As an Information Security Engineer for Acorns, I managed and matured many aspects of Acorns' Information Security. Developed major portions of the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) domains and managed them to maturity. Embraced cross-functional collaboration with multiple teams to establish security processes and accountability; consequently, built-in information security awareness into Acorns' culture. - Governance and Audits: Managed external audits, vendor SOC report reviews, and risk assessments. Developed and streamlined Audit/Assessment processes and artifact gathering.- Risk Management through the Risk Register: Developed and managed Acorns' Risk Register. Provided Key Performance and Risk Indicators to executive management and metrics related to Acorns' strategic goals.- Third-Party Risk Management: Created, Developed, and managed the entire life cycle of the Third-Pary Risk Management program. - Policies and Standards: Matured the initial formal Policies and Standards for Acorns.- Physical Security: Assessed and implemented Physical Security processes and procedures for Acorns offices.- Business Continuity Program and Disaster Recovery: Created the Business Impact Analysis and BCP for Acorns. Researched every business unit of the Acorns' organization and built a program that can enhance the maturity of the BCP/DR on a regular basis. - Security Awareness and Training: Developed and managed Acorns' Onboarding, Annual, and Clicker Phishing training. Perform quarterly Simulated Phishing tests.

Developed a Risk Assessment process and evaluated 8 out of 20 Business Units using the Center for Internet Security Critical System Controls. Created a comprehensive report of 171 CSC controls documents, Summary document, and Executive report Created a vulnerability remediation process using BitSight, Qualys, and Veracode tools. Automated the vulnerability tool reporting process by importing the REST APIs into ServiceNow so developers have real-time information on remediation efforts.

Directed and reported AD remediation of CoreLogic Data Centers with over five thousand users and servers. Created consolidation plans for external Business Units, migrated them into both Data Centers. Debug and stabilize SAN VMware virtualization challenges. -Successfully developed AD remediation tracking procedures and best practices.-Successfully created and presented Sunrise Business Unit equipment and network consolidation diagrams.-Performed auditing of DC stabilization.

Analyzed customers’ existing Data Center environment. Lead a team of engineers to create and present solutions to optimize / streamline performance, increase scalability and reliability with the integration of SDSN. Tested, performance optimization, hardware testing/debugging and training of personnel for Jeda Networks’ customers and employees to deliver a high quality product. Implemented SDSN, Storage solutions biased on analyzed data from the following the following monitoring tools: VMware vCenter Performance Monitoring, EMC VNX, HP 3Par, IBM Storwize, NetApp FAS, Fujitsu ETERNUS and ESOS r740 Performance Monitoring tools, esxitop, IOmeter and Ixia 10G/40G analyzers Customer and Concept configurations included Arista, Broadcom, Mellanox, Quanta, EMC Enterprise switches, HP, IBM, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, SuperMicro servers, Fujitus Blade Centers and EMC VNX, HP 3Par, IBM Storwize, NetAPP FAS, Fujitsu ETERNUS and ESOS r740 40GbE storage arrays. Expert in the following platforms: VMware ESXi 5.x virtualization, Linux 6.x and Windows Operating systems.

Analyzed Emulex and their competitor products both hardware and software to find strengths and weaknesses in complex configurations. Configurations included SAN / LAN topologies with iSCSI, FC and FCoE protocols. Used VMware/ESXi, Linux and Windows platforms on all Enterprise Blade Centers and Servers. Used Switch Directors, Switches and Storage Arrays for configuration and monitoring of performance / debugging data. Created Demonstrations for trade show events. Lab manager and Network administer of the Technical Marketing lab.

Created trade show demonstrations and videos for QLgoic products. Designed and presented proof of concept demonstrations and videos to QLogic Management. The proof of concepts are created in complex enterprise data center configurations using FC, FCoE and iSCSI protocols. Used HyperV, ESXi/VMware, Lynx and Windows platforms in Blade Center and Servers. I also used Switch Directors, Switches and Storage Arrays for these configurations.

While having a full time job, part time I taught from September 2003 - April 2011 for Adults and High School students in the subjects of Basic Computer Trouble Shooting and QuickBooks accounting. Developed lesson plans for both subjects and assign homework, quizzes and test to account for student grades that are used to get their GED or high school diploma. Depending on the technical skills of my students the Basic Computer Trouble Shooting class consists of basic clean up to advance network debugging

While having a full time job, part time I taught from December 2009 - January 2011 for employees at different corporations on in the subject of QuickBooks. I would go on site, set up the classroom or conference room and instruct the employees twice a week for three hours a session.

Lead a team of engineers to optimize and debug Enterprise Server Firmware Management software called Sentinel. By efficiently communicating with developers and upper management about bugs and the implementation of needed features, we produced a higher quality product. Applied software and hardware engineering test methods and techniques for design, development, integration, qualification and support of Unisys ES7000 MCP. Developed a product configuration tool using C++ and SQL programming languages. Trained engineers on ES7000 hardware and Sentinel software.

Customer support engineer for Internet connectivity for Macs and Windows