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My responsibilities include realization of Identity & Access Management and Cloud Architecture & Engineering for driving business transformation. My focus is to provide strategic direction and guidance for maintaining security compliance in changing infrastructure, application, and technology adoption with the intent to enable business opportunities confidently. My goal is to deliver the future of security by providing a strategic roadmap with solution designs that ensure an effective end-to-end security toolchain. The toolchain lifecycle concept is critical to maintaining adoption of changing security technologies for continuous improvement and maturing the toolchain effectiveness.

Global Architecture and Engineering role establishing strategic requirements for Data Center, Cloud, and Security solutions to drive effective implementations. Accepted additional role of Security Compliance Officer for separating the North American financial services division, a project to spin-off Daimler Truck Financial Services (DTFS), ensuring anti-trust compliance by design of IAM access controls, multi-tenant architecture, data encryption transition, and network segregation of shared infrastructure to retain regulatory compliance during separation. This North American separation model was accepted by other financial services divisions globally to facilitate an effective and timely separation for their markets.

Security Compliance Officer, Information Security Architect, and IAM solution engineer providing security compliant design and integration standards for corporate application projects and IAM authentication products, including MS Active Directory, CyberArk, RSA Via L&G. Perform migration from CA SiteMinder to Ping Identity Federation with application transition to OIDC and SAML authentication protocols.

Lead Wintel architect at Mercedes Benz Financial Services (MBFS) designing HPES vendor data center functions to stand up new financial company with separation from Daimlerchrysler financial services (DCFS) in 2007. Independently completed all regional IT infrastructure buildout, data and application migration, along with consolidation of 15 MBFS (NAFTA) sites to 5 across the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 2008. Manage and maintain Server and Storage infrastructure team in performing planning, design, engineering, architecture, and security of all MBFS NAFTA data centers utilizing VMware, NetApp, Cisco, and HP C7000 Blade server/storage components. Complete 255 physical server migrations to virtual platform seamlessly across MBFS NAFTA data centers, including BC/DR enhancement to critical data centers with automated failover of infrastructure and business solutions. Mercedes-Benz internal corporate audit noted, "Server and storage virtualization is state of the art design and the model for any data center" in 2012. Infrastructure project lead architect for MBFS virtualization model in HP data center in 2014.

Team Lead role for Mercedez-Benz Credit Corp data center migration from Norwalk, CT. to Daimler Chrysler data center in Sterling Heights, MI. Responsible for variety of application and system architecture, new technology integration design, and implementation responsibilities of numerous infrastructure solutions.

Responsible for maintaining a variety of corporate proprietary and vendor specific communications technologies and infrastructure hardware, including a myriad of network components via Cisco Systems support agreement.Acquisition of NCR by AT&T Global Computer division, then spinoff of NCR.

Honorable - Meritorious Service Medal, Achievement Medal, and SCI Top Secret clearance.Responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing earth terminal equipment associated with communications satellites, assemblies and subassemblies to the micro-component level. Some of the functions 304X6 personnel perform include calculating timing and orbital parameters for spacecraft acquisition and tracking, establishing communications links with distant earth terminals via communications spacecraft, and maintaining earth terminal equipment across regions as a Central Repair Facility.