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San Diego, California, Us

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Technical and business consulting, helping companies secure their hardware, software and cloud-based products.Client work includes:- System of hardware appliance, mobile software, and back end infrastructure for digital payments and eID.- Secure communication application suite, for mobile security. - DevOps and cloud native migration. Public and hybrid deployments.- Secure networking and communications, hardware and software.- Connected/Smart-City technology provider.- Financial platform-as-a-service for small business lending (Fintech)- Threat modelling and security architecture analysis- FPGA based crypto currency mining- Drone hardware and software, including back end support systems- AI based computer vision solution for physical threat detection- Incident response for a potentially malicious insider (employee)

First hire and founding Head of Secure Communications business unit.Product requirements and design for, then recruited and hired team responsible for the company's first product release; a secure chat, voice, and video application for iOS and Android.Responsible for original requirements and design of a custom mobile phone solution, based on a modified Android platform.Research, market analysis, business case, technical design and PoC build of a high-security networking encryptor box. Hired and transitioned delivery of product to a permanent product and engineering team.Initiated and lead a DevOps and as-a-service business transformation, taking an on-prem solution to a cloud-based service offering.

Hired to lead security engineering and security product management for an integrated ID solution -- a credit card form factor that allowed for dynamic selection of one of many IDs, using smart card and programmable magnetic stripe technology.Server side security of user identity and PII, hosted in AWS.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Security design, assessment, and shipping of the Motorola X and X2 phones; the first Android smart-watch, the Moto360.Involved in strategy and requirements(shared with Google) over Android for Work program, and Android Enterprise.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

o Assembled, directed and grew team from 10 to 50+ software engineers, program managers and integration test managers • Managed the merger of 4 distinct sub-teams across multiple sites • Joint member of BlackBerry and QNX Software Systems teamso Devised and proved a virtual team structure that accelerated product delivery o Built to spec BlackBerry 10 to meet or exceed the security standards of USA, UK (CESG), NATO, Germany (BSI), FIPS 140-2, etc. o Achieved these approvals/certifications within 9 months of launcho Influenced entire organizations (4000+ employees) and partners to meet strategic security goals, secure development lifecycle (SDLC)o Consulted by senior management on business and technical strategy

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Member of cross-functional architecture team, ensuring all BB10 product services meet various functional requirements and design best practises.• Provided security expertise on technical design and customer expectations.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

o Lead a team of 4, responsible for defining security model of BlackBerry 10 as a brand new platform • Requirements spanning 3rd party APIs, OS and apps, hardware design and manufacturing o Initiated proactive customer engagements to preview platform and built trust • In one case, reduced security acceptance cycle from 3 months to 4 weekso Primary business and technical driver of BlackBerry Balance, an innovative solution for BYOD and security segmentation. • One of the lead marketing pillars of BB10o Worked with engineering to design security architecture using SDLC, agileo On-going sales and marketing support, conference presentations, customer and vendor/partner managemento Co-invented and productized a manufacturing security model that allowed for building of high security devices in locations of low assurance. Enabled $Ms in cost savings and flexible supply chain models. o Enabled BlackBerry OS deployment in high-assurance environments to enable new sales and marketing programso Product definition responsibilities across Device, Enterprise Server and Infrastructure softwareo Defined and involved in spreading SDLC into internal engineering teams, partners and vendorso Involved in growing encompassing security organization from 10 people to 100+ • Experience with security research and response, and certifications

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Designed, built and tested various software security features including S/MIME and PGP protocols, and OS access control systems• Demonstrated proficiency in Java, C/C++ on mobile, server and PC • Performed security code reviews across product code base • Gained experience with crypto primitives and protocols (ECC, RSA, AES, SHA, TLS, S/MIME, PGP, etc.)

Bachelor Of Software Engineering, Engineering

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