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New York, Ny, Us

Lead and oversee the team's efforts in supporting Product Security best practices related to Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline activities and cloud deployment. Along with being responsible for ensuring that the organization's products and services are developed and deployed securely, protecting sensitive data, and maintaining the integrity of systems. Key duties include: Leadership, Team Management, and Engagement: Empower the team members to take on new responsibilities and tasks and ensure timely completion of deliverables. Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. Engage with the business unit to understand their product requirements and provide services tailored to their specific needs. Strategy and Planning: Identify emerging trends, threats, and vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity landscape and recommend proactive measures to mitigate risks. Product Security: Lead the team in the design and implementation of security controls and best practices within the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring secure code development, build processes, testing, and deployment. Develop and enforce cloud security policies and standards for cloud deployment, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices. Collaborate with cloud engineering teams to implement security controls, encryption, access controls, and monitoring solutions in the cloud environment.

Nassau, Bahamas, Bs

Product Security: leading the EY and Client teams in the design and implementation of security controls and best practices within the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring secure code development, build processes, testing, and deployment. Develop and enforce cloud security policies and standards for cloud deployment, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices. Collaborate with cloud engineering teams to implement security controls, encryption, access controls, and monitoring solutions in the cloud environment.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Managing teams of cybersecurity specialists across diverse business units that focused on cloud deployment along with M&A activities.• Enhanced the team, skills and scope that provides security monitoring solutions for all external cloud (Azure, GCP and AWS) environments along with legacy networks of Boeing subsidiaries. Execution of the technical and business plan for utilizing one SIEM solution for all external security monitoring.• Retrained and rebuilt the security team responsible for security system design. The team supports all HSPII applications along with ensuring the Boeing Company stays in compliance with all applicable laws and guidelines, across all national and international locations.• Established state of the art security operations center providing 24x7 monitoring, remediation and escalation. Built on a model of proactive security event management vs the traditional reactionary model.

Arlington, Va, Us

Responsible for the functional management of the Boeing enterprise cybersecurity employee pool across all business units. This role includes the development of recruiting, hiring and compensation strategies along with supporting the core business with top tier cybersecurity talent while managing labor pool costs and targets. • Functional manager for all Cybersecurity employees of the Boeing Company. Ensuring skills and SOW are matched effectively for over 350 employees, across all business units. Upgraded the cybersecurity hiring practices and strategies to match the evolving business environment.

Arlington, Va, Us

Using Program and Project management best practices to lead the transformation of the Application Assessment team chartered with ensuring all Boeing applications (internal and externally sourced) are free of security vulnerabilities. • Lead the integration and optimization of internal and 3rd party application assessments processes, tools, vendors and internal team members using a 100% risk based approach to assessments.• Lead the effort to create and sign a long term contract with our primary security vendor (Veracode), providing a 30% cost saving to Boeing and allowing the vendor to improve staffing and platform development.• Developed and deployed the Secure Code Capability Assessment program which allows us to ensure software vendors are providing secure software. The Boeing program is an amalgamation of industry best practices combined with support from 7 vendors. The program’s functional process is being replicated by many corporate peers to help the industry ensure sourced software is developed with security as a requirement.

Arlington, Va, Us

Providing project management expertise on many top tier projects that help to ensure that Boeing proprietary information stays proprietary. • Delivered a completed program that provided a scalable process capable of supporting 4000 application assessments with only a minor increase in headcount. This process change provided a 400% capacity increase over the previous model.• Project Management leadership on 6 out of 21 top tier proprietary projects that provided controls that created new capabilities for using SecureToken, Proactive service account management, Insider Threat tools and processes, Adaptive Authentication, Monitoring tools for Secure Access Environments and Reverse Proxy enhancements.• Lead the deployment of a suite of access/authentication control applications in the support of a revenue generating portal, deployment was 1.5 months ahead of the plan.

Arlington, Va, Us

Reporting to the Organization’s VP and working directly with the Executive Leadership team provided project management expertise on various projects and programs. Deployed IT enterprise Program Management Office (PMO) software solution – CA Clarity

Arlington, Va, Us

Senior Project Manager, responsible for tracking and managing all enterprise Cisco VoIP deployments utilizing Cisco software/hardware, current VoIP phone deployment is 80K phones and growing. In addition, I work on projects that upgrade and enhance Boeing's traditional voice services through out the Enterprise.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Managed a field service team of 63 network engineers from two suppliers along with a team of 12 internal voice/data engineers. The team successfully worked as one functional team to provided support for the largest national deployment of Cisco VoIP services.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Implementation and Project Management of the national deployment of a new VoIP infrastructure for Bank of America based on Cisco hardware

Management of IT consulting contracts in the Seattle area. Ensuring customer satisfaction as well as profit margins for MicroSystems Consulting.

I developed new products for many different industries, including but not limited to, Military aviation, Commercial aviation, Formula One racing, satellite systems, and recreational products. I managed the different projects from the time of inception, thru production, and final product delivery. Once the project was complete, I then performed profit/loss analysis to the project and compared that to the profit forecast of the project. In addition to the engineering sales and project management I had total responsibility for the implementation and support of the ERP software system and administration of the information network. I reported directly to the VP of Operations.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Associates Degree Arts & Science, Math And Physics