Brad Williams, Cissp Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

As a Director at Edgile Inc., Brad acts as the Technical Lead and Architect to help enterprises to design, develop, and deploy Identity and Access Management based solutions. He has design and implementation experience with SailPoint's IdentityIQ Access Certification and Provisioning, UnboundID's Data Store (LDAP), Proxy, Data Sync, and Metric server, and Radiant Logic's Virtual Directory Server Products.

SummaryBrad has over 30 years of software consulting experience, with a focus on Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. He has significant implementation experience with Novell/NetIQ’s IAM Identity and Security Management products, including the Access Governance Suite (AGS) and the Compliance Management Platform (CMP). Brad also has recent experience with Oracle’s IAM products. Areas of Expertise• Technical lead for complex IAM projects• Security principals, including Identity & Access Management such as Access Control, Authentication, Authorization, Provisioning and Password Management• LDAP directory design and implementation• Encryption solutions for portal, proxy, web server and LDAP directoriesTechnical Skills• IdM Software – Novell/NetIQ (Identity Manager, Access Manager, SecureLogin), Oracle (Identity Manager, Access Manager, Virtual Directory, Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite)• Operation Systems - Windows 2000/2003 Server, Windows XP/Vista, NetWare, SUSE Enterprise Linux, and Solaris • Email – Exchange and GroupWise• Database - Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Microsoft Access• LDAP Directories – eDirectory, iPlanet, Oracle Identity Directory

Supported sales opportunities with fortune 500 clients across North America by conducting customized demonstrations, presentations and Proofs of Concept, responded to Requests for Proposals, and conducting discovery sessions through Insight Program. Provided deep dive technical support of the sales and product development processes for all identity, security, and access management opportunities and products. Provided specialist product knowledge and expertise in support of Oracle Identity and Access Management solution sales. Supported Identity and Access Management demand generation activities. Qualified, validated and ensured that the appropriate solutions and products were proposed and that associated activities are agreed with the sales team. Maintained up-to-date knowledge and in-depth technical expertise within all areas of Oracle’s Identity & Access Management suite.

As a member of the Novell Professional Services Team, help enterprises design, develop, and deploy identity management based solutions. These solutions assist enterprises by provisioning/de-provisioning digital identities and providing password synchronization throughout connected downstream systems. These projects also facilitate enterprises to eliminate tedious, labor-intensive manual procedures that usually accompany the hiring process. Enterprises are benefit from these projects by enforcing and prove compliance with governance and security policies.

Collaborated with various product groups to help ensure they met data compliance requirements and to help promote security awareness within these teams. Researched and developed new collateral materials that are being utilized by the product groups to complete security risk assessments. The documents have been developed as tools to guide solution owners in evaluating and documenting the solution’s overall security. Created a white paper that is being used to educate, and show business justification for deploying an Identity and access management solution. Mentored the other members of the security team by offering them a business perspective toward security issues.

Senior Technical SpecialistProvided planning and design of Novell core products into homogeneous and heterogeneous enterprise IS environments, and handled multiple project assignments simultaneously. Responsibilities included skills-transfer activities, product pilots, hands-on implementation, proof-of-concept installations and subsequent up selling. Engagement activities included analyzing customers’ environments, documenting the discoveries, and presenting the findings, technologies, and solutions to the customer’s management team. Worked closely with the sales force, education, product groups, and technical support.

Provided leadership and management for the successful implementation of the Walt Disney World’s NetWare 3.11 to 4.11 operating system upgrade and consolidation project. Designed and developed the standards for the Walt Disney World’s NetWare 4.11 and NDS. Researched and developed a requirements specification for a workstation office automation project. The solution included new workstation image of Windows 95 and custom installation of Microsoft office with the WinINSTALL application. Presented the chosen solution to the management team for acceptance of the project. Rolled the software and standard image out with the NetWare 3.11 operating system standardizing project. The project had a return on investment of one month.