 Nucleaus: Built a continuous code scanning platform that democratizes application security and released to 18,000 US Agencies through IJIS. Acting President: Rebuilt sales team, distribution channels, and vendor partnerships. Sales increase of 500% in first quarter . Acting CTO: Engaged by VC to create “Blue Ocean” cyber platform setting the global Cyber Scoring platform. Versorium and V-Rating product. Designed product roadmap, recruited development team and delivered .5 Beta in 90 and MVP 1.0 in 180 days. Developed companies first intellectual property. Worked with bankers and investors to create term sheet and road show. Outcome was raising $3mm in series A at a $2omm valuation.  Acting CISO: Management team engaged me to correct Cyber issues across 2 business units. Remediated hygiene in 90 days and addressed e-commerce and dev-ops in the following 30. Work with internal and external team to address all deficiencies. Created sustainable cyber capabilities that are measurable and actionable for technical and leadership teams. Acting CIO: Engaged by CEO to “correct” ERP platform deployment across subsidieries. Reduced schedule by 50% and reduced project cost by 40% in 60 days. Delivered on time, budget, and scope. Working with CIO & CTO on a global transformation plan. From data foundation (transition from B2B to B2C), application portfolio, infrastructure as code, Dev-Ops, and Cyber as an integrated operation. Worked through cost saving capabilities to self-fund transition.

 Architected, designed and built API driven infrastructure. Included building internal team to create new container (Kubernetes) based API driven architecture to move customer facing revenue producing system to the cloud from dedicated data centers. Work with organization to embrace DevSecOps and new CI/CD pipelines to converge legacy and new new development. Built CyberSecurity organization and operating frameworks to materially improve security posture.

Transformation & Strategy  Split Tribune into Tribune Media and Tronc in 6 months. This included splitting 14,000 (~7,000 for each company) employees, hundreds of applications, thousands of servers, networks and all with 9 help desk tickets at split and ZERO downtime. Designed digital foundation frameworks to capture, coalesce, and make meaning out of 500 million rows of data per night and 3 billion media assets resulting in $20 million in sales opportunities. Team received 5 patents for improving digital capabilities. Re-Built from the ground up to eliminate $120 million in IT spend over 18 months. Ran ½ of company with 1/10th of headcount. Deployed 89 new systems with a team of 43, without missing budget, scope, or tine. Increased throughput by 80%. Ran six 9’s uptime at 13 seconds downtime per year. Architected new financial ecosystem and shared services for publishing company. Implemented capabilities to create “frictionless enterprise.” Recruited team leaders and staff. Replaced 400 applications to execute all business processes. Initiated fastest implementation of workday, ever. Architected and drove team to deploy master data, big data, and one source of truth for enterprise reportingDelivery & Operations  Separated publishing properties from media entities, creating 2 publicly traded firms. Completed split in 5 months with 9 help desk tickets. Collapsed 54 data centers into 1. Moved 7,000 users, 224 applications, and 2400 servers with 9 help desk tickets. Ran technology 18 months with zero downtime. Designed and built next generation infrastructure (SDDC / SDN) avoided cost of $33 million Security & Compliance  Built next generation fully automated security framework. Removed over 1.7 million critical security issues in 1 year. Rewrote IT SOX controls and implemented sweeping security posture that Deloitte reviewed and rated cyber security “world-class thought leader of next generation security capabilities.”

Transformation & Strategy  Replaced 21 ERP systems with 1 in 18 months, delivering replacement at 15% under budget. Reduced IT budget by $70 million USD in 36 months  Decreased application deployment by 70%, enabling leadership and global business teams to increase shareholder value upwards of $500 million. Stock appreciated 3100% during this time. Transformed application portfolio through enterprise program, resulting in real-time global and mobile business intelligence, analytics, and big data Designed social listening capabilities, integrated into application for deployment at customer sites, and enabled CMO and Sales teams to accelerate product development and profitability  Security & Compliance  Globalized security and compliance function. KPMG external auditors rated team as “Best IT Organization” Operated compliance to 90% self-reliance for SOX, reducing audit fees by $3 million annually  Built world-class IT delivery increasing throughput by 425% in 3 years with 1 late project and zero over budgetMean time to patch globally: 17 minutes

Globalized Revlon infrastructure and operational capabilities: Reduced outages by 99% annually.Created global process that allows deployment of a server or client PC in less than 20 minutes.Automated security and compliance globally. Have a global view that is “as is” and actionable.Designed and deployed global identity managementDeveloped and deployed SharePoint globally. Deployed global standards and operations.Reduced data center power by 72%. Re- IP'd globallyImplemented and automated global inventoryVirtualized global data centerMoved 98% of systems onto global SANRe-architect disaster recoveryMoved all Unix applications from AIX version 4 to version 5 and began application testing.

8 Direct Reports, 33 Staff and 26 indirect Created Global Security Organization. Formed global team, oversight, policies and process to interact with every business unit and function. Lead PBI though it’s first FDIC Audit. Chief auditor commented “most impressive” regarding global security capability.Updated $20 Billion banking system: Implemented new secure communication and application encryption with integration to over 2 million postal meters. Zero defect implementation on real time transaction system.Updated over 300 revenue producing / customer facing applications and databases to new code and deploy enterprise encryption.Re-platform SAP ERP from mainframe to open systems, changed databases from DB2 to Oracle. Lead development team to upgrade e-commerce system and interfaces to application portfolio.Created SOA (Service Orientated Architecture) for transition of legacy system to new portfolio.Documented over 600 applications in the portfolio, from infrastructure through business process. Given global control of hardware and software maintenance, $74 million expense plus a$20 million CAPX.

•Developed and deployed strategies and implementation of: Database, Server, Networking, and Security which gave the application team flexibility and speed to deploy and develop.•Worked globally with business units to deploy unified application and directory capability. Completely automated on-boarding, off-boarding, application provisioning globally. •Worked with M&A teams to evaluate acquisitions. •Created global federated backup and disaster recovery storage model.•Worked with two vendors to create new software security product, kicked of the product launch (Lumeta & Foundstone)

Brought product to market in 90 days. Supports 25,000 concurrent usersManagement team raised $40 million in four rounds of investor fundingRecruited 32 developers in less than 10 days from personal network.

Restored investor confidence and raised 2 million + to re-start company.Authored 6 provisional product patents on “self healing” networks to drive product development and market opportunity.Reduced G&A by 70% through Israel and US office consolidation and brought the company to “break-even” in 6 months.Built multi-national distribution channel.

Lead due-diligence teams which lead to successfully investing $40 million and raising over $60 million.Recruit and place executive teams for portfolios companiesAbility to transition in and out of portfolio companies in any number of capabilities.

Founded one of the first SOA / Web Services companies.

Assembled, led, directed, and managed a global consortium team of more than 200 members across disparate member staffs, vendors, and consultants across multiple projects, cultures and geography’s to integrate the assets, systems and applications from Ohmeda, Inc. to the acquiring company(s). Completed dis-integration 3 months ahead of schedule.Created and made operational Datex-Ohmeda Global Information Technology capabilities. Recruited global staff across 22 countries and implemented operational structure.

Media produciton services: Media creative services. From creative strategy through post production. Specializing in Audio and Video content creation for radio, TV and web distribution.

Strategy: Application, Infrastructure, Security, Outsourcing, Time Tracking, Asset Management, ITIL, Portfolio Managment.Application / Development: SharePoint, Project Server, CRM.Programming: .NET, Web Services, SOA, Java, TKTL, C++Development: RUPP / Rational, UML, Web, Client / Server, User Interface.Enterprise (ERP): SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, JDA, BPCS, Peoplesoft, and several industry specific capabilitiesManagement: Benchmarking, System Integration, Regression testing, Code Control, Load testing, Application Mapping.Compliance: FDIC, HiPPA, SOX, PCI. GLBANetwork Operating Systems: VMWare, 2003, XP, Win2k, NT 3.51 & 4.0, Novell 3.11, 3.12 and 4.1, Linux, AIX and HPUXInfrastructure: Switching, Routing, Bridging, LAN Design, WAN Design, Firewalls, Active Directory, LDAP, Internet and Intranet.Storage: Fiber Channel. FCIP, I SCSI, Federated backup, Archiving.Operations: Outsourcing, Out-tasking, Disaster Recovery, Help Desk, Asset Management, Network Metrics, Network Directories: Meta Directory MIIS, Active directory, ADAM, LDAP, Identity Management.Virtualization: Server, Network, Storage and Applicaions.Misc Technologies: WAN Acceleration, IP Telephony, Unified Communications. Solid state SAN's / Storage.