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Played a key role in scaling StackRox from a series B startup of 60 employees in 2020 to an integrated portfolio offering post-acquisition by Red Hat to achieve revenue growth.Create and inform strategic product roadmaps, sales playbooks and sales trainings through competitive analysis, win/loss analysis and customer feedback in collaboration with organizational marketing, sales and leadership teams.Enable the success of customer Kubernetes security programs through continuous partnership with customers on roadmap definition, product feature design, security thought leadership and product operationalization.Lead the distillation of market needs into prioritized product features, workflows, and requirements in collaboration with interaction designers and engineering teams to plan, develop and ship product releases to customers.Provide tactical sales and customer support for customer calls and RFIs throughout the sales lifecycle.Assist sales and marketing programs to better resonate with buyers by creating and reviewing sales and marketing collateral and presenting at company and industry events such as, KubeCon and Red Hat Summit.Partner with technical writers to improve, update and maintain customer-facing product documentation.

Acquired by Red Hat in February 2021

Acted as the primary product security evangelist for the Redis community to educate stakeholders on security capabilities and best practices.Led the end-to-end delivery of a major release of Redis, Redis Enterprise 6.0, to create and launch the most secure Redis distribution and influence the open-source client software ecosystem to adopt supporting capabilities.Created a Redis security certification course to train customers on Redis security, which has been used to certify over 100 Redis engineers.Defined and prioritized the strategic roadmap in partnership with executive management as an advocate for customer security capabilities to enable their expansion initiatives and produce new sales.Distilled market needs to create detailed product requirements and designs in collaboration with customers, sales, designers and engineering to meet competitive market needs for Redis managed cloud and on-premise software.Partnered with Legal and IT Security to respond to sales security questionnaires, review agreements and negotiate contract language.Partnered with marketing on go-to-market stories for emerging Redis security capabilities.Performed manual and automated security testing to validate product security features for open-source Redis, Redis Enterprise and Redis Enterprise Cloud.Performed competitive analyses in partnership with the marketing team to enable sales engineers to position Redis Enterprise software and cloud services against other database vendors and major cloud providers.

Responsible for the integration of security testing into the software development lifecycle to improve the speed of secure software delivery to market for agile teamsDeveloped and defined security requirements for Cigna products throughout the software development lifecycle Managed a team of 4 security specialists focused on educating the development community on security automation

Partner with the enterprise to develop and implement security solutions and capabilities that are aligned with business, technology and threat driversProvide consultative advice to information security stakeholders to enable them to make informed risk management decisionsIdentify opportunities to improve security posture, develop solutions for remediating or mitigating risk to continuously improve security in alignment with company policy and industry bodies such as CIS, NIST, DISA and OWASPMaintain strong working relationships with individuals and groups involved in managing information risks across the organizationServe as an information security expert and trusted advisor to partners in IT and the businessEvangelize the transformation of DevOps to DevSecOps within the enterprise to increase speed to project delivery by automating security configuration and vulnerability testing within DevOps pipelines

Led the enterprise initiative to ensure hashing algorithms met FIPS140-2 and browser emerging standardsFacilitated the expiration of the intermediate private certificate authority certificate with no major impactsArchitected and deployed security tools and policies to technically enforce and provide visibility into data in motion and data at rest governance policiesUpgraded and deployed tools to support the continuous improvement of key management, data loss prevention (DLP), network monitoring, and anti-virus solutions

Participated in Cigna's Technology Early Career Development Program (TECDP), a rotational program that enabled associates to rotate to different positions within Cigna to facilitate experiential learning within the company and participate in leadership opportunities to continuously improve the development of the TECDP ProgramManaged the budget and strategic vision of the philanthropic efforts of the technology development programInterviewed, assessed and recruited candidates interested in TECDPProposed and obtained support for initiatives to program representatives and leadership for adoption

Implemented and improved security controls and policies to monitor and prevent data from leaving the company via e-mail, web, endpoint and various network protocols to facilitate compliance and privacy proceduresReviewed and escalated data loss incidents to management to protect customer privacy

Provided level 3 technical support for the corporate antivirus, web security proxy, public key infrastructure and spam filtersDeployed appliances, physical and virtual servers to facilitate the implementation of security controlsManaged the certificate lifecycle and implementation to ensure that no active certificate expired

Automated manual e-mails sent to business partners using Visual Basic for Applications to improve department efficiencyDeveloped a SharePoint Site to increase collaboration among claim auto department resources and increase visibility into strategic projects

Automate manual processes using Visual Basic for Applications to save money and reduce time spent on processesDevelop SharePoint site to create easier access to metrics and reporting documentationRedesign reports to better fit business customer needs using XML and Mainframe technologiesRe-write an VBA DAO application to VB.Net front end and SQL server backend to increase application performanceParticipate on team capstone project focused on increasing enterprise collaboration

Conducted research to enhance the effectiveness of initiative programs and presented findings to involved partiesReconciled financial spreadsheets, and prepared grant summary reports used to assist in grant making decisionsBenchmarked department metrics, employee engagement tactics, and practices against other companies for comparisonCollaborated on Travelers corporate social responsibility initiativesOrganized logistics for meetings and off-site visits to assist the Vice President of the Travelers Foundation

Spread Awareness on issues affecting voters and candidate's proposed solutions to gain voter supportRecruited volunteers to support the campaign in its daily activities and eventsConducted primary research to assist in candidate’s decision making

Researched marketing, sponsorship, and brand management strategies for start-up business high school, High School Inc.Conducted primary and secondary research to generate recommendations to improve high school recognition and enrollmentAssisted in developing and presenting consulting report and recommendations to improve High School, Inc. operations

Handle currency and complete basic financial transactions to support credit union operationsPromote products and services and cross sell members on products offered by the credit unionAddress member complaints to promote a positive member experienceOrganize and complete legal documentation to facilitate credit union operationsOpen and close member accounts and certificates to facilitate credit union operationsProvide account information to account holders and protect member information