Dynamic and experienced IT Professional and Security Analyst with 20 years of varied experience including project management, security compliance, vulnerability management, and security hardening. Strong ability to ensure comprehensive implementation of processes and policies in order to maximize production and streamline core operations. Drive the design and implementation of security and solutions architecture, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, and compliance requirements. Consummate professional with comprehensive business acumen, skilled interpersonal skills, and solid negotiation prowess. Innate ability to drive high-functioning teams in fast-paced and complex situations. Effective and proven track record of critical thinking, process improvement, and efficiencies.Accomplishments Responsible for remediation of Critical/High/Medium issues on high-profile projects including handling 40K security issues on 2000+ servers utilizing Tenable security centers along with Nessus Scans. Served as Data Custodian for 7 Major revenue generating applications and 5 enterprise SSO applications along with 50+ minor applications. Brought all applications up to compliance preforming gap analysis and handled annual audits. Worked with development team and application owners to ensure continued compliance. Handled both internal and external audits, custodial roles and ensured compliance for all existing and any new applications leveraging CPI-810 (Verizon’s version of ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and other frameworks) Managed and architected a plan to move 200+ servers from 3rd party data center to AWS (Amazon Web Services) site, including setting up AWS network, domains, IAM, and VPN connections to other internal data centers. Architected, PM, and delivered a 4 site DR (Disaster Recovery) for company-wide SSO. This allowed for faster login response based on location, coverage for any datacenter downtime, and improved critical application resilience.
Listed skills include Aix Administration, Microsoft Exchange, Firewalls, High Availability Clustering, and 11 others.