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West Palm Beach, FL, US

Redwood City, California, US

• Build and deliver cyber threat intelligence services to internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide relevant, timely, actionable threat intelligence to internal security teams that helps with securing company assets and customer data.

Worldwide, OO

• Lead the development, mentoring, and growth of threat researchers and Intel analysts through the coordination of coaching sessions and goal setting to develop high-performers, foster individual career growth, and align.
• Manage delivery and oversee production for multiple Deloitte threat intelligence product lines with a focus on intelligence collection, industry-focused threat landscapes, and client requests for intelligence.
• Collaborate with Deloitte leadership to develop strategy and implementation planning for continuous improvement and growth of Deloitte’s threat intelligence service.
• Ensure threat intel reports relevance, quality, value, and alignment with client priority intelligence requirements.
• Partner with Deloitte’s premium threat intelligence clients to collect systematic feedback to continuously improve Deloitte’s threat intelligence service offering.
• Manage vendor relationships to ensure business satisfaction and fulfillment of collection requirements aligned with Deloitte’s priority intelligence requirements frameworks.

Worldwide, OO

• Proactive research into emerging commodity and targeted threats with a goal to produce quality actionable threat intelligence that helps organizations with their protection strategies.
• Deliver tactical threat intelligence by automating the triage (collect, curate, disseminate) of open source (OSINT) and closed source (self driven research) threat indicators and threat information for easy consumption.
• Deliver strategic threat intelligence in the form of human readable content tailored to help organizations understand the risk posed by a certain threat, provide short-term mitigation guidelines, and advice about long.
• Emphasis on the WHO and the WHY behind a threat, along with the usually sought after HOW and WHAT.
• Advice organizations about their risk posture, adequacy or inadequacy of currently implemented security practices & controls, what they can do to bolster their security posture, and how they can minimize their attack.
• Explore future threats to digital assets and help build innovative solutions to mitigate such threats.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Part of a team (Counter Threat Unit - CTU) that delivered Threat Intelligence services to clients.
• Self-driven research and threat tracking to deliver intelligence about active and emerging information security threats.
• Performed proactive all-source research to identify and characterize new threats, vulnerabilities, and risks to customer security context.
• Provided direct assistance to customers and leveraged their experience and operational learning to build innovative solutions to complex incident response and security issues.
• Used threat research to develop actionable intelligence at the tactical, operational, and strategic level.
• Involved with generation of defensive countermeasures such as Snort based network signatures and Yara rules.

Boca Raton, FL, US

• Lead Anti-malware research and technologies development.
• Worked on a fairly new anti-malware product to improve detection technologies.
• Worked with development team to design and integrate third-party scan-engine Software Development Kit (SDK) into the new anti-malware product.
• Built processes and tools for automation of anti-malware product testing and installation on endpoints.
• Performed malware analysis and reverse-engineering to aid with signature creation and malicious behavior profiling.
• Automated processes for malware triaging - collection, dynamic analysis, false-positive/false-negative testing, and bulk processing to generate detection signatures.

Austin, TX, US

• [Company History: Sunbelt Software, acquired by GFI Software]
• Worked on the VIPRE anti-virus scan engine to improve detection technologies.
• Implemented advanced detection technologies such as heuristic based and behavior based techniques within the scan engine.
• Improved file-type scanning for various archive formats and packers. Wrote un-packing routines within the scan engine for various malware packers.
• Implemented framework within the scan engine to scan and detect Windows based Rootkits.
• Implemented framework for false-positive and false-negative testing of the anti-virus product.

Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US

• [Company history: Command Software Systems, acquired by Authentium, acquired by Cyren]
• Worked on the F-Prot anti-virus scan engine (company based in Iceland) to improve detection technologies.
• Improved file-type scanning for various archive formats and packers.
• Wrote un-packing routines within the scan engine for various malware packers.
• Implemented framework within the scan engine to scan and detect script based malware.
• Designed and developed anti-virus scan-engine Software Development Kit (SDK) for "Command Anti-Virus" software product. Coordinated with project team members and cross-team stake-holders.

Lafayette, LA, US

• Performed static and dynamic analysis of malicious code with a goal to improve detection technologies.
• Completed Masters Thesis - Detect obfuscations in metamorphic viruses
• Built a prototype tool called DOC (Detector for Obfuscated Calls) to statically analyze disassembled malicious binaries for obfuscations.
• Published this topic in peer-reviewed journal and also presented at the IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation.
• Patent granted: Technique to detect certain obfuscations in metamorphic code.

Masters, Computer Science

Bachelors, Computer Science