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Elizabeth, NJ, US

• Oversee a team of 6 technology professionals ensuring high performance and adherence to agency policies and standards
• Implemented new cybersecurity program including policies, risk assessments, security awareness training and vulnerability scanning – reducing vulnerabilities by over 50%
• Utilize industry standard security controls and hardening to reduce overall agency risk
• Developed and executed a successful server cloud migration reducing the on-prem footprint by 75%
• Buildout of new disaster recovery site with replication and immutable repository
• Improved IT help desk efficiency by 25% through the implementation of BI reports and dashboards

Toms River, New Jersey, US

• Led a team of 3 technology engineers for a 100-user environment located across 6 New York locations
• Spearheaded bank-wide cyber security initiative including incident response planning and log monitoring
• Implemented cybersecurity metrics including open vulnerabilities, SIEM alerts, and vendor compliance
• Monitor bank compliance with FFIEC cybersecurity framework
• Technical project lead for new flagship branch in Manhattan
• Implement and test disaster recovery and business continuation plans