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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Built out service offerings for a startup to create offerings that enhance product traction and client satisfaction.- Business advisor to a small consulting business that needed help branding, building cloud infrastructure, building production ready back office systems, and offerings.- Assist small businesses with resolving network, windows, and product issues that was beyond what their current provider’s capabilities.- Assisted a national trivia business with all aspects of IT. Designed and built their production environment using both bare-metal and Amazon AWS coupled with CloudFlare reverse proxy. Provided application design and acceptance criteria for the third-party development company and was technical liaison with development team.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

- Developed distributed scanning platform using Tenable Nessus that could be pushed into a client environment through RMM platform.- Led technical security reviews of in-house developed tools.- Led Penetration Testing on Managed Services Infrastructure- Advised on required minimum standards required for on-boarding customer environments. - Mapped current state and controls into the NIST Computer Security Framework (CSF) and CIS Critical Security Controls- Advised and mentored staff on Security Best Practices and architecture.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

* Clear Skies Security was acquired by Cerberus Sentinel (now CISO Global)*- Managed and grew a high performance consulting team providing Penetration Testing, Application Assessments, Incident Response, and Security Advisory Services.- Vetted potential acquisitions for technical acumen and synergy with existing team.- Evaluate acquisition offerings, methodologies, and deliverable and integrate to enhance and complement existing offerings.- Integrate acquired teams and built morale, team cohesiveness, and cultivated the desire to over-achieve.- Created a common assessment toolset to deliver consistent results and ensure maximum vulnerability coverage.- Built out deliverable templates and formalized verbiage for the Incident Response offerings. - Final point of escalation for customer satisfaction. Increased client satisfaction through formalizing and approving contract verbiage to match the work to be delivered. - Provided Technical Review and Quality Assurance for all deliverables to ensure results contained relevant findings (reducing false positives and negatives) and the deliverable conveyed practical tactical and strategic recommendations.

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

- Built an elite team of technical assessment professionals specializing in Penetration Testing, Application Assessments, Mobile Assessments, Code Reviews, and other technical security assessments.- Founded company and built everything from branding, offerings, go to market strategy, proposals, pricing, contracts, methodology, deliverable templates, tooling.- Focused on excellent quality staff, excellence in execution, and overwhelming customer satisfaction. This is reflected by having zero contested invoices and non-payment in 12 years.- Focused on running a profitable business with zero debt and scaling strategically through use of sub-contractors.- Valued staff and customer relationships at all costs and always put people first.- Extracted maximum value out of resources by always “working smarter not harder”, building automation and optimized workflows into as much of the organization as possible.- Provided Technical Review and Quality Assurance for all deliverables to ensure results contained relevant findings (reducing false positives and negatives) and the deliverable conveyed practical tactical and strategic recommendations.- Successfully negotiated sale of Clear Skies to Cerberus Sentinel (now CISO Global) to expand portfolio of offerings to customers.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

* Internet Security Systems was acquired by IBM *- Charted to build a unified global offering for Penetration Testing, Application Assessments, Mobile Testing and other offensive security offerings.- Combined and unified teams from across IBM including GTS and GBS.- Educated Sales team on offerings and go-to-market strategy.

Atlanta, Us

- Saw the efficiencies a dedicated pen testing team could bring the organization. Built out the offering, methodologies, evaluated tools, and hired the team. - Created the methodology, tooling, and workflow to make the team work as efficiently as possible.- Increased per-project profitability from break-even to over 50% margin. Grew team to be the highest revenue team per capita.- Took the Penetration Test model and replicated it worldwide to other in-country teams.

Atlanta, Us

- Subject Matter Expert on ISS products including Internet Scanner, Database Scanner, Real Secure, Safe Suite Decisions.- Conducted assessments of customer environments.- Installed ISS products at customer environments, specializing in complex implementations.- Assisted sale and business development reps to build SOWs and price engagements.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Tech support for all faculty systems; install, support and maintenance of data acquisition systems; install and support 3D motion analysis system. (Dates above are approximate)

Master Of Information Technology, Computer Security

Graduate Diploma In Computer Science (With Distinction), Computing

Bachelor Of Science, Microelectronics, Computing