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San Jose, California, Us

Completed transformation of Incident Response Plan to align with new Security Exchange and CMMC requirements.Established international cyber practice in Cork Ireland including follow the sun cyber support leveraging India and US offices.Aligned global security organizational structure to industry best practices. Elevated security controls against increasing advancements in emerging threats.

San Jose, California, Us

Established global cyber asset management program tracking over 600k assets across multiple organizations leveraging feeds from hundreds of tools and inventory systems.Developed a Vulnerability Mitigation team to prioritize and track vulnerabilities through mitigation and revalidation.Managed the merge and leadership change across multiple teams as they were upleveled and combined into a single security organization.

San Jose, California, Us

In this role, I was part of a highly motivated team of security professionals dedicated to delivering innovative solutions to the unique security challenges being posed by cloud, mobile and other emerging technologies. In May of 2016, we reorganized the Information Security organization. Multiple teams with varying levels of maturity were pulled under the same leadership chain. Since then we expanded headcount and function. The current organization includes Security Engineering, Network Security, Identity & Access Management, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance), Security Architecture, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. As we grew the team we were working on maturing across the functions. Some were established, some were partially mature and some were completely rebooted and started over. The risk appetite had decreased dramatically in the past few years. Our security posture had changed from a fairly open BYOD environment to a far more tightly managed and exponentially more secure environment. I was directly accountable for the isolation of approximately 1/3 of the total network into secured development space. I was also accountable for projects to deploy Network Access Control, to migrate users to a hardened endpoint, to deploy DLP, to completely retool the Incident Response team with new SIEM and other technologies, to migrate contractors to heightened security environments and to completely insource all SOC and VM functions by establishing a follow the sun operations center. At one time or another across the the decade, I managed and had been directly accountable for Network Security Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Identity & Access Engineering and Operations, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Forensics, Security Governance, Risk & Compliance, and the best part of all, management of a great team of professionals.

San Jose, California, Us

NetApp is a fast growing and highly successful producer of Data Storage systems and software. I was promoted to a role managing the Network Security Engineering team that had now grown substancialy plus the Network Security Operations Team that was partially outsourced with senior internal resources. About 1 year later I was also given the Identity and Access Engineering and Operations teams. In my position, I managed Engineering / Operations teams that were responsible for company standards as they pertain to Network Security, IAM and other core security technologies. We designed and manage all Network Security, Identity & Access Management standards including IDP, Content Filtering, Vender VPN, Remote Access, DMZ, Cloud Connectivity, Perimeter and other security related devices as well as the core infrastructures supporting IDM and Access. It was our job to evaluate, test, design, standardize, document and provide training on all Network Security, Identity and Access Systems deployed at NetApp. I was accountable for Network Security and migration for seven acquisitions of varying sizes. I was accountable for the eventual insourcing of the Network Security and IAM Operations functions to a fully internal operations team. This effort included the creation of all runbacks, trainings & procedures needed to make the new expanded operations teams successful.

San Jose, California, Us

NetApp had been rapidly growing for about 15 years. The infrastructure was moving from start-up mode to a more enterprise focused environment. It was my job to evaluate, test, design, standardize, document and provide training on all Network Security Systems deployed at NetApp. I was directly accountable for the initial design and deployment of the DMZ, Partner Connectivity, Employee VPN, IDS and Manufacturing Site networks. Prior to my employment at NetApp there was no standardization and minimal focus on security systems. It was my job to move the infrastructure to an enterprise worthy posture.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

I was contracted on a short term Security Engineering project at NetApp to bring standards to the core network security environments. I documented the existing environments then created designs, documentation and templates for future VPNs and applications deployed. This engagement was terminated when I was offered a perminant Senior Security Engineering role with the same team.

Schoollink was a service provider started in 1994 to provide Internet based services to schools and individuals in the Eastern NC region. It grew to be listed in the North America Fast 500, the NC Fast 50 and the INC 500. Over the years, it morphed to provide connectivity over hundreds of miles of fiber, wireless, T-1 and other technologies as well as several web based hosted applications. The company was the brainchild of three young entrepreneurs, myself included. As the company grew, I took on the primary role of CTO. We built out infrastructure across the region following my designs and deployment leadership. We were the first to deploy wireless and fiber between schools in NC. We built a very profitable dial-up business also based on my infrastructure designs. We grew to 38 employees and won multiple industry awards for innovation. We built and secured the infrastructure in the days where all technologies were bleeding edge. Our projects were often first deployments in the state. Innovation and creativity were part of daily life.

Jagwire was a sister company to Schoollink, Inc., and was created to provide converged telephony, data and video services to government offices, schools and multi-site businesses in Eastern NC. Jagwire deployed the first 40 site VOIP telephony system in a NC school system over fiber. We deployed Interactive Intelligence Call Center systems and Cisco VOIP systems. We deployed both as on-prem and as hosted (SaaS before that was a name). These were done using my design and deployment leadership. In addition, Jagwire installed and maintained about 400 miles of fiber optic cable, a dozen wireless WAN links and scores of T1/56k links. My primary role in Jagwire was that of CTO but I also did quite a bit of sales and sales engineering.

Party Town USA was a multi-faceted project. It was run as a family side venture. The primary project was the development of a 35,000 sq. ft. indoor family entertainment venue. This project was dropped in 2007 after huge investments when the Carolina Crossroads Entertainment Complex fell on troubles. That plus the economy turn required us to walk away from this investment. The project was started initially to promote a planned indoor venue. It was basically a rental and festival venture. Inflatables, Water Slides, a Climbing Wall, Monkey Motion and Water Wars were all operated at regional festivals as well as rented out for private events. When plans for the indoor facility changed, the side business became unwarranted and was discontinued. It was however a wonderful way to teach my three daughters the joys and challenges of entrepreneurship. It started me on a path of mentoring and support for “new in career” efforts that continues today.

My first venture into the entrepreneurial space, I started this business with some like minded friends. This was a computer service contract organization that grew to multiple locations and eventually serviced all computer and data processing equipment across 5 military basses as well as scores of companies and government agencies in eastern North Carolina. We subsetted this company to build a regional ISP in the early days of the internet. Computer Solutions rapidly became a multi-million dollar services organization that employed over 20 people and won multiple local and regional awards.

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Educational Computer Sales and Department Manager - Accountable for educational sales in eastern NC. Deploying labs, networked PCs and Unix based terminal systems, I had to self train to provide technical services as well as my sales duties.