Arthur Edmonds Jr Email & Phone Number

Oakland, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

Principal strategist for Continuous Integrated Risk Management, IT Security, Networking and Networked Storage Technologies. Skilled at providing cloud computing service solutions replete with comprehensive IT strategies to enhance security of vital data assets. Deploy secure key-exchange & 2- and 3-factor authentication protocols to promote the integrity, confidentiality and proper indexing of critical data. Analyze business processes across departments to identify potential threats to digital assets, develop risk management assessments, perform business impact analysis and disaster recovery and contingency planning to promote continuity of business processes. Spearheaded implementation of security technologies for several government agencies including: Satellite Simulation and Nuclear Non-proliferation.

Piedmont, Ca

Evaluated critical technology functions to identify threats and develop viable contingency plans; implemented systems of prevention and recovery leveraging proven industry standards and security and storage technologies to mitigate potential disasters. Reinforced security measures for major credit card company analyzing vulnerabilities and implementing strong access control measures in compliance with PCI Security Standard Council goals. Services were enlisted to devise a more secure storage and processing system for the International Bank. Developed and implemented IP-invisible firewalls and secure WiFi integrating covert channels, PCI, confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) practices. Assisted a major Biotechnology Firm in achieving FDA, ISO 17799 & 27000 Series compliance reinforcing proper data governance and promoting observance of electronic Private Health Information (ePHI).

Santa Clara, California

Championed development and implementation of global security and storage protocols; defined a multi-layered Networked Storage Security and Management model in compliance with SNIA, FCIA and ANSI/T11.3 standards. Appointed as Secretariat of INCITS/ANSI/T11.3/Fibre Channel Security Protocols (FC-5P) managing a team of 68 Partner & Competitive Engineering Companies.Concurrently tracked all projects and programs to promote continuity of hardware and software research and development initiatives. Promoted synergy between engineers in Japan and the United States; supervised and tracked all phases of the development life cycle performing periodic budget and scope audits to prevent discrepancies. Credited with being the co-inventor of standardized information security procedures for Networked Storage; served as Co-Chair for the Security Technical Working Group.

Responsible for creating the strategy and vision that would help the company evolve into a market leader in the delivery of goods, services, and total solutions at the SMB and Enterprise levels. Successfully resulted in increasing overall corporate revenues from $62M to $360M within three years.Co-founded webharbor.com, a rate-based, eCommerce applications-serving dot-com. Site served up revenue-generating dynamic content, marketing venues, and advertising.• Architected the conversion to AVCOM, Systems Integrator (SI), from AVCOM, the Value-Added Reseller (VAR). Net revenues grew from single digit (2-5%) to over 25% in less than one (1) year.• Created and managed Professional Services division. Personally hired and managed staff of more than eighty (+80) systems engineers, consultants, project managers, and Operations Staffs. Scope was Nationwide. Led strategic focus of team and tactical delivery of packaged services. Realized 100% annualized billable engagements in 1 year.

Founder of successful, independent network security consulting firm. Offerings expanded to include network management, networked storage security, and security best practices.• Put into place secured external access to new retail banking application by customers of a UK-based worldwide bank located in Hong Kong and headquartered in the UK. Accomplished program remotely over Trans-Pacific Cable. Project management efficiencies resulted in delivering solution on time and under budget. System supports 10M customer inquiries per day over secured dial-up and kiosks at a cost of $0.2HKD/transaction. Previous unsecure system could only handle 10K/day at a transaction cost of $1.50HKD/transaction.• Provided leadership of two complex Y2K compliance projects: one at a regional airline and the other at a worldwide chip designer and fabrication facility. Both flawlessly transitioned through and past Y2K. Delivered both projects on time and at a lower cost to each client.

Developed an integrated product and marketing strategy for Sun Microsystems markets worldwide with a primary focus on High-Speed Networking Technologies (ATM, 100/1000Mbps Ethernet and FDDI).Led business management of products, including strategic and tactical forecasting, business planning, competitive pricing modeling and total life-cycle management. First in the industry to introduce ATM Network Interface Card (NIC) under $1,000.• Jointly formed the Fast Ethernet Alliance with Intel and 3Com engineering and marketing personnel. Resultant partnership accelerated introduction of 100/1000Mb Ethernet to market and maintained marketshare leadership over direct competition.Network Technology ManagerProvided networking industry direction to team of systems analysts. Consulted with Marketing, Professional Services, and Engineering teams, providing new products direction and current networking product enhancements.

Directed worldwide integrated product and marketing strategy for ATM, 100/1000 Mbps Ethernet and FDDI. Co-founded first & second RSA Conferences in Redwood City, California.

Directed and was Project Manager for the NASA Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Group Long Haul Communications Network (WAN). Required to design and maintain high-speed links between externally located researchers and NASA-Ames Wind Tunnels and Cray supercomputing resources at Moffett Field, California.Part of Tiger Team that identified, analyzed, and contained the Morris Worm. Created stub network (‘honey pot’) that monitored attack profiles and real-time behavior of the worm. Inoculated NASnet from future infection before going back online.Managed multiple projects for a DoD customer in top-secret security environment that focused on Satellite Simulation and other resources and assets.

Responsible for consulting with customers in the implementation of minicomputers and the networking of an organization's compute resources using WangNet - X.25 Long Haul Communications WAN technology.

Senior Systems Analyst – Information Systems DivisionNetworking and software specialist for STAR Systems (WYSIWYG advanced workstations and servers)Senior Marketing Representative - Business Systems GroupBusiness systems sales. Completed world-class Xerox Sales Training.

Ph.C., Theoretical Solid State Physics

(Ph.D. with all but dissertation)

Masters, Physics

B.S., Physics

High School Diploma With Honors, Physics, Dramatic Arts, And Musicology