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Boston, Ma, Us

Madison, Wi, Us

Madison, Wi, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Focusing on a holistically more secure SDLC. Projects: - Annual compliance-based eLearning program combined with continuing education. - IDE-based code vulnerability scanning tool for developers to do static-scanning for development cycle remediation. - Automated static code scanning for applications during QA build with quality assurance involvement in remediation. - Mitigation process for addressing false positives and vulnerabilities with compensating controls.

Boston, Ma, Us

Technical Analyst, IT for IT - presently focused on software projects related to our Homeowner product's core architecture as well as security and infrastructure projects in IT.

Business Analyst for company focused on helping clients from airline, hospitality & other loyalty-based industries build quality interactions with their customers while helping them to enable increased user engagement, reward member behavior, and generate new revenue streams for their organizations.Technical Writer/Editor of documentation (both internal and client-facing) for the Engineering and Product teams. Responsible for translating business requirements & use cases into technical specifications and writing final product documentation. Authored templates & diagrams for technical APIs, XML Schemas, Modules, HTML-based Reporting systems and other needs.Process Architect working with Engineering & Project Management teams to design, develop & implement more structured Agile processes for Git-based source code management and release within Scrum environment. Improved productivity, time-based efficiencies and removed impediments to company priorities throughout the SDLC.Knowledge Management specialist focused on supporting the on-boarding of new employees as well as current internal & external customers throughout product lifecycle. Manage legacy documentation, as well as identify, organize & curate current technical & business requirement documents for Node.js JavaScript, MongoDB development environment in addition to reporting system. Constantly seeking better ways to improve upon making knowledge repository a more useful, usable and complete resource for all users.Market & Competitive Intelligence Researcher providing timely strategic and product insights to support critical decision-making within the company executive team, due diligence, and new product design/development.

Strategic Planning of new products/services across client organizations working with cross-functional teams to bringing them to both execution and ongoing management stages of the offering. Rejuvenated and enhanced existing product & sales pipelines on behalf of client interests as well.Business Analyst & Technical Writer producing/presenting deliverables including: business requirement documents, technical specifications, position documents, company policies, sales & marketing collateral (including whitepapers, blogs, guest editorials, and case studies), and competitive intelligence reports.Project Management of client user communities to facilitate self-support, promote interest in case study participation and increase both usage and overall confidence in the client organization through the sharing of success stories.Strategic Consultant focused on advising clients based on SWOT analysis of existing product/service marketplace and delivered insights on how to make the best and biggest impacts when product launched.Investor Relations Specialist responsible for facilitating introductions to some of the top angel and partners at VC investment firms putting money into the information security marketplace.

Marlborough, Ma - Massachusetts, Us

Business Development Lead brought on-board to help revitalize sales pipeline leveraging professional network of C-level information security and IT-risk executives from the Fortune 500 financial service, insurance & healthcare needing 3rd party vendor risk and other regulatory compliance assessments completed.Project Manager designing a new strategy for company sales team relying on client referrals for engaging new prospects. Successfully made business case to executives in favor of replacing old-school method of cold-calling in favor of building relationships and using existing client metrics for information-sharing & benchmarking opportunities with prospects.Responsible for new channel of clients by performing on-site introductions at conferences & events between KLC executives and peers at different Fortune 500 companies, highlighting company's current capabilities, best practices, facilitating conversations on what's working/what's not to showcase organization's premier knowledge and skillset within the industry.Brokered partnerships between consulting firms, VARs, and vendors with complementing capabilities, offerings, & solutions that would strengthen KLC's ability to serve clients as well as benefit the partnering organization by utilizing our consultants for their customer's needs.

Stadtkreis 1 Altstadt, Zurich, Ch

Guest Contributor to ThreatPost.com, writing several editorial columns as a subject matter expert regarding industry trends on threat response, conflation and adapting to the ever-changing risk landscape.

Boston, Ma, Us

Client Services/Account Manager of over 200 Information Security, IT Risk & Compliance professionals from over 50 Fortune 500 companies. Succeeded in over 100% renewal & retention rate within first FY of being in role and contributed to doubling the company's size through support of both outside and inside sales teams.Managing Consultant for research service created in early 2007. Successfully fulfilled over 500 technical, managerial & operational queries for CXO clients in FY2010. Managed a team of 30+ independent subject matter experts (SMEs) considered "thought-leaders" by industry to provide critical, timely, and valuable decision-support insights to IANS client-base.Director of Market Insights directing monthly client briefings based on market intelligence, selected appropriate SMEs, authored messaging to bring in both clients & prospects, and coordinated event logistics with Director of Events to ensure client satisfaction.Research Analyst & Technical Writer authoring best practices, research papers and top insight briefs based on qualitative & quantitative data. Participated in annual end-user events as client advocate, analyst and subject matter expert. Trained inside and Enterprise/outside sales representatives in proper industry lexicon use and interactions with prospects resulting in faster, larger sales cycles, relationship-building at corporate level and ability to reach executives with buying power.Media Relations Specialist, acquiring top-tier industry press coverage for both IANS and independent SMEs to further brand awareness.

Washington, Dc, Us

Performed functions in Communications, Shelter Management, Mass Care, Disaster Assessment, Financial & Statistical Information Management, driving a ERV, and acting as an EOC liaison.Additional training to including an Amateur Radio license, NWS Skywarn training, Defensive Driving skills, and FEMA NIMS certification in ICS 100. Full list of training available upon request.Member of a local Disaster Action Team; roles included on-the-scene responder, team dispatch management and activation of Client Assistance Cards. Utilized technology and Public Relation skills to increase awareness of local Red Cross offerings. Trained other Red Cross personnel in unique and effective public relationship skills.

Lead Account Manager for brand awareness research project; fostered the creation, and management of a developer/user community for an open source database client. Technical Writer that worked with client marketing, PR, and engineering departments, providing product management and technical insights, marketing collateral as well as business/research analysis for various customer offerings. Drafted, edited and disseminated research reports, whitepapers & PR in addition to CXO guidance documents.Social Media and PR Specialist, communicating regularly with members of mainstream and technical press to ensure top-tier media coverage of company and client projects.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

http://ocw.mit.eduSenior Web Developer & Accessibility advocate responsible (as Chater Member of original team) for a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative to provide free, searchable access to materials from over 1,250 MIT courses for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Project Manager responsible for ensuring site conversion to a fully-accessible, XHTML & CSS design.Developed and implemented PDF, HTML, and image gallery publications, including authoring accessibility and compatibility requirements & standards for OCW course materials.Managed relationships between MIT faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants to take course material created in various mediums, convert it to OCW standards, and import it into the content management system for publication.Founder of project to embed metadata directly into OCW content files to ensure information longevity and that details would travel within content when anyone downloaded them separate to the site itself.Managed project to train outsourced, overseas staff in production and authoring in W3C industry standards and best practices including technical documentation.

Co-Founded and Editor-in-Chief for one of the largest Harry Potter fan sites on the Web. Moved to Technical Advisory role in 2004.

Boston, Ma, Us

Produced lead generation for regional Network Security events

Contributing Editor and Fact-checker researching and authoring commentary for the “Errata” watchdog section of security site Attrition.org, focusing on factually-incorrect information.Co-Founder, Manager and Digital Curator of a near real-time service that was a repository and historical archive of defaced websites. Relationship Liaison for Federal law enforcement, CERT groups, security vendors and other organizations.Attribution Manager of discovery process for unattributed appropriation of Attrition.org research for commercial use.

San Francisco, California, Us

http://www.blackhat.comhttp://www.defcon.orgMedia Liaison and PR Specialist responsible for managing conference messaging and media queries.Keynote Acquisitions Coordinator facilitating in the procurement of top-tier cybersecurity/information assurance speakers from government, military, the intelligence community, and the information security industry. Press Conference Manager facilitating introductions and maintained relationships between media and information security industry luminaries & key vendor representatives in threat, threat management & application security as well as and Federal law enforcement representatives.

Project Manager for all research initiatives, coordinated day-to-day standards and communication activities for ZOT clients.Managed technical analysis of client emerging products and technologies in the XML, RDF, metadata, and Semantic Web space, including product performance and evaluation, technology benchmarking, bug tracking, improvement guidelines, and competitive analysis.Member, Web Standards Project Steering Committee

Wrote "XHTML: Moving Toward XML". (w/Simon St. Laurent) M&T Books, 2000.Wrote "XML in Plain English, 2nd Ed.". (w/Sandra Eddy) Wiley & Sons, 2000.Technical Edited several books on the topics of XML, Markup languages, Metadata, and Web design & development for top-tier technology publishers.

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