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Foster City, Ca, Us

Foster City, Ca, Us

• Collaborate with organizations of diverse scales, from small businesses with under 1000 assets to expansive global enterprises with over a million assets.• Provide industry-leading insights to organizations, enhancing their vulnerability management programs and practices.• Engage closely with both senior leadership and technical teams to formulate and enhance security strategies in alignment with organizational visions.• Deliver seasoned guidance on tactical and strategic aspects of enterprise-level Vulnerability Management programs.• Assess the effectiveness of customers' existing Qualys tool stack deployment and Vulnerability Management initiatives, offering actionable recommendations and roadmaps to align with best practices.• Cultivate robust relationships with key stakeholders, serving as a trusted consultant for Qualys tool stack and a Subject Matter Expert across various products such as Vulnerability Management Detection and Response (VMDR), CyberSecurity Asset Management (CSAM), and Patch Management (PM).• Drive the evolution and capabilities of Qualys products through insightful feedback and suggestions.• Contribute significantly to pivotal projects for large clients, overseeing expansions and redesigns of their Vulnerability Management programs encompassing scope, scanner appliance deployment, Agent rollout, and more.• Specialize in the intricate redesign or new implementation of highly complex, global Qualys tool deployments to cover over 1 million assets, demonstrating exceptional scalability and agility.

Foster City, Ca, Us

• Worked closely with many of Qualys' largest customers and provided consultative services in regards to their use and management of the Qualys tool suite.• Provided deep insight on product deployment strategies, process and workflow improvements, and gathering metrics for large scale Qualys customers.• Served as a key technical resource for multiple customer projects and was actively involved in all five phases of the Project Management Life Cycle.• Redesigned and implimented new asset organizational methodologies for major customers which allowed customers to achieve the highest level of agility and scalability.• Successfully led tool consolidation efforts post merger and acquisition for multiple customers and assisted with planning and execution of scope expansion and asset management.• Led numerous Qualys tool major overhauls (i.e. "rip and replace" or "start over") efforts for numerous accounts ranging from 1,000 assets to over 500,000 assets. In all cases, this aligned customers with Qualys best-practices which dramatically improved tool efficiency, improved metrics gathering, reduced administrative overhead, and decreased time to remediation.

Foster City, Ca, Us

• Worked with customers and assisted with technical and business-related issues.• Worked directly with Forbes Fortune 500 C-suite executives and senior leadership to create or improve security strategies and vision.• Developed and executed solutions to meet customer needs and drivers through hands-on engagement.• Engaged in tool and process improvements to streamline customer success activities and services.• Technical resource for customer’s Project Management Office for deployment and enhancement projects. Influencer in the decision-making process and provided final say in related strategies.• Supervised customer deployment and enhancement projects and provided troubleshooting and user support.

Wichita, Kansas, Us

• Responsible for the overall health and management of two Qualys subscriptions encompassing over 20 companies, ≈13.2M IP addresses, and over 139,000 assets.• Developed and implemented a new revenue generating, large-scale, multinational enterprise VM Program from the ground up.• Program Manager for the global Koch VM Program and responsible for all business processes and related activities.• Successfully led the Molex Incorporated project to completely overhaul the organizations VM Program of 4.9M IP addresses. The project resulted in improved scope coverage by 47%, increased visibility of risk, and reduced time to remediation.• Project Manager for the Molex integration project of its VM Program under Koch management.• Grew Koch’s global VM Program scope from one company scanning less than 1,200 IP addresses and less than 500 assets, to all Koch companies (20+) scanning over ≈13.2M IP addresses and over 139,000 assets.

Ft. Meade, Md, Us

Worked for the epicenter of federal cyber security; the National Security Agency. Performed regular vulnerability assessments on multiple networks using eEye Digital Security Scanner. Performed other baseline scans as well and provided the results to the respective System Administrators for each network. Monitored multiple classified networks using Splunk. Well versed in security requirements with a well demonstrated knowledge in the McAfee Host Based Security System (HBSS). Managed group policies and monitored the McAfee Host Intrusion Detection System on multiple networks. I was the instructor to all the US Navy System Administrators and newly arrived technicians to this division on the security and monitoring tools used by the Information Assurance Directorate at the NSA. Demonstrated strong technical writing skills by writing in-depth technical publication for tools used to monitor and secure a wide range of networks.

Ft. Meade, Md, Us

Performed network vulnerability scanning on deployed networks. Deployed and ran deployable networks and ensured survivability of the line of communication to deployed teams. Provided direct signal intelligence to combat commanders and the National Intelligence Support Team (NIST). Rewrote technical publications in a more "user-friendly" format for deployed crews to guarantee the setup of equipment was being performed consistently and accurately while eliminating the chance of misinterpretations of the publications and potentially hindering the deployed equipments performance.

Washington, Dc, Us

Was the lead IT for one of our nation’s nuclear deterrence commands. Provided tier 1 and tier 2 support to over 420 users and managed an asset list worth over $1.2 million. While deployed, I was the Ground Communications Officer. Supervised and managed 17 deployed personnel while providing a survivable means of communication between multiple communication aircraft in the air and national decision makers. Provided "cradle-to-grave" network support for a miniature classified intranet network that provided critical message traffic from heads of state to deployed crews.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Associate Of Science (As), Computer Networking: Security

Information Systems Administrator (Iat Ii)

Information Systems Technician Basic Skills Training