Information Security Officer
CurrentState agency CISO for the State of Texas. In charge of Security Plan, Incident Response, Potential Law Enforcement and Regulated Entity Interaction related to Cybersecurity and Overall Cloud Architecture.Cloud design principles against Oracle OCI, GCP, Azure, AWS. Cloud Firewalls, IDS, SEIM (Sentinel and Splunk) and mobile and XDR strategies. Database Security, DevOps and DevSecOps Practices around Kubernetes and Gitlab. Drupal, .NET and C# Programming / Powershell, Terraform, Ansible Cloud Frameworks. Managing agency security strategy, reporting to DIR for regulatory mandates. Member of State CISO Counsel. Directing Cloud & Network Security for State Agency, driving Texas Cybersecurity Framework (TCF) Initiatives forward. TCF is based upon the NIST Cybersecurity Framework adapted for the State of Texas.