weeks
- Operating reach
- 3 plants 14 production lines
Engineering depth. Practical delivery. Connects security architecture with the people, maintenance windows, and production constraints that make it work.
The shape of Alex's experience
The levels describe responsibility in each area. They are not technical test scores, and broader responsibility does not automatically mean a better match.
How to read the five levels and comparison
Each spoke is a work domain. Distance from the center describes the scope of responsibility recorded for that domain, not years of experience or a test score.
- Awareness: Recognizes the concepts; a topic mentioned without examples starts here.
- Assisted: Performs tasks with guidance or supervision.
- Independent: Performs the work independently.
- Leads delivery: Leads a team or owns delivery of that work.
- Defines strategy: Sets organization-wide direction, standards or strategy.
The solid teal outline shows the responsibility described in Alex’s experience. It does not establish tested ability or suitability for a role.
Unknown means evidence is missing. It is drawn at the center, not rated zero. Confirm text-derived suggestions through discussion or assessment; a higher level does not automatically mean a better match.
1 Awareness · 2 Assisted · 3 Independent · 4 Leads delivery · 5 Defines strategy
Experience in context
8 work areas described
From controls engineering to leading OT security delivery. Strongest in brownfield segmentation, asset visibility, and working alongside plant teams.
The badge counts described work areas. It is not a skill score or verification rate.
Strengths you can explore
- Industrial systems and safety4 / 5
Led industrial control system changes with plant engineers and safety leads.
- Network security and segmentation4 / 5
Led zones and conduits design across three plants with staged cutovers and tested rollback.
- Identity, access and remote connectivity3 / 5
Implemented privileged remote access and least-privilege controls for engineering workstations.
- Asset and vulnerability management4 / 5
Led passive discovery of 1,240 assets and vulnerability remediation planning with plant engineers.
- Detection and security operations3 / 5
Independently built and tuned detections for unusual engineering access and controller changes.
- Incident response and recovery2 / 5
Alex’s experience: Assisted (level 2). Role expectation: Independent (level 3). The example describes assisted response work. The interview should clarify which decisions Alex has been responsible for and what support was needed.
- Security architecture and engineering4 / 5
Led IEC 62443 zone risk reviews and translated the findings into approved target architecture.
- Risk, governance and program leadership4 / 5
Led security program delivery and cross-functional risk reviews across three plants.
Where Alex does the best work
- Current role
- Senior OT Security Engineer, Northline Industrial Systems
- Career path
- 5 years in controls engineering, followed by 7 years in OT security.
- Industries
- Discrete manufacturing, food processing, and industrial utilities.
- Team setting
- Works with security architects, plant engineers, maintenance teams, and site leadership.
- Next move
- Own a multi-site security roadmap while staying close to engineering delivery.
Selected work and its impact
Three-plant segmentation program
Manufacturing networks with shared engineering access and tightly scheduled maintenance windows.
Delivered a phased zones and conduits design, remote access controls and plant-approved cutover plans.Architecture walkthrough, redacted network diagrams and a maintenance-window rollback scenario.Asset visibility and detection rollout
Three plants needed a shared inventory without active scanning of production controllers.
Reconciled 1,240 assets, assigned ownership and deployed detections for engineering access and controller changes.Inventory reconciliation exercise, sample detection logic and an alert triage walkthrough.OT incident readiness exercise
A simulated engineering workstation compromise required coordination between plant staff and the security team.
Supported evidence collection and recovery planning while the incident lead owned containment decisions.Tabletop debrief and response checklist; independent response decisions still need to be explored.A useful next question
Alex has supported incident response exercises. The interview should clarify which response decisions Alex has been responsible for and what support was needed.