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New York, United States

Syracuse, New York, United States

• Led GRC, DevSecOps & SRE, Security Posture & Innovation for X-Force Protection Platform
• Responsible for direct interaction, maintenance and enhancements to client integrations
• Liaison between Engineering Development Teams & Compliance Teams
• Voting member of IDT (Invention Disclosure Team)
• Core member for Slack@IBM
• Remediated over 100k secrets inside code base

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• swiss army knife crossing multiple engineering towers
• Co-led transformation from legacy systems into DevSecOps best practices
• Liaison between developers, compliance and leadership to ensure standards are maintained
• Security focal providing source code review and feedback across more then 6M Lines of Code(LoC) and 1,500+ source code repositories
• Implemented dependency scanning, license scanning, SAST/DAST, quality gates and securityscanning into CI/CD pipelines utilizing Jenkins declarative pipelines and shared libraries

• Designed, architected, and implemented custom solutions for clients ranging from writing code toarchitecting and deploying infrastructure
• Supported internal and external teams with challenges and knowledge gaps
• Directly interfaced with clients and executives throughout project life-cycle
• Solutioned offerings for multi-million-dollar RFPs and custom partnership solutions
• Co-led the creation of an IBM Security QRadar App for field deployment using CI/CD pipelines
• Delivered between $3M-$5M annually in signings for both green-field and brown-fieldengagements

Greater Atlanta Area

• Identified inefficiencies and operational deficiencies that negatively affect KPIs
• Conceptualized, designed, and architected solutions to correct or optimize known issues
• Implemented & architected solutions through Agile sprints utilizing CI/CD solutions
• Led user feedback sessions and curated Jira stories for continued solution success

• Provided higher level analysis and research on client escalated cases
• Worked as a focal while merging legacy XPS and MSIEM teams into one blended team, ThreatMonitoring
• Created training material, documentation and trained Threat Monitoring analysts as well astrained new hires and those requiring a refresher on analysis methodologies and techniques

Greater Atlanta Area

• Provided “eyes on glass” monitoring for 10-20 clients at a time
• Escalated security events to clients through both ticketing systems and call outs

Greater Boston Area

Responsible for network and system uptime to accomplish day to day operations, management of network logs and reports. Remained on call 24/7 for any network or hardware emergencies, as well as assisting the guests with any technological problems.Designed and implemented a complete network overhaul which went from consumer-off-the-shelf (COTS) DLink routers.

Syracuse, New York Area

Interfaced between clients and hardware vendors, responsible for complete cycle from hardware and software based diagnosis of problems through completion of repairs. Maintained client privacy and confidence with encrypted and secured backups of their private information. Designed and implemented complete hardware solutions to meet client needs for.

Syracuse, New York Area

Accountable for the entire network, computer hardware, and general infrastructure required for all day to day operations. Maintain MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, Dell Latitude, Dell Precision, Lenovo ThinkPad, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Cisco routers, Cisco switches, Cisco ASA and Linux firewalls across both local and remote sites. Train remote site personnel across.

Tempe Arizona

Maintained production and beta images for campus wide systems, degree specific images (game development, robotics and embedded systems, network security, forensics, video production and graphic design). Accountable for all hardware replacements and configurations. Liaison to hardware companies.Implemented Dell Kace to simplify compliance and imaging of 550.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Robotics And Embedded Systems

Emphasis on parallel processing, cluster computing, HPC, virtualization, computer vision, and autonomous systems

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Emphasis on security, forensics, covert communication methodologies, virtualization and high-availability

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cyber/Computer Forensics And Counterterrorism

Honors Regents Diploma With Advanced Designation

Designed and helped implement Network and Cyber Security class for incoming students