Ryan Vargas Email & Phone Number

Valencia, CA, US

• Leads the implementation and ongoing operations of technical cybersecurity controls to continuously improve and expand Logix's protective and defensive security capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership for cybersecurity functions including network & endpoint security, IAM, threat & vulnerability management, security monitoring, incident response, etc.
• Manage relationships with third party security service providers.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry standards, best practices and the evolving security landscape.
• Manages the daily activities of assigned team members to maximize the quality of work and productivity, including cross-functional tasks/projects.
• Oversees various cybersecurity engineering activities including penetration tests, vulnerability scans and the vulnerability management program. Creates remediation plans to address relevant security findings.

Valencia, CA, US

• Establishes foundational security capabilities as mature service offerings that allow for a seamless user experience.
• Establishes and applies risk management principles for consistent tracking and measurement in compliance with industry standards.
• Supports governance, risk and compliance programs and leads maturity efforts including external regulator, auditor, and senior leadership information and materials.
• Assesses and analyzes employee risk due to accidental, incidental, and awareness security issues. Conducts scheduled penetration testing, simulating attacks on systems to find exploitable weaknesses.
• Engineers security solutions efficiently with a minimal technology footprint where possible while ensuring security. Researches, analyzes, and recommends security products, services and tools as needed.
• Audits identity and access methods to ensure a zero-trust framework for both production and development business application systems.

Hawthorne, CA, US

• Responsible for managing the overall infrastructure and service delivery day-to-day operations
• Ensured IT infrastructure system performance and target SLAs are met
• Managed infrastructure and service delivery staff, provides direction, organization information and feedback, and performance evaluation
• Provided leadership to IT infrastructure projects, including developing project plans, assigning and managing resources, identifying and solving problems, and meeting committed deliverables.
• Ensured the Credit Union’s IT infrastructure is compliant with all state and federal regulations pertaining to technology, data security and perform IT infrastructure risk assessments on an annual and ad hoc basis
• Responsible for IT infrastructure and security monitoring and manages incident response

US

• Promotion to the Sr Director role allowed me to do more in my position:
• Implemented the following additional policies following the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as the guideline: - Computer and System Logging Policy - Physical Security Policy - Vulnerability Management Policy - Endpoint.
• Using the Qualys VMDR, lead the verification and remediation efforts resulting from vulnerability management program.
• Managed third party vendors in performing the annual penetration testing and lead the required remediation efforts resulting from the pen testing work.
• Lead the efforts to conduct the Annual Employee Cybersecurity Training with a 100% pass and participation.
• Integral to ensuring that the firm complied with the SWIFT CSP by completing the Annual Security Attestation.

US

• As Associate Director of IT Infrastructure, and a hand-on Senior Systems Engineer, I created and led migration and decommissioning roadmaps and designed and built a hyperconverged infrastructure at two collocated data.
• Constructed Nexus and Catalyst switching platforms.
• Deployed Cisco ASA Firewalls, Citrix NetScaler Gateway, and Barracuda Anti-spam Firewall
• Reviewed and tested disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans.
• Turned around 97-98% failure/downtime rate to 99.999% uptime by building a highly virtualized and collocated data center.
• Moved production, development, and testing to CenturyLink (Cyxtera) collocated data centers; built private cloud running VMware virtual machines in a clustered NetApp OnTap scalable environment.

• As CTO at DeWitt Stern, I oversaw infrastructure and operations for a national insurance brokerage and risk advisory firm with offices in New York, Chicago, Nashville, and Southern California. I reported to the COO and.
• Designed and deployed disaster recovery plan from scratch utilizing data replication solution at collocated TelePacific data center, achieving 98% testing success rate with gaps identified and resolved within testing.
• Centralized Active Directory and Exchange environments.
• Consolidated software and hardware sourcing and procurement to leverage cost reduction potential.

• As Assistant VP at DeWitt Stern, I analyzed current state infrastructure and using existing assets, directed three System Engineers to build a more robust and centralized infrastructure and management solution scaled.
• Cut IT expenses through technology consolidation and contract negotiations while improving network performance, resiliency, efficiency, and productivity.
• Re-engineered Active Directory environment.
• Built resilient clustered storage.
• Created and implemented a redundant server infrastructure and BC/DR strategy.
• Transitioned decentralized to unified, centralized infrastructure that streamlined IT administration and drove cost efficiencies and better collaboration.

Valhalla, NY, US

Bachelors Of Science In Business Administration, Management Information Systems

Associate Of Science, Computer Science