Developed and executed a comprehensive security strategy aligned with company goals and regulatory requirements, integrating security into the overall company strategy and product development lifecycle.- Ensured compliance with regulations and standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP). Conducted risk and vulnerability assessments, implementing mitigation strategies and maintaining incident response plans.- Oversaw the protection and privacy of human health data, implementing robust anonymization and de-identification processes to safeguard PII.- Partnered with leadership team to establish and approve the implementation of the efficient information security and data privacy program, with product development teams to integrate security best practices into the software development lifecycle. Communicated security risks and solutions to stakeholders, including clients, partners, and employees.- Led and mentored a team of DevSecOps engineers and security professionals, fostering a culture of security awareness and continuous improvement. Implemented and managed DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), ensuring secure and efficient development, deployment, and operation of cloud applications.- Ensured the security of AWS cloud infrastructure, applications, and services by developing and enforcing security policies, standards, and procedures.- Led the response to security incidents, developing and executing incident response plans to minimize impact and prevent recurrence.- Implemented security monitoring and reporting systems to detect and respond to threats in real time, providing regular updates and reports to the executive team.- Managed relationships with security vendors and third-party service providers, ensuring adherence to the company’s security policies and standards.

ISCO Solutions (ISCOSEC) helps organizations build and maintain a cyber safety culture through implementing the necessary IT Compliance and Risk Management programs. We help technology startups and mid-size technology companies prepare and pass security audits on Information Security (NIST SP 800-53, CSF, NIST SP 800-171, HIPAA, SOC, FedRAMP), and Data Privacy (CCPA, CPRA, GDPR).I am responsible for the development and Evolution of IT Compliance platform “Full Trust” (www.fulltrust.io) which helps small to mid-size technology companies to accelerate and ensure the successful implementation of Information Security and Data Privacy programs. Currently supported Information Security/Data Privacy programs on “Full Trust” platform:- Information Security Baseline (a simplified version of NIST CSF)- HIPAA (including Security Rule, Privacy Rule, Omnibus Rule, and HITECH Act)- California Consumer Privacy Act.Job duties: Product Owner, Information Security Program Leader, and Data/Configuration Manager, and is specifically responsible for:- Thorough study of Information Security and Data Privacy Regulations- Adapting or Creating Security/Privacy Questionnaires- Creating Security/Privacy Policy Templates- Defining the list of generic Action Items that may help implement certain security controls- Defining the list of Compliance-related Calendar Events per security/privacy program- Incorporating all details of the Information Security/Data Privacy program into the “Full Trust” platform- Leading the global DevSecOps team efforts in the implementation of Cloud Security best practices (in accordance with NIST CSF requirements) on the “Full Trust” platform to ensure consumer data confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and allow future SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification of the platform.

As a Chief of Product Development: Acting as a product success champion for company's own portfolio of digital products: uniting all parts of organization with a solid strategic vision around successful development, marketing, delivery, end-user adoption, and customer support strategies. Establishing and overseeing product development processes across company's product portfolio, governing all aspects of product evolution, ensuring success at all levels.Partnering with stakeholders, product champions, vendors to:-- Develop, maintain, evolve product's strategic vision in alignment with the market demands-- Define and maintain product development roadmap-- Establish agile development process to ensure iterative and successful product evolution-- Ensure successful, timely delivery of product updates to the end usersPartnering with marketing, customer success ad support teams to:-- Define and execute marketing and distribution strategies -- Establish flexible customer success management strategies to facilitate faster product adoption, achieve and maintain higher rates of end user satisfaction-- Establish efficient support processes to provide exceptional customer supportProducts: www.flexikanban.com, www.work-relay.comAdditionally - * Leading product development initiatives for the client products, working together with customers to perform market analysis, defining product vision and roadmap, establishing product development strategy and development process, executing and overseeing development processes, ensuring successful delivery and implementation. Products: www.onedayshootouts.com, www.onesourcedocs.com As a COO:* Participating in business development: research and discovery of new business areas, pre-sales activities, business negotiations, contracts, account management* Customer success management, P&L, invoicing* Management of distributed, cross-functional teams, SDLC, service delivery* Head of Information Security Office (ISO)

Managed $20M Life Sciences Product Development Portfolio at the strategic biopharma account in Tarrytown, NY. Established development, operational, and support processes. Ensured successful product delivery. Assisted with complex cases of project recovery, ensured continuous strengthening of the partnership at the account level. Led work on and successfully materialized the new business opportunities inside and outside the account. Acted as a business and technology liaison between companies and teams. Performed executive level reporting on product portfolio OKRs, KPIs, metrics, performance, budget, performed strategic product portfolio planning and execution in alignment with company's goals.

Established and ran a digital product startup, from idea to implementation, through raising ~$1M from private investors to support the development, to publishing, to marketing and initial sales. From ramping up to ramping down in 2 years for the reason of losing investment opportunity because of no immediate ROI on a product. Gained unique hands-on product development experience that is hard to gain elsewhere. Duties included:* Definition and Evolution of Product Vision and Product Roadmap* Development of CX, establishment of CX processes, all-aspect CX governance* Product solution design, Solution Architecture governance* Management of cross-functional distributed teams* Hands-on product development experience incl. back-end coding (Golang, AWS DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, OAuth2, APIs)* Development of multi-tenant social network engine* Development of fully-featured private social network app (timelines, stories, chats)* Development of in-app marketpace * Experience publishing products to app stores and negotiating in-app e-commerce termsQuackle is a private social network that strives to prove the tremendous value of digital friendship through pushing forward the boundaries of communication between people, things, and digital creatures. Starting with WhatsApp-alike Chats, Quackle introduces private Timelines and Daily Stories, combining all beauty and convenience of social networking in a single stylish app that is extremely easy to deal with.Quackle delivers an outstanding private digital content marketplace experience for all kinds of Content Creators and Influencers - Celebrities, Artists, Musicians, Painters, Photographers, Writers, Journalists, Vloggers - through providing the private digital content storefront and direct communication channels for doing e-commerce with the closed circle of fans and followers.App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quackle/id1459649045Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quackle

Product Development/Management:* Overseeing all aspects of product development on company-owned products. Partnered with business and product teams to:-- Develop strategic vision in alignment with the market demands-- Maintain and evolve product vision-- Define and maintain product development roadmap-- Establish agile development process to ensure iterative and successful product evolutionProducts: www.flexikanban.com, www.work-relay.com* Came up with the idea of own product and executed full cycle, from early stage to market release: private social network, Quackle (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quackle/id1459649045). Acted as a CEO/Product Manager. See corresponding section of my CV for more details.* Responsible for leading product development initiatives for the client products, working together with the customer to perform market analysis, defining product vision and roadmap, establishing product development strategy and development process, executing and overseeing development processes, ensuring successful delivery. Products: www.onedayshootouts.comSolution Architecture:* Overseeing company-wide solution architecture design and implementation practices. * Developing and implementing Secure Software Development Lifecycle and Cloud Security standards* Leading cross-functional distributed teams across different continents and time zones* Establishing and implementing solution architecture standards, implementing industry standard SA development practices, establishing SA governance across the whole portfolio of client accounts and their software products.Company Operations:* Pre-Sales, Negotiations, Contracts* Vendor Management

Hands-on Operations Executive responsible for leading company's main product development and business operations (marketing, opportunity management, business negotiations, deal closing, training, implementation, support, revenue management, P&L management, vendor management). Established company-wide processes, ensured successful cross-team operations, communications, single vision with shared responsibilities.* Worked closely with the product development team to define product evolution vector and ensure successful product development. * Worked closely with marketing team to help implement marketing strategies, ensure customer outreach and maximize lead conversion rates.* Worked closely with the product development team to implement Secure Software Development Lifecycle and ensure high levels of Cloud Security on Salesforce* Built customer implementation and customer support teams, ensured successful operations. Worked on the frontline together with product teams on managing customers' success and adjusting operational processes to maximize customer satisfaction.* Acted as a product visionary - evolved and maintained product vision, defined product roadmap, worked closely with the CX department to create best in class user experience; worked with the product development team to design technology solution, influenced evolution of solution architecture and security, established agile product development processes (secure SDLC) across departments, ensured timely and successful product delivery, implementation, support.* Conducted product demonstrations for new clients, negotiated business deals, performed contract management, as well as management of revenue streams and P&L* Conducted C-level reporting, performed customer account management, issue resolution, conflict resolution, ensured own company's business growth through exploring and managing opportunities;* Supervised product implementation on customers' environments, managed customers' success.

Technical and business leader with hands-on experience in a variety of information technologies as well as business operations. Taking part in running a 50-people IT service business, ensured successful IT project delivery on $10M portfolio of strategic accounts. As a principal project manager, ensured proper project planning across accounts, facilitated project staffing and project execution. Performed efficient work coordination across projects on multiple accounts, ensured successful project delivery.Was fully involved in IT business development process: pre-sales, executive-level demonstrations, storytelling, contract preparation, negotiation of business terms, deal closing. Provided effective account management that resulted in 2x growth of project portfolio over the course of 4 years.Key duties and capabilities: * IT: Pre-sales, proposals, executive demonstrations, storytelling, negotiations, deal closing * IT Business operations: account management, team buildup and management, customer success management * Strategic corporate development: hiring, staffing, efficient talent management * IT Service Delivery: project planning, implementation of agile development practices, business analysis, requirements management, people management, acting as a liaison between business and IT, development of continuous delivery pipelines, establishing proper project development cadence, ensuring incremental product evolution, implementing value-first approach in project/product development; * Managed services: experience building technical support teams and providing managed support services * Product design (development of product vision and roadmap) * Cross-team management: UI/UX, software development, technical support, as well as customer teamsHands-on Technology Experience: * Development of Solution Architecture * Database Design and Implementation (specializations: MS SQL, MySQL) * Software Development (Java, Web Services, API)

Startup Executive role: Started and developed a successful software development business in Ukraine (Eastern Europe) with ~$5M portfolio of accounts, serving international clients - private companies as well as corporations with up to $1B USD in revenue from United States, Canada, UK, and Germany, with their custom software development needs. Facilitated fast company growth from a small team of 5 IT professionals back in 2003, to 20 engineers and project managers in 2005, to 70+ in multiple departments by 2011. Through the strategic partnership with SilverTree Systems and implementation of successful business development strategies we held multi-year contracts with multiple North America technology companies, including big well-known names in the industry. Day by day duties: * Primary focus: IT business development * Company Marketing: preparing marketing materials, email campaigns, searching for business opportunities * Business negotiations, legal/contracts, deal closing, account management * Building distributed technology team(s) for new and existing accounts * Project Management: planning, staffing, agile process set up, continuous delivery, incremental evolution, customer success management * Software Development - solution architecture, database design, software development, QA * Local Country-specific Accounting * Strategic business development: establishing business processes, forming specialized teams/departments, ensuring successful business operationsTechnology expertise: * Microsoft .NET / MS SQL * Java (J2EE), Adobe Experience Manager * JavaScript and JS Frameworks * Salesforce (Apex, VisualForce) * Quality Assurance * CI/CD Pipelines

Implementation of software solutions related to Rebate Processing (FinTech): - core engine and satellite services of main Rebate Processing Platform (Microsoft.NET, MS SQL) - promotional websites (ASP.NET, MS SQL, API connectivity with Rebate Processing Platform)

Parallel implementation of multiple small business websites based on PHP / Drupal CMS, as well as on Microsoft .NET technology (ASP.NET, MS SQL).

First job right after graduation from university. Started as a junior software developer implementing Microsoft technology-based websites (ASP and then ASP.NET + MS SQL).- content delivery portal (codename "CDS", later: "I View Safe")- business card printing service (codename "ANetPrint")Since late 2002, was promoted to Middle Level Software Developer position and participated in the implementation of Java-based solution with Oracle database. Always passionate about communication, took ownership over customer communication and technical ownership over the implementation of technology solutions, and by mid-2003 led and managed team of 10 software engineers, designers, and quality assurance specialists. Left company in October 2003 to pursue the opportunity of building and running own software development business.