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Texas, United States

Irving, Texas, Us

We imagine, build and optimize solutions built on Microsoft that people love to use. We do this by supporting our clients and helping them transform digitally through enhanced customer experience, employee experience, operational and technological innovation. We improve and secure our clients' business and provide economic value.Integral to our team, my responsibility is to drive service innovation, create new offerings, meet with our prospective and existing clients to understand and solve their information security challenges. Spyglass is our brand for our security and compliance managed services that brings next-generation practices, MDR, XDR, AI-driven Advanced Analytics, and expert Managed Security Services to improve governance, security protection, and compliance management, threat hunting, visualization, signal and behavioral analytics, and machine-learning coupled with consultative and expert security advisory and a world-class team of leading subject experts. We are 100% modular and flexible to fit our program to your environment.We bring the team, we always do what we say, and we have fun! Our Spyglass team has cracked the code on zero-trust and simplifies it to assist clients of all sizes and market sectors. Spyglass affords you complete and true visibility, actionable intelligence, expert security advisory, on-demand implementation experts, advanced analytics and visualization, and automated remediation all within a predictable monthly spend driven by how fast you want to get there. Spyglass is our award-winning Security & Compliance continuous improvement program and leans in on the latest advancements in Microsoft's impressive security stack.Keys: M365, Azure, Dynamics, Generative AI / Copilot / Security, GCC-HIGH, NIST 800-53, 800-171, 800-61, 800-64, AI-RMF, CIS/CSF, MSA-IAM, DOD, 27001, 27002, 20000, CJIS, PCI-DSS, GDPR, CCPA, DFARS, NYDFS, CMMC, MITRE ATLAS and ATT&CT, and..... family, camping, boating, fishing, and ice hockey!

Fraud and corruption profiling project.

Denver, Co, Us

Significant contributor at this software development firm focused on data center infrastructure management (DCIM). Responsible for development of concepts and practices that enabled efficiency, data center optimization, and performance monitoring (including critical infrastructures), capacity forecasting, and critical decision-making performance metrics reporting.Established functional solutions meeting strict cyber security risk posture within enterprise and cloud environments deployed within highly-classified IT critical infrastructures for global commercial, US Federal Government, and foreign government customers. Helped meet advanced testing requirements while collaborating with development team, customers, industry researchers, and regulatory agencies.

Coppell, Texas, Us

Senior Executive at Identity Automation and Management (IAM) and Security Services Consultancy. • Established and led the Security Solutions and Services Practice, focused on threat/corruption profiling and assessments related to PCI, HIPAA, network and application vulnerabilities, code security review, penetration testing (red team), Incident Response (table top and actual), and digital forensics.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Senior Technical Executive for forensics and e-discovery services company. Licensed forensics investigator and subject matter expert in areas of computer fraud, cybersecurity, and system abuse detection. Testified as an expert witness in US Federal and Civil litigation matters.• Developed and delivered security consulting and incident response services as well as remediation assistance and security posture improvement initiatives for our customers.• Technical principal bringing forensic best practices to the Government of South Africa, to implement its first iteration of a pilot project entitled, The South African Government Fraud and Corruption Profiling Initiative (codename: "Operation Unembeza"). The project was proven successful in its pilot year, identifying both vulnerabilities and opportunities to improve security posture within government procurement systems, while also providing government security personnel with guidance to carry forward in future years independent of our team. After its pilot the project was subsequently transition to South African government personnel to conduct future work efforts.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Tulsa, Ok, Us

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North Reading, Ma, Us

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Electronics Technology Certification

High School Diploma