• Chief Information Security Officer building & leading a cross-functional cybersecurity and compliance team of 25• Direct long-term business objectives, organizational strategy, and operations and align them with critical results in support of lifeline priorities and revenue• Establish cyber metrics to gauge program effectiveness and perform internal audits and assessments, enhancing productivity by 37%• Cross-functionally collaborate with stakeholders to resolve cyber security issues, including developing and maintaining employee cyber security trainingo Define and cultivate a cybersecurity culture and awareness program for employees, partners, and vendorso Organized the internal training, development, and growth of the sales, marketing, and delivery teams in alignment with the organizational FedRAMP, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and HIPAA market strategies• Counseled business and engineering leadership with the implementation of cybersecurity and compliance; managed compliance activities to support the contractor assurance program, including patching & mitigation actions to resolve vulnerability scans• Integrate information, and cybersecurity risk management frameworks, including ISO/IEC 27001 and NIST; led and managed CSF, FedRAMP, and CMMC programs to include the Zero Trust (ZT) Security Model. • Monitor and respond to security and privacy incidents• Defined and implemented an information assurance framework, ensuring regulatory compliance and all systems secure during the development life cycle to ensure all system security controls and compliance were met within CSF

• Led and mentored a team of 15 people, including two managers, responsible for the uptime and delivery of all production infrastructure services in a level I trauma hospital; efforts contributed to improving productivity by 35%o Supported enterprise infrastructure systems Nexus 2K, 5K, 7K, and 9K, IBM QRadar, Next Hop, Aruba, and Cisco wireless access points and wireless controllers, Cisco UCS chassis servers, fabric interconnects, Palo Alto Firewalls 220, 820, 3020, 3250, 5020 and 5220, Security ISE, Cisco ACI, Cisco ASA Firewalls, Virtual Systems, and Palo Alto virtual firewalls• Delivered IT services & solutions that supported the overall IT strategy, complied with HIPAA, NIST, ISO, COBIT, ZT Model, CMMC, and FedRAMP Risk Management Frameworks, met delivery deadlines, and satisfied security & functional criteriao Identified the hospital's IT needs, offered solutions, and submitted a budget to the executive board• Performed a comprehensive range of advisory services, including threat assessments, compliance readiness, and security program building to assist clients in setting policies and developing a coordinated strategy for incident response, detection, and prevention

• Championed a team in migrating Cisco ASA Firewalls for Department Homeland Security (DHS) to Palo Alto 800 Firewalls using the expedition migration tool to refresh an outdated security appliance and enhance the security posture adhering to NIST 800-53, NIST 800-173 DoD IA, and AR 25-2• Promoted awareness of cybersecurity policies, standards, and governance among management and the company and made sure that the organization's mission, vision, and goals reflected strong values• Developed configuration settings for deploying & implementing CPI2 Army initiatives per AR 25-2, NIST 800-37, Risk NIST 800-50, and NIST 800-171 Management Framework• Designed a unique ring network to support video surveillance along the border, ensuring the system met DHS cybersecurity program per NIST 800-53 Rev. 5, FedRAMP, and AR 25-2• Delivered a $10M project ahead of schedule upon designing, implementing, and documenting a 10 Gig ring network in support of the DHS border wall project, • Spearheaded cybersecurity and privacy initiatives across a diverse customer base from healthcare, manufacturing, finance, the federal government, and DoD• Added a virtual Palo Alto firewall to an embedded system, increasing the capability of a border surveillance vehicle to monitor video over a 25-mile range and ultimately saving the project more than $85K

• Subject matter expert with solid data center engineering expertise around Cisco UCS overall virtualization and storage collaboration suites, including WAN routers and SIP Cube Routers.Contract clients included: WWT, Pepsi, Dell, NTT DATA, PLH, JCI, DISYS, Rexel, and GDT• Fostered task-oriented team development while leading a 12-month NTT DATA contract, optimized infrastructure posture with collaboration, network security, VMware, and telepresence posture• Developed a project management plan for the company merger, designed and implemented a Proxy SIP Voice Gateway between Avaya and Cisco collaboration suites for interoperability between companies to minimize telco cost• Led a team of 10 team members in the Pepsi Enterprise CISCO IPT environment consisting of 30K devices and 300 sites, developed an upgrading process for the company to operate 24/7 at production plants• Directed a group of CCIEs in a successful migration with zero downtime from an on-premises enterprise infrastructure belonging to the CoreLogic mortgage company with over 50K devices to a hosted Dell Data Center at NTT DATA