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New York, NY, US

• Spearheaded the company’s most extensive Azure Sentinel deployment, orchestrating over 40 tiered workspaces, resulting in enhanced customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.
• Led the engineering efforts to ensure data and analytic rules successfully worked as intended when logs were split to child-workspaces.
• Strategically aligned logs across the tenant, proactively reducing cross-functional workload and streamlining data management processes.
• Optimized the engineering queue with Service Now to help ensure timely response of tickets.
• Innovated a one-click script for ADX schema deployment, cutting down operational tasks by 90% and significantly accelerating project timelines.

New York, NY, US

Denver, Colorado, US

• Redesigned the inflow process for transferring Sentinel incidents into Service Now
• Created additional use cases and rules for Sentinel with KQL to align the current offerings with MITRE tactics and techniques.
• Worked one-on-one with customers to have custom parsers for log sources not yet supported by Azure Sentinel to normalize alternative data sources.
• Managed Logic Apps to streamline the process of updating watchlists to monitor high-security accounts and critical assets.
• Employed Sentinel’s SOAR capabilities for auto-enrichment of incident data via Microsoft Defender tools, facilitating a more efficient and proactive incident investigation workflow.

Arcadia, WI, US

• Pioneered the adoption of industry standard SIEM solutions, integrating Azure Sentinel and IBM QRadar to fortify cybersecurity infrastructure.
• Conducted comprehensive vulnerability assessments using Insight VM, Nexpose, and Metasploit Pro, identifying and mitigating potential threats.
• Collaborated with Darktrace and ExtraHop IDS to proactively address security risks.
• Developed robust Endpoint Protection Policies with Microsoft Defender ATP, enhancing system security.
• Optimized firewall management for Palo Alto and Meraki, closing security loopholes and preventing breaches.
• Integrated Open-Source Threat Intelligence with Palo Alto’s MineMeld, leveraging community knowledge for enhanced threat detection.

Arcadia, WI, US

Bachelor’S Degree, Cyber Security + Minor In Mit

Master Of Science - Ms, Cyber Security