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Miami, Florida, United States

Rebranded an E-Commerce company to offer both products and services specializing in providing protection products for physical and digital assets to families and individuals. Improved the software platform to integrate artificial intelligence engines to predict when there is a need to share information about assets to designated recipients especially during emergencies to preserve family livelihood and for generational wealth transfer. An end-to-end security by design zero knowledge encryption platform applied to every data element whether at rest or in motion. Accomplishments:• Increased revenue by 37% during the first 6 months.• Scaled offering to service both B2C & B2B clients to increase revenue margins.• Improved brand awareness and management of company’s main mission statement.• Added multiple selling channels including an online store, Amazon, and Walmart.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Created and launched the Cyber Security Capstone Program for Metro State's Science Department from scratch according to high scholarly standards. It’s my belief that creating a standard curriculum with one or two book options and teaching strategy is not ideal for optimizing student learning given everyone has a different learning style. Therefore, I have followed a student-centered service and teaching approach that is focused on the student, their goals and can be tailored towards working with each student to not only optimize their learning, but also achieve higher goals than anticipated with cookie cutter teaching.I am a proponent of this approach as I designed the Cyber Security Capstone program at Metropolitan State University based on each student's desired area of specialty. The assignments, rubric and coaching support this approach so that when each student graduates, they have become a subject matter expert in their desired specialty and can apply the skills learned towards their own career development.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

LegacyArmour B.V. is now partnering with Netherlands based businesses to start serving clients there and expand to Europe thereafter.

United States

LegacyArmour is a global service that allows customers to store important information and documents in a secure online vault. Each customer specifies when they want this information to be delivered to the people they designate. Customers can select a specific date or simply set the information to be released after their demise or incapacitation. LegacyArmour ensures that no information – or legacy – is ever lost.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Started applying the patented zero knowledge encryption methods towards creation and expansion of a digital time capsule startup. This technology startup was awarded multiple times for its innovative approach by the security community in the Twin cities and was quickly picked up by local news stations due to the intriguing idea. For us the founders, the main goal was to get this software platform out to as many people as possible and generate higher revenue margins which we did within the first 5 years and on.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As manager of Enterprise Architecture, I am responsible for ensuring standard architecture implementation by recommending and enforcing the use of standard technologies and reference architectures defined by the Architecture review board. Responsibilities:* Governance of technology and architectural standards and architectural design* Chair of the Enterprise Architecture Committee (Review board)* Establish a 2013/2014 technical roadmap * Act as visionary and strategist for Capella in alignment with Business strategies * Lead and manage the Enetrrpise Architecture Team *Translate business requirements and strategy into architecture and design for the IT organization * Provide holistic solutions to business challenges and opportunities * Define, design and implement frameworks to be used the development organization * Contribute to and maintain the technology, patterns, user guides, practices, and standards library* Communicate technology, patterns, practices and standards to the development organization * Collaborate with business owners on project scoping and initiation * Develop, drive and maintain control over the architecture lifecycle

Applied core functional architecture strengths towards solutions delivery and development of new business opportunities. Created and implemented an enterprise architecture framework used by the application developer teams. This framework was later deployed to additional departments such as the quality assurance teams and business strategy teams to ensure proper governance of standards end-to-end.

Responsible for the design, development, implementation and support of United Health Group Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Management systems. Experienced with Agile development methodologies and application of best practices in new environments. Leveraged specialized tools like Lean and Kaizen to deliver rapid process improvements and ensure high quality. Managed 10M+ life spend projects and 25+ technical resources by aligning deliverables with IT plans and business objectives in the following specialty areas:• Information Management• Systems Integration• Process Management• Engagement Management: Lead engagement planning and budgeting; mobilize and manage engagement teams; defined deliverable structure and content; facilitated buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client/business side; directed on-time, quality delivery of work products• Business Development: Developed and maintained contact with top decision makers; organized and lead pursuit teams; participated and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies and service offerings • People Development and Performance Management: Perform role of counselor and coach; provide input and guidance into the staffing process; actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities; provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices. Resolve conflicts.

Lead multiple projects requiring high levels of efficiency and understanding of the web environment. By combining a strong technical knowledge of network, security and database environment with effective analytical and communication skills, delivery of such project was successful. Working with such projects required continuous collaboration with different teams such as enterprise architecture, business stakeholders and quality maintenance. Created efficient processes and best practices for the installation, configuration and management of Application server web farms applying strict security guidelines. Business continuity planning was an integral part of every IT project; fail-over and redundancy requirements were part of earlier phases of projects implemented. Technologies used varied from Weblogic application clustered servers, JMS, Oracle database servers, iPlanet, apache web servers and IBM/Rational ClearCase UCM with ClearQuest applications running on Sun Solaris, HP-UX and windows 2000 operating systems.

Responsible for global enterprise environment consisting of corporate IT and e-Commerce based technologies. Responsibilities included but were not limited to designing, integrating, installing, configuring, administering and supporting Sun Solaris & Windows NT based client-server technologies in a large LAN/WAN environment. Familiar with project management concepts and all aspects of project planning. Duties included interacting and coordinating between multiple groups, driving projects from the initial concept phase through implementation. Evaluated and implemented various networking solutions such as communications systems, messaging technologies, enterprise-faxing solutions, and mainframe connectivity products along with Internet access capability. Worked extensively with security products such as Netegrity’s SiteMinder connecting to an LDAP database for group/user policy/rules/responses repository.Participated in initial evaluation followed by design for application server clusters using IBM’s websphere application severs with optimized configuration.

Master'S Degree, Msst - Masters In Security Technologies - Cyber Security

This program integrates the fields of technology, security and management to empower all professionals with the knowledge to adapt.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE, Squash team, Swimming

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