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New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Founded Security Architecture group bridging the gap between AppSec, Architecture and DevOps.Built out threat modeling program with manual and tool assisted processes and execute against core products within the organization.Implemented container security policy and automation with Aqua's Cloud Native Security Platform.Developed various Hashicorp Vault solutions to be utilized enterprise wide in multiple product verticals. This included the design of a novel approach for handling Kubernetes deployments where container crashes are frequent which improved the security posture of Vault credentials against external and insider threat actors above those of the published Vault solutions by Hashicorp.Contribute to the development and deployment of a Product Security strategy for Synchronossproducts to support business and customer needs.Partner with software engineers and development teams on building information securityrequirements and specifications into Synchronoss products.Facilitate compliance with product security policies, practices and legal requirementsReview internally developed code for advanced security issues as part of an Agile Developmentprocess and educate Product Development teams on secure coding best practices.Develop and leverage automation and analytics capabilities to improve our cyber threatdetection and prevention capabilities.Contribute to the development and implementation of threat modeling exercises with productteams.Assist with product penetration testing and interact with penetration testers and other externalvendors to validate security controls.Develop and maintain internal libraries that provide common implementations of criticalsecurity controls.Research and evaluate new Product Security technologies for internal consumption

New York City

Worked with developers, system/network administrators, and other colleagues to ensure secure design, development, and implementation of applications and networks.Developed SAST AppSec platform which onboarded 15K applications over 2 years.Chiefly responsible for design and development of security automation infrastructure and tools to fit needs of product security team.Design and develop DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines with static and dynamic security testing for fit individual team needs through threat modeling, security criterion creation and tool tuning.Security automation lead for static analysis tools such as Fortify, Checkmarx and Semmle, tooling infrastructure and results integration infrastructure.Designed and implemented static analysis security rule generation platform to allow horizontal scaling against opaque libraries.Designed and developed continuous code scanning infrastructure to continuously scan dpkg based distributions and perform analysis of C/C++/python code utilizing docker and a scalable distributed architecture.Key member of cross organization architecture team responsible for designing company wide static analysis tooling framework and platform targeting hundreds of millions of lines of C/C++ code.Perform security design/architecture reviews and code reviews of large applications, systems and networks.Provide remediation guidance and recommendations to programmers and administrators.Define security best practices and standards.

Greater New York City Area

Mobile Application Security Analysis-Performed security analysis on popular mobile applications focusing on software vulnerabilities, fingerprinting, data leakage and forensics.Cloud Based Communication Platform-Team developer on cloud based secure and anonymous communications platform.DSL Access Network Test Bed-Deployed SHDSL, ADSL and VDSL along with SIP and H.248 utilizing ALU ISAM DSLAMs.Development of Network Assurance tools deployed on optical networking test beds.-Software Development Manager of telecommunication management network suite. -Multiple tools developed and integrated into test suite deployed on optical network test bed. -Managed all phases of the software development life cycle. -Designed modular architecture allowing iterative design and development. -Utilized extensive virtualization (VMWare/KVM) to scale test suite.-Designed and deployed SDH optical transport network test bed. -Designed to mirror real work optical transport achitecture (Core/Distribution/Access). -Deployed Metro Ethernet technologies across optical test bed simulating PE/CE. -Deployed SDH High Availability features. -Integrated new SDH/WDM/Metro Ethernet technologies to enhance test bed features.-Served as optical management systems, SDH, and Network Management Protocols (SNMP/CMIP) subject matter expert. -Performed security analysis of optical management systems requiring systems and software architecture review, source code review, interface analysis and protocol reverse engineering.-Full Stack LAMP developer supporting distributed internet topology mapping system that processes BGP autonomous system information to determine connectivity.

Rochester, England, United Kingdom

Developer building real time avionics controllers written in C.

Greenlawn, New York, United States

Lead software developer of Gorgon Stare pre/post flight focal plane test software-Developed C# applications that would exercise turret and focal plane arrays over TCP/IP control channel to perform pre and post flight acceptance testing.-Managed team of developers to meet all shareholder requirements and milestones. -Leveraged resource reuse to meet all milestones ahead of schedule.

Wayne, New Jersey, United States

Graduate, May 2013The Engineering Leadership Development Program is designed to train participants in technical excellence and leadership over the course of 3 years. The program features technical development classes delivered by BAE Systems staff and by outside universities. Leadership training in continuous through the program culminating in a Leadership Development Conference once a year. At the completion of the program, participants have been highly trained in leadership and managerial techniques as well as achieving a master's degree in the technical realm of their choosing.

Greenlawn, New York, United States

Responsible for integrating COTS image compression hardware and software into ARGUS image processing station.-Integrated COTS image compression hardware into production system.-Developed C/C++/C# translation layers to provided compressed/decompressed images to production image processing station software platform.

Wayne, New Jersey, United States

Developed automated test infrastructure for the JTRS HMS Radio.-Developed C++/C# test suite that does white box testing over TCP/IP test channel and black box testing over external SNMP interfaces.

Wayne, New Jersey, United States

Requirements manager for JTRS GMR program. -Managed requirements for multiple products, coordinating with multiple contractors.-Performed requirement traceability audits for test plan/procedure/reports, coordinating with multiple contractors.

Greater New York City Area

Provided RF network (E-UTRA) coverage analysis with computer models and drive test data. Perform performance tuning of the evolved packet core (EPC).

Greater Philadelphia Area

Responsible for administration of the point of sale network including endpoints, servers and network infrastructure.-Responsible or maintaining all the various point of sale equipment and systems with in the park including networked Windows systems, standalone systems, numerous credit card systems and ticket issuing/scanning systems.-Maintained campus area network including layer 2/3 Ethernet switches and fiber optics.-Managed team of technicians required to provide 24/7 customer support.-Served as networking subject matter expert.-Served as point of sale system subject mater expert.-Migrated network and systems from IBM token ring terminal stations to Ethernet based TCP/IP windows workstations requiring designing of campus area layer 2/3 Ethernet/TCP/IP network.

Master'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Specialization in Networking and Security

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tenor Drum Section Leader Rutgers Scarlet Knight Marching Band, Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society),