Ben Gardner Email & Phone Number

The Colony, Tx, Us

Application Ownership / Dashboarding and Visualization Lead• Application manager / product lead for audit collection and warehouse products (IBM Guardium / Imperva Sonar)• Automation and scripting experience in bash for reporting and Ansible/DMA playbook development• Established visualizations and dashboards in Kibana for infrastructure and operational usage metric KPIs• Responsible for senior management communication of database security team initiatives and roadmaps• Project leadership responsibilities working cross functionally with risk, engineering, and operations teams• Implemented database user activity data mart ingestion into data warehouse from on-prem and cloud databases• Data pipeline development for data transformation and enrichment using Mongo based query language• Primary point of contact for internal and external auditors for database user activity monitoring globallyOperations Team Lead• Operational team lead for security products in auditing, data warehousing/analytics, and vulnerability assessment• Led automation projects to optimize agent maintenance through integration with existing Ansible playbooks• Migrated automation platform from DMA to Ansible improving concurrent automation runs from 10s to 100s• Operations lead managing a team of 15+ people with a mix of contractors and full-time employees• Drove adoption and coached database shared services team on Agile scrum methodology using JIRA • Responsible for Standard Operating Procedures and product documentation in ConfluenceInfrastructure Ownership• Owner of infrastructure for Guardium and Sonar (12k+ agents supporting 25k+ DBs and ~2k servers)• Developed product roadmap and system architecture for adoption of Sonar (Guardium Big Data Intelligence)• Increased data retention from weeks to 12+ months while eliminating 400 TB SAN storage with central warehouse• Integrated Sonar warehouse with internal s3 object stores for online retention and storage cost reduction of >50%

Irving, Tx

• Defined implementation strategy of database auditing on 9000+ database servers • Led capacity provisioning and infrastructure support of 1600+ Guardium appliances for database audit • Operated as subject matter expert and primary contact for Guardium application with internal and external auditors

Irving, Tx

IT Analyst working on the global database auditing team.-Project management and capacity planning for implementing infrastructure to support database auditing throughout Citi's global data centers.-Experience working with vendor consultants (IBM) and offshore contractors to support strategic database auditing tool, IBM Infosphere Guardium.-Performance analysis to optimize server utilization and determine capacity requirements-Infrastructure support for database auditing and automation.

Fort Worth, Tx

•Observed and supported the Technical SAP Services team during SAP implementation•Produced tools for efficiency analysis of offshore development resources•Constructed visualization tool of high level systems integrations for executive management•Assisted in budget development for multi-million dollar IT project