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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Focusing on Cloud Attack Surface Management and ensuring that our cloud posture maintains a robust level of security while evolving to meet emerging threats and business needs.

Boise, Idaho, Us

Recruited to build and lead the AppSec team with a focus on identifying, prioritizing, and remediating infrastructure and application vulnerabilities. Secured resources, made key hires, established new processes, and optimized utilization of existing SaaS and infrastructure systems. Managed a team of 10 across multiple geographies leveraging Agile Kanban practices.• Reduced overall flaws by 35% across 1K custom applications.• Increased Network and agent-based vulnerability scanning from 200K to 500K endpoints within 6 months and reduced critical infrastructure vulnerabilities by 30% Enterprise-wide.• Implemented runtime container protection in GCP and Azure and identified and remediated 50% of critical container vulnerabilities.• Wrote and presented board-level content on Product Security posture.• Implemented Axonius to enable strategic and tactical data gathering and inventorization of Internal Attack Surface.

New York, Ny, Us

Rebuilt onshore/offshore teams and implemented refreshed security engineering processes and systems, including Scrum/Kanban, to dramatically improve productivity and morale from lowest to highest within 6 months. Headed a major initiative to reduce EDR platforms from 4 to 1 and successfully expanded functionality to all OS platforms. Reduced critical vulnerabilities by 50%, inventoried key assets to steer prioritization, maintained PCI compliance with no downtime, and delivered upgraded tooling to SOC. Revived abandoned Old Navy separation InfoSec projects that enabled data center exit, improved management capabilities in the cloud, and reduced operating costs by 30%.

Mclean, Va, Us

Selected and led the implementation of Netskope to enable the use of G Suite Enterprise – deployed to 63k employees within 2 months of purchase. Owned Data Asset protection and PCI/PII compliance across all on-premise endpoints, Cloud (AWS), and SaaS. Augmented Enterprise Data Protection to include email, data storage, IaaS usage, B2B data exchange, and Network/Web data protection.

Mclean, Va, Us

Identified, presented, and gained stakeholder approval (multiple Bus) and VC investment for the acquisition of emerging Adversarial Simulation platforms to enable improvements in SOC activities.

Mclean, Va, Us

With end-to-end oversight of security, led a team of technical experts to identify and acquire 3rd party technology solutions within the cybersecurity market that would leapfrog the company’s enterprise security capabilities. Defined Endpoint Security Strategy to minimize Agent footprint and remove redundancies. Established a cross-functional team to arbitrate disagreements on investments across cybersecurity, desktop operations, and network operations.

Mclean, Va, Us

Provided operational leadership to a 120-member Security Engineering team for the MVP, and brought strategic and tactical guidance to cross-functional engineering teams, including vulnerability management, application security, and custom security application development. Owned resource management, led ad-hoc projects, provided cultural and relationship building recommendations to MVP, and helped identify and remove roadblocks.

Houston, Texas, Us

Deepened business experience working with various BU stakeholders to develop and execute marketing strategies for the company’s Enterprise Security Products (ESP) group. Leveraged data to steer GTM investment, crafted sales strategy for 3 product families (Fortify, ArcSight, TippingPoint), and led Customer References, Customer Advisory Board, and Collateral Development teams.

Houston, Texas, Us

Entrusted to lead a range of business activities, including post-merger integrations for Autonomy, Fortify, ArcSight, Printelligent, and Palm Software, as well as standing up new business units.

Oakland, California, Us

Led strategic and tactical planning in response to budget cuts, developed and launched strategic initiatives to reduce operating cost, mitigate IT risk and drive Operational Excellence, and provided coaching and materials development for senior leaders to ensure successful change management activities.

Mclean, Va, Us

Traversed multiple roles, leading implementation and change management projects impacting Compliance, Human Resources, Data Centers, Enterprise Security, Finance, and Corporate Accounting. Managed a project of 70 people and budgets of up to $5M.

Hobart, Tasmania, Au

Aided the research and analysis of labor market conditions impacting immigrants in UK, US, Australia and Canada. Published research on various labor market conditions and employment effects of gender discrimination.

Mba W/ Honors, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Finance, Operations, Marketing

Bachelor Of Economics W/ First Class Honors, Labor Economics

Bachelor Of Computing, Software Engineering