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Austin, Texas, Us

Architecting Security and Compliance for Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure● Recognized as "Key Talent" by executive leadership, Excellence Award 2020

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Mature the Cyber-Defense strategy and operations for a three-year-old Digital Security Organization. Incubate T-Mobile's Threat Intelligence team, focused on deriving business value out of security and identity related signal. Primary resource for updating a shifting infrastructure. ● Developed, resourced and executed an intelligence program for the 3rd largest US Telecom Service Provider● Coordinate Incident Response activities with Engineering, Systems and Operations as well as communicate incident details and remediation with Sr Leadership and Corp Communications.● Mentored new interns, post-grads, and employees transitioning into cybersecurity.● Selected for a six-month rotation through all security teams to cultivate cross-organizational readiness, adopt security best-practices, and achieve operational excellence; rotation included Vulnerability Management, Incident Response, Security Operations and Threat Intelligence.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Operate the Open Source Threat Intelligence Officer Role for Microsoft's Digital Security and Risk Engineering (DSRE) Threat Intelligence Team. Provide actionable insights for threat mitigation via threat summary reports to executive leadership and key stake holders, including the CEO, CISO, and Board Members.● Intelligence support for strategic decision-making, operational risk management, and security incident response.● Produce evidence-based knowledge about existing or emerging threats to support informed decisions and drive operations.● Generate capability reports and gap analyses to provide stakeholders and threat management teams with a clear, comprehensive picture of areas of resiliency and vulnerability.● Enrichment of global cyber investigations through threat actor patterns; attribution characteristics; timeline analysis; techniques, tactics, procedures (TTPs); and indicators of compromise (IOCs).

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led a team of service engineers, technical account managers, forensics investigators, and NDA-bound business partners to mitigate the rising threat of information leaks and bad business practices by deploying an enterprise-wide Data Loss Prevention (DLP) suite to actively scan structured and unstrucured data. ● Created security policy unifying compliance/regulation for data loss prevention, including procedures for risk management, malware protection, content protection, regulatory data, intellectual property loss, and protection of critical assets.● Charged with integrating Microsoft's data loss prevention solution into the company's global infrastructure spanning various domestic locations at 10 international sites; implemented and deployed a 24/7/365 monitoring and support process that ensured security coverage for all DLP incidents.● As a trusted adviser for Microsoft's Cyber Defense Operations Center, provided incident-based support, curated metadata, and evidence derived from DLP's big data lake.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Provided tactical leadership as the single-point-of-contact for newly created technical service programs requiring non-traditional access to high business impacting (HBI) resources. Drove orgnaization and consistency into the dependent constellation of tools, sites, documents, and resources contained in a Fortune 50's extranet service environment.● Established a complex, host-based segmentation method to seamlessly manage the logically separated online, corporate, and partner environments.● Applied expertise in Identity Access Management to grant privileged corporate access to government authorities while ensuring extranet security.● Drove application architecture for re-perimeterization and filtering within the security control framework. Managed signal between the corporate and extranet environments, which supports private access to corporate resources for partners, vendors, suppliers, and authorized customers in the supply chain.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Partnered with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to gather diverse requirements and synthesize complex proplems into manageable components. Analyzed performance data to extract actionable insights and drive organizational improvements for multiple, simultaneously operating security infrastructure programs.● Led a team of seven employees from different organizations to operate a critical infrastructure deployment program delivering hotfixes to billions of customers every month worldwide (Patch Tuesday). In addition to monthly releases, team also managed out-of-band deployments for emergency hotfixes as a part of the Incident Response team. Average yearly release cadence was 750 Knowledge Base (KBs) articles. In team's first year of operation, double this to 1563 KB articles released.● Led a team of four employees that normalized the internal pre-release process to deploy beta-bits to 150,000 clients, data centers, and line-of-business applications (Test Pass) as part of Bill Gates Trustworthy Computing Initiative. Completed 68 SOX compliant release cycles.● Devised Anti-Malware Engine Monthly Test Cycle (AM Engine Test Pass); hand-picked/hired a team of three people to create and operate a process that validates functionality of new malware signatures in a live production environment prior to updating 1.2 billion Windows customers worldwide. Recieved Microsoft Excellence Award.● Owned the pre-production process representing MSIT's Infosec Operations team in the software development lifecycle for 1st & Best. As a keystakeholder in securing products, team identified risk-reduction opportunities through end-to-end IT support and deep dive (SPEC) inspections for a suite of products and new features developed for an average of 15 to 20 product groups.

Led a team of 10 security engineers and program managers to conduct application security risk assessments.● Collaborated with other PM's to translate business and technical requirements into service architecture.● Drove and implemented cross-organizational initiatives drawn from industry-based best practices.● Developed automation solutions for processes and tools, resulting in significantly improved operational efficiency.● Conducted strategic planning and program expansion to improve all aspects of infrastructure security.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Digital Forensic Science And Technology

Certification, Insider Threat

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Laws, Societies, And Justice