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Averill Park, NY, US

Shelton, Connecticut, United States

• Conducted comprehensive security assessments using custom methodologies based on CIS and NIST frameworks, ensuring thorough evaluation and enhancement of organizational security measures. Over two years, increased.
• Championed comprehensive security oversight by leading extensive reviews of security scorecard and audit compliance for 50 internal/external applications across diverse teams leveraging tools such as Rapid7, Qualys.
• Developed software vulnerabilities management process using Rapid 7 InsightVM and Qualys VMDR, conducting regular scans, identifying security gaps, and prioritizing vulnerabilities based on risk assessment to implement.
• Implemented the Center for Internet Security (CIS) framework to enhance security for both AWS Cloud environments and operating systems, ensuring compliance with industry best practices and strengthening overall system.
• Managed security risk assessments for multiple teams, synthesizing and summarizing findings for C-suite executives to inform strategic decision-making and enhance organizational security posture.
• Deployed Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools across development and production environments, significantly increasing visibility and detection of potential malicious activities.

Danbury, Connecticut, United States

• Managed the internal and external Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audit control reviews on finance, cross-border and transportation applications working with an external vendor. Implemented process improvements to reduce evidence.
• Fostered growth by providing training opportunities for junior engineers and participating in conferences and DevOps talks for knowledge sharing and lessons learned in projects to drive continuous improvements across.
• Migrated existing Windows /.Net application from a 3rd party managed datacenter to the AWS cloud, reducing costs by 20% and opening new opportunities with cloud services.
• Executed the outage management process to quickly recover from an application outage. Conducted post incident root cause analysis to identify lessons learned and prevent incidents from occurring again. Over four years.
• Successfully executed a disaster recover plan after a companywide malware attack.

Troy, NY

• Evaluated and incorporated new technologies into new and existing frameworks and solutions. Implemented new applications and identified systems requirements.
• Evaluated new IT developments and evolving business requirements, and recommended appropriate systems alternatives and enhancements to current systems.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to design and develop innovative solutions that meet the needs of our customers.
• Lead the governance committee for all the tools, evaluated add-ons and requested changes to the tools.
• Resolved significant performance and configuration issues for Atlassian JIRA. Implemented JIRA Data Center to improve performance and reliability. Spoke at the Atlassian user conference regarding that implementation.
• Migrated Atlassian Confluence cloud instance to an on premise server. Provided end-to-end system administration for an instance with 1600 users.

Troy, NY

• Custom Website Development: Created a Microsoft.NET website utilizing a three tier design to collect product roadmap information into a single data source. Additional information was aggregated from external systems.
• Contracts Workflow Application: Created custom Microsoft.NET workflows to replace an e-mail workflow process with an automated process providing visibility to contract requestors.
• Order Processing Workflow Solution: Utilizing Microsoft SharePoint Designer workflows, I automated a paper order fulfillment process reducing a week long process to hours and providing transparency into the process.
• World Wide SharePoint Deployment: Deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint to 4000 employees to enable worldwide collaboration

• Billing Services Website: Lead development, testing and implementation of various software products to be used by various School District clients including the redesign of four separate ASP websites into one.
• Issue Tracking: Responsible for implementation and management of a ticket tracking system to coordinate IT-related request for projects in seven states.

• Ad-Hoc Reporting Module: Managed a collection of projects that combined together created an ad-hoc reporting engine for the Autotask website.
• Documentation: Created the Autotask development manual. The manual is the ultimate reference source for developers containing documentation from policies and procedures to production support.

• Financial Planning Website Redesign: Designed a data access object using C# and XML to provide a reusable means of reading and updating a database. Converted an existing ASP website to ASP.Net with C# middle tier.
• Integrated Existing Website to a Third Party Site: Using SAML and Microsoft.NET, an existing website was integrated with a third party data aggregation website. SAML enabled the exterior website to securely.
• Financial Modeling Tools: Designed, built and tested dozens of data objects in Microsoft.NET used for a financial modeling calculator. This website was designed for the employees of the client. Web pages were built.

• Web Site Technical Design – Java: Conducted analysis and design using the Rational Suite of tools for a large-scale travel portal. The web site was designed to allow users to book a package of hotel, car, and air.
• Microsoft Architecture: Designed, developed, and implemented an interface between a web site and a legacy system for a large commercial mortgage company using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Microsoft SQL Server. This.
• Functional Analysis: Developed functional specifications for a series of customer service tools to manage the backend systems for a wedding and gift services web site. These tools allow customer service representatives.
• Intranet Reporting Tool: Designed, developed, and implemented a web-based application to assist store managers of a retail food service company utilizing Oracle Express and HTML. This application allows managers to.
• Business Intelligence: Developed and implemented a Business Intelligence system that consolidates information from three legacy systems into one tool using Oracle Express Objects. Share and variance analysis provides.