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Scottsdale, Az, Us

Los Gatos, California, Us

Created Security Operations team to discover and resolve security issues including hiring and managing the workloads of Security Operations Analysts. Reported directly to the Chief Information Security Officer. Designed and deployed Security Monitoring solutions for the company. Replaced expensive Splunk SIEM with a modern Log and Event Monitoring that feeds into a Snowflake Datastore reducing costs in half allowing for budget to be repurposed for other Security Monitoring Tooling. Spearheaded the complete creation of a unit that ultimately increased security. Negotiated and resized usage to reflect proper sizing of company with vendors to lower the cost of services, driving first year savings of $500K a year. Evaluated and purchased Security Solutions including Managed Service Providers services. Built and implemented custom AI solution for Security Data lake using Xactly ChatGPT instance and again using Snowflake’s Cortex.

Conway, Arkansas, Us

Created Security Operations team to discover and resolve security issues including hiring and managing the workloads of five Security Operations Analysts and a Security Operations Architect. Reported directly to the Chief Information Security Officer. Designed and deployed Security Monitoring solutions for the infrastructure.✳ After a spinoff and sale from IBM to a VC group, convinced leadership of both IBM and Acoustic that a new team was needed to fill the role of three other teams within IBM as the unit’s entire function needed to be created as if it were a startup.✳ Spearheaded the complete creation of a unit that ultimately increased security and saved the company significant money by bringing tasks inhouse rather than engaging outside MSP.✳ Negotiated with vendors to lower the cost of services, driving six-figure savings✳ Saved money through the redesign and redeployment of existing toolsets to save AWS network transfer costs.✳ Expanded the role to include working as a go-between among several teams that had previously found collaborative impediments.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Worked with teams of 10-50 people to move 6-7 product offerings and infrastructure to comply with IBM standards. Reported directly to the Infrastructure Director. Designed and deployed solutions using automation tools such as Ansible and Chef. Served as system administration support for infrastructure uptime.✳ Efforts lowered security vulnerability and allowed more rapid infrastructure deployment.✳ Successfully complied with IBM standards and reported them correctly.✳ Assisted in getting the team’s processes and directions documented and stored in a centralized location.✳ Successfully deployed IBM required toolsets for compliance tracking.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Hired to design and deploy an automated infrastructure from scratch on this entirely new line for IBM. Managed a group of four Site Reliability Engineers (within a larger group of 80 directly supporting the offering) who were responsible for designing parts of the service, deploying it, and making sure uptime was kept at 99.9999%. Managed and maintained the storage, networking, and system infrastructure to include its deployments, updating and reliability.✳ Helped create initiatives to scale the solution via automation tools (Ansible, Chef, IBM Endpoint manager).✳ Created new communications with other new groups within the offering.✳ Efforts on this initiative allowed the company to launch a Cloud Hosting solution internally.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

As the team lead (Unix Engineering, which later became Shared Operation Compliance Services), directly oversaw four people in a total team size of seven System Architect Engineers and System Administrators. Created project plans and mentored team to optimize workload and priorities. Provided support for other teams’ resource gaps while performing primary assigned duties. Worked with surrounding teams (Network team, Application teams, Server team) to navigate complex project build outs to completion.✳ Drove massive effort in new acquisition to reconfigure servers to comply with Internal IBM ITCS104✳ Redesigned Redhat Linux build process to use a compartmentalized design to allow the streamlining of the OS deployment✳ Developed solutions for interconnectivity between Windows and Linux to leverage deployed systems to remove redundancies and reduce operating costs. ✳ Created complete documented process for repeatable build and configurations of complex application and Operating System installs. ✳ Assisted in developing generalized API for security scanning systems.✳ Developed system to perform installations to multiple data centers, established scripting standards for multiple data centers.✳ Performed due diligence for ITCS104 and SAS70 security compliance in both existing and new acquisition groups.✳ Engaged in process automation using internally created deployment tools and hand-built Bash, Python, Windows Shell scripts installed on Windows and Linux.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Served as the first Consultant to become a lead in IBM (in this department). Directly led eight personnel on a full team size of 20. Assisted in Global Resourcing (GR) activities, including workload assignments, providing training and mentoring for international teams in Argentina, India as well as for local junior and mid-level System Administrators with some responsibility for layoffs as IBM shifted this department from US resources to the international teams.✳ Created complete process for repeatable build and configurations of Windows and Redhat Servers including complex application package installs.✳ Built, packaged and delivered via automation OS patches and updates for all Linux and Windows operating systems,✳ Instrumental in implementing LEAN methodology throughout account.✳ Provided detailed post problem resolution analysis to include solid plan for prevention of future occurrences; also provided detailed metrics for group to optimize workload and priorities.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Designed, installed and supported Active Directory infrastructure to allow for interoperability with other City Department’s AD solutions. Served as support for 20 Windows Servers (2000, 2003) support.

Tucson, Arizona, Us

Hired to take over a $1.6M annual program to replace all the of the city’s desktops with new models every two years, with full authorization to choose and purchase PCs. As part of a 12-person team, directly led one person, an IT Support Specialist, who rotated annually. Architected and deployed/migrated all of the city’s IT from a Window 9x and Novell network to a pure Windows 2000 network.

Tucson, Az, Us

Managed daily operation of the network which included troubleshooting all hardware software and resolving all network conflicts.

Performed maintenance of personal computers and peripheral equipment, identifying problems and providing appropriate solutions. Managed 3-5 techs (depending on season) which included hiring, training and the scheduling.