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Tallahassee, Fl, Us

Tallahassee, Fl, Us

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

• Senior leadership position with primary responsibility for overseeing the security program at two data centers.• Responsible for strategic planning of security goals and ensuring they align with the organization’s business goals.• Prepare and present reports to senior leadership on the state of security within NWRDC.• Stay updated on evolving security threats and risks to the organization and develop plans of action.• Manage a cybersecurity team for endpoint protection, vulnerability management, security awareness initiatives, threat intelligence and incident response.• Appointed to overall policy and procedure development team which includes security.• Develop security metrics that are measurable and relevant to the program.• Create action plans to address and remediate security findings identified during audits.• In charge of overseeing the budget of the security program and contributing information for the annual development of rates for customers.• Responsible for being knowledgeable on evolving security and privacy frameworks legislation. i.e., HIPAA, CJIS, IRS1070, NIST 800-53, FISMA, MARS-E, CIS, Florida Statutes.

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

• Manage an audit staff to plan and conduct compliance, financial, and information technology audits with the Department.• Perform risk assessments for future audit work plan.• Conduct review of staff work and reports for management.• Mentor staff on audit techniques and standards.• Provide cybersecurity consulting and expertise to management.

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

• Plan and conduct IT security, general controls, and application controls audits of state agencies, and state education entities.• Provide cybersecurity expertise and consulting to staff.• Conduct training sessions for staff on cybersecurity concepts. • Assist with analysis of results of annual IT survey to state agencies.• Understand security frameworks – NIST 800-53, FISCAM, ISO27001

Tallahassee, Fl, United States

• Manage a cybersecurity team for endpoint protection, vulnerability management, audit/risk management at the State Data Center.• Lead for computer security incident response (CSIRT), quarterly meetings, training of all CSIRT team members, policies, and procedures.• Assisting customers on mitigating security alerts from our MSSP.• Lead a team of managers to select a new endpoint protection tool which provided a NexGen endpoint tool and resulted in improved protection and lower costs. • Manage centralized logging of all platforms servers and devices to automate monitoring with our SIEM Splunk solution. • Assist the CISO with enterprise security and issues that occur.• Manage the staff’s Cherwell ticket workload and assist where needed.• Assist employees on suspicious emails they have received.• Manage the multi-million-dollar security budget.• Presented on “Existing Threat Landscape” at the Florida Digital Gov. Summit which included ransomware, cryptojacking, and various other cyber threats.• Work on-call and after hours when needed 24x7.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Security project lead for vulnerability management.• CSIRT lead for security investigations of incidents; after action reports.• Development lead for Agency security policies and procedures• Investigate security alerts from MS-ISAC to escalate with customers and assist remediation of incident (ransomware, malware etc.)• Conduct comprehensive periodic risk assessment and Agency Security Operational Plan (ASOP)• Coordinate with external auditors (Auditor General, IG Offices, federal auditors for engagements.• Assist with development of security awareness training for employees.• Represent security on Change Control Board• Knowledgeable of security frameworks and best practices: NIST, CIS, COBIT, HIPAA, CJIS, IRS 1070, MARS-E, FAC 74-2

Tallahassee, Florida

• Plan and conduct information technology audits with the Department or other third-party entities.• Assist with management consulting, special projects, and investigations.• Develop periodic risk assessment for areas of information technology to conduct audits.• Assist the primary data centers SSRC and NSRC with IG services.• Monitor the State Broadband Project for ARRA funding.• CSIRT member representing the IG office for the Department and primary data centers.• Appointed as Interim Audit Director

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Manage an audit staff to plan and conduct compliance, financial, physical security, and information technology audits with the Agency.• Act as liaison and coordinate all engagements with external auditors; monitor the implementation of the department's response to any internal or external audit findings and recommendations. Assist with management consulting, special projects, and investigations• Develop both long term-term and annual audit plans based on the findings of the annual Department wide risk assessment.• Assist with internal investigations conducted by the Inspector General.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Plan and conduct compliance, financial, physical security, and information technology audits within the Department’s Programs (PTA, CSE, GTA, ISP, and ASP) • Appointed to security policies and procedures development team.• Assist with management consulting, special projects, and investigations.• Liaison between DOR and the State Technology Office (STO) Office of Information Security

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Manages the Information Resource Security Program for the Agency• CSIRT team lead for all IT security incidents. • Directs, coordinates, and develops disaster recovery preparedness plans and efforts within the Agency. Lead a successful test for recovery at the hot site.• Assists with investigations, special assignments, and security projects.• Assisted Privacy Officer on the agencies HIPAA initiatives.• Implemented physical security controls for data center, wiring closets, and existing buildings. • Lead for monitoring and troubleshooting of security cameras.• Liaison between the Agency and the (STO); Appointed to Chair a committee for establishing training standards for State Information Security Managers

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Plan and conduct audits and reviews for the Office of Inspector General; assisted with investigations.• Conducted audits of software licensing, system audits, physical security of the data center• Assisted with annual audit plan and agency wide risk assessment.

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance

Associate Of Arts - Aa