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New York, New York, Us

A leadership role to grow the security program by proactively partnering with product engineering teams to identify and address security vulnerabilities in the product suite. I lead a distributed team of engineers to scale application security practices through improved automation, holistic remediation of security issues, and the promotion of secure-by-default principles.Security at Greenhouse is critical for building and maintaining customer trust. From influencing how we write our software, deploy our infrastructure, and make architecture decisions, improvements to the security posture at Greenhouse is my primary focus and deliverable.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

A pivotal role closely collaborating with Software Engineers to identify and mitigate technical vulnerabilities within code and AWS cloud environments. In this high-leverage position, I offer guidance on security architecture and best practices, contributing to the long-term success of a very worthwhile Canadian start-up (YC W18.) 🇨🇦This role demands a blend of technical expertise and exceptional interpersonal skills. Success hinges on the ability to drive the Security Program forward in a dynamic environment, often in the absence of a preexisting road-map or execution plan. Product innovation must coexist with strong security foundations and this role calls for broad visionary thinking and expert level day-to-day execution. 🚀✅ Providing expert guidance on security architecture and industry best practices across the business, within a start-up environment.✅ Creating high-impact demos that underscore the importance of security controls while rigorously validating technical vulnerabilities and environments.✅ Conducting code reviews, making diagrams, and offering cross-functional mentoring to energize and improve the security posture.✅Building processes that seamlessly bridge Security and Engineering teams together to address Risk.✅ Being the face of Security and go-to person for all EngineersI hold the honor of being BioRender's inaugural security hire, initially aligned with Engineering department under the VP of Engineering. However, I have transitioned to a direct reporting relationship to the CISO.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Successful delivery of Application and Cloud Security Professional Services to Canadian startups and fin-tech companies: ✅ Completed AWS cloud security assessments. ✅ Pentested web applications using OWASP ASVS+WSTG as part of the process. ✅ Wrote Threat and Controls scenarios to contextualize pentest findings into real-world risks. ✅ Lead Threat Modeling and Business Impact Assessments. ✅ Developed a deep understanding of OWASP SKF using AWS+K8s. ✅ Delivered Web Application Security training centered around the OWASP JuiceShop. 🔊 Spoke at OWASP PNW and SECTOR 2022.

Guelph, Ontario, Ca

• Successful execution of Enterprise Security Program components including Table Top Exercises, Internal/External Infrastructure and Network Scanning, Application Pentesting, Red Teaming, Cyber Threat Intelligence monitoring and awareness and training activities.

Guelph, Ontario, Ca

• Nominated for The Co-operators Bravo! Award (2015) • Developed Java code and integrations for Customer Data Team on various projects using IBM’s MDM Customer Data framework. Refined software build processes and system monitoring. Gained deep technical understanding of The Co-operators MDM setup and Customer Data Team’s tooling.• Built custom Oracle PeopleSoft CRM web-crawler to expedite resolution of production data quality failures in CRM. Using open source tool Selenium built Java primitives to crawl CRM extracting failure descriptions and details to XML files. Further expanded crawler to support various CRM features such as ‘Search Party’, ‘Add Party” and ‘Add to Calendar’.• Created Java IBM MDM test tool to validate version 9 Upgrade for the Customer Data Team. Captured and replayed over 250k MDM transactions validating like-for-like behavior and performance characteristics. Presented results consultants and various teams for validation. The tool will be reused for future upgrades.• Resolved several critical production issues involving credit score working across the Enterprise and with credit score provider TransUnion. Gained expert knowledge of secure certificates, Java crypto tools and our corporate setup / challenges.• Working with Corporate Compliance, and OFSI requirements, replatformed and enhanced internal Java application. Mentored and worked with summer student. Provided on call support and troubleshooting during data center relocation issues.• Integrated externally developed Microsoft .NET Application, for Corporate Compliance. Strengthened relationships across Enterprise and worked effectively with an offsite consultant to communicate Enterprise non-functional requirements.• Wrote tools in Java, using AT&T "DOT" language and “zgvrviewer”, to demonstrate complex system interactions and component dependencies. Leveraged on many projects to visualize CA JOBTRAC z/OS job schedules for Data Warehouse and others.

Guelph, Ontario, Ca

• Nominated for The Co-operators Bravo! Award (2010)• Created “Data Warehouse Test Automation Developer Tools” to simplify and automate testing between IBM z/OS and AIX UNIX environments saving hundreds of testing hours and allowing more comprehensive test coverage. Advocated for Best Practices; facilitated several “Co-operators Developer Forums”.• Supported and replatformed “Share Holder Services - Shares Application”. Re-tooled legacy Java application in Eclipse, and ultimately replatformed to IBM WebSphere environment. Critically, an inability to upgrade the application’s operation system and the need to distribute year end Share Holder Statements made this project highly visible and necessary.• Technology Enabler and Lead Developer for high-profile Agency Reporting Tool. Initial brainstorming session and Proof of Concept evolved to become a pure Java solution that saves over 650k sheets of paper a year and all associated costs converting legacy EBCDIC z/OS reports to PDFs and distributing across Enterprise on the corporate Microsoft Windows LAN.• Lead Informatica Developer “Data Warehouse Party Mart” and “Client Credit Score Enhancement.” Delivered design, code, and support for Informatica, UNIX, and JCL assets. Credit score implementations were successfully internally audited. Key member of the “24x7 On Call Data Warehouse Support Team.”• Optimized and implemented high performance XML parser capable of working on extremely large data extracts. This was necessary to work around limitations of the Informatica XML parser at the time. Using SAX and a stack to track document depth. Keen interest in tree structures / nested sets and hashes.• Completely rewrote an Agency Compensation front-end using modern Java Technologies like Eclipse, Apache Tomcat / Struts / Tiles and Hibernate. Used advanced networking and debugging techniques (like Wireshark) to extract client side DB2 queries from the legacy OS/2 frontend written in AM/4.

Columbia, Md, Us

• Reduced costs and revitalized development team while leading a transition from early Microsoft Web Technologies to Linux + Apache + Java tooling with Eclipse. • Used VMWare virtualization to support development environments and simulate production configurations. • Installed and configured robust email, firewall, DNS, SAMBA and complex TCP/IP network configurations providing High Availability. • Worked closely with clients creating custom software integrations and opportunities for new business. • Mentored coworkers and promoted a knowledge culture. Monitored production/live systems and accepted 24x7 on call responsibilities.

• Incrementally designed and implemented a software system to fully operate a retail movie store. Worked closely with stakeholders to identify key features and plan development priorities.• Evolved system to include supplier catalogue integrations, real time inventory levels, online reordering, and detailed End of Day sales reporting. • Configured in store security cameras for offsite monitoring. Successfully opened on schedule for the 2002 Christmas sales rush.

• Built a customer management application, simplifying the tracking of ticket sales and mail merges for Volunteers with little to no computer experience.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Valedictorian, Computers And Dramatic Arts