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Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Founding of Devo SciSec Threat Research team to deliver security content, new applications on the Devo platform, machine learning models & classifier, and collective intelligence to our customers. Built out a product management group and scaled processes across multiple teams to deliver advanced detection capabilities and delightful user workflows.Conducted proof of technology assessments for both Kognos and LogicHub acquisitions and helped create the product integrations strategies. In parallel developed and launched Devo's UEBA solution, which reached over 16% customer adoption in the first year. Lead efforts to adopt Pendo and improve usability, customer on-boarding, and support ticket deflection.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Building and scaling new teams and processes to deliver Cloud Native Cybersecurity and SIEM capabilities.

Lead cross functional teams to deliver streamlined Security Orchestration & Automation capability • Prototyped, refined, and led a team to deliver a containerized integration solution that reduced customer integration adoption time from days to minutes. • Brought together security requirements and user insights to enhance in-product scripting use cases to use 30% less code and 50% less testing effort for end users. • Conducted extensive user research and synthesized a roadmap to incrementally deliver streamlined product capabilities for customers to achieve ROI in hours, not weeks. • Synthesized key competitive research into internal set scorecards to track progress against competitive pressures, resulting in a 30% feature gap improvement in 1 year. • Lead cross functional workshops with SaaS Ops team resulting in 52% reduction in backlog, optimized workstreams from 13 to 5, and identified key product enhancements to drive team efficiency by reduced ticket load.

Tasked with resolving high priority customer escalations and delivering code to patch and prevent future issues• Resolved customer escalations & delivered fixes to maintain customer SLA times for 6 straight months• Developed security pipeline to reduce product release security scan work from days to hours IBM Corporate Service Corps https://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps/Worked in a team of three for the NGO Africare Improved internal monitoring and evaluation using DHIS2 Conducted DHIS2 education session with Africare Staff Conducted technical study for Senegalese Armed Force HIV tracking and treatment systemPresented technical findings to the Department of Defense to secure funding for HIV system

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Lead beginning-to-end fourth-gen adapter upgrade from initial proof of technology to final design and GA• Lead fourth gen adapter lab testing and code architecture, resulting in a 25% module reduction • Lead team in the creation of simulation environment leading to 30% reduction in early bring up tickets• Team focal for hardware knowledge and vendor issues, enabled team to meet 100% of design milestones Other Accomplishments:Conducted an Offering exploration project for PGP APIs hosted on System Z to see if the industry had use for FIPS 4 compliant key generation for data sharing. Lead a small team through Design Thinking exercises for workspace improvement and was submitted to the site budget for execution during 2018. Was selected for IBM Corporate Service Corps program 10/17.Achieved first patent Plateau Award 12/17.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

System Z Coupling Firmware Development:Sub-team lead for initialization design, implementation, and test for ConnectX3 Ethernet adapter Parallel Sysplex integration. Conducted early hardware testing, served as team hardware expert for all design, and vendor contact point.Implemented simulation C++ hardware model and test cases for agile verification and development.zOS Cloud Capability Exploration Assembled and Lead a team of 20+ to explore REST API Micro Services for mainframe capabilities. Developed industry use cases to create a PaaS platform for zOS, leading to zOS Crypto Service Suite product.Team’s work lead to the creation of a new organization around mainframe modernization & cloud enablement.Other Accomplishments:Participated in an exploratory team to apply analytics to the overall testing process for System Z. Speared headed the Coupling groups on-boarding and education process and classes successfully on-boarding four new hires to the group. Won People's Choice Award and Best of Software Award for "zOS Encryption Services" poster entry. Won Manager Choice award 5/2017 for work done on a new Parallel Sysplex Long Range solution.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

System Z Coupling Firmware Development:Developed HW initialization and channel virtualization code for IBM optical PCIE Parallel Sysplex adapters. Adapter is known as "Integrated Coupling Adapter Short Range".Designed and developed logging and tracing infrastructure for current and future generation debug and FFDC. Extra Curricular initiatives: Acted as President for 3+ years. Lead a team of 20+ to develop site culture through education, social events, mentoring, community service, & On-boarding, increased number of events from 50 to 170 per year.Responsible for increased coop and new hire attraction and retention for 600+ and site wide policy change.Other Accomplishments:Participated in the zInnovate Competition and was able to place in the honorable mention category for creating a process to easily automate installation of applications and analytics across a System Z Sysplex. First Patent Application Award 11/13.Won Tech Connect People's choice award for "Remote Message Queuing management infrastructure" poster entry 9/14. Won New hire of the Month award 5/14.

Masters Of Engineering, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Certificate Of Completetion, German Language