Provides strategic leadership and subject matter expertise for all Information Security efforts at Rho worldwide. Acts as the business representative for Information Security and Compliance RFI responses as well as sponsor and independent third-party audits.

Happy to say that after 9 months as a contractor here, Rho decided to convert me to employee status.

Working under contract as the Information Security Officer for Rho in the RTP area of North Carolina.

Work with key business leaders, including Product & Engineering, Legal, and Finance, to identify compliance requirements and areas of potential vulnerability and risk; document, enhance, and provide recommendations for internal controls regarding HIPAA, PCI DSS, Data Security, and other compliance risks.Oversee the expansion of the Payment Compliance program to keep in line with developing PCI DSS, Mastercard/Visa/American Express mandates, and potential Money Transmitter regulations.Develop an audit program to further the PCI and HIPAA compliance program, and work with PCI and HIPAA consultants to keep the compliance policies and procedures up to date.Support the implementation and administration of information security and privacy policies, procedures and tools to ensure the protection of networks, systems, data, and PHI.Administer day-to-day security, IT and network operations, including access management and response to incidents, including recommending corrective actions.Develop training programs to keep staff up to date on compliance and educate them on the importance of PCI and HIPAA standards, as well as other internal controls.General compliance related contract analysis and legal organization support including Business Associates Agreements with clients, partners and vendors.

Developed and implemented overall company security infrastructure, managed and reportedrisks to executive management and insured HIPAA and other regulatory compliance.Completed annual HIPAA risk assessments and gap analyses.Implemented comprehensive patch management policy for all systems.Hired and facilitated third party software auditors of company products.Managed internal security team, networking team and desktop support team.Completed customer security assessment requests to facilitate the sales process.

I solve difficult problems, design technical solutions and manage a very talented team of developers in bringing the BrightWhistle Platform to life.One day I could be writing an Android Review Management Application, the next setting up MySQL replication on an Amazon EC2 server. A jack of all trades, I'm not afraid to get in and get my hands dirty one minute, then think big picture the next.

Developing software that makes car dealerships successful.

Programmer for the Advantage Lab Management software product.