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New York, New York, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Providing security expertise to organizations, investors, and creators on their journey to building secure businesses. Services include vCISO and interim CISO, security strategy, team design, board communication, budget planning, and interview assistance.

Atlanta & San Francisco, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

● Drove maturity and scale of the Security team’s relationship across the business (Sales, Product, Development, Legal, IT, etc.) through a spirit of partnership, acceleration, and improved quality to facilitate informed risk-based decision making across the organization and Board.● Led the deployment of tooling and methods to take IT from 15% security and visibility coverage for assets to > 90% coverage within 45 days of launch.● Managed Talend’s Security P&L and built business cases showing opportunities for revenue growth through sales acceleration, feature development, and organizational design.● Improved employee engagement and automation via implementation of chatbots to notify individuals about security events and vulnerabilities, which enabled employees to independently make better decisions and understand their security posture, while significantly decreasing security team load.● Within 90 days of start date, quickly developed a capabilities and maturity heatmap aligned to business priorities and NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF) to inform budget adjustments and intra-year budgetary changes in a challenging financial climate.● Created and led a board-level Cybersecurity Committee to provide governance and oversight of the Talend security program.

Mclean, Va, Us

● As the first CISO for the organization, built a world-class, holistic Security and Risk Management (SRM) program from the ground up for a rapidly growing cloud-based identity platform to protect against an unprecedented global identity theft crisis. The program focused heavily on security engineering, application security, security operations and incident response, with the mission of moving fast safely.● Managed an annual Security & Risk Management (SRM) budget of $10M in service of a multi-year roadmap. This security investment resulted in the implementation of several industry-leading security technologies, procedures to allow the organization to securely grow 3x in 12 months, including onboarding 1400 personnel within 60 days, while managing high company turnover.● Presented quarterly security and risk reporting to the Board of Directors, and Security and Risk Committee.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

● Hired as a subject matter expert and executive advisor in business-aligned cyber security programs. Advised clients and internal resources on how to leverage security to achieve positive business outcomes.● Designed new methodologies to measure cybersecurity programs to show business alignment.● Collaborated with CISOs, CIOs, and CTOs across industries to provide mentorship, and to adapt strategies to measure and communicate risk, and business value (e.g. top line contribution).● Develop internal resources to understand how CISOs and CIOs view success, and the challenges they face.

New York, Ny, Us

● Created the first office of the CIO and underlying teams, which aligned infrastructure engineering with business and cost objectives to prime Gemini for rapid growth while maintaining a standard of operational security excellence. Built a unified management approach supported by automation-first principles, which resulted in world-class infrastructure and delivery.● Led implementation of highly instrumented infrastructure to anticipate performance or stability impacts.● Led deployment of geographically redundant physical high frequency trading infrastructure including direct customer connectivity to provide high fidelity infrastructure during a period of explosive growth.● Led crisis management and communication to manage customer expectations during periods of critical load.● Mandated that all infrastructure, whether in the cloud or on premise, must be deployed reliably and consistently through automation enabling strong recoverability and auditability.● Built out procurement to manage tight cash flow requirements, improved customer experience, automated management, office build outs, and seamless connectivity.● Instituted a new budgeting process at Gemini and led the journey to enterprise maturity.

New York, Ny, Us

● Established the Security and Risk Management program at DigitalOcean, during a period of significant international growth. ● Built a team responsible for driving security culture throughout the organization, designing, and implementing controls aligned to ISO 27001 to enable customer growth, and delivering secure products while decreasing time to market. ● Areas of responsibility included Privacy, Law Enforcement Relations, Security Engineering, Security Operations, Product Security, GRC, Physical Security, and Strategy.

Denver, Colorado, Us

● Founding member of the “FDSecE” role in Palantir● Contributed thought leadership to clients in topics ranging from security strategy to forensics. ● Assisted customers in solving their hardest information security challenges. For example, driving product design and identifying future business opportunities.

Tokyo, Jp

● Business-Unit CISO responsible for the multi-million-dollar budget necessary to ensure the security of Sony Corporation of America, Sony’s shared services western hemisphere datacenter, and CISO for DADC, Music Publishing, Extreme Music, Biotechnology, Micronics, Media Cloud Services, and Sony Card. ● Responsible for understanding the diverse Sony businesses to design policies and solutions to address business risk most effectively.

New York, Ny, Us

● Responsibilities within the global physical and information security role, provided critical direction and strategic leadership for enterprise-wide, multimillion dollar security measures, protecting business intelligence systems from attack, reducing unauthorized leakage, and securing the physical properties affecting 450 users in 7 offices worldwide. ● Managed global security coordinators and collaborated with IT, Development, and Management teams to identify and evaluate all critical systems, strengths and weaknesses, to develop high-performance solutions. ● Oversaw company-wide efforts to perform technical surveillance countermeasure examinations globally, author and implement security policies, processes, and procedures.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for performing penetration tests against NYSE trading systems, both internally and externally. Included lab testing to identify new attack vectors and technologies in the aim of successfully identifying the maximum number of vulnerabilities during assessments.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for selecting new technologies for the NYSE trading floor. This included selecting the wireless technology to be deployed on the network and consisted of vendor selection, field testing, aiding driver development, and capacity testing.

Us

Designed trading floor networks for the New York Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange, as well as the NYSE corporate networks. The networks were designed to be extremely high availability and high security in order to meet the organization's trading needs.