Palo Alto Networks offers best-in-class cybersecurity portfolio Industry-leading solutions that work together intelligently to strengthen security, simplify operations and improve ROI. Our next-gen approach can elevate your cybersecurity and support your transformation. In my role, I am a Senior Technical Support Engineer in our Government Division, supporting our Prisma offering.

Survivors of Childhood Sex Abuse (SCSA) is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization that advocates on the behalf and supports survivors and victims of childhood sex abuse through our various programs. In my position as President, I am responsible for all organizational operations, and report to the Board of Directors. In our short history, we were able to successfully get the Statute of Limitations for sex crimes against children completely eliminated in the State of Louisiana. One of our top priorities is public awareness, and I have appeared in the Washington Post, and on Fox News, The Church Militant, and more. I recently completed a speaker series with the Attorney General in Virginia. I manage a volunteer staff that performs peer-led support groups for our survivors.

Since 1982 CompTIA has supported and led the global IT industry through educational programs, market research, networking events, professional certifications, and political advocacy. CompTIA is known worldwide as the leading provider of vendor-neutral IT certifications. CompTIA certifications identify IT professionals who prove their aptitude in various fields, such as security, network administration, computer repair, and server administration.As a Subject Matter Expert, I am tasked with writing, rating, and reviewing the Security+ exam/certification.

We design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. As a focused, independent company, we’re building on our foundation of excellence by creating systems in new ways. Bringing in the right partners, investing in our business, and working side-by-side with our customers to unlock potential. Our global base of customers - including 75 of the Fortune 100 – partner with us for expertise, value creation, speed and agility.

International Business Machines Corporation, incorporated on June 16, 1911, is a technology company. The Company operates five business segments: Global Technology Services (GTC) and Global Business Services (GBS), Software, Systems and Technology (STG), and Global Financing. Global Technology Services (GTS) primarily provides IT infrastructure and business process services.I am a Team Lead/Senior Escalations Engineer for IBM Security. Working inside of a brilliant team, I help manage IBM's customer's information security infrastructure, and think about how we can eliminate or best mitigate information security threats, and then try to innovate new solutions to help our customers to be secure and successful.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, provides customers with uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership.Enterprise Diamond Support creates a personalized and dependable direct service partnership between our customer's support team and a Check Point designated experienced engineer, committed to delivering comprehensive support to meet our customer's critical needs quickly and efficiently.

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Diveo Broadband Networks, Inc. is a facilities-based Internet infrastructure and communications provider addressing the needs of Latin American businesses and their mission-critical Internet applications and services with its IP BusinessSM portfolio. Diveo had seven state-of-the-art Internet Data Centers located in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Miami, FL. As CISO, I am responsible for the security of Diveo's Data Centers, IT, Circuit and Internet operations throughout Latin America. Utilizing a team of direct report Information Security Officers, our responsibilities include the monitoring of the networks and systems, incident response, engineering customer solutions, and ensuring that current systems exceed current policy and industry best practices. Projects included security awareness initiatives, the development of products and services, department development and training, and the maintenance and development of our existing policies, guidelines and procedures.

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco products include routers, LAN and ATM switches, dial-up access servers and network management software. These products, integrated by the Cisco IOS software, link geographically dispersed LANs, WANs and IBM networks. Cisco Systems is headquartered in San Jose, California.The formation and development of GCoE’s Latin America division, in addition to the management of a geographically dispersed team of highly skilled network engineers. Create and manage working relationships with internal Cisco lines of businesses and peer organizations, as well as Cisco partners and customers. Staff Networkers 2000 convention with subject matter experts, and help local sales teams secure high customer satisfaction by helping them design large, complex networks.

I was the Manager of the Access Technologies Department, in the Design division of Cisco’s Global Center of Expertise’s (GCoE). I am responsible for a team of highly technical network engineers, who specialize in Cable, Dial, Fixed Wireless, and xDSL networks, and Network Security. Duties include hiring, performance evaluations, salary considerations & negotiations, morale responsibilities, technical direction, recruiting initiatives, and the operations of the GCoE’s labs in California and New Jersey. Our team designs networks for Cisco’s Top 100 accounts. In addition to designing networks, we perform the function of a SWAT team, the last level of escalation on technical issues. All members carry passports, and travel extensively to support our global customer base. Customer SAT was 5.0 throughout my tenure.

I was a Program Manager/Consulting Engineer in their Professional Services/Customer Advocacy divisions, residing in their Global Center of Expertise (GCoE) department. Our department is chartered with attending/augmenting deployments of new technologies in the EFT phase, and authoring case studies on these deployments, in addition to hosting workshops on these same technologies to train Cisco partners and internal employees.

International Network Services (INS), now “Lucent NetCare” (NASDAQ: LU) is a global provider of enterprise network consulting and software. INS provides professional services for the full life cycle of a network, including planning, design, implementation, operations and optimization, and maintains expertise in the most complex network technologies and multi-vendor environments. I am a Network Systems Engineer, working in their Atlanta network security practice.Normal responsibilities include client consulting in the southeast region, where I was involved in the entire lifecycle of network security implementation and practice – assessment, policy, design, implementation, audit, and peer consulting with other engineers working parallel projects for other clients and customers. Later worked on DSL technologies with Cisco via the INS “Cisco Service Provider Program.”

I was responsible for management of the IS technical support department in a fast growing telecommunications company consisting of 5 teams, The department’s responsibilities include all aspects of business and information systems support, including 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level desktop (HW/SW) support, design and implementation of hardware & software standards and networking technologies, engineering and support of network infrastructure and security. Duties included hiring, performance evaluations, salary considerations & negotiations, morale responsibilities, and technical direction of 5 Managers and 51 employees. Also responsible for multimillion capex and opex budgets, high level project management, development and implementation of support policies, creation and integration of SLAs, interfacing with development and project managers. Consulting with board members and executives on future plans and trends in the utilization of high tech products and services.