Kyle Wickert Email & Phone Number

Canada

As Worldwide Strategic Architect with AlgoSec, I fill a high impact position with responsibilities including supporting strategic sales opportunities with account teams globally, closely following industry trends, shaping product priorities, and regularly evangelizing solutions as one of our thought-leading technical experts with customers, at industry conferences, trade shows, and partners.As a part of the Sales Organization I play an instrumental role in expanding the strategic customer base which includes many of the Fortune/Global 2000. I act as an escalation point for high impact customer engagements & engage with a wide array of stakeholders across many different teams. I frequently engage and influence a varied audience, from C-level to managerial as well as internal product and engineering teams, and extract information that can be used by the sales team in future engagements to drive customer success.

Toronto, Canada Area

o Worked directly with Sales Managers to conduct live product demonstrations & complete RFP/RFIs, to effectively convey the company’s strategic vision, while also creating differentiation from competition early in the sales cycleo Provided pre & post sales cycle solution architecture recommendations and assistance to customers throughout the North America, South America, Europe & Australia, while consistently ensuring customers were maximizing the value of the product suiteo Presented to all levels of seniority within customer environments, including C-Level, middle management, & technical engineers/architectso Lead & coordinated competitive Proof of Concepts with large enterprises, including many Fortune 500 organizations, with a significant win rateo Lead customer requirement gathering sessions to assist with the design of new product functionality & assisted with delivery to customers

Toronto, Canada Area

o Provided pre & post sales cycle support to customers throughout the Central United States & Eastern Canada, while consistently ensuring customers were maximizing the value of the product suite.o Worked directly with resellers to the develop technical skills required to independently drive product sales cycles through to completiono Supported partner programs with firewall vendors, providing consistent technical assistance during joint initiatives within customer environmentsContact: kyle.wickert@algosec.com

Toronto, Ontario

o Provided consistent tactical & strategic security control recommendations to project teams implementing net new systems providing online banking, trading, market data, & content management services to customerso Provided strategic information security architecture recommendations to protect the ongoing confidentiality & integrity of Bank data on systems ranging from customer online banking to low latency infrastructure.o Performed Security Due Diligence reviews on organizations across North America, in an effort to evaluate their security policies & procedures before Scotiabank began business relationships. The Due Diligence reviews evaluated the current policies & procedures of said organizations across multiple security domains.o Developed & supported the security assessment process within the departments firewall change request process. This project provided a thorough security review of requested changes significantly reducing the introduction of net new risk into the environment. o Assisted in developing intern staff, while leveraging these resources to achieve department objectiveso Supported Algosec Firewall Analyzer across a global network infrastructure comprised of 120+ network security devices including firewalls & proxies. This system provided 24/7 monitoring & visibility to the global network perimeter.

o Deployed platform hardening configurations in line with Bank governance, using Group Policy, to Windows Servers globally. This strategic effort significantly improved compliance & reduced risk across Microsoft systems globally achieving a near 100% compliance rate.o Deployed Algosec Firewall Analyzer across a global network infrastructure comprised of 120+ network security devices including firewalls & proxies. o Troubleshooting Juniper Netscreen, and CISCO /ASA PIX firewall policy issues

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Duties include providing ongoing Information Security support for projects & day-to-day operations. Administering Windows & UNIX based information systems, enduring a consistently secure environment. Daily analysis, assessment, optimization of firewall policy and network controls. Responding to information security related incidents. On demand, evaluation & review of network traffic logs for malicious traffic.

Provide technical assistance to desktop & mobile users across the environment. Duties included providing technical assistance, maintaining global desktop image, testing software for compatibility, etc.

Computer Systems Technology - Systems Analyst, Information Technology

Accelerated in areas of networking & information security.

Ontario Secondary School Dipolma (Ossd)