Security program management for a sales-driven technology firm with aggressive M&A activity and a diverse arrangement of stake holders

Establish Security and Privacy Program with SOC2 complianceConduct Risk Assessment and remediation for all business unitsPresented at conferences on Cyber Security Awareness in the retirement industryDecreased phishing risk by 35% through testing and awareness trainingIntegrated MFA with custom applicationsEstablished Privacy Impact Assessment standard for companyIntegrated OWASP standards into code reviewsBuilt internal auditing scripts to detect and alert for escalation of privilegesAuthored external vendor review processLead incident response team, documented findings and wrote executive summaries

Direct software development priorities for two proprietary Web-based applicationsEstablish key performance indicators for outside vendorsAlign web strategy with corporate goals, such as client retention and improved communicationBridge communication between technical and functional groups within the companyStreamline processes, resulting in 50% cost reduction in a key functional areaRecommend technology solutions to principals utilizing a business scorecard approachEvaluate and deploy COTS and in-house solutionsSecure trademarks and intellectual property for proprietary technologiesEstablish employee policies for social media and data security

Lead software development team as well as an interdisciplinary standards body and spear-headed renewed grant funding

Researched and implemented fraud detection routines for an e-commerce business (ReturnBuy was a division of Jabil) that was at the time the 5th highest volume seller on eBay.

Co-founder of a web development practice, spearheaded application hosting and information security standards for the firm and clients