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• Compliance Leadership: Led SOC 2 compliance efforts, establishing security policies and collaborating across teams to maintain audit readiness.• Team Management: Directed a high-performing IT team, overseeing sprint planning, task prioritization, and performance optimization.• Process Automation: Simplified device management and security workflows using automation, enhancing efficiency and consistency.• Security Operations: Strengthened threat detection and incident response, leveraging advanced monitoring tools and practices.• DevOps Integration: Transitioned patching and change management to a DevOps model, streamlining processes and ensuring consistency.• Access Management: Managed identity and access controls, implementing MFA and SSO solutions to secure organizational resources.• Resilience Planning: Developed disaster recovery strategies to ensure business continuity and mitigate risks.• Infrastructure Management: Oversaw network systems, ensuring reliability, security, and optimal performance.• User Support: Delivered proactive support and solutions, minimizing disruptions and boosting productivity.

• System Administration for critical energy infrastructure that supports real-time operations at the Bulk Electric Energy Control Center. Including the configuration and management of servers, workstations, network switches, and next-generation firewalls. • Responsible for creating, implementing, and auditing the internal firewall access control list. • System Administration, configuration, patching and tuning for SIEM platform. Validate that rules are optimal for detecting events and identifying abnormal activity on critical infrastructure. Ensured the high availability and proper operation of the different components that make up the platform including consistently updating the knowledge and rule base.• Integrate and administrate systems into asset inventory and vulnerability management platform to ensure proper patch management and timely patching. Maintain a per-asset baseline and conduct continuous reviews investigating and remediating exceptions when found in a timely manner. • Responsible for planning, testing, and implementing patching of server OS, network OS, and various software and firmware across all environments to address security vulnerabilities.• System Administration for infrastructure monitoring tools. Responsible for proper integration and configuration of assets to ensure effective monitoring is taking place. • Create and review security, policy, and compliance documents as required. Document system security activity in compliance with North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) standards. Maintain audit ability for all system integration activities.• Create and develop backup, contingency, and disaster recovery plans for all parts of the EMS critical infrastructure. Conduct periodic testing of those plans making adjustments from test results.• Planned and executed incident response exercises and collaborated with management on where improvements are needed.

• Responsible for ensuring the integrity of customer and operational data for use in the organization’s enterprise resource planning software. • Developed audit and reporting tools to detect changes to data that were conducted by individuals who should not have access. Reported findings to management for proper privilege removal.• Collaborated with management to develop a maintenance plan to put in place for the various data objects the department is responsible for. • Exhibit a steady and strong work ethic while adapting to changes in work pace to fulfil business agreement demands.• Assist with the review of current state processes, identified potential efficiencies to be made to future state processes, and presented innovative ideas to management• Identify and develop various automated processes to streamline workflows.• Perform routine audits and timely and efficiently resolve discrepancies.

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Information Systems