Sr Director Databases And Security
Current• Recruiting, building and managing teams across 3 time zones• Driving and aligning team towards organizational goals using a mix of communication, technology, vision and leadership• Resource consolidation during multiple acquisitions• Vendor negotiations• Crisis management during severe outages due to issues in data centers, hardware failures and human error• 24x7 support and 99.9% uptime SLA• Instrumental in creating policies, procedures and setting up key performance indicators (KPIs)• Periodic updates to C-level and senior management regarding database initiatives, security initiatives the ROI and the risks associated• Key role in implementing SIEM (LogRhythm), DLP (Websense) and WAF (Imperva)• Managing operating expense budget of $1.0M+• Influenced and spearheading initiative to move licensed database infrastructure (Oracle) to open source (Postgres) to save $750,000 in Opex cost.• Evaluating and delivering proof of concept (POC) of new products and customizing them for implementation• Evaluating outsource partners and working with them to deliver projects on time and within budget• Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, PCI compliance, SOX compliance and SOX audits• Automation of day-to-day repetitive jobs to save man hours• Data encryption, virtual private databases and access policies• Architecting and rolling out policies and procedures around change control processes. Transforming and steering change control to a level with 0 downtime
