Research and understand evolving security cyber threats to aid in the progression of the overall security roadmap. Responsible and accountable for overseeing security incident handling, including evaluation, investigation, and coordination, working with both internal and external legal when necessary.Design, develop and implement information security policies and procedures. Subject to management review and approval, prepares budgets for area of responsibility and reports on expense variances from approved budgets.Works collaboratively with other areas of IT and the company.Research, propose, develop, implement, and maintain architectures, hardware, and software.Prepare and present well researched proposals for proposed projects.Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery tests and exercises as needed.Ensure that purchased vendor solutions meet current and future project requirements.Ensure that hardware and software meet user requirements and needs.Provide input on administrative policies and procedures.

Responsible for planning and delivering training for the Oostburg Fire Department

Charged with leading Information Security, ITSM and Strategic Vendor Management.

Responsible for providing strategy, vision and direction regarding security risks to safeguard Schreiber's information systems and critical data. Provide consulting, technical expertise, support and education on Information Security industry trends, standards, and best practices regarding data security as it relates to the organization.

Leveraged key expertise and industry knowledge while providing consulting and education on information security & networking industry trends and standards. Adopted best practices and procedures pertaining to data security to assure safety of sensitive data from cyber-attacks. Key Contributions: ● Directed and managed a seamless organizational transition for all North American sites from AT&T to Spectrum. ● Assumed leadership role of the team with significant incidents (network outage) numerous times a month. Implemented better change management procedures, peer review of configurations, and secondary and tertiary WAN connections that led to a year with no major outages. ● Migrated information security team to a new identity management platform and modernized provisioning as well as implemented a formal GRC (governance risk and compliance) process for information security.

Responsible for providing strategy, vision and direction regarding security risks to safeguard Schreiber's information systems and critical data. Provide consulting, technical expertise, support and education on Information Security industry trends, standards, and best practices regarding data security as it relates to the organization.

Responsible for Hard Disk Encryption, Sun-IDM Implementation and Custom Security Tool Development. Technical Lead on Symantec DLP Implementation.Investigate malware outbreaks, network misuse and any other events as defined by management.

Maintained and supported servers relating to trading as well as day to day operations. Including: T4, TT's X_Trader, CQG, Global Risk, Great Plains.

General firefighting, and engineering.

Assist in maintenance and troubleshooting of network hardware, and software. Including Citrix, Proprietary Classroom systems, and Lab Setups.• Manage servers running Windows Server 2003.• Work with Active Directory on a regular basis.• Manage servers running Mac OS X Tiger and Panther Servers.• Maintain daily backups.• Extensive imaging experience using Symantec Ghost.• Some Linux/Unix and Windows PowerShell scripting experience