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New York, NY, US

• Conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the global cyber exercise program and noted multiple deficiencies in regulatory and best practices alignment. Recommended four improvements which were implemented in 3 weeks.
• Created a program standard and multiple procedure documents, resulting in enterprise governance and 100% accountability across multiple stakeholders.
• Directed multiple MSAs and SOWs as the Third-Party Risk Manager, totaling $250K in spend.
• Planned and delivered 15+ tabletop and functional exercises encompassing DDOS, Data Recovery, Insider Threat, country cyber crisis management, and Ransomware.
• Sourced and on-boarded two temporary employees for multiple automation projects, saving approximately 250+ hours annually with zero cost to the enterprise.

Houston, US

Specialize in helping public servants transition successfully from law enforcement, military, intelligence community, teaching, and more. Provide resume writing, 3rd party recruiting, coaching, LinkedIn profile optimization, interview preparation, and salary negotiation.- 1500+ resumes created. - Delivered 50+ mock interviews. - Sourced and placed two.

Reston, Virginia, US

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Built an enterprise cyber threat exercise program focused on business continuity, technology resilience, incident response, industry engagement, and managing threat matrixes. Collaborates with key stakeholders to design, sequence, and deliver a series of risk-based cyber, technology, and business continuity exercises to enhance operational resilience.

Seattle, WA, US

• Built an enterprise crisis management framework and strategic roadmap aligned to ISO 22361.
• Built 15+ workflows, RACIs, checklists, and scoping documents for the program.
• Sourced 10+ passive candidates from Linkedin with a 60% hire rate.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Virtually managed regional teams in North and South America, comprising 12+ direct reports and a $3.2B project remit.
• Built and managed 4+ interaction models governing Product, Policy, Trust and Safety, and Global Investigations.
• Led teams through two restructures with 0% turnover.
• Oversaw implementation of a global spam abuse mitigation policy which, in its first 6 months of operations, suspended over 2M bad actors and saved advertiser moderation approximately $25M in manpower hours.
• Led and participated in 10+ global Root Cause Analyses (RCA) revolving around incorrect fraud decisions which temporarily cost the organization $14M on average.
• Created 6+ KPI’s targeting stakeholder engagement, project implementation rate, and numerous individual project KPI’s for data metrics and impact.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Oversaw a global supply chain security program responsible for securely transporting data center racks from point of manufacture to destination.
• Achieved $0 loss and 0 rejections through multiple crisis events.
• Designed and implemented a Critical Asset Recovery program at 22 global data centers, which served to recover and securely analyze all unsecured media storage devices found on-site.
• Implemented security overlays, including GPS tracking, route mapping assessments, and partnering with third party consultants for threat assessments.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Orchestrated global security risk management, business continuity, and the triage of threats for 165K+ employees in 180+ countries while leading 4 global SOC’s in Ireland, India, Malaysia, and the US.
• Part of a small team who built a global fusion center (GSOC) consisting of incident management, travel risk management, emergency response, tactical and strategic intelligence collection and analysis, supply chain.
• Managed 15+ contractors.
• Led 15+ “voice of the customer” discussions with department heads within the organization, security and non-security, in order to assess organizational needs and align them with the Security function.
• Assisted in the development and implementation of a corporate intelligence collection and analysis program within the Fusion Center, consisting of contractor intelligence analysts and training contract security.
• Created 250+ intelligence products, including travel risk assessments, situation reports, tactical and strategic intelligence reports, and ad hoc requests.

Mclean, VA, US

• Filed 1200+ Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) for all fraud typologies including credit and debit card fraud, card not present, account takeover (ATO), synthetic identity theft, first person bust out, money laundering.
• Recommended three rule changes to the Actimize platform, projected to save approximately 3M hours in lost time across numerous business units and comply with an OCC consent order.

Houston, Texas, US

• Conducted 1500+ investigations into financial fraud, organized crime, and transnational organizations as a member of a federal task force.
• Served as the department Intelligence Manager for all bi-directional information sharing with 30+ agencies.
• Created and delivered 60+ intelligence products including both tactical and strategic reports.
• Instructed at the Houston Police Academy and 5+ domestic conferences, creating multiple curriculums and teaching 2K+ personnel.
• . Led the overhaul of a national intelligence database utilizing existing personnel and resulting in a cost-neutral program with significantly enhanced user functionality.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Criminal Justice

Master Of Science - Ms, Leadership And Management