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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

-Lead the Vulnerability Management strategy for on premise & for private/public cloud leading 30 resources-Build visual management system for full visibility on the work in progress & providing key metrics/KPI-Managed the VM strategy including road map closing gaps with corporation directives, budget, employee development/training & tool selection-Leading the Vulnerability Assessment OS Scan & the Web Application DAST Scan strategy using various tools Tenable, Nessus, HCL AppScan… Show more -Lead the Vulnerability Management strategy for on premise & for private/public cloud leading 30 resources-Build visual management system for full visibility on the work in progress & providing key metrics/KPI-Managed the VM strategy including road map closing gaps with corporation directives, budget, employee development/training & tool selection-Leading the Vulnerability Assessment OS Scan & the Web Application DAST Scan strategy using various tools Tenable, Nessus, HCL AppScan, Burb Suite & Risk Vision-Oversee various continuous improvement initiatives for scan coverage, scan configuration, scan recurrency, automation & false positive reduction-Develop a strategy to close coverage gap & automate VA OS Scans targeting the corporate asset management tool Service Now-Lead the scan coverage strategy for the various affiliates, Business units, internal & external clients including scope revision connectivity & scanner deployment-Lead scan transformation to PCI 4.0-Support external clients VMaaS Vulnerability Management as a Service program including Monitoring & OS Scans on client environment & on manage service environment-Oversee several audits & collaborate with the various teams closing on gaps-Supervised the CNAAP strategy for public cloud AWS-GCP-Azure visibility with Prisma & Defender supporting day to day for Prisma Admin CSPM & CWP-Create a Prisma onboarding process front door strategy including training for over 1000 users-Build a CSPM process including account onboarding, ownership, alert detection & remediation action, including false positive/exception process & all the metrics for the various operation teams & executives-Create several switch left initiatives fixing policy at org level to reduce CSPM alerts, scan all VM images prior going in production-Responsible for the HR Pipeline strategy including new graduate student internship internal development training new hiring & contractor selection Show less

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

-Performing vulnerability assessment scanning activities using Tenable & Nessus scanners-Configure and schedule the various scans for various internal & external clients-Prioritize scan coverage & scan recurrency of the Crown Jewel assets-Prioritize PCI scan to full inventory coverage.-Manage credentials and authentication records for authenticated scans using Tenable.-Build a strategy to reach full coverage maturity for the corporation Labs, DMZ and Internet facing assets… Show more -Performing vulnerability assessment scanning activities using Tenable & Nessus scanners-Configure and schedule the various scans for various internal & external clients-Prioritize scan coverage & scan recurrency of the Crown Jewel assets-Prioritize PCI scan to full inventory coverage.-Manage credentials and authentication records for authenticated scans using Tenable.-Build a strategy to reach full coverage maturity for the corporation Labs, DMZ and Internet facing assets for the multiple internal & external customers including the corporation, affiliates, business units & clients. -Coordinate and prioritize the connectivity and the scanners deployments.-Collaborate with various teams to resolve scanner reachability issues.-Collaborate with different team to accept, resolve, or reduce false positive.-Build a strategy for third party hosted websites and assets.-On boarded different internal and external customers into the Vulnerability management program.-Support the vulnerability management remediation process using different tracking tools; RSAM, Risk Vision, Jira, Maximo, VMT and Excel for multiple internal and external clients.-Participates actively with asset owners, technical primes and remediation team to provide remediation supports to mitigate risks.-Build, revise and maintain a full process documentation using Confluence.-Acted as a project manager on various cyber security projects. Including POC, POV and the deployment of new technologies. With the objective of enhancing productivity and or reducing risk.-Build and collaborate on a zero-day process engaging and collaborating with multiple internal and external customers.-Support various internal Security Audit and close gaps on scan coverage, scan recurrency, configuration and process.-Development of new dashboards, metrics to reflect the Risk, VM maturity, VA scans coverage and remediation progression.-Actively participating in Agile, Kanban & Lean continuous improvement initiatives. Show less

Guatemala

-Qualys SME. With strong experience in Vulnerability Management & vulnerability assessments across multiple platform and application environments.-Lead the Discovery of all IT assets and work with the various delegates to identify the asset ownership and planned scanning onboarding including pilot scans, scan configurations, probe notification, scan calendar and scan recurrency.-Responsible for day-to-day scan activities monitoring, planning, configuring, scheduling, and reporting… Show more -Qualys SME. With strong experience in Vulnerability Management & vulnerability assessments across multiple platform and application environments.-Lead the Discovery of all IT assets and work with the various delegates to identify the asset ownership and planned scanning onboarding including pilot scans, scan configurations, probe notification, scan calendar and scan recurrency.-Responsible for day-to-day scan activities monitoring, planning, configuring, scheduling, and reporting. -Prepare presentations to the executive to present the vulnerability dashboards, metrics and provide a state of the nation view.-Develop training sessions for the various users of the remediation tracking tool.-Establish CIS benchmark and work with the different teams, to implement the appropriate controls.-Lead various initiatives to improve the security posture. -Acted as a project manager on various cyber security projects. Including testing new features, POC, POV and the deployment of new technologies. -Actively participating in Lean & Agile continuous improvement projects. Show less

El Salvador

-Member of the Security Vulnerability Management and Compliance team with the responsibility of implementing the Qualys Solutions and to build a Vulnerability Management strategy with the clients. -Plan and lead the implementation of the vulnerability assessment tools with the new customers.-Support the clients in building workflows, process, documentation and team knowledge for them to take over all functions.-Administrate, operate and configure the Vulnerability Assessment tools… Show more -Member of the Security Vulnerability Management and Compliance team with the responsibility of implementing the Qualys Solutions and to build a Vulnerability Management strategy with the clients. -Plan and lead the implementation of the vulnerability assessment tools with the new customers.-Support the clients in building workflows, process, documentation and team knowledge for them to take over all functions.-Administrate, operate and configure the Vulnerability Assessment tools. -Track data security issues to closure in a timely manner for vulnerability management, perform scan, and distribute results and necessary assessments reports to meet customers Policy. -Generate new revenue by identifying new opportunities and products for the clients.-Strong ability in preparing and giving a powerful motivation or sale presentations. -Effectively plan and document all new client project implementations. Show less

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

-Responsible for 24 hours operation activities with 350 employees. -Strategize various continuous improvement initiatives to increase productivity and to eliminate waste using lean and six sigma projects methodology.-Monitored employee’s productivity, optimized process to reduce cost and ensure everyone complete their tasks on schedule. -Lead the safety and health committee. Preventing workplace injuries and illnesses. Develop various training strategy and improve compliance with… Show more -Responsible for 24 hours operation activities with 350 employees. -Strategize various continuous improvement initiatives to increase productivity and to eliminate waste using lean and six sigma projects methodology.-Monitored employee’s productivity, optimized process to reduce cost and ensure everyone complete their tasks on schedule. -Lead the safety and health committee. Preventing workplace injuries and illnesses. Develop various training strategy and improve compliance with laws, regulations, directives and reduce costs.-Set productivity goals, key performance indicators and develop a quality assurance process. Show less

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

-Build a full-scale distribution operation center from the ground up. -Find site location, hiring employees, training employees, full IT implementation, build operation process & logistic coordination. -Used strong leadership, lean methodology and project management skills to bring an entire team to work together to plan the workflows, build the various process and managing multiple priorities to successfully meet tight deliverables.-Control of all cost, creating all operating… Show more -Build a full-scale distribution operation center from the ground up. -Find site location, hiring employees, training employees, full IT implementation, build operation process & logistic coordination. -Used strong leadership, lean methodology and project management skills to bring an entire team to work together to plan the workflows, build the various process and managing multiple priorities to successfully meet tight deliverables.-Control of all cost, creating all operating budgets, KPI and metrics. Show less

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Business Administration And Management, General

General Studies