I lead the practice and evaluated cybersecurity trends and the leading companies and technologies that shape the cyber security landscape. I created partnerships, offerings, and developed delivery capability by hiring consultants and through coordinated efforts with vendors and subcontractors. • Recently focused on the maturing of capabilities, offerings, and partnerships in the growing Zero Trust and SSE/SASE space. • Developed the strongest team in the industry with exceptional delivery capability, a unique approach to deployment and adoption as well as overall customer success. Awarded Netskope Services Delivery Partner of the Year in 2023, and Zscaler Services Delivery Partner of the Year in 2024.• Acted as the primary evangelist in selling practice capabilities to company sellers to ensure their success with customers, and in working with marketing teams on sales enablement materials. • Connected regularly with our largest customers through direct interactions to assist with new sales opportunities and in support of ongoing projects. • Over the years my teams delivered highly complex solutions for companies needing assistance with technology implementation and integration to fully realize the value of their software and hardware purchases, and to fully defend the many attack surfaces and provide sophisticated visibility and response capability. • Worked remotely to lead the team virtually and traveled regularly to support team members, host and participate in training events, for partner conferences, meetings, and activities, and for critical sales opportunities. • Capabilities of the team members consisted of network, edge, and data security technologies in the firewall, WAAP, SASE, NAC, segmentation, and data security spaces from leading manufacturers like Palo Alto, Netskope, Zscaler, Check Point, Fortinet, ForeScout, Imperva, F5, Cloudflare, Akamai, Illumio, and others. Project teams performed over 800 successful projects annually.

As the strategic IT leader for CoreSite, I drove budget development, acted as departmental liaison for requirements gathering and relationship building, led technical solution evaluations and was deeply involved in programs associated with complex IT and business projects. • The team I developed and led was exceptional, and improved stability, performance, and uptime, as well as toolsets and capabilities that empowered the employee base and customers. • Led the development of a formal information security program based on relevant frameworks including NIST, SANS (CIS Controls), and ISO27001. I prioritized cybersecurity spending to align with CoreSite risks and risk appetite, presenting ongoing program updates and improvements to company leadership monthly and reported updates the board of directors regularly. • Developed a culture of service and winning. The support function of my organization had industry leading customer satisfaction results. In 2014, employee feedback to IT interactions resulted in 5.89/6 overall, and uptime of critical network and applications was 100% for the year. • Recognized by senior leadership as a high performer.