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Toronto, ON, CA

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Onboarded to provide leadership and oversight to 3 teams that focus on operations, solutions, and governance of various networking security processes, including WAF, IPS, Mail Security, Firewall/Proxy Governance, and.
• Review vulnerability assessments, and penetration tests, ascertaining risk level and identifying key areas for improvement, partnering with cross-functional teams to proactively fortify weaknesses and mitigate business.
• Serve as a bridge between cross-functional technology teams, non-technical teams, and leadership. Ensuring alignment, championing security awareness, and continuous security improvements.
• Fully financial accountability, including budget management and monitoring financial cost controls.
• Manage internal findings, audit, and regulatory duties from process definition, remediation to presentation with various regulatory bodies.
• Restructured and optimized the team to align with an operating mandate and improved resource optimization.

Chicago, IL, US

• Provided leadership and governance to 4 teams: Security Delivery, Network and Cloud Solutions, Security Operations Center, Application Security. Oversaw a department of 15 FTE’s, 3 Contractors, and a $5 million.
• Planned and executed the Information Security Policy creation and reassessments initiatives. Championed and implemented continuous awareness and training for employees.
• Managed and monitored security analytics and security-related issues. Proactively responded to potential threats and mitigated issues, as they arose.
• Facilitated IT security audits and investigations. Collected evidence, conducted root cause analysis, and employed a lessons-learned approach to continuously improve operational efficiencies and proactive threat defense.
• Refined, created, and advised on risk management process, engaging executive leadership to enhance visibility and accountability across the organization.
• Created, reviewed, and updated security policies to best employ industry best practices, meet regulatory requirements, and contractual obligations.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Led 3 teams: Network, Network Security, Telephony, with 11 Direct reports in 4 locations in the US and UK, with India and Romania openings. Managed approximately $3.5 million in budget.★ Partnered with internal.
• Authored business plans, roadmaps and strategies, created measurable and trackable metrics, instituted new processes, and re-engineered existing processes to establish and continuously improve operational efficiencies.
• Strengthened system/network security and business continuity planning as a member of the company’s security incident response team.
• Took the network from a frequent outage situation to a highly available infrastructure.
• Took the team from high failure and incident rate on Changes to 99.58% Success with over 765 changes in just 2013. Built the team from just 3 of us to its current size. Segmented the teams to focus on core.
• 3 Data Center Moves and 5 New Office Build-Outs.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Responsible for the Chicago Secureworks Data Center and maintenance of the facility, including Rack Layout, Cabling, UPS, HVAC, Power. Led a 3-person team with responsibility for supporting Corporate Routing.
• Built out SolarWinds Orion for real-time network monitoring/alerting/NetFlow/reporting/backups.
• Upgraded Chicago DC to facilitate the relocation of a DR facility as part of an acquisition. Requiring upgrade of Electrical/HVAC/Structured wiring/other facilities modifications.
• Assisted the move of an entire DR facility move from CA to Chicago with responsibility for DC preparation as well as Firewall and Network build-out upon arrival.
• Responsible for all local site issues, including support of local Linux/Windows Desktops/Conferencing solution/Vending Services.
• Reorganized Server Room including re-racking/cabling of servers and communications equipment.

Chicago, IL, US

• Member of a 10-person security support team with responsibility for over 350 security devices including Cisco PIX/Checkpoint-Nokia/BIG-IP Load Balancers, FirePass Concentrators, Cisco VPN 3000's. Provided a 24/7.
• Managed Linux and FreeBSD servers for testing of new applications, documentation repository, etc.