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Orlando, Fl, Us

Provide cybersecurity consulting, architecture, engineering, project management, and training services.• Design, deploy, and support cryptographic solutions of HSMs, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and digital certificates.• Collaborate with senior leadership, technical teams, and vendors to design and implement cybersecurity solutions that solve complex information security problems.• Orchestrate process improvements that increase customer satisfaction, team collaboration, and enterprise security.• Write policy and technical documentation: Security Policy, Certificate Policy (CP), Certification Practices Statement (CPS), Disaster Recovery Plan, operations and end user support documents.Work with a variety of customers including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and small businesses.

Director, Crypto Services. 6/20 – 2/23• Service leader for PKI and cryptographic Cyber Security services for the NBCUniversal ecosystem.• Oversaw the new Enterprise PKI Transformation Program and HSM deployment activities.• Developed the overall strategy and design of Crypto Services.• Informed Cyber Leadership of recommendations, program progress, and service operational status.• Partnered with Cyber Security stakeholders to ensure secure use of certificates and cryptography.• Established documentation standards, processes, and project management tracking.Director, IAM Operations. 6/21 – 8/21.• Managed the L1 Operations team, mentoring team members, and onboarding new team members.• Coordinated the migration of operations from a vendor to the team, including analysis of work to be transferred, completion of SOPs, and updates to Cyber Leadership.• Inspired team members to collaborate as a whole team and improved team morale.Architect, Security Architecture & Engineering. 10/18 – 6/20.• Cyber Security Architect on a variety of mission critical applications, including migration of hundreds of SAP servers to AWS, new smart building IoT infrastructure, and PKI.• Wrote and presented technical information on critical projects to Cyber Leadership.• Analyzed, documented, and presented threat model and security recommendations.• Collaborated with team members to streamline processes and standardize security reviews.

PKI subject matter expert for IoT and global telecommunications industry. • Advised executive leadership on security, cryptography, and PKI best practices.• Designed PKI architecture for use with IoT standards, in support of millions of certificates.

(CBTS Contract)• Identified milestones and ensured completion of sprints for a multiple site secure vault network migration project. • Designed IP address space and migrated firewall rules from Juniper to Cisco ASA.

(CBTS contract)PKI subject matter expert, engineer, and technical project manager for the GE Enterprise PKI project, supporting over 240,000 digital certificates. • Architected the SHA-2 Enterprise PKI and migrated certificates from SHA-1 to SHA-2.• Transformed team processes, documentation, and project management to increase team productivity.• Launched the CertCentral website, reducing calls to the product manager by 90%.• Spearheaded the Transfer to Operations (TTO) processes• Partnered with cross-business teams and vendors to build certificate solutions in support of business objectives

Orlando, Florida

(TEKsystems contract)Subject matter expert for the Walt Disney Parks & Resorts PKI Migration Project. • Coordinated migration of over 50,000 1024-bit digital certificates to a new 2048-bit PKI, while ensuring uptime of mission critical systems.• Performed risk assessment for unique devices and applications.

U.S. And International

Authored and taught courses in the United States, Canada, England, Sweden, and Hong Kong.Course author: Virtual Private Networks, custom onsite courses in Security and PKI.Course instructor: Security and Networking.

Master Of Science (Ms), Information Security And Assurance

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Founder of the LMU Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).