Director | Manager | Senior Specialist
Bensalem, Pa
ENTERPRISE IMPACT:As DIRECTOR, INFORMATION SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE (2004-2011):• Increased capabilities in order to securely manage 200+ vendors in support of 600+ servers, 200+ applications, 100+ network devices, and the mainframe.• Spearheaded 16 compliant PCI audit engagements for 5 brands over 9 consecutive years.• Successfully executed 10 SOX GCC audits for all brand IT environments.• Implemented litigation-hold and recovery process for the Legal Department, generated IT continuity plan for the HR Department, and worked in concert with both departments to build Security Awareness Program.• Upgraded authorization functions by replacing credential mirroring with position-dependent profiles. • Protected Spirit of America’s private label credit/gift cards by implementing information security strategy; worked in collaboration with client’s team.• Avoided hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines/penalties by convincing staff of 200 to implement security controls for better SOX and PCI compliance.• Sponsored and initiated standards to build Wintel and AIX servers.• Improved information retention, confidentiality, and security by building a records management program for both hard and electronics records.• Implemented technical solution that limited access to confidential systems by privileged user accounts.As MANAGER, INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES (1999-2004):• Spearheaded company-wide initiatives, such as Active Directory migrations/upgrades, the LAN migration from 10meg to 100meg network cores, and Lotus Notes upgrade from 5.x to 6.x.As SENIOR WIDE AREA AND LOCAL AREA NETWORK SPECIALIST (1996-1999):• Led campus conversion from token ring to ATM backbone, and converted 4,000 node network from token ring to switched Ethernet.• Directed conversion from DOS MS Mail to Lotus Notes, upgrading systems for 3,000 users across the globe. Migrated population from Novell 3.x to 4.x and introduced Directory Services.
