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Pasadena, Ca, Us

Pasadena, California, Us

Woodland Hills, Ca, Us

Reporting directly to the CEO, align the IT organization and set enterprise wide IT vision, strategy and annual goals. Prepare annual capital and expense budgets by working with the executive teams to understand company direction and efforts and translate to IT costs. Recruit, hire and train internal and external resources to design and build a new infrastructure in Amazon’s AWS platform. Lead the migration and construction of more than 300 systems from physical to virtual data centers in AWS. Perform hardware refresh in call centers and warehouses; built the first private cloud for the company. Transform the disenfranchised IT organization and changed it to a rapidly-changing business model. Drove continual efficiency improvement with changes to people, process and technology. Slash annual OPEX by millions through driving changes in AWS architecture and reorganizing the department to better align with the needs of the business; insource and migrate as a service model where necessary.Oversee hundreds of changes within a year while having less than a 0.5% rollback rate. Drive technical teams at all levels to develop a private cloud solution that is faster, cheaper and more secure than current Public Cloud offering for IAAS.

• Boost overall security posture and minimize risk by defining and presenting key strategies to the leadership team, establishing the organizational structure, introducing standards and processes and spearheading the design and implementation of enterprise technology solutions.• Created framework for prioritization of audit, assessment and remediation of security gaps• Rapidly offered a broader role due to measured outcome

Challenged to establish a formal Information Security Organization. Hold full strategic and operational oversight for enterprise-wide security operations supporting 1,000 users across 5 locations. Functional areas of accountability span technology needs assessments and solutions, policies and procedure design, regulatory compliance, risk assessment and mitigation. * Created firm’s Information Security Management System aligned with ISO 27000 best practices, Consensus Audit guidelines, and growing business needs.

Calabasas, Ca, Us

Promoted within one year to build and lead new Information Security Department. Created and led high-performance team in assessing, strategizing, recommending, implementing, and supporting technologies, environments, and best practices to increase awareness, reduce overall vulnerability, and meet evolving business and regulatory goals.* Earned Annual Excellence in Performance and Leadership Award for delivering innovation solutions. * Built the Information Security Intelligence Center that provided technical and business units with a centralized means to access security processes, controls, and best practices.* Instituted a Penetration Testing team and framework, and oversaw the rollout of Metasploit Pro, Burp, and W3AF technologies that contributed to preventing data breaches. * Drove the implementation of Nexpose security risk intelligence solution. * Spearheaded the selection and deployment of a Security Information and Event Manager (SIEM) solution that reduced headcount within the security organization by 50%.

Calabasas, Ca, Us

Accountable to oversee the adoption of security standards, best practices, and policies to enable organization to achieve PCI Tier 1 Compliancy.* Championed the adoption of standards for implementing information security and technologies into the organization. * Oversaw the architectural design and build out of new highly redundant network infrastructure that reduced PCI scope by 97% and $10 million in associated costs.

Mountain View, California, Us

High level role charged with managing, enhancing, securing, and ensuring 24/7 uptime of 1,500+ critical systems and network infrastructure cross 6 data centers. * Led the successful integration of 2 corporate acquisitions and one divestiture. * Recognized for establishing the process, teams, and environments that enabled the achievement of 99.999% uptime of critical eCommerce site. * Instituted pre-deployment security audit and hardening processes. * Established disaster recovery strategy for critical systems.

Provided support to up to 150 users within the base. * Received multiple awards in recognition of outstanding leadership and commitment to excellence.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba); Minor In Leadership And Managing Change, Earned A Minor In Leadership And Managing Change

Global Enterprise Management Certificate / Study Abroad Program, Global Enterprise Management

Bachelor Of Science In Management, Management