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Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Led cross-functional teams in the successful execution of security projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, and security standards.Collaborated with engineering teams to assess organizational risks, prioritize security initiatives, and provide updates to senior leadership.Implemented practical, metrics-driven approaches to evaluate and improve security.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Lead Security Integration Program Manager for all Salesforce acquisitions under Tableau.Managed all security uplift initiatives as part of Salesforce acquisition of Tableau. Program Manager for all Tableau Security Assurance responsibilities including security reviews, threat modeling, incident management, and vulnerability management.Managed, tracked and.

Greater Seattle Area

Program manager for all product and infrastructure security initiatives.Areas of focus included vulnerability management, incident management, security reviews, threat modeling and security training.

Greater Seattle Area

Lead project management for large scale security initiatives across AWS; identifying potential security issues, working with service teams to design and build solutions, guiding teams through adoption of these solutions, resolving tooling issues, and regularly reporting progress to senior leadershipDrove efforts to implement systematic practices for.

Greater Seattle Area

Lead the creation of an automated access provisioning system to manage the physical access to AWS data centers and facilities by allowing users to request access for themselves or others, automating the approval/denial process and enabling security personnel to check visitors into the facilities themselves. Standardized process for implementing physical.

Issaquah, WA

Managed the monthly external testing of Microsoft Security Updates; this included gathering feedback directly from customers and working with product teams to resolve issuesRelentlessly advocated on behalf of customers, working with the Microsoft Lifecycle team to provide custom security updates on products which the company no longer publicly.

Redmond, Washington

Managed the internal Alpha and external Beta programs for the Xbox 360 flash updatesCoordinated weekly deployments to test and production servers; deployments could affect over 25 million consoles Worked closely with the operations team to communicate environment status and resolve deployment issuesStreamlined the deployment process in order to increase.

Redmond, WA

Managed the on-boarding process of subscription based games from developer handoff to launch; decreasing the on-boarding time by 50%Managed the subscription service games portfolio, increasing its user base by 225% and shipping over 90 gamesMaintained daily programming needed to keep the MSN Games website runningWorked with multiple cross-discipline teams.

Redmond, WA

Performed compatibility testing for over 150 major video game titles using the RC1, RTM and the Escrow of Microsoft Vista; from first release candidate milestone to the final release productCreated and implemented test plans and test cases for finding and logging bugs Worked with software developers to identify and fix bugsTested pre released game code.