Dan O'Barr Jr. Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

New York, NY, US

• Implemented frictionless Bot/Automation Detection and Mitigation solution to protect > 100 MM customers and stop 300 MM malicious logins every day, across Web and iOS/Android mobile apps (no CAPTCHA, puzzles or “click.
• Designed and implemented virtual version of bot protection solution to support apps on public cloud
• Migrated Digital Account Opening and Chase Online Web Auth ingress flows from on-prem to AWS with Akamai CDN and WAF
• Leveraged bot protection platform to achieve firmwide goal of blocking unauthorized screen-scraping of Chase Online
• Instituted process controls to improve change success rate, reducing customer-impacting incidents from six events in 2019, to zero in 2020, and reducing regulatory reporting requirements; managed 78 distinct change.
• People Leadership: No voluntary turnover during 2021-2023; 100% of global team (US & India) achieved AWS-certification in 2022

New York, NY, US

• Built global network security incident response team to provide rapid management of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) controls, with < 20-minute response time, 24x7x365
• Deployed a combination of on-prem controls (Arbor) and managed security providers to shut down high volume DDoS attacks, restore service availability for customers, and protect the firm’s reputation by reducing average.
• Authored JPMC's DDoS Incident Response Playbook, still in active use a decade later
• Implemented large-scale external Digital Experience Monitoring solution for the firm via ThousandEyes, including tools to rapidly detect BGP hijacking and other threats
• Provided DDoS defense guidance and consulting on security response procedures for large institutional customers of JPMC, peer financial institutions, and national financial regulatory agencies and regulators

New York, NY, US

• Implemented reverse proxy and WAF to service inbound requests for Chase Online and reduce risk by moving servers out of the network edge (Blue Coat) and enabling rapid deployment of custom WAF rules
• Executed a refresh of the forward proxy environment servicing 300,000 FTEs worldwide, redesigning the global Internet load balancer strategy to eliminate Internet downtime for employees in UK & Asia (F5)
• Built internal global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to provide recorded and live multicast video (Cisco) for corporate events and to support video content for the internal employee training portal

• Declined appointment as Chief IT Manager to take opportunity at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

• Created organizational plan and strategy and hired staff to build an effective 24/7 support organization
• Appointed as the Information Security Officer for the agency and played a key role in developing State of Nevada IT Security Policies and Procedures
• Absorbed a 10% budget cut and 20% staff reduction without impact to services or clients
• Doubled WAN bandwidth and increased uptime by order of magnitude, keeping net circuit costs the same
• Implemented an innovative reference-data driven infrastructure build process, enabling rapid disaster recovery by allowing servers to be rebuilt from “bare-metal” in less than four hours
• Cofounder and first chairman of the Nevada State Linux & Open Source Users Group (SLUGOS)

• Architected an IT infrastructure from the ground up, dealing with the challenges of a secure environment and limited budget and solving unique problems such as connecting remote locations via satellite
• Deployed a state-wide public safety communications infrastructure to support thousands of users, 24/7
• Installed a complex LAN solution at each facility, conquering challenges such as installing cabling in historical buildings (such as a 150-year-old prison), and supporting disparate business units and functions
• Established WAN connectivity to all locations, negotiating with multiple telcos, trenching fiber, installing microwave and other wireless services, and utilizing satellite connectivity to reach “frontier” locations
• Used Blue Coat ADN to cut application response time from 50+ seconds to less than 8 across satellite links
• Deployed an enterprise-wide file and email system based on Novell SuSE Enterprise Linux and GroupWise

• Began design and planning work to deploy a modern infrastructure, including local area networking in all prison and administrative facilities, wide-area network connectivity to all large facilities, a centralized LDAP.
• Started infrastructure deployment utilizing equipment donated from other state agencies and Open Source Software such as Linux, Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL
• Developed policies and procedures necessary to support a widely scattered and complex infrastructure
• Wrote a PHP/PostgreSQL help desk system, trained staff and implemented a 24/7 Help Desk function
• Ensured the continuous operation of legacy 20-year-old DOS information system until it could be replaced
• Representing the IT/technical interests of the organization, worked with all business units through a JAD process to develop a legislative request for a new, modern offender management system and infrastructure

• Created comprehensive educational technology plan and used it to obtain over $2 MM in grant funding
• Managed successful migration of legacy DOS system to a new, centralized, GUI student information system

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, It Security

Master Of Business Administration - Mba