As a Software Architect focusing on security, partner with the CISO and a contracted MSSP to develop and implement policies and playbooks for business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident response. Collaborate to audit and maintain security controls across the organization and communicate security posture to clients and partners.Establish and implement standards and policies for network access, endpoint management/monitoring/protection, secrets management, encryption, identity management, and authentication - for our products, cloud infrastructure, and IT systems.Collaborate with engineering teams and individually mentor engineers to improve and maintain security across product software and infrastructure. Responsible for the delivery, maintenance, and availability of application secrets management, identity management, and authentication for all products.

Architect and team lead for the microservice that provides integration between Slack applications and the Salesforce platform globally, with a 99.99% SLAMember of the technical leadership responsible for pioneering a first-class Salesforce and Slack integration technology as part of the acquisition, and continuing to mature itArchitected the internal next generation of Web Component data analysis and resolution capabilities that were built in my previous role

Led dozens of engineers across 4 teams in a substantial web technology shift from Aura to LWC on the Salesforce platform, yielding significant performance gains for millions of daily Salesforce usersDesigned and implemented several key aspects enabling this transition, including a GA worthy Web Component composition dependency analysis algorithm, lazy page loading technology, automatic data dependency batching capabilities, and synthetic data dependencies to express and contain data mutation needs

Technical team lead focusing on improving scalability and performanceRe-architected product persistence layer to better meet customer requirements and allow for eventual horizontal scalabilityCollaborated with adjacent teams to improve performance and scalability testing processes, fix regressions, and implement general improvements within the brand

Designed and implemented key features in DOORS Next Generation Web UILed task force for improving UI performance and eliminating memory leaksArchitected and implemented major features across Continuous Engineering products

Drove exploratory integration of IBM Cognos BI and IBM Rational Quality ManagerDeveloped initial prototype and core beta code for IBM Rational Connector for SAP Solution Manager

Worked primarily in the public light delivering fixes and new features to Apache Geronimo application server, while keeping IBM business goals in mindPlanned and developed an integrated graphical monitoring utility utilizing JDBC data sources, XML, Java, JSP, Servlets, Portlets and Javascript in the Dojo Toolkit

Through numerous contributions to the open source project Apache Geronimo, granted committer level membership to ASF and the Geronimo project.

Served as L3 support for students, staff, and faculty using NIU's Wireless and VPN infrastructureDeveloped software to quickly analyze a high volume of WAP and Switch log dataDeveloped methodology for pin-pointing unauthorized WAPs connected to the network