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Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Driven by a mission to educate and protect businesses, governments, and the public from cyber crimes and attacks, launched start-up consultancy providing cybersecurity expertise. Developed business mission, strategic blueprint, one/three/five-year goals, and service portfolio, in conjunction with business partner. Developed and marketed consulting and service offerings in infrastructure management, information security, and cloud computing primarily targeting financial, healthcare, government, and technology industries.Range of services include information security program management, solution development, and integration; enterprise information security risk assessment, remediation, and management; multi-industry security compliance and governance; cloud computing vendor security assessment, infrastructure security assessment, and mitigation; IT infrastructure management; information security and technology knowledge management transfer; business-IT alignment; virtual/interim CIO/Director; and IT governance.■ Achieved business visibility as subject matter expert and frequent speaker on cybersecurity, presenting at Internet Radio, BrightTalk, Conferences, client sites and offering advisory services to consulting companies not specializing in cybersecurity such as CognisIT Advisor, Factor3, Secure Intervention and Mission Critical Global Technology Group.■ Created cybersecurity business pipeline, designing targeted marketing presentation focused on key industry prospects and developing strategic partnerships with multiple domestic and international businesses, including consulting alliance with healthcare organization on electronic records management and two international companies. Devised “the plan” to secure $200K in revenue.

Darmstadt, Hessen, De

The Cloud Security and Compliance Sales Support Senior Manager is a supportive function for governance, risk, and compliance in the cloud business unit. Provide global support, build trust with customers regarding the AWS / Azure shared security model, the Software AG cloud security posture, and AWS / Azure cloud infrastructure. Partner / security advisor for the global sale and legal team in a customer facing role to build trust and address customer’s concerns, issues, security requirements, and regulatory requirements regarding cloud security compliance with SOC 2 and ISO 27001/17/18 standards. Provide leadership with building and establishing the Software AG internal cloud environment

Mclean, Va, Us

Reinforced consultancy’s advance into the cloud computing market and internal enterprise migration to a computing environment, developing IT policies and leading marketing project that helped capture Federal government multi-million dollar contracts. Hired as IT infrastructure expert to provide thought leadership, direction, and high-level consulting services assisting clients in the strategic management of the IT environment. Delivered operational improvements and cost-cutting initiatives, and drove advancement of technological enhancements. Planned and led business development programs, managing proposal development and subcontract relationships.■ Assisted Booz Allen internal migration to a cloud computing environment, aligning organization with client computing environments and industry shift. Developed cloud computing policy and updated IT computing environment procedures.■ Developed and maintained disaster recovery program for the United States House of Representative’s Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, aligned with federal regulations and industry best practices ensuring continuation of critical IT operations and employee safety. Designed DR policy, framework, and IT contingency plans.■ Designed and executed application migration program for Army Material Command Headquarters, meeting strategic objectives including operations and maintenance cost reduction and application, infrastructure, and data center consolidation. Applied innovative tools including VMWare virtualization and OPNET analytical tool suite to ensure goals were met.

Mclean, Va, Us

Transformed information security monitoring operations, establishing and leading team of 7 in the design and execution of strategy and solutions protecting digital assets and business viability. Disciplined security operations, mitigating risk from security and regulatory violations and reversing issues preventing the organization from regaining lost SEC registration. ■ Eliminated thousands of stale and duplicate user accounts, securing management buy-in and budget, and partnership with cross-organizational leaders in the implementation of new processes, software, and monitoring tools (Sun, Oracle, LDAP, Guardium, Bindview, Tripwire) that maintained a valid access management environment.■ Delivered a 53+% decrease in system configuration violations in five months, enhancing SEC registration readiness. Identified and measured configurations against approved requirements, instituted configuration management tools, and worked with systems owners to address infringements. ■ Further positioned Freddie Mac to reclaim SEC registration, implementing SharePoint collaboration for tracking and management of critical documentation demonstrating enhanced controls and audit requirements.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Hired to build strong IT infrastructure service team in support of credit card services and call center operations. Managed $14M capital and operating budget, championing cost control initiatives that delivered infrastructure savings of $3.8M over four years through server consolidation and refresh, optimized system, storage, application, and database design and configuration. Achieved cost reductions while enhancing the company’s market positioning, increasing staff and service performance, and strengthening the infrastructure environments. Conceived and drove multiple technology and service initiatives contributing to top-line business growth and bottom-line cost, systems, and operational performance improvements. ■ Led and managed multiple infrastructure organizations located in 7 destinations across the U.S., managing 10 direct technical and project professionals including system support, system design, LAN, client services, desktop support, disaster recovery, transition, and PMO. Built strong technologist team, hiring top talent, enhancing skill sets, and strengthening training and mentoring programs.■ Directed integration of Fleet Credit Card and Bank of America infrastructures, migrating and consolidating four tier 3 data centers into Bank of America’s two tier 1 datacenters, consolidated from six. Led total migration, consolidation, and disaster recovery build efforts, a two-year, $100M project.■ Shrunk server and storage footprint, slashing $1M in annual contract maintenance and license fees and delivering additional $.5M in annual costs directing server consolidation that reduced hardware maintenance costs by 20%. Championed pre-merger storage initiatives for Fleet Credit Card Service, cutting IT maintenance expenses by $200K through development of SAN solution.

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Provided leadership and strategic vision for multiple IT infrastructure organizations and initiatives (i.e. System Support and System Design, Storage and Capacity Planning, Disaster Recovery, LAN, Client Services and IT Projects). Responsible for providing end-to-end technical solutions, strategic vision, innovative IT solutions and technical support to meet business objectives for fast pace organizations such as Call Center Operation, Application Development, PMO, Customer Services, Disputes, Collections, …etc. Provided strategic vision and reporting to executive management.

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Responsible for managing the IT infrastructure environment and eStorage at multiple data centers to support Advanta's Credit Card business initiatives and call center operations. Provided organizational leadership, tactical, and strategic vision for the System Services Organization.

Master Of Business Administration - M.B.A

Master Of Science (M.S.), Cybersecurity Policy

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Organizational Management, Organizational Management

Graduate Level Certification Cybersecurity Policy, Cybersecurity

Graduate Level Certification Cybersecurity Foundation, Cybersecurity

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Science