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Reston, Virginia, United States

Ashburn, Virginia, United States

Cybersecurity: Initiated, delivered, and advanced cybersecurity engineering/defense projects, managing an annual portfolio of over $20M.Program Management: Managed key programs in security infrastructure, cyber defense, and detection/response, driving alignment with changing priorities and budget needs. Team Building and People Development: Built and led team of 8 product and project managers to support global security initiatives of up to 20 concurrent projects.Cloud Security and Cloud Migration: Guided a major effort to transition a core service from on-premise to cloud-based technologies. Cyber Security: As Visa’s cybersecurity function matured, took on advanced program management responsibilities for the cyber engineering function, ensuring security needs were identified and met.Technical Leadership and Change Management: Steered transition to a decentralized Project Management Office (PMO) function. Partnered with executives to establish job responsibilities, setting vision for new team and developing roadmaps for each functional area.Cross-functional Collaborations and Problem Solving: Reenergized project that was 3 months behind schedule, collaborating cross-functionally to identify issues, influence understanding of challenges, develop potential solutions, and enhance transparency.Team Cohesion, Communication, and Conflict Management: Fostered cohesion between teams of different subject matter backgrounds, harnessing problem-solving and communication skills to manage conflict and drive issue resolution.Security Engineering and Process Efficiency: Boosted efficiency, quality, and accountability in cyber engineering. Used JIRA to simplify access to dashboard and slash response time to audit requests by 3 weeks.

Ashburn, Virginia, United States

Managed the Cyber Security portfolio of projects within the Information Security group at Visa. Ensuring executive management is informed of project status and any issues requiring management attention. Acting as a leader and mentor to other project managers supporting projects in the portfolio. Also managed projects related to key Visa Cyber Security initiativesProject Management: Headed key projects and initiatives within the cybersecurity engineering and defense portfolio.Strategic Partnerships and Vulnerability Management: Partnered with engineers and 3rd-party contractors to implement a tool that improved the organization’s ability to quickly identify and manage vulnerabilities across the IT function. Strategic Influence: Successfully guided cyber information center project through significant challenges associated with under-performing vendor and related deliverable issues.Strategic Planning and Team Leadership: Facilitated planning of $8M project portfolio and acted as team lead and mentor for assigned project managers.Executive-level Communication: Apprised executives of changes in project status and issues requiring attention, maintaining regular communication.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Team Management and Infrastructure Planning: Managed a team of 4 project managers and IT leads to deliver key infrastructure modernization initiatives, including data center moves, database and operating system upgrades, and major network projects.Microsoft SQL Server: Spearheaded Microsoft (MS) SQL database upgrade, migrating business-critical primary database from MS SQL Server 2000 to MS SQL Server 2008.Agile Software Development: Led software development project to bolster security of TGBP’s GlobalPay Application (GPA).IT Strategy: Coordinated system updates and technology changes/programs following Western Union’s acquisition of TGBP. Oversaw the move of GPA’s primary database (Oracle) from an outsourced data center into TGBP’s data center. Scalability: Worked with system architects and engineers to define and scale hardware to support expected business growth.Team Coordination and Software Deployment: Coordinated with infrastructure engineers and development teams to streamline the deployment process, effectively navigating conflict and fostering consensus on application priority-setting.• Data Driven Testing and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Analyzed, identified, and documented the timeframes required for each phase of the SDLC and determined when testing would be done in each environment.• Software Solution Development: Presented a solution that drove clarity around the deployment cycle, which allowed multiple teams to set more precise target dates and consistently meet those deadlines.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

IT Project Leadership: Provided leadership and support for key initiatives, driving on-time, within-budget delivery of IT security services.Infrastructure Projects and Business Strategy: Oversaw highly matrixed teams, supporting infrastructure services delivery to implement new business capabilities.Relationship Building: Cultivated strong relationships with vendors and internal customers, facilitating deployment and environment support.Deployment Strategy: Drove successful deployment and functional testing of critical applications for out-of-region disaster recovery site.IT Procurement: Spearheaded the procurement and implementation of multiple commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, including Windows Server, Solaris, WebLogic, Citrix, and Oracle.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Collaborative Leadership, System Requirements, and Technology Alignment: Oversaw a team of 11 to support and drive financial technology projects. Partnered with cross-functional teams to define system requirements and drive technology changes that aligned with those requirements. Systems Analyst, Freddie Mac, Leesburg, VA, 2001–2004Systems Analysis: Delivered support for multiple environments to ensure development and testing needs for internal projects were met.

Mba, Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science, Information Systems & Technologies