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Senior level executive reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), and leading the strategy and operations of Information and Systems Security for Westinghouse Electric, the world's leading provider of safe, clean, and efficient nuclear energy. Responsible for all information security, IT risk management, and IT governance globally, including security operations, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, penetration testing, security architecture, security engineering, risk management, and IT governance.

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Acted as program maturation adviser to Fortune 10 customer, helping to align consultant resources to meet customer needs and expectations, and ensured service delivery above and beyond contract requirements. Worked in concert with defense teams to develop and broaden true purple team vision of collaborative offensive and defensive capabilities.Researched, developed, and demonstrated attack vectors with a focus on improving the operational responses and capabilities of customers. Developed custom exploits for operating environment and business logic.

Senior level executive reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and leading the strategy and operations of Information and Systems Security for Celanese. Recruited to lead complete transformation of information security program. Areas of responsibility included: Security Operations, Risk Assessment, SAP Security, Global Security Architecture, Industrial Control Systems Security Architecture and Governance, Data Privacy, and IT Governance. Responsible for establishing and maintaining an enterprise wide information security program to ensure that data information assets are adequately protected. Responsible for identifying, evaluating and reporting on information security risks in a manner that meets company needs, compliance and regulatory requirements. Oversaw all technology risk management activities and acted as an advocate for all information security and business continuance best practices. Served as process owner of ongoing activities related to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of customers, business partners, employees and business information, in compliance with the organization's information security policies.

Senior manager in charge of the design, development, deployment, and administration of all infrastructure and information security services. Primary responsibilities included telephony, network, endpoint, mobile devices, incident response, identity and access management, directory services, hardware, and software. I was directly responsible for managing daily operations and future planning to support all business operations. Key responsibilities:- Direct line management of all infrastructure support and security operations personnel, including incident response, multi-tiered end user support, telephony operations, network support, and application administration.- Managed a team of multiple managers and personnel.- Designed, documented, executed, and monitored the policies, processes, procedures, and standards that provided consistent availability and utility of service to support business needs.- Ensured proper staffing and knowledge to meet customer demands, including performance management, training, tasking, delegation, mentoring, performance reviews, talent retention, and staffing decisions. - Managed operations across on premise, cloud, SaaS, IaaS, and Paas offerings to ensure availability, recoverability, and functionality of operations- Designed and architected a scalable, resilient datacenter environment- Leadership and strategic direction including planning, budgeting, staff hiring/retention, and operational execution of the information security program - Led the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of the Information Security Management System - Led the design and operation of related compliance monitoring and improvement activities to ensure compliance both with internal security policies and regulations - Led information security risk assessments and controls selection activities for information technology groups - Led the end user support, database administration, infrastructure engineering, and information security teams.

In charge of Alliance Data Corporate Information Security providing line management, leadership, technical, and strategic direction for the function and liaising closely with other IT managers. This role includes management of Information Security Operations and Information Security Governance functions, with the stated intent of providing accurate assessments, recommendations, and remediations of the organization’s information security risks.Key responsibilities: - Lead and participate in day-to-day information security operations, including monitoring, analysis, detection and escalation of security risks and threats to information systems and business - Oversight, collaboration and coordination of all security activities and functions provided by outsourced service providers - Coordination of incident response team - Authors, reviews, and maintains information security and information technology policies, processes, procedures, standards, requirements, and guidance documentation - Provide operational and incident metrics to senior management - Routine line management and leadership of staff - Leadership and strategic direction including planning, budgeting, staff hiring/retention, and operational execution of the information security program - Provide subject matter expertise on information security principles and practices - Lead the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of the Information Security Management System based on the ISO/IEC 27000 series standards - Lead the preparation and authorize the implementation of necessary information security controls, standards, procedures and guidelines - Lead the design and operation of related compliance monitoring and improvement activities to ensure compliance both with internal security policies and regulations - Leads information security risk assessments and controls selection activities for information technology groups

Information Security Business Partner for the Retail line of business. Responsible for providing subject matter expertise across all aspects of Information Security, including penetration testing, software development, digital forensics, incident response, network design/architecture, policy/procedure development, security control selection/application, security tool administration, shadow IT identification/investigation, and business impact. Acts as adviser to Retail line of business ISO and reports directly to CSO.

* Responsible for certification and accreditation (C&A) and information assurance (IA) of multiple DOD and civilian programs.* Lead security engineer for $30M+ program, overseeing direct daily tasking of six personnel and authoritative security source for 100+ personnel in support of program.* Authored, reviewed, and maintained custom security framework used for system hardening and evaluation.* Worked extensively with RHEL, Microsoft Windows, VxWorks, and Solaris in a secure environment.* Provided troubleshooting on network, software, and security settings.

* Provided systems integration and evaluation of information assurance (IA) and network products.* Designed and tested configurations of highly secured products including routers, switches, servers, firewalls, and security devices.* Performed penetration testing on developmental and COTS software products.* Expert in Linux, Solaris, and Windows configuration and security.* Wrote and deployed shell scripts to automate security-related tasks.

* Lead Security Engineer for a military C4ISR platform* Designed, authored, and executed test plans and test procedures* Integrated into full range of product lifecycle, from requirements definition to end user support* Worked on range of civilian and military aircraft

* Software developer, worked on application development primarily using Visual Studio 2008 and C# / .NET Framework 3.5 with serialized XML.* Continued work as ELINT and SEI SME in addition to software development duties.* Qualified technical project manager.

* Worked on multiple programs in support of EW systems, including simulation development, testing, and technical Electronics Intelligence (ELINT) analysis.* Expert on Specific Emitter Identification (SEI).* Qualified technical project manager.

* Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Electronics Intelligence (ELINT) Subject Matter Expert (SME)* Worked on multiple programs in support of Specific Emitter Identification (SEI) and ELINT analysis for a military Electronic Support Measures (ESM) system

* Supported LANTFLT subsurface forces with training, testing, and operational use of cryptologic systems* Led teams of up to 20 individuals in support of fleet and national objectives (CDSE Supervisor, CDSE/E Supervisor)* Lead for 13 week training program development and implementation that provided technical and tactical ELINT training to 30 personnel