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Danville, Ca, Us

Boulder, Co, Us

AutoGrid (a Schneider Electric Company) was recently acquired by Uplight. The AutoGrid operation is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently, I'm leading risk & compliance functions, including product security, IT security, vendor security, audits, and operational cybersecurity support. We run on AWS and Azure and we're compliant with SOC 2 and NERC.I also research innovative ideas and solutions related to climate change, cybersecurity risk reduction, and improved business operations.

GRC21 (Global Resource Connections) is a consulting firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our services included CISO and information cybersecurity compliance strategy. Our team specializes in helping technology companies involved in renewable energy and research related to climate change. We have helped companies such as GE, IBM, Uber, Google, Apple, Hitachi, Facebook, eBay, SAP, Oracle, and NetSuite. We are also working with climate researchers at premier universities and research organizations.

Boston, Ma, Us

My role of Principal Regulatory Compliance Advisor at GE Digital included leading a team of experienced cyber security professionals as GE built the world's largest industrial cloud-based computing platform to service the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In this role, I was also responsible for all aspects of Risk and Compliance functions for our Energy, Aviation and Manufacturing solutions. My Risk Management functions covered full end-to-end processes for risk intake, risk evaluation, risk agreement of facts meetings (AoF), remediation, exception management, validation, and closure. Our compliance frameworks were based on NIST 800-53 to optimize our annual compliance for ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, 9001, along with SOC2, FDA, and FedRAMP. I also researched potential solutions for GE related to climate change technology innovation.My M&A integration function addressed all aspects of acquiring and integrating software companies, from due diligence, to on-boarding and integration of all engineering, quality, cyber security compliance, legal, sourcing, finance, HR, and product management functions. More specifically, my role helped to ensure each M&A is addressing all cyber security functions such as Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL), which encompasses vulnerability, open source (OSS), static (SAST), and dynamic (DAST) scans. It also addressed threat modeling, penetration testing, plus defect and bug management.In addition, my role required working extensively with cross-functional groups scattered across the globe. It also required occasional travel throughout the US and to international locations. This role also required leading teams as large as 50-100 stake holders and managing direct employees and contractors.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

SOAProjects is a consulting firm located in Silicon Valley that assists many companies with IT executive management and IT compliance.* Sales and business development leader from 2010-2012 for our IT Services Division and helped grow our team size, revenue, and profitability by more than 3x over the 2 year period.* Our team assisted mostly public and pre-IPO companies based in Silicon Valley, but we had offices across the globe to support our client's business needs. * Helped many companies as their Acting CIO, IT Director, or Senior IT Project Manager on projects related to ERP systems, compliance, or other IT initiatives. Our clients include Facebook, Cisco, Hitachi, SugarCRM, KLA-Tencor, Gilead, Geeknet, SugarCRM, Adap.tv, Soraa, and Brocade.* Helped develop our methodology for ISO27001 and SSAE-16 SOC1/SOC2/SOC3 compliance programs and implement these systems for companies moving their product offering to SaaS/PaaS/IaaS based cloud computing environments.* Featured speaker at numerous conferences, webinars and seminars on topics related to advanced IT compliance and ERP systems.

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Opsware was a startup company founded by Marc Andreessen which became the global leader in IT data center automation technology. Opsware was acquired by HP in mid 2007.* SAP and CRM Technical Project Manager for Opsware – leading all aspects of our ERP projects – interfacing with Sr. Execs, Systems Integrators, and SMEs on project requirements, staffing needs for project backfill, audit requirements, data conversion, UAT, and overall project budget and status.* Helped coordinate IT audit and compliance projects and initiatives.

London, Gb

Ernst & Young is a Big 4 Public Accounting firm that provides technical can financial consulting and audit services to large enterprises, emerging companies, and publicly held companies.* Silicon Valley regional IT Audit Manager and Business Development leader for E&Y with a $5M revenue target.* Senior Lead Manager for Sarbanes-Oxley/”404” IT Controls Audits (ITGCs, Application and Entity Level Controls) at more than 70 companies, including BEA, Ask Jeeves, Agile Software – for firms such as E&Y, PwC, Protiviti – based on COBIT / COSO and/or E&Y GAM methodology / framework.

Sierra Computing was a startup software and consulting company that I founded. We developed a software product for backing up the data on laptop and desktop computers. We also provided IT consulting services related to audit and disaster recovery for many large companies and government organizations.We worked with more than 50 clients, including IBM, HP, the US Navy, Intuit, Agile Software, Ask.com, and Kumuse.

eOnline was one of the first startup companies to host SAP systems for large and medium sized corporations. eOnline later became BlueStar Solutions, then was later acquired by ACS.* My role was a Sales Engineer responsible for architecting ERP and B2B solutions, including aspects such as servers, network, and storage systems. Clients included Autodesk, McAfee, Mitsubishi, and several California government entities. * As the only Sales Engineer at our corporate headquarters, I worked closely with the executive team to develop our product, pricing and sales strategy.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM is a world leader in the development, manufacture, and implementation of computer systems and business computing applications.* Lead the technical deployment of SAP systems for many large corporations with project teams ranging from 30 consultants to more than 300 consultants. * Project budgets ranged from $10 million to more than $300 million.* My specialty was with setting up the server environment on Unix/Linux, installing Oracle databases, and performing SAP Basis and Project Management functions.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Deploying IT systems such as SAP, Wonderware, CIM21 and various other tools and processes for pulp and paper manufacturing.

I worked on nearly every aspect of IT - providing 24x7 support for global operations, helping deploy SAP and QAD ERP systems, writing software, implementing and automating the support for our Unix and Windows server systems environments, and coordinating network systems projects across the globe.