- Partnered with vendors and external consultants to evaluate and deploy cutting edge security solutions- Drafted and refined security policies to align with industry best practices and compliance requirements.- Managed endpoint protection platforms, CrowdStrike and Cybereason, to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats across the organization- Conducted regular scans and assessments using tools such as Rapid&, InsightIDR, InsightVM, OpenVAS, - Performed threat hunting with velociraptor, Arkime (Full Packet Capture), and Graylong, all of which helped to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in addition to investigating suspicious activities.- Utilized tools like Ghidra and Volatility for in-depth analysis during incident response activities

- Palo Alto Networks firewall deployment and configuration- AWS Network Architecture Revision (moved from mesh topology with heavy VPC peering to a hub and spoke topology using transit gateways)- Policy as code tool implementation to support safe provisioning of infrastructure via terraform (conftest (OpenPolicyAgent)via runatlantis.io) + custom rulesets for our infrastructure- AWS IAM role development and management, SSO integrations, instance profile audits, policy audits- OpenVPN deployment - factors including: geofenced DNS resolution, geofenced IP filtering RADIUS, MFA, inventory system integration (device ownership and authorization verification)

- Annual SOC 2 audit, HITRUST certification process- Security Policies and Procedures, Standard and Operational Runbooks.- Vulnerability Management with tenable, Wazzuh, sysdig, Falco on Linux, MacOS- Configured MDM profiles with CIS Benchmarks for MacOS, Packer + Ansible Golden AMI build with CIS benchmarks for Ubuntu- Dependency Vulnerability Management for Web Applications via WhiteSource, Renovate, Snyk - SBOM, SCA

Perl, Bash, Powershell, C#, SQL, Java, Javascript, Python, C/C++ programming. Teacher. Programmer. All around cool-stuff doer.Notable Projects- Built Custom Unreal Engine 4 Amelia Client for Kiosks- Built Internal Speech Recognition Service based on DeepSpeech- Built UniMRCP-based speech recognition server for VoIP - Built golang based Amelia Client and Integration SDKs- Built Amelia E2E testing platform (called Eddie)

Unreal Engine 4 - C++ Gameplay Systems Programming- C++ Open World Engine Extensions Programming- Training of Technical Artists - Training of Content Engineers in Blueprint Scripting

Managing the engineering teams, including scheduling, task delegation, budgeting resources and resource allocations. Handling communication between the creative / asset creation teams and the engineering teams. Authoring shaders, graphics programming, implementing game systems.Systems design. Training and documentation.

Release Engineering and QA work. Systems design, OOAD, and implementations. Designing TDD test cases for C++ and Java test frameworks. Performance analysis and testing. Programming team leadership responsibilities, including: task delegation, implementation of agile software development methodologies, communications between teams and upper management.

Optimizing data structures for network transport and networking code. Implementing Engine and Gameplay Systems.Providing performance recommendations for the creative teams.Debugging logic and runtime errors / QA / Bugfixes. Evaluating game performance across multiple platforms. Administrative work.