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Burlington, Nc, Us

Greensboro, North Carolina, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Utilize existing security tools to determine reporting, notification, and control gaps across the environmentExpertly track and determine regulatory guidance to business practice through process, policy, and proceduresSupervise the team in redesigning the yearly user review process for critical applications and systems Career Highlights:Efficiently implemented the IAM program framework that included role-based access and principle of least privilege (POLP) model.Succeeded in strategically leading the following programs to support organizational objectives:Information Security and Cyber Security programs; and Incident Response Program.Drove efforts in actualizing the correction of internal and external audits; vulnerability and penetration testing; and incident response events and exercises, which resulted to the following:Reduction of external audit findings by 10% from last year’s audits; and decrease in internal security vulnerabilities by 30%.Earned selection as the primary Information Technology/Security (IT/S) point of contact (POC) for all external IT/S Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and IT/S Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) audits.Conducted systematic staffing analysis, thus increasing the size of the Information Security Analyst Team and forming the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Administration TeamOptimized the bank’s security posture by increasing the number of staff and assigning each analyst as subject matter expert on a specific security solution.Determined critical design flaws in two of the primary security solutions and layers, directed projects focusing on solutions designed by skilled analysts, which enabled the identification of actual threats that had not been previously visible within the environment.

Greensboro, Nc, Us

Served as information security officer, accountable for directing the organization through various information security risk assessments including FFIEC cyber security assessment tool (CAT), and contributing to business impact analysis (BIA), vendor specific RAs, business continuing planning (BCP), and disaster recovery (DR) planningCarried out information security risk analysis and periodic system activity reviews for information security processesCareer Highlights:Drove revenue growth in streamlining organizational processes through the accomplishment of the following: Information Security Program and Cyber Security Program; Incident Response Program; Change Management Program; NIST Cyber Security Framework; and First Line of Operational Defense Security (FLOODS) Committee

Functioned as technical team lead for processor conversion from FiServ to CSI, responsible for handling the overall project management, infrastructure design, software staging and deployment, and website enhancements to accommodate a new provider.Identified opportunities to improve information security by modifying policy, process, and procedure in collaboration with ISO on Information Security Program, BCP/DR Program, Incident Response Plan, Vendor Management Program, and Network PC Security Policy.Acted as IT director, accountable for managing technological operations covering mobile device management; patches; infrastructure design; service desk; desktop/server deployment and support; vendor support; core banking software deployment and security; physical and logical security; firewalls; virtual environment; routing and switching.Career Highlights:Restructured the existing MPLS infrastructure and environment which brought significant reduction to cost and overhead as well as to the time spent on issues by eliminating connection, firewall, various MSSP routers, and the second T1 circuit cost at each site.Integrated two separate Windows domains into one homogeneous Windows 2008 domain which consisted of AD functionality and membership as well as user accounts and profiles migrations, shares, servers, PC, and laptops.

Memphis, Tn, Us

Spearheaded Network Integration Team through multiple mergers and acquisitions while performing telecom and security assessment, WAN integration planning, and infrastructure design.Assumed accountability in relocating and combining networking infrastructure with related systems in a primary and secondary data center.Took charge of engineering and executing Cisco Nexus 5548 data center architecture for in-house processing as well as Cisco UCCX 8.0 HA pair for multiple call center teams, enterprise-wide Cisco WAAS/WAVE solution, and VLAN enterprise-wide ATM network.Leveraged skills in conducting performance analysis and security posture for the network.Rendered assistance in overseeing network design and planning information for growth and acquisition purposes.Integrated VMware farms on HP 7000 and 3000 blade technology to boot all ESX servers from SAN, successively virtualizing a total of 68 servers as well as deploying a 130-seat VDI through Panologic zero clients.Career Highlights:Developed an improved disaster recovery approach and plan and DR architecture involving additional systems and applications for testing.Led the design of existing firewall environment, including DMZ, Extranet, and Perimeter zones.