Providing scalable, reliable, and secure Information Technology Solutions for fast growing companies of all sizes.

• Created and Implemented Global Information Security Program driving continuous improvement and maturity based on PCI-DSS, ISO27001 & NIST guidelines.• Built and managed a team of 7 senior Information Security Engineers.• Lead the security incident response process, including the ongoing monitoring of threats and vulnerabilities, and respond to major security events.• Coordinated with Legal, Compliance, and Security to standardize a security stack; worked with executive management to meet those standards.• Responsible for ensuring successful PCI/DSS, GDPR, and NIST audits.

• Directed the strategy, implementation, management, and support for company-wide Network, Data Centers, and Cloud systems.• Responsible for overseeing the migration of multiple co-located datacenters into AWS Cloud.• Provided project management for multiple technology initiatives simultaneously, working to increase productivity and eliminate operational vulnerabilities; also provided reporting and analysis as needed.• Developed an excellent engineering team, empowering individuals to improve and promote best practices.

Managing an excellent team of 18 DevOps Engineers responsible for the design, implementation, and support of custom eCommerce infrastructure across multiple data centers supporting multiple Engineering Teams.• Working with multiple teams to analyze, design, and implement DevOps infrastructure with 99.999% up-time with virtualization, clustering, database, disaster recovery, and geographic redundancy within a hybrid cloud.• Provide technical guidance, and mentorship to internal engineering peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.• Own our server image configurations, collaborating with our core engineers to optimize for task performance, reliability, service requirements, failover and scale.• Server Maintenance based on updates, system requirements, data usage, and security requirements• Triage and provide technical solutions to environment related issues encountered by new and existing applications in the environment• Support developers with change requests, uptime, performance related issues, and access• Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in the production and non-production environments.• Measurement, optimization, and tuning of system performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available in a 24/7 engineering environment.• Automate systems monitoring tasks using standard monitoring tools.• Manage and control the continuous release promotion cycle (manually short-term, through automation long-term) including the following environments: development, integration, QA, Integration, Regression and production.• Develop deployment scripts on a lifecycle automation platform for the orchestration, integration and automation of build promotions and software releases.

3 month contract position assisting Nasa's SOC (Security Operations Center) at Nasa Ames Research Center with rolling out local security infrastructure and procedures internationally.

• Developed and mentored a team of 12 highly skilled systems, telecom, and network engineers.• Realized cost savings of over $1 million by consolidating hardware and software service agreements.• Migrated from an on premise hosted Microsoft Exchange to a hybrid Office365 cloud environment.• Increased performance and reliability across multiple business systems by implementing industry best practices.• Introduced Amazon Web Services for rapid new client/service deployment.

• Built and developed a team of 25 systems, development, and network professionals.• Responsible for the consolidation of over 200,000 sqft. of geographically dispersed data centers.• Provided merger, acquisition, and divestiture guidance and assistance through multiple realignments.• Implemented standardized and highly available HP Blade infrastructure in multiple worldwide locations.• Responsible for integrating OpenStack cloud computing platform with HP Moonshot and 3par hardware infrastructure.

Responsible for implementation and support of the company's internal business and customer facing software and hardware infrastructure.• Perform network capacity planning and benchmarking.• Specify, implement, and support various technology solutions.• Monitor and manage corporate technology security.• Manage the administration of over 50 various network appliances.• Introduced web application and networking best practices resulting in a 60% drop in consumed bandwidth.• Project manager for network operations center move.• Project manager for relocation to Chicago, IL and opening of 3 additional offices.• Implemented global VPN strategy.• Increased site-wide uptime from 85% to 99.998%• Assisted in multiple responses to various RFP’s• Managed day-to-day technical operations for multiple offices.• Implemented fault-tolerant Flash Media infrastructure.

• Lead concept and full lifecycle development on RAMP-Web© application, facilitating $5 million in additional revenue.• Created new web service for bi-directional credit reporting and scoring generating $20 million in additional revenue.• Project lead for office build-out and renovation.• Recruited and managed a team of 15 technology professionals.• Replaced existing “dumb” terminal infrastructure with client-server architecture.• Successfully transformed business processes and services to comply with HIPAA and SOX regulatory requirements.• Assisted in multiple responses to various RFP’s• Migrated 150 users from a traditional PBX to Cisco VoIP call center with unified messaging.

• Created and managed asset management policy using custom web based application• Determined requirements for Year 2000 compatibility for all PC, LAN, and WAN hardware and software and applied information to implement Y2k roadmap.• Responsible for 20 IT Managers Year 2000 progress.• Created and documented implementation procedures for all hardware, software, and business system updates, upgrades, and system replacements.• Coordinated with corporate communications on instructions for how users should change everyday habits to minimize Year 2000 data problems.