Ray Sims Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, TX, US

• Directed and led Internship, Apprenticeship, and New Hire programs
• Led global training programs and initiatives including global X-Con conference
• Managed relationships with third party training providers

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Managed a team of 25 senior testers and early professionals
• Performed application and network penetration testing
• Performed social engineering and vishing testing

Decypher is a leading integrator of professional, technology, and management solutions and services. We provide our services globally to Federal, Commercial, Local and State clients. Our employees are our most valuable asset and play an integral role in the success of Decypher and our clients.

• Responsible for P&L, strategy, and operations of cyber security exercise & training programs
• Managed team developing next generation network visualization tools
• Responsible for delivery of exercise program for the Department of Homeland Security
• Increased profitability of commercial training classes over 500%
• Standardized and improved processes to decrease delivery costs of exercise program by 25%
• Developed marketing initiative and strategy

• Managed deployment of enterprise wide security management tool for Fortune 100 technology company on budget and on time, resulting in reduced costs and labor for IT security
• Assisted in managing a $3 million IT Sarbanes-Oxley (Sox) readiness project and a staff of 15 for Fortune Global 50 company
• Performed and managed security penetration testing and vulnerability assessment for deployment of multiple web applications for Fortune 500 financial services company
• Managed Enterprise Security Assessments based on CobIT, ISO17799 and HIPAA for multiple large clients in health care and automotive industries
• Performed wireless penetration testing for multiple clients including a Fortune 500 energy company
• Performed vulnerability assessments for multiple health care and energy clients

• Software lead for parallel network emulation research and development tool, staff of 5
• Managed advanced multi-platform network research lab comprised of over 100 workstations and servers, staff of 3
• Designed enterprise level network infrastructure and security policies and procedures
• Streamlined research laboratory processes to reduce cost of administration and increase speed of deployment for new projects
• Presented a standards-compliant cohesive security infrastructure to executive managers
• Performed security research and development in the areas of intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and network security

• Designed production network and web infrastructure
• Oversaw the configuration and security hardening of all production systems
• Coordinated cost effective, large scale facility migration with no site down time
• Developed Internet search engine in C/C++ as part of a 2003 $5 million acquisition

• Presented technology and answered questions to managers of other corporations
• Designed hardware-based handwriting recognition, resulting patent 6,968,083
• Designed and implemented Java-based proof of concept model