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Seymour, Ct, Us

New York , Ny, Us

New York , Ny, Us

As Head of Cyber Defense & Operations, I am responsible for the leadership, management, and strategic direction of Guardian’s Cyber Defense Center & Operations program. I lead a global high performing team of security analysts, threat hunters/Intel researchers, & engineers that understand, detect, and respond to advanced threats and incidents that threaten Guardian’s assets, identities, or reputation.

New York , Ny, Us

EBTS Rotation Leadership Program RotationAgency Contracting and Licensing LeaderGuardian’s Enterprise Shared Services Leadership Rotation Program. As lead – our team worked to re-platform one of Guardian’s critical applications for Agency Contracting and Licensing operations.

New York , Ny, Us

Perform security and risk engagement on projects – driving requirements, control design, risk assessments and mitigations.Prepare, maintain, and update security processes, procedures, and standards including IT Security Governance engagement model and design templates, company notifications and alerts in support of the IT Security, Risk and Compliance department.Plan, coordinate and execute IT Security / special projects.Create process flows and applying aspects of Six Sigma to better define, measure, improve, analyze and control security and privacy processes. Participate and engage for incorporating security governance controls and project(s) engagementsPrepare, maintain, and update security processes, procedures, and standards including IT Security Governance engagement model and design templates, company notifications and alerts in support of the IT Security, Risk and Compliance department.Conduct projects to evaluate new capabilities including responding to new customer security questions within RFPs and current customer annual security reviews as well as support security analysis work with mergers and acquisitionsCreate process flows and applying to better define, measure, improve, analyze and control security and privacy processes.Help ensure compliance with HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, MAR and other regulatory requirementsMaintain an active awareness of security technologies, best practices and regulatory activities – through industry events and networking.

Fairfield, Ct, Us

Fairfield, Ct, Us

Utilized creative teaching methodologies in efforts to keep curriculum content fresh and in-line with current societal trends. Made strides to work with graduate and undergraduate level students in computer science and cyber security realms in order to develop talent through the application of theory and practical exercises in and out of the classroom.Cybersecurity• Vulnerability Management• Ethical Hacking• Secure Programming Techniques• Security Management• System SecurityComputer Science• CS-233 – Introduction to Programming with Visual Studio .NET• CS-640 – Special Topics in Computer Science |App for iPhone

Responsible for the strategic leadership of the company’s overall information security program.Provided guidance and counsel to clients, customers, and business partners. Worked closely with senior business, technology leaders and employees in defining strategic objectives for information security, while building and strengthening key relationships.Accomplished organizational goals aligned with strategic plans. Lead company initiatives to grow a multi-faceted IT and security managed services business. Achieved over 70% revenue profit increase in 2 years by introducing digital forensics services to current and perspective business clients. • Led strategic efforts highly focused on developing security & risk management programs and strategies for medium to large-sized organizations.• Developed digital forensics and Incident response programs delivering live and post-mortem digital forensics initiatives in efforts to expand and create growth for the organization.• Implemented IT managed services programs for our business client, customers, and partners with emphasis on risk management, network security, security architecture planning and application security.• Worked with a team of security consultants to design, develop, and implement vulnerability management programs with industry leading vendors - such as Splunk, Cisco, Offensive Security, Metasploit, Symantec and others.• Led efforts to develop HIPAA compliance programs focused on small and medium dental medical practices in the New England region.• Developed HIPAA compliant web-based protected health information portals where multiple dental practices can share PHI (Protected Health Information) digitally and securely.• Gathered network and security requirements from data owners in order to ensure regulatory and legal compliance - GLBA, HIPAA, SOX, PCI, and others.

Worked successfully from Jr Network Administrator to senior level engineering with perseverance and creative approaches to solving problems. Through innovative ideals and relationship building, I was able to lower the overall technology cost footprint of the organizational by 3.2 million over the course of the year consistently through tenure. • Troubleshooting and solving networking issues - TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Layer 2/3 network devices and administration of switches, routers, firewalls, and servers.• Configuring Voice VLANS and QoS VLANs• Assisted in pricing for the network part of projects.• Routing protocol Static, default and dynamic• Managing and maintaining L2, L3 switches.• Practical experience in Active Directory, OU, DNS, DHCP, GPO, Replication, Active directory domain trust relationship.

Master’S Degree, Cybersecurity

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Technology

Associate’S Degree, Behavioral Sciences