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Chicago, IL, US

Berlin, DE

• Established the IT strategy, security, and support of a publicly traded global biopharmaceutical company that is on a mission to prevent and heal mental health disorders. Manage the Security, Support, and Cloud service.
• Created and maintained CAPEX and OPEX yearly budgets for IT.
• Implement SOX, GDPR, 21 Part 11, and HIPAA policies, procedures, and audits for ATAI and its Platform Companies.
• Devised the Cloud enablement strategy to adopt a Cloud only approach to enterprise infrastructure and application services.
• Manage global Service Providers for Endpoint Security and ITSM services for users and devices deployed worldwide.

Rosemont, IL, US

• Acting CISO owning the strategy, operations, and budget for the protection of the enterprise information assets and the management of the Information Security Program. Directed the IT Operations, Cloud Enablement.
• Cloud migration of existing Tier 1 Critical Systems, Applications, and Databases to Azure Cloud services.
• Advised and presented to Sr. Leadership security risks through various channels such as Incident Reporting and Risk Management Team.
• Orchestrated internal and external Application & Infrastructure Penetration Testing for Security and HIPAA Risk Assessments.
• Remediated vulnerabilities: 82% with known exploits in 30 days while reducing critical vulnerabilities by 94%.
• Represented IT within the Enterprise Risk Management Team and led IT Risk, Disaster Recovery, and Cybersecurity within the organization.

Conshohocken, PA, US

• Oversaw the security and IT strategy of Enterprise Infrastructure Services of a $700+ million FDA/DEA regulated pharmaceutical compounding and manufacturing company with 1500+ employees in 5 locations supporting 24x7.
• Directed the Information Technology support staff of 20 (IT Manager, Service Desk, Network Engineers, Security Analysts, Application Engineers, and DBAs) to manage IT operations, enterprise support/solutions, and.
• Designed and implemented IT Strategic plans, initiatives, and objectives.
• Architected and Executed DR/BCP Implementation of HOT Offsite DR Center with yearly testing of DR plans.
• Advised, presented projects, strategic plans, and their status/outcomes to the Executive Management Team.
• Achieved 99% uptime by executing an initiative-taking Enterprise Network & Application Monitoring Solution.