Essential member of a global team of technical leaders that make up less than 1% of the worldwide systems engineering team reporting to SVP/CRO leadership. Drive complex and strategic opportunities by engaging with account teams and partners throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APJ to ensure overall success. Employ expertise as a SecOps subject matter expert across the Trellix portfolio for customers and partners through the entire sales cycle while ensuring company metrics and overall customer success is met. Engage with C-level executives about the benefits of Trellix’s technology and how it can be used to align with customer business goals and overcome business challenges. Advisor to product management & engineering teams around strategy, technical capability, support and integration issues across our entire technology platform.

Considered as a trusted security advisor among customer base. Develop relationships with technical and business leaders to help bridge the technical decision with the business objective.

Senior member of the enterprise security engineering team involved in developing strategic and tactical plans while enforcing security standards and best practices. Work with security vendors to evaluate solutions and services. Provide technical engineering and support to a variety of security solutions such as firewalls, IPS, PKI, vulnerability management, SIEM, and VPN to name a few.

- Designed network installations and upgrades using a variety of Cisco network equipment; Developed network designs using protocols such as OSPF, BGP, dot1q, and Spanning-tree.- Managed projects to ensure that network designs were accurate and implemented successfully from base infrastructure such as power and cabling to application delivery.- Managed acquisitions of local and wide area network equipment; responsible for more than an 8 million dollar annual budget; negotiated aggressive discounts averaging 25% above standard discounts- Designed, implemented, and maintained a WAN Optimization platform, Cisco WAAS, resulting in a 45-55% average bandwidth reduction reducing operating expenses while improving user experience.- Implemented and managed RADIUS/TACACS+ authentication to secure access to all IP network infrastructure devices utilizing Active Directory and RSA SecurID.- Implemented and managed proactive network management systems including HP NAS, NeuralStar, Splunk, NetQoS Reporter Analyzer, NetVoyant, and NPC; reduced MTTR by 30%.

- Lead engineer within Network Operations. Responded to all escalated network outages 24x7.- Supported service delivery and problem/crisis management with reporting tools, routine follow-ups, escalations, and root cause analysis which required diagnostic tools including Sniffer and AirMagnet.- Supported and implemented numerous load balancer configurations for various enterprise wide applications.

- Monitored, troubleshot, and configured network systems within the Verizon internal and commercial data networks; responsibilities included working with LAN/WAN/ATM technologies such as routers and switches. - Worked with carriers on a variety of data circuits including T1, T3, DS3, OC3, and OC48 during acceptance and troubleshooting.- Provided problem evaluation, reporting, resolution, and escalations for all network events.- Investigated and troubleshot premium network outages to restore service and ensure high network availability.- Involved in projects to optimize the IP network via upgrades and network-wide configuration changes.