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Hickory, North Carolina, Us

Edmonton, Alberta, Ca

Was responsible for management of ATB’s Cyber Security organization, having direct oversight of the Cloud Security, Application Security, Identity and Access Management, Threat Intelligence, Security Engineering, and Security Operations organizations.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Built and managed Equifax’s Security Advisory Services organization. I helped define the enterprise’s security roadmap and partnered directly with technology leadership to design solutions to solve various security challenges, with a primary focus on supporting the organization’s cloud transformation into GCP. I worked alongside the business's technical architecture, engineering, and development teams to help them ensure their products were designed in a secure and compliant manner. I was a champion for cyber security within the company and facilitated technical engagement between the business units and the security organization.Key Accomplishments: - Built a brand new Security Solutions Architecture practice from the ground up, which included developing engagement strategy, team processes, and selling the team value proposition to multiple stakeholders up to the SVP level.- Transformed existing Security Advisement processes/organization to focus on technical risk reduction as far left in the development process as possible. Given the responsibility to merge this organization with the Security Solutions Architecture organization to create a new Security Advisory function.- Awarded the One Equifax Award in 2020, which recognizes outstanding contributions by Equifax employees consistent with the organization’s strategic imperatives and values.- Awarded the CEO’s Circle of Excellence award in 2020, which is the highest award at Equifax and recognizes significant leadership, contributions, and impact across the organization.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

One of the top revenue-producing Security Sales Architects at Optiv, winning the Area MVP award in 2017 and President’s Club in 2017 and 2018.Provided executive-level security presales architecture and advisory services. Assisted in developing service offering definitions, deliverable templates, process, etc. Provided IT Security services to clients including Advisory (Strategy, Assessments, etc.) and Technical services (Incident Response, Architecture, Engineering, etc.). Architected solutions across a number of security technology areas including CASB (SkyHigh, NetSkope), DLP (Digital Guardian, Forcepoint, Symantec), NGFW (Palo Alto Networks, CheckPoint, Cisco), URL filtering (BlueCoat, ForcePoint, ZScaler), SIEM (IBM QRadar, LogRhythm, Splunk), Endpoint Protection and Response (Carbon Black, McAfee, Symantec, Cylance, CrowdStrike, PAN Traps), and MDM (Airwatch). Facilitated cloud security discussions to help customers determine strategies for securing their cloud workloads in AWS, Azure, and GCP. Managed partner/manufacturer relations on behalf of customers.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Skokie, Illinois, Us

New York City, New York, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Managed the IT Security Architecture & Risk team (5 direct reports) reporting to the CISO. Oversaw and assisted with project, system, and third-party risk assessments and interfaced with both business and IT leaders to insure that discovered risks are mitigated and/or accepted. Oversaw and assisted with the design and implementation of security infrastructure to provide effective control, monitoring, and alerting throughout the Belk environment. Responsible for ensuring that controls were implemented to meet/exceed compliance objectives (PCI, SOX, etc.) and that systems were built in a compliant fashion.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Consulting role via Stalwart

Architect, engineer, and implement robust and secure security, communications, and systems infrastructure solutions. Oversee and perform numerous security projects, which include risk assessments, penetration tests (application/network), security architecture, vulnerability management/remediation, and compliance support (PCI, SOX, etc.). Manage projects resources as well as mentor and train Stalwart engineers.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Held a Senior Technical Security Engineering position on the corporate IT security incident response team. Actively managed the handling of IT incidents, which included coordinating triage, validation, containment, remediation, etc. Performed system and network forensics as needed to support incident and internal investigations.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ie

Worked with engineering teams to ensure systems were implemented in a secure manner. Managed detective controls (SIEM) and investigated adverse security events, as appropriate. Assisted with internal IT investigations and legal requests.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ie

Designed, implemented, and supported Perrigo’s global network infrastructure (routing, switching, wireless, security). Was the primary engineer responsible for wireless network infrastructure - managed the implementation of a 500+ lightweight access point (Cisco LWAPP) network spanning multiple facilities. Isolated and resolved system problems, analyzed support patterns to proactively prevent issues, researched and developed new support processes, and assisted with strategic planning of networking services.

Greenville, Sc, Us

Supported computing systems infrastructure planning and design which included research and development of new technology; documentation of architecture, procedures, test plans, policies, and standards; and high level support of technology.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Administrated all security related network infrastructure. Acted as a project manager as well as a technical resource for various Information Technology related projects. Provided support to level 3 engineers on complex technical issues.

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Provided SharePoint requirements analysis, architecture, implementation, and support services; network/infrastructure design and implementation services; IT security services; training; Active Directory design services; IT Project Management; and IT solution development to medium/large-sized companies throughout west Michigan.

Oversaw network operations, server administration, and technical support for over 200 end-users (150+ workstations). Managed all IT projects which included coordination of internal and external resources.

Supervised all aspects of technical support services, network operations, and server administration for over 300 end users (400+ workstations). Acted in the role of project manager and coordinated new customer installations as well as major updates/changes.