With 20 + years of Information Technology experience as a SVP of Technology, Vice President of IT, Vice President of Implementations and Support, Chief Information Security Officer and engineer I am a highly trained in the field. I have an intense passion for Information Systems Technology from all aspects. I take great consideration in business continuity, compliance, risk assessment and mitigation of information security issues. I am a strong leader that firmly believes in the word “Team”, mentoring and empowering associates. I am a successful Information Security Professional with diverse abilities and expertise in leveraging information technology to improve and streamline business processes and to deliver business advantage. A forward-thinking executive with a history of anticipating business needs to find technology solutions that stay in line with industry standards.Creative and resourceful technologist capable and experienced in building cohesive teams and motivating them to success. Effective in combining disparate teams and skillsets and focusing them on common goals.Rare ability to effectively interface at any level of IT or business to articulate complex topics in relative terms to influence acceptance and adoption of new ideas and methodologies. Excellent communication skills and unique ability to define value propositions at various levels of the business and to quantify those values in terms of both hard and soft returns.Intuitive understanding of personal and business motivations and skilled at determining methods to influence action and success.Technical Specialties: Cloud Based Computing - Azure, AWSBlockchain - Distributed Ledger - Permissions ledgerDockerApplication and Network VulnerabilityHighly Available IT SystemsData Security - PCI, SOC2Network SecuritySANS GIAC Certified GoldDirector of Technical Support - ManagementInformation Security Officer - Ethical Hacking - Application SecurityVMware / Hyper V / Virtual systemsStorage Solutions - Netapp, EMC, NimbleBusiness ContinuityDisaster RecoveryAzure Devops / Agile / KANBAN/ ScrumSOC 2 / PCI / PII