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Orange County, California, United States

- Provide technical leadership and strategic oversight for developing and executingmodern cybersecurity solutions, cloud engineering frameworks, and cyber risk tracking applications to secure business technology from malicious attacks.- Managed outsourcing of 24/7 Security Operations for the company and all of its factories. Bringing in 3rd party services to provide skills and coverage of event monitoring across the technical stack.Responsible for yearly Cybersecurity Insurance renewals and customer/regulatory audits. Realized over $700K in Cybersecurity Insurance savings due to the impact of other investments and engineering to secure the company’s technology stack. Supervised 3rd party audits with Kroll for bi-yearly self-reviews of the enterprise computing environment.- Conducted tabletop Cybersecurity Training for top-level staff and board members.Reported to the executive risk committee providing transparency to the company's cybersecurity risk and providing paths forward to address risk.- Led the recruitment, hiring, training, on boarding, and management of highly skilled engineers for managing all the network engineering, Azure Cloud Services, MS Teams Voice Migrations, VoIP conversions, and Kanban process migrations.- Realized $400K+ savings within a year in technology consolidation and SD-WAN conversion.Enhanced business performance and productivity by transitioning legacy engineers with cross-functional technical experts.- Augmented information assets and the company’s IT security posture by implementing practices from the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.- Established, strengthened, and sustained enduring relationships with key stakeholders and board members, while preparing and delivering interactive presentations on corporate cybersecurity investments.

Corona, California, United States

- Steered a multidisciplinary team of network security engineers and contracted resources to maintain corporate network infrastructure with 500K+ endpoints and protect internet-connected systems from potential cyberattacks.- Supervise the Implementation of legacy VPN replacement with Palo Alto GlobalProtect for all endpoints, securing millions of dollars in funding for project completion. This VPN upgrade was critical to the continued functioning of the company during epidemic times. - Headed the successful implementation of firewalls, intrusion protection, and VPN solutions across the Kaiser Network by overseeing all the financials and budget management operations.- Promoted an organized and collaborative work environment that amplified business success. Instituted the practices of ChatOPS using MS Teams, our collaboration platform, to maintain connections with a fully remote team of engineers.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

- Responsible for establishing and maintaining the company's cybersecurity strategy and technologies to protect information assets.- Efficiently executed information security controls across the company's technology stack and implemented the NIST Common Security Framework that enhanced the corporate information security posture of the company.- Centralized the management of information security policies by developing shared security management software.- Worked with auditors from private and federal organizations to ensure the company met regulations and standards. Developed methods of managing the company's cybersecurity posture using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as a tool for implementation and reporting.

Huntington Beach, California, United States

- Started a successful technical consultation and software engineering business from scratch, designing and developing innovative risk management software for banking and trading firms as per SEC, FINRA, and FDIC regulations in cybersecurity.- Boosted business profits by delivering strategic consultation services to commercial clients across the trading and legal sector.- Nominated for delivering presentations on panels with the US Chamber of Commerce. Awarded with State of California Cybersecurity Task Force membership for acknowledging excellent services in the banking sector.

Anaheim, California, United States

- Achieved the highest level of security for corporate information assets by automating and accelerating manual processes.- Improved information protection, eliminated security risks, and encouraged compliance with HIPAA and PCI by convincing the corporate leadership team to implement HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF) for healthcare organizations.- Minimized and eliminated human errors by automating the DevOps processes.

Irvine, California, United States

- Piloted the architecture, design, development, and implementation of all the networking, call center VoIP, and cybersecurity technologies per customers’ requirements, increasing organizational effectiveness.- Partnered with multiple business units to deploy a SaaS solution for medical billing and healthcare record-keeping.

Corona, California, United States

Starting as the first Network Security Engineer and proving myself through multiple promotions to become a Senior Level Principal at one of the largest healthcare providers in the world. Provided security strategies for a network supporting over 9 Million members and over 200,000 employees. Responsible for providing yearly updates of technology and budget forecasting for enterprise scale security solutions. Helped assured regulatory compliance with HIPAA, PCI, and other PII protection laws.

Kaneohe Base, Hawaii, United States

Directly managed the garrison and deployed networks supporting 3,500 Marines of Marine Forces Pacific. Supervised the efforts of 15 plus Marines responsible for maintaining hundreds of deployed PC's, servers, and networks. Daily tasks included the management of directory services, file and print services, PC maintenance, and access to the IBM mainframe via 3270 emulation services Duties include the setup and tuning of radio equipment including antennas and power sources; establishing contact with distant stations; processing and logging of messages; making changes to frequencies or cryptographic codes; and maintaining equipment at the first echelon. Supervised in the installation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance of up to 30 deployed LAN/WAN and Radio networks to support remote operations in Korea, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and domestic training areas.