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Baltimore, MD, US

Richmond, VA, US

• Directed enterprise-wide Identity Security strategies, achieving a 20% improvement in organizational security posture and a measurable reduction in operational risk.
• Established comprehensive training programs in IAM, PAM, and Zero Trust, with 75% of participants reporting increased efficacy in security practices.
• Designed and implemented advanced Identity frameworks that reduced identity-related incidents by 30% and increased compliance with global regulations.
• Fostered collaboration with executive stakeholders to align security initiatives with business goals, enhancing governance and transparency.
• Provided advisory services to Fortune 500 companies, guiding strategic cloud migration projects and IAM transformations.

NYC, NY, US

• Provided advanced, hands-on IAM training leveraging industry-leading platforms, frameworks, and best practices—ensuring that both technical and non-technical teams deepen their understanding of core identity security.
• Developed and delivered comprehensive IAM training curricula tailored to audiences with varying levels of expertise, enabling scalable knowledge transfer and fostering enterprise-wide alignment on identity governance.
• Led career coaching and mentoring initiatives within the IAM discipline, integrating deep GRC and policy-driven methodologies to guide professionals through emerging attack vectors and evolving regulatory landscapes
• Championed a holistic, full-lifecycle training approach that incorporated GRC, cybersecurity controls auditing, and platform-agnostic IAM strategies—empowering teams to adapt to new technologies, enhance security.

• Directed an enterprise-wide digital transformation initiative, integrating robust IAM frameworks to reduce fraud losses by 45% and enhance overall customer trust and experience
• Developed and executed a $50M security modernization program, embedding risk-based identity controls and best-in-class IAM/PAM tools to achieve sustainable regulatory compliance and support rapid business growth
• Built and led a team of 75+ security professionals across three global centers of excellence, fostering cross-functional collaboration, operational agility, and continuous improvement in identity security practices
• Implemented a holistic, risk-based identity governance framework that cut security-related business disruptions by 60%, improving organizational resilience and reducing time-to-remediate critical threats
• Served as executive sponsor for a $100M digital identity program, streamlining provisioning and authentication workflows to deliver a 30% reduction in customer onboarding time, accelerating revenue realization and.

• Architected and governed the implementation of a global security strategy across 40+ countries, harmonizing IAM/PAM controls to support dynamic business growth and market expansion
• Achieved $12M in annual operational cost savings through strategic vendor consolidation, process automation, and streamlined identity administration workflows
• Led the identity security integration for three major acquisitions, ensuring continuous compliance with regulatory frameworks, safeguarding enterprise assets, and maintaining seamless user experiences
• Served as executive sponsor for a Zero Trust transformation, achieving a 70% reduction in security incidents by centralizing identity governance, enforcing least-privilege access, and enhancing threat detection.
• Built strategic partnerships with business stakeholders, boosting enterprise-wide security program adoption by 85% and aligning identity security initiatives with core business objectives

• Directed an enterprise-wide cyber risk transformation, integrating IAM, PAM, and data protection frameworks to reduce critical security findings by 65% and strengthen the overall security posture in a complex.
• Engineered a forward-looking patient identity protection program utilizing advanced authentication and fraud detection mechanisms, preventing $20M+ in potential identity-related fraud losses while maintaining HIPAA and.
• Established a comprehensive security governance framework aligned with strategic business objectives, enhancing board-level visibility, accelerating executive decision-making, and ensuring that identity security.
• Restructured the security organization to align with top business priorities, centralizing IAM and security capabilities, improving team efficiency by 40%, and fostering a proactive, risk-aware culture that supported.

• Guided a 5-year IAM/PAM strategy aligned with a $2B digital transformation, achieving regulatory compliance (NIST, NERC CIP) and reducing operational costs by 35%
• Led a security modernization program, enforcing Active Directory policies and streamlining synchronization with NIST and NERC CIP frameworks, while reviewing and optimizing 1,500+ controls across IBM (AS400, ISIM.
• Designed domain object lifecycle management processes in OPA, ensuring functional scalability for joiners, movers, and leavers, and delivering architectural blueprints that enhanced system health and risk alignment
• Developed a board-level security metrics framework, improving executive visibility and data-driven investment decisions, and integrated user-centric authentication solutions (transitioning from Yubikey to Keycloak).
• Fostered cross-functional coordination and mentored junior analysts to strengthen IAM competencies and establish best practices
• Architected integrated cloud IAM solutions, seamlessly incorporating OPA, SailPoint, Entra ID, and AWS to balance robust security controls with a user-friendly experience—supporting sustainable scalability and aligning.

• Led comprehensive security transformation program across 15 state agencies
• Established innovative public-private partnership model for security operations
• Reduced security incidents by 50% while improving service delivery metrics
• Evaluated and secured around 1,500 controls within the SEC 501 and NIST SP800-53 r5 security standards on IBM mainframe platform, standardizing internal processes for Change Management/Access Control, and effectively.
• Led collaborative risk assessments and security tasks with Project Managers, guided InfoSec SMEs on control integrations, updated ISRM documentation, developed weekly reports for CISO and Project Managers, ensuring.
• Managed comprehensive information security vulnerability assessments, continuous monitoring across the organization, and delivered vulnerability management services to clients in the Commonwealth of Virginia, while.

• Directed an enterprise-wide identity modernization program that enabled remote-first operations at scale, consolidating legacy IAM platforms, streamlining authentication workflows, and achieving 99.99% uptime across.
• Architected a cloud-first IAM strategy, accelerating Azure AD migration for 15,000 users and integrating MFA, conditional access, and identity governance policies—reducing identity-related security incidents by 65%.
• Championed a remote work–focused security awareness initiative, cutting successful phishing attempts by 80% and driving a 95% completion rate in security training across all business units, despite a geographically.
• Led a zero-trust endpoint management transformation, implementing continuous monitoring and privilege-based access controls that reduced mean time to patch critical vulnerabilities from 15 days to 24 hours, enabling.

• Directed an enterprise-wide identity security transformation supporting 12,000 remote users during COVID-19, integrating Zero Trust architecture, cloud-based MFA, and risk-based identity governance to reduce.
• Deployed a rapid incident response framework against a 200% surge in pandemic-themed phishing attacks, elevating email security, user education, and automated identity provisioning—achieving a 90% reduction in.
• Accelerated M365 security modernization and lifecycle management processes, streamlining user provisioning from 5 days to 4 hours and enhancing secure telehealth identity controls for 500,000+ patients across three.
• Led crisis response teams to counter targeted ransomware campaigns, implementing privileged access management and network segmentation to prevent 3 imminent breaches, safeguarding $1.2M in potential ransom costs
• Established unified security governance aligned with HITRUST frameworks, eliminating 85% of high-risk findings and consolidating identity policies across cloud and legacy environments
• Executed a strategic vendor consolidation and automation initiative, reducing shadow IT by 40%, enhancing mean-time-to-detect by 60%, and delivering $800K in immediate cost savings while reinforcing compliance and.