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Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Reston, Virginia (Va), Us

Verisign, Inc. operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry and DNS infrastructure for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains. Verisign also offers a range of security services.• Direct a high-performance global team dedicated to understanding customer needs. Drive revenue by directing strategic re-investment of savings to expand global reach of the product.

Reston, Virginia (Va), Us

Drove continuing improvement in Network Security in a newly established role. Provided technical thought leadership and subject matter expertise on security strategy and implementation before expanding the role to manage the company’s Business Resilience Program and rebuild all the company’s Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Programs.

Reston, Virginia (Va), Us

Formalized a leadership role as a strategic part of the company’s operations after having informally developed it over a period of three years while serving as Senior Manager Network Operations. Planned and coordinated the development and management of technology infrastructure required to support DNS for .COM and .NET. Responsibly managed the infrastructure budget while providing strategic input on a technology budget. Provided thought leadership at various industry events including NANOG, RIPE, Global Peering Forum, APRICOT, and RSA.• Set the platform strategy that facilitated seven-fold growth in capacity while substantially reducing Operating Expenses. Developed and implemented the strategy that drove the launch of the company’s DDoS Mitigation platform and supported its growth to a major revenue producer. Enabled 10-figure revenue by delivering critical network services for all Verisign production services.

Reston, Virginia (Va), Us

Planned and directed network operations for a new DDoS mitigation product. Later expanded scope of command to pieces of the operations team as the role grew organically into Director Network and Security Operations, a role formalized in 2011. Protected revenue by ensuring compliance with all contractual SLAs.• Managed or worked with teams that supported Tier 3 Network operations. Developed monitoring and escalations procedures and provided training and support to large customers including some of the world’s largest financial service providers.• Launched the VeriSign cloud-based DDoS mitigation service; built the platform to support millions of dollars in revenue.

Reston, Virginia (Va), Us

Drove creation of an engineering/architecture function to effectively provide formal, network design, testing or engineering. Developed, and implemented VeriSign's global peering strategy as a prelude to building global peering relationships with hundreds of networks that effectively peered off the majority of internet traffic.• Designed a global MPLS/IP Network, small footprint, low cost servers, and a network infrastructure to support GTLD and Root servers operated by VeriSign. Provided senior management with a financial overview for building a global network• Conducted due diligence on various mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. • Enhanced the company’s reputation by coauthoring a paper analyzing a series of Denial of Service attacks targeting internet-critical DNS infrastructure. Presented the paper at various forums including Nanog37.

Reston, Virginia (Va), Us

Directed operations, architecture, and engineering for networks that supported all VeriSign critical infrastructure services. Provided the highest level of escalation support to operations teams responding to various network events including: dDos attacks, security vulnerabilities, outages, and critical maintenances.•Designed, wrote, and deployed a network automation and orchestration system to fetch, archive, and provide revision control on all network device configurations.

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