Brad Ford Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Dallas, Tx, Us

Lead all architecture and advanced data analytics for identity and access management within a budget of $80 million, including leading zero trust transformation, cloud modernization, and application of artificial intelligence• Leader at Scale - Lead a team of 40 architects, data analysts, and data scientists over systems managing million identities and over 60 million login events per day for thousands of applications.• Data Analytics Modernization – Launched Azure Databricks based data platform for the near real-time ingestion of millions of events per day. Platform reduced ingestion time from 15 minutes to under 1 minute.• AI Driven Threat Detection – Successfully launched the first production Machine learning algorithm in the Chief Security Office with a fully supported machine learning lifecycle, detecting and blocking malicious authentication activity.• Cloud Transformation – Oversaw initiative to modernize the IAM platform to a container based, cloud agnostic solution with a target reduction of 66% in data center utilization.• MFA/Trusted Device Certification – Built architecture for seamless, low friction authentication. New experience will improve authentication for over 100,000 users.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Led a team of Data Scientists and Engineers to deliver both data and machine learning solutions across multiple business units and functional teams, providing both technical guidance and strategic direction• Fraud Prevention - Led the implementation of a fraud mitigation system for authentication identification which realized a benefit of $9 million in 2018. Secured and managed a budget of $2.7 million for 2019 to deliver cross functional fraud and security related projects for multiple business units.• Data Platform and Feature Store - Launched proof of concept Data Feature Store which would later become a joint venture between AT&T and H2O.ai.• Streaming Analytics - Recognized leader in streaming analytics, providing strategic guidance to CDO for a streaming data architecture and policy.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Enterprise Architect responsible for threat analytics platforms and closed-loop machine learning systems• Machine Learning Life Cycle Management – Architect for integrating AI and Machine Learning technologies into existing distributed systems and applications. Responsibilities include working closely with executives and technical leadership within the organizations to educate and architect solutions that leverage capabilities developed by our Big Data engineers and scientists.• Engineer - Led software engineering for advanced threat detection platform utilizing Spark based real- time streaming technologies for near real-time detection of fraudulent authentication.• Innovator - Multiple Patent holder from developing data platform and pipeline for real-time detection of vehicle component failures

Richardson, Tx, Us

Taught Big Data Analytics (BUAN6346/MIS6346) to a class size of over 60 students as part of the graduate programs for Business Analytics and Management Information Systems. Course work included• Foundations of Big Data and distributed computing• Unix command line programming• Python programming leveraging Pandas and other data/ML libraries• Principals of Streaming Analytics• Cloud concepts

Arlington, Va, Us

Development Lead for Cloud based effort using Hadoop, Solr, and Accumulo . Provide software development guidance and tasking to a team of 12+ developers. Assist the lead engineer in architecture decisions and work with the product owner to determine task estimates.Feature lead for creating secure full motion video (FMV) capabilities for a FIPS compliant tactical Android 4.0 based system (including both phones and tablets). Provided software leadership and design for the FMV mechanism. Provided security expertise as needed throughout the project. Worked closely with the Android development team to create and update Android client feature for the Android based devices. Lead engineer for a desktop based anti-malware product initiative acting as both the lead development engineer and product point of contact for pilot efforts. Responsibilities included product research and implementation of new detection techniques and data analytics. In addition, designed and developed Java based middle tier Axis2 based web services and JSP pages and the STRUTS 2 framework. Also, designed and developed Oracle stored procedures for batch processing of large XML data.Provided both SOA and web application expertise in multiple security related software initiatives including a large scale, Java-based, anti-malware email solution. Responsible for the design and implementation of web service and JMS based integration points for downstream systems. Software lead for radar data processing component that ingests and displays moving target information.

Lead STRUTS and User Interface architect on a major project to create a web-based, single point of data entry for over 100 distributed systems governed by HIPAA. Responsibilities include HTML, CSS, JSP, and JavaScript design as well as design and implementation of complex functional models within the application including EJBs and Oracle stored procedures.Trained other developers on the proper use of the STRUTS framework and GUI components.Responsible for maintaining custom GUI components as well as providing expertise on the use of purchased JavaScript GUI components and AJAX components.

Irving, Texas, Us

Lead developer on major development project to replace a legacy mainframe application with a multi-tiered JavaEE web application based on JavaEE design patterns. Responsibilities included HTML design of user interface utilizing CSS and JavaScript, Design of JDBC access layer utilizing Hibernate, and development of middle tier control layer utilizing STRUTS.Team lead for web application team responsible for 15 Java web applications, 2 Perl applications, and 1 ASP.NET application.Implemented distributed team structure to maximize application coverage while maintaining a lean team. Lead project manger for four on-site and seven off-site staff. Pioneer the use of open source technologies such as Hibernate and STRUTS within the team to reduce boilerplate coding.Led strategic initiative to standardize the use of .NET across for 4 separate manufacturing facilities.Responsible for the design, development, and support of a major marketing web application for a UK based customer. Responsibilities included enhancements to graphical user interface using JavaScript and HTML, support of large data transfer module that utilized JDBC and XML to transfer the data from one source into an Oracle database, and various enhancements to the JSP/Servlet based application.Improved customer satisfaction and group relations through meeting with UK customers regularly to gather and define requirements for system support and enhancement requests. Developed change management process for significant SAP based web application improving change request response.

Master Of Science (Ms), Security Engineering

Bs, Computer Science