Rob De Cespedes Iii, Msc Gslc Email & Phone Number

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US

• Oversaw the development and implementation of cybersecurity strategies to protect General Genomics' infrastructure.
• Conducted regular security audits and assessments to identify and mitigate potential risks.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards.

• Led the team at Startup.Security in securing web3 infrastructure, gaming, and energy infrastructure projects.
• Managed a highly skilled technical team, ensuring everyone was excited about their work.
• Managed projects to get clients compliant for SOC II type I and II, NIST and ISO standards.
• Hired skilled analysts and engineers to work on red team, blue team and purple team projects for clients.
• Drove cloud infrastructure projects in AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Ran initiatives to analyze and remediate policy issues in AWS, GCP, and Azure relating to IAM and other user roll issues that usually overlooked.

In my role as Directory of Security for Startup Security, it is my responsibility to ensure that our clients are held to the highest security standards. No matter the security need, we are here to help. I've had the pleasure of working with some fantastic partners and have been able to help them reach their security goals. I look forward to the future.

Copenhagen, ., DK

• Built and managed teams on different continents and time zones.
• Ran proof of concept engagements and procured new software to meet business needs.
• Established clear lines of communication across business units and ensured that team members could get the results they needed to meet KPIs.
• Spearheaded project to monetize environmental data collected by the company using blockchain technology (Chainlink).
• Built and streamlined companywide global programs to adhere to well established Cybersecurity frameworks (CIS, ISO, CobIT, NIST).
• Managed architecture team in designing high level and cloud structures for future projects (Azure, Google Cloud Platform, internally designed solutions).

Copenhagen, ., DK

• Developed unique, effective security strategies for software systems, networks, data centers and hardware.
• Researched best ways to secure company-wide IT infrastructure.
• Built firewalls to protect network infrastructures (Cisco IOS).
• Implemented QA environments in software and hardware for security vulnerabilities and risks.
• Identified cyber attackers, reported to upper management, and cooperated with police or other legal forces to detain perpetrators.

Frederick, MD, US

• Co-taught a course on Digital Forensics where we gave students the real world knowledge needed to analyze computer systems and accurately extract information about what was done on them.

• Oversaw all technical aspects of Covert Fishing, from cybersecurity and data protection to web design and maintenance to E-Commerce and day-to-day operations.

Frederick, Maryland, US

• Designed, purchased, and deployed an entirely new network for flagship headquarters.
• Spearheaded identity management in Active Directory, Confluence, and Jira
• Served as gateway between developers and the production environments ensuring the highest possible level of safety and uptime for our products.
• Managed legacy Redhat environment and remedied long-standing issues ranging from failed network mounts after boot to improper log shipping.
• Drove cloud first initiatives to migrate on premises solutions to cloud, including but not limited to Atlassian products, Jira, and Confluence.

• Managed and deployed enterprise servers in both Linux (Redhat & CentOS) and Windows environments.
• Troubleshot existing network environment and updated outdated Active Directory structure from a fractured 2003 backbone to a robust and redundant present-day standard.
• Kept CentOS based web facing infrastructure up to date and safe using tools such as Puppet, Observium, Nagios, Stacki, and OpenFire.
• Created and managed high availability clusters of Tomcat, Apache, and other high priority web platforms using HAProxy.
• Managed large data infrastructure to handle requirements of airline industry standards.

• Aided in the construction of several steel items. Most notably the structures that support the solar panels at the Tampa Airport.

Gainesville, Florida, US

• Provided comprehensive IT helpdesk and computer repair on more than 50,000 machines from all manufacturers using all operating systems, with responsibility for assisting departments campus-wide in the resolution of any.
• Built laptop repair and data recovery department from the ground up, hand selected, hired and trained candidates to expert levels.
• Selected to serve on 2 university-wide task forces to test, evaluate, and make recommendations regarding encryption solutions for sensitive data (HIPAA & FERPA), as well as the development of mobile apps for use by the.

Gainesville, Florida, US

• Managed all data recovery efforts and provided comprehensive helpdesk support to students and staff.
• Used the Windows deployment tool kit to create Windows environments that met the needs of each deployment area and used Norton Ghost to deploy images on multiple machines or to deploy OS patches.

Bachelors, Philosophy

Master Of Cyber Security, Cum Laude, Computer Science

Education record

Web3, Ethereum And Smart Contracts, Web3, Ethereum, Smart Contract Development