Product and Application Security Director with deep security knowledge, extensive software engineering experience, and a passion for DevSecOps.My job is to lead the end-to-end product security portfolio, and to drive security culture throughout the product teams and organization as a whole. I form communication and collaboration channels between Security, Engineering, and Business to break down silos and align our goals so that together we deliver secure features and products to our customers. I combine technical skills with an inclusive, empowering leadership approach. I embrace new ideas, fail fast, and improve processes. In short, I change the way our industry has traditionally thought about security.

AppSec Working GroupCreated program to increase capability and capacity of application security among our developers, increase security awareness throughout the firm, and help brand the firm as a security provider. Tasks include regular meetings where we share ideas; research on various security tools; internal presentations and blog posts; business development; and attending security conferences and user groups.DevOps:As DevOps engineer for internal and external projects, I deploy, maintain, and monitor maintain continuous deployment pipelines and hosting platforms for web and mobile applications on both Amazon Web Services and Azure. Duties include cost estimation, scripting and testing the infrastructure, experimenting with a wide variety of open source software, load balancing, and auto scaling.Security:As security engineer on software projects for various clients, I help teams develop security requirements, adhere to secure coding standards, and integrate security engineering practices with agile engineering methodology. I also perform security assessments thought a combination of static code analysis and penetration testing.