Refocus resume as Principal Security Engineer; tighten to 2 pages

- Reposition summary and skills toward hands-on AI + automation (IC track); lead skills with AI/ML Engineering, demote leadership - Condense summary to lead with a hard metric (47% of 3,500 weekly tickets) - Fold NWTF role into Earlier Experience to fit 2 pages - Add build_resume.sh: regenerate docx, render PDF via OnlyOffice x2t, and enforce a hard 3-page maximum - Fix timezone off-by-one in work dates and cert/award years Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update resume PDF with TopBuild role and Director tailoring
2026-07-06 11:19:56 -05:00 · 2026-06-23 21:45:47 -05:00 · 2026-06-23 21:45:06 -05:00
5 changed files with 148 additions and 80 deletions
--- a/Phillip_Tarrant_Resume_2026.docx
+++ b/Phillip_Tarrant_Resume_2026.docx
--- a/Phillip_Tarrant_Resume_2026.pdf
+++ b/Phillip_Tarrant_Resume_2026.pdf
--- a/build_resume.sh
+++ b/build_resume.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Build the resume: regenerate the .docx from resume.json, render a .pdf via
+# OnlyOffice's headless x2t converter, and ENFORCE a hard 3-page maximum.
+# Exits non-zero (and deletes the stale PDF) if the render exceeds MAX_PAGES.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+
+MAX_PAGES=3
+DOCX="Phillip_Tarrant_Resume_$(date +%Y).docx"
+PDF="Phillip_Tarrant_Resume_$(date +%Y).pdf"
+
+OO=/opt/onlyoffice/desktopeditors
+X2T="$OO/converter/x2t"
+# Font cache generated by the OnlyOffice desktop app (x2t needs it; the bundled
+# converter ships without one and crashes otherwise).
+FONTS="$HOME/.local/share/onlyoffice/desktopeditors/data/fonts"
+
+# --- 1. Generate the .docx from resume.json ---
+node generate_resume.js
+
+# --- 2. Render .docx -> .pdf via x2t ---
+if [[ ! -x "$X2T" ]]; then
+  echo "ERROR: OnlyOffice x2t not found at $X2T — cannot render/verify pages." >&2
+  exit 3
+fi
+if [[ ! -f "$FONTS/AllFonts.js" ]]; then
+  echo "ERROR: OnlyOffice font cache missing at $FONTS/AllFonts.js." >&2
+  echo "       Open the OnlyOffice desktop app once to generate it, then re-run." >&2
+  exit 3
+fi
+
+TMP="$(mktemp -d)"
+trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
+cat > "$TMP/conv.xml" <<XML
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<TaskQueueDataConvert xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
+  <m_sFileFrom>$PWD/$DOCX</m_sFileFrom>
+  <m_sFileTo>$PWD/$PDF</m_sFileTo>
+  <m_nFormatTo>513</m_nFormatTo>
+  <m_sFontDir>$FONTS</m_sFontDir>
+  <m_sAllFontsPath>$FONTS/AllFonts.js</m_sAllFontsPath>
+  <m_sThemeDir>$OO/editors/sdkjs/slide/themes</m_sThemeDir>
+  <m_sTempDir>$TMP</m_sTempDir>
+</TaskQueueDataConvert>
+XML
+
+( cd "$OO/converter" && LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$OO/converter:$OO" "$X2T" "$TMP/conv.xml" )
+
+# --- 3. Enforce the page limit ---
+PAGES="$(pdfinfo "$PDF" | awk '/^Pages:/ {print $2}')"
+echo "Rendered $PDF — $PAGES page(s)."
+if (( PAGES > MAX_PAGES )); then
+  echo "ERROR: resume is $PAGES pages, exceeds the $MAX_PAGES-page limit. Trim content." >&2
+  rm -f "$PDF"
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "OK: within the $MAX_PAGES-page limit. Built $DOCX and $PDF."
--- a/generate_resume.js
+++ b/generate_resume.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 const fs = require('fs');
 const {
  Document, Packer, Paragraph, TextRun, AlignmentType,
-  HeadingLevel, LevelFormat, ExternalHyperlink, BorderStyle
+  HeadingLevel, LevelFormat, ExternalHyperlink, BorderStyle, PageBreak
 } = require('docx');

 // ============================================
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ const resumeData = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(INPUT_FILE, 'utf8'));
 function createBulletParagraph(text, reference) {
  return new Paragraph({
    numbering: { reference: reference, level: 0 },
-    spacing: { after: 60 },
+    spacing: { after: 40 },
    children: [new TextRun({ text: text, size: 22, font: "Arial" })]
  });
 }
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ function createBulletParagraph(text, reference) {
 // Format date from YYYY-MM to "Mon YYYY"
 function formatDate(dateStr) {
  if (!dateStr) return '';
-  const date = new Date(dateStr + '-01');
+  // Build from explicit parts so the date is local-time (avoids UTC-parse month shift)
+  const [year, month] = dateStr.split('-').map(Number);
+  const date = new Date(year, (month || 1) - 1, 1);
  return date.toLocaleDateString('en-US', { month: 'short', year: 'numeric' });
 }

@@ -109,7 +111,7 @@ children.push(new Paragraph({

 // --- CAREER EXPERIENCE SECTION ---
 children.push(new Paragraph({
-  spacing: { before: 120, after: 200 },
+  spacing: { before: 80, after: 120 },
  children: [new TextRun({
    text: "Career Experience",
    bold: true,
@@ -128,7 +130,7 @@ resumeData.work.forEach((job, index) => {
  
  // Job title and company
  children.push(new Paragraph({
-    spacing: { before: 160, after: 60 },
+    spacing: { before: 120, after: 40 },
    children: [
      new TextRun({
        text: job.position,
@@ -153,7 +155,7 @@ resumeData.work.forEach((job, index) => {
  // Job summary
  if (job.summary) {
    children.push(new Paragraph({
-      spacing: { after: 100 },
+      spacing: { after: 60 },
      children: [new TextRun({
        text: job.summary,
        size: 22,
@@ -170,12 +172,12 @@ resumeData.work.forEach((job, index) => {
  }
  
  // Spacing after each job
-  children.push(new Paragraph({ spacing: { after: 120 }, children: [] }));
+  children.push(new Paragraph({ spacing: { after: 60 }, children: [] }));
 });

 // --- EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, AND AWARDS SECTION ---
 children.push(new Paragraph({
-  spacing: { before: 200, after: 160 },
+  spacing: { before: 120, after: 100 },
  children: [new TextRun({
    text: "Education, Certifications, and Awards",
    bold: true,
@@ -187,7 +189,7 @@ children.push(new Paragraph({
 // Certificates
 if (resumeData.certificates) {
  resumeData.certificates.forEach(cert => {
-    const year = cert.date ? new Date(cert.date).getFullYear() : '';
+    const year = cert.date ? cert.date.slice(0, 4) : '';
    children.push(new Paragraph({
      spacing: { after: 60 },
      children: [
@@ -215,7 +217,7 @@ if (resumeData.certificates) {
 // Awards
 if (resumeData.awards) {
  resumeData.awards.forEach(award => {
-    const year = award.date ? new Date(award.date).getFullYear() : '';
+    const year = award.date ? award.date.slice(0, 4) : '';
    children.push(new Paragraph({
      spacing: { after: 60 },
      children: [
@@ -294,7 +296,7 @@ if (resumeData.education) {

 // --- TECHNICAL SKILLS SECTION ---
 children.push(new Paragraph({
-  spacing: { before: 200, after: 160 },
+  spacing: { before: 120, after: 100 },
  children: [new TextRun({
    text: "Technical Skills",
    bold: true,
--- a/resume.json
+++ b/resume.json
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json",
  "basics": {
    "name": "Phillip Tarrant",
-    "label": "Cybersecurity Director | AI & Automation Leader",
+    "label": "Principal Security Engineer | Security Automation & AI Engineering",
    "email": "ptarrant@gmail.com",
    "phone": "(706) 294-6733",
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-tarrant-cyber",
-    "summary": "Accomplished and analytical professional with 20+ years of experience in cybersecurity, server infrastructures, and data-center operations. Proven expertise in Cyber Operations, digital forensics, penetration testing, information system management, malware reversing, threat detection, and threat hunting with and without AI integration. Proactive leader with a proven record of managing multiple large teams and leading the charge to complete project goals. Managed MSSP operations for 50+ large business clients encompassing over 150,000 assets and 1 million+ users. Experienced AI leader with expertise in prompt engineering, LLM integration, AI security and guardrails, and deploying AI solutions in secure, regulated environments.",
+    "summary": "Principal-level security engineer with 20+ years building detection and AI-driven automation across MSSP and enterprise environments. Ships production tooling end to end — custom SOAR platforms and LLM triage pipelines; built automation that closed 47% of 3,500 weekly tickets with no human touch. Deep DFIR and threat-hunting roots, now focused on applied AI security.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Morrison",
      "region": "TN",
@@ -21,17 +21,32 @@
    ]
  },
  "work": [
+    {
+      "name": "TopBuild Corp",
+      "position": "Principal Security Engineer",
+      "location": "Remote",
+      "startDate": "2026-03",
+      "summary": "Lead engineer owning security automation, AI development, and SIEM/logging strategy for the enterprise security program; build detection engineering and threat hunting tooling while setting technical direction for the team.",
+      "highlights": [
+        "Architected and built a custom SOAR web application from the ground up — 20+ automated response actions unifying detection, reporting, and response across Microsoft 365, CrowdStrike, Google SecOps, and ReliaQuest",
+        "Engineered a 'user activity tracker' that correlates enterprise telemetry to accelerate incident triage and proactive threat hunting",
+        "Automated end-to-end quarantine email release across Microsoft 365 and Abnormal, cutting analyst response time on phishing and malicious mail",
+        "Own enterprise security automation, AI development, and SIEM/logging architecture across the security program",
+        "Set secure-coding and cybersecurity-forward AI usage standards; mentor engineers and advise leadership on detection engineering investments"
+      ]
+    },
    {
      "name": "Confidential",
      "position": "Senior Information Security Consultant",
      "location": "Remote",
      "startDate": "2025-01",
-      "summary": "Contract consulting role providing cybersecurity leadership and technical expertise.",
+      "endDate": "2026-03",
+      "summary": "Contract consulting role delivering hands-on security engineering, SOC operations, and vulnerability management for defense, fintech, and MSSP clients.",
      "highlights": [
-        "Managing SOC operations for US Defense Space market supplier across multiple Microsoft tenants",
-        "Managed Vulnerability Management Program for one of the largest fintech clients in the US using Qualys",
-        "Director role at MSSP restructuring SOC flow and training SOC staff",
-        "Designing secure architectures and providing compliance guidance (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, NIST 800-53)"
+        "Ran SOC operations for a US Defense Space market supplier across multiple Microsoft tenants",
+        "Managed the Vulnerability Management Program for one of the largest US fintech clients using Qualys",
+        "Restructured SOC workflow and trained analysts at an MSSP",
+        "Designed secure architectures and provided compliance guidance (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, NIST 800-53)"
      ]
    },
    {
@@ -40,15 +55,14 @@
      "location": "Tampa/Doral, Florida",
      "startDate": "2021-01",
      "endDate": "2024-12",
-      "summary": "Progressive leadership roles managing SOC operations, Red Team, AI development, and security automation for MSSP clients.",
+      "summary": "Progressive technical and leadership roles culminating in Director of Automation, owning AI development and security automation for MSSP clients.",
      "highlights": [
-        "Grew SOC client base from 16 to 52 customers; improved profitability from 18% to 52% margin",
-        "Built automation handling 3,500 tickets weekly with 47% closed without human involvement",
-        "Managed team of 17 direct reports across SOC, Red Team, and DFIR engagements",
-        "Oversaw all AI development in a secure MSSP environment, building AI-powered security automation using Python, AWS Lambda, LLMs, and SOAR platforms",
-        "Designed and implemented prompt engineering frameworks and AI guardrails to ensure safe, accurate, and auditable AI outputs in production security workflows",
+        "Built automation handling 3,500 tickets weekly, closing 47% without human involvement",
+        "Owned all AI development in a secure MSSP environment — AI-powered security automation using Python, AWS Lambda, LLMs, and SOAR platforms",
+        "Designed prompt engineering frameworks and AI guardrails ensuring safe, accurate, auditable AI outputs in production security workflows",
        "Built RAG-based knowledge systems and LLM-driven triage pipelines for automated threat classification and analyst augmentation",
-        "Established AI governance policies including model evaluation, output validation, and security controls for LLM deployments"
+        "Established AI governance including model evaluation, output validation, and security controls for LLM deployments",
+        "Grew SOC client base from 16 to 52 customers and improved margin from 18% to 52% while leading a 17-person SOC, Red Team, and DFIR org"
      ]
    },
    {
@@ -57,10 +71,10 @@
      "location": "Alpharetta, Georgia",
      "startDate": "2020-04",
      "endDate": "2021-01",
-      "summary": "Responsible for security architecture, training programs, and compliance across the organization.",
+      "summary": "Owned security architecture, detection tooling, and compliance across the organization.",
      "highlights": [
-        "Steered organization through PCI and NIST 800 series audits",
-        "Created custom tools to automate attacks against infrastructure and design detections",
+        "Steered the organization through PCI and NIST 800 series audits",
+        "Built custom tools to automate attacks against infrastructure and engineer matching detections",
        "Saved $10,000+ through effective vendor/supplier negotiations"
      ]
    },
@@ -70,32 +84,19 @@
      "location": "Marietta, Georgia",
      "startDate": "2018-08",
      "endDate": "2020-04",
-      "summary": "Incident Response/Digital Forensics lead, promoted to Architecture and Automation Team.",
+      "summary": "Incident Response/Digital Forensics lead, promoted to the Architecture and Automation Team.",
      "highlights": [
-        "Lead investigator on critical incidents; managed multi-server compromise investigations across three teams",
-        "Led Malware Analysis in sandboxed environments; mentored junior analysts",
-        "Designed security data flow pipelines and automated SOC triage tools"
-      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "The National Wild Turkey Federation",
-      "position": "Technical Services Manager",
-      "location": "Edgefield, South Carolina",
-      "startDate": "2015-10",
-      "endDate": "2018-08",
-      "summary": "Managed IT team supporting 300+ staff members with focus on infrastructure and security.",
-      "highlights": [
-        "Managed team of 8 technicians and developers supporting 300+ staff members",
-        "Migrated 3rd party tools to in-house solutions saving $50,000+ yearly",
-        "Managed security of entire web presence including network and application code"
+        "Lead investigator on critical incidents; ran multi-server compromise investigations across three teams",
+        "Led malware analysis in sandboxed environments and mentored junior analysts",
+        "Designed security data flow pipelines and automated SOC triage tooling"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Earlier Experience",
-      "position": "IT & Systems Administration Roles",
+      "position": "IT Leadership & Systems Administration Roles",
      "startDate": "1999-01",
-      "endDate": "2015-01",
-      "summary": "Progressive IT roles including Network/Server Administrator at NWTF, System Administrator at Morgan Thermal Ceramics, IT Coordinator at Briarwood Academy, and Technical Support at Sitel Group."
+      "endDate": "2018-08",
+      "summary": "Progressive IT and technical leadership roles, including Technical Services Manager at the National Wild Turkey Federation — led 8 technicians and developers supporting 300+ staff, saved $50,000+/year migrating 3rd-party tools in-house, and owned web/network/application security. Earlier: Network/Server Administrator at NWTF, System Administrator at Morgan Thermal Ceramics, IT Coordinator at Briarwood Academy, and Technical Support at Sitel Group."
    }
  ],
  "education": [
@@ -135,6 +136,23 @@
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
+    {
+      "name": "AI/ML Engineering & Automation",
+      "level": "Expert",
+      "keywords": [
+        "LLM Integration",
+        "RAG Systems",
+        "Prompt Engineering",
+        "Agentic AI",
+        "AI Security & Guardrails",
+        "AI Governance",
+        "Model Evaluation",
+        "AWS Bedrock",
+        "AWS Lambda",
+        "Python Automation",
+        "Custom SOAR Development"
+      ]
+    },
    {
      "name": "Security Operations, SIEM & SOAR",
      "level": "Expert",
@@ -142,6 +160,9 @@
        "Splunk",
        "ELK Stack",
        "Microsoft Sentinel/Defender",
+        "Google SecOps (Chronicle)",
+        "CrowdStrike",
+        "ReliaQuest",
        "Sentinel One",
        "Rapid7 IDR",
        "Swimlane",
@@ -151,51 +172,38 @@
      ]
    },
    {
-      "name": "Threat Detection, DFIR & Red Team",
+      "name": "Detection Engineering, DFIR & Red Team",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
+        "Detection Engineering",
+        "Threat Hunting",
+        "Malware Analysis",
+        "Incident Response",
+        "Volatility",
        "Darktrace",
        "Tanium",
        "Vectra",
        "FireEye",
-        "Volatility",
-        "Malware Analysis",
-        "Incident Response",
-        "Detection Engineering",
+        "Abnormal Security",
        "Metasploit",
        "Purple Team"
      ]
    },
-    {
-      "name": "AI/ML & Automation",
-      "level": "Expert",
-      "keywords": [
-        "AWS Bedrock",
-        "LLMs",
-        "RAG",
-        "Prompt Engineering",
-        "AI Security & Guardrails",
-        "AI Governance",
-        "Agentic AI",
-        "Model Evaluation",
-        "Python Automation"
-      ]
-    },
    {
      "name": "Cloud, Infrastructure & Programming",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
+        "Python",
+        "PowerShell",
+        "Bash",
        "AWS",
        "Azure",
        "Oracle Cloud",
-        "Windows Server",
-        "Linux/UNIX",
-        "Active Directory",
        "Docker",
        "Kubernetes",
-        "Python",
-        "PowerShell",
-        "Bash"
+        "Windows Server",
+        "Linux/UNIX",
+        "Active Directory"
      ]
    },
    {
@@ -210,14 +218,14 @@
      ]
    },
    {
-      "name": "Leadership & Management",
+      "name": "Leadership & Mentorship",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
-        "Team Leadership (17+ reports)",
+        "Technical Leadership",
+        "Engineer Mentorship",
        "MSSP Operations",
-        "Budget Management",
-        "Vendor Negotiations",
-        "Training & Mentorship"
+        "Team Leadership (17+ reports)",
+        "Vendor Negotiations"
      ]
    }
  ],
@@ -230,6 +238,6 @@
  "meta": {
    "theme": "elegant",
    "version": "v1.0.0",
-    "lastModified": "2025-12-08"
+    "lastModified": "2026-07-06"
  }
 }