Chief Technology Officer (CTO) / Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)Responsible for Information Technology and Information Security for the North America Subsidiaries of GLS

• Expertly providing fractional and virtual CISO and CIO services focusing on program development, deployment, and ongoing oversight, identifying specific problems or opportunities, and developing plans to solve or take advantage of them.• Delivering Program leadership through partner relationships with CNSG and AppSmart.

➤ Expertly providing fractional and virtual CISO and CIO services focusing on program development, deployment, and ongoing oversight, identifying specific problems or opportunities and developing plans to solve or take advantage of them.➤ Relentlessly searching and assessing the performance of a business or department to determine its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, setting or directing IT and security policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.➤ Managing and directing Information Security teams, engaging with executive management, running risk assessments on operational security, providing threat intelligence and managing enterprise security, executing on program design.

➤ Provided AMG and its Affiliates security and technology support including consulting services, managed services, strategy planning and vendor management, as well as supplied AMG Holding Company's CIO with IT strategic guidance.➤ Expertly reported to the CAO and CIO on security status, projects, news and trends for AMG and the Affiliates, prepared Board of Director materials for presentations and discussion talking points with Board Audit Committee.➤ Acted as virtual CIO and CISO for AMG's Affiliates on budget oversight, strategic planning, incident response, staff realignment, security and disaster planning, technology roadmap, maintenance, and management practices.➤ Successfully created and initiated an Information Security Strategy & Program for AMG across all departments, building the model for measuring and reporting security maturity across the organization, scaling the company's security capabilities.➤ Independently created an Information Security Incident Response Plan and privileged access monitoring and alerting program, defined company-wide IT policies and managed IT controls for ICFR and Compliance regulatory requirements.➤ Orchestrated an exit strategy for an AMG Affiliate in 2019 to rebuild the entire IT stack from a hostile managed services provider, completing it in only 9 months and establishing a new IT operating environment and fully mobile workforce.➤ Continually hosted quarterly Affiliate IT conference calls and biannual centralized forums on Security and IT topics for strategy, planning, awareness, training, and collaboration across the firms that make up AMG's Affiliate.➤ Managed operating budgets of $12 million annually, negotiated vendor relationships and agreements to provide AMG and its Affiliates over $3.5 million in savings annually.

➤ Oversaw the operation teams responsible for delivering managed services for a dedicated customer account, acted as the primary technical resource responsible for the overall quality of service delivery, liaise effectively with customer.➤ Delivered services including Mainframe, Distributed Systems (AIX, iSeries, & Red Hat Linux), and Windows Servers as well as Database management (Oracle, DB2, & PostgreSQL), and middleware applications.➤ Additionally, delivered AD, Novell, Exchange, storage, and backups, ensuring that the technical delivery of all services meets quality, scope, and service level requirements, leading a technical delivery team consisting of matrix resources.➤ Prepared operational reports related to incident tickets, customer service requests, incident summaries and post-incident reports, coordinated with appropriate change control personnel to assist in the planning and reporting of changes.➤ Actively engaged technical teams and partnering with them to craft successful solutions to technical incidents and problems, led and participated in support efforts and engaging in critical Severity One calls and meetings.➤ Capably oversaw all changes and other customer service requests to ensure requirements are met correctly and on-time, led problem resolution efforts while planning and managing projects within the infrastructure environment.➤ Built and maintained strong working relationships with all levels of Infocrossing and customer IT personnel, continually identified, documented, and implemented process improvement initiatives to improve efficiency.

➤ Oversaw all IT operations for national RPO, recruiting and staffing company with multiple business units and up to 29 locations.➤ Managed production systems, applications, networks, communications, and online systems. ➤ Prepared and managed technology capital and expense budgets, managed vendor relationships and contracts.➤ Formulated information technology and security policies and procedures, ensured maximum performance from systems and network, and provided 24x7 support for all systems and offices nationally.➤ Managed ASP.Net Applications including design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, and optimization.➤ Reduced telecom costs 24% with circuit upgrades and renegotiated wireless contract reducing monthly costs by 20%.➤ Installed nationwide MPLS network to support VoIP, improved performance, and increased network resiliency.➤ Enhanced productivity and service delivery by establishing structured service desk with call center services.➤ Increased reporting capabilities by implementing Cognos business intelligence as corporate standard.

➤ Infrastructure Supervisor – Plymouth Rock – 2004 to 2005➤ Senior Technology Manager – Corporate Technologies – 2000 to 2004➤ Manager of Boston Campus Information Services – Thomson Financial – 1998 to 2000➤ Infrastructure Manager – Axcelis Technologies – 1996 to 1998➤ Assistant Vice President of IT & Office Systems Analyst – Baring Assets Management (Barings) – 1993 to 1996➤ Data Center Supervisor – Charrette Corporation – 1990 to 1993