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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 programs and remediation efforts.Mentored team members in technical proficiency and soft skills, enhancing their understanding of security principles and how to build consensus with stakeholders.

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 reported on all internal security KPI.

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 Windows patching across AWS; creating a plan to resolve various vulnerabilities in the patching process, guiding teams through tradeoffs and evangelizing for the best path forward, and continuous compliance reporting of the program to ensure adoptionLead effort to create and deploy tooling used by operations and security teams to identify causes of service outages and reduce direct human interaction on hosts Designed, deployed, and maintained the AWS Security Tableau server; consisting of 500+ users and 18 sitesTaught “Metrics Fundamentals” and “Tableau 101” sessions for AWS Security New Hire boot camps

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 security systems in new data center builds resulting in an 60% decrease in deployment time across service teamsDesigned and developed a tool used to identify and baseline physical access credentials, decreasing the total time that data center security spent on monthly access baselines by more than 25%, and decreased the time spent gathering evidence for audits by more than 50%Created and maintained the operational metrics for the Amazon Web Services Security Operations Center (SOC)Implemented, managed, documented, and trained team on new communication mechanisms; empowering the SOC to communicate technical information to customers quicker and more accuratelyWorked with external security vendors to gather specifications, vet software, and project manage the integration of new security software/hardware Automated and redesign the daily physical security reporting process for datacenters, including Network Video Recorder and Masking reports, and decreasing time spent on reporting by more than 75%; managed monthly security access audits of 13 regional AWS datacenters

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 supportedManaged customer portals for both the Microsoft Software Update Validation Program and Microsoft Lifecycle teams; granting external testers access to builds and gathering critical feedback to improve securityDaily support of the Microsoft Software Update Validation Program; proactively troubleshooting technical issues, creating test guides, and writing security publications to keep internal/external customers up to date on security issues

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 deployment accuracy and decrease the time customers were impactedCreated and maintained the Microsoft Connect site for the Xbox 360 flash update; this allowed external Alpha and Beta participants to log feedback into the teams internal database Worked with partner teams to obtain information and resolve issues found during the product cycleCreated and maintained the Xbox team SharePoint; giving unique access to over 400 people; this was necessary for daily tasks, product planning, server status and server history reports

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 including developers, artists and testersCoordinated the weekly launch of games on the MSN Games website Troubleshot technical site and game issues and helped to resolve them

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 against Vista to see if they met the criteria to be labeled “Games for Windows”