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Providing V-CISO and Security Operations services for Fortune 500 clients.

Zelis, $1.5B Bain Capital Healthcare company, formed through the acquisition of multiple healthcare organizations. Created a new department, Infrastructure Security Operations, with a 3-year comprehensive cybersecurity program.• Published the department Mission Statement, Strategy, Objectives, Roadmap and Architecture. • Reduced the Security technology vendor footprint by 60% with an annual cost savings of over $1.25M• Implemented 12 top-shelf security technologies in the first year using the NIST framework• Developed 24x7 SOC monitoring capabilities with an on-prem SIEM, an MSSP Provider and Threat Intel Partners• Reduced the number of vulnerabilities on 3500 servers & 900 WVDs from 70,000 to less than 2,800 in the first year.• Hired 10 new Sr. Managers, architects, and engineers supporting both dual Cloud and on-prem data centers.

Irving, Texas, Us

McKesson, a global $264B Pharmaceutical and Healthcare IT company. Primary objective was to protect the infrastructure that processes 85% of all U.S. and 100% of the CMS Medicare/Medicaid pharmacy transactions. Responsible for securing multiple systems that store over 285M U.S. Citizens PHI records.Promoted to Sr. Director and developed a three-year Cybersecurity technology transformation in support of Cloud and on-prem datacenters, hire staff, status reporting, event escalation and budget oversight. Manage security technologies deployments, SOC operations, and server & application vulnerability remediation. Assist multiple BUs achieve their PCI, HIPAA, NIST and SAE16 SOC1/SOC2 Type 2 compliance. Create an implement a DevSecOps program for all developers.

Compliance Engineering Inc. (CE) headquartered in Atlanta Georgia with sales offices in NC, SC FL, MN and IA is the parent company of Hawkeye SCS ( Risk and Compliance) subsidiary and Hawkeye CoLo (Hosting facility). CE offers both Security Compliance Services and Hosted Solutions. In 2011 we opened our 24/7 EoG SOC for the Fortune 500, SMB & government entities. We were pleased to announce in 2012 that CE became certified product & services resellers for all RSA and HP security technologies in addition to our other security partnerships. Due to our continued growth in our PIIFinder SaaS Data Discovery product we have many new Fortune 500 clients that utilize our MSSP and MTSS offerings. We operate our Security Facility (Data Center and SOC) at our Atlanta, GA location. CE is certified by Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council.Overall management responsibilities for a staff of 41 security consultants and engineers. Provided executive level consulting for Boards, CIOs and CISOs for companies such as Home Depot, Lowes, Belk, Sports Authority, Publix, Rooms To Go, Liberty Mutual, AVIVA, Allstate, New York Life, Crawford & Company, General, Bank of America, Global Payments, Marriott, Century Link, Comcast, Alltel Sony & others.

Provided executive level leadership to government entities for the protection of the nation's critical infrastructure. Led detailed assessments and remediation efforts of rail, electrical, water treatment and airports.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Formed the company's worldwide information security arhitecture and managed the deployment of supporting technologies. Developed and managed the company's security awareness program, anti-virus, multi-factor authentication, encryption, IDM/IAM, IDS and system baseline security for all platforms & network communications.I had an awesome time and worked with the best co-workers and IT leadership in the world.