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Greater Hartford

Leading the Trusted Email Program by working to align an advanced, layered system of tools utilizing AI and machine learning to protect company email users from phishing, business/vendor email compromise and other email attacks. Working with internal and external resources to protect corporate domains using authentication standards through industry-leading and new, niche technology solutions through alignment with current DMARC, SPF and DKIM email authentication standards. Providing improved delivery rates while protecting company domains from misuse including the lockdown of defensive domains to prevent use.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Enabled information risk reduction through collaborative work with business partners to identify, prioritize and mitigate information risks. Helped with implementing the BISO role within MassMutual. Acted as a trusted advisor to multiple lines of business as an extended member of the leadership team; understand strategic goals and embed information risk management into the culture. Working to support sales efforts through customer consultations regarding the protections in place to protect customer's employee data. Act as the single point of contact for the lines of business to Enterprise Cyber Security leadership.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Analyze risks, identify gaps, explore trends across business segments and the enterprise through identification and evaluation of key performance indicators (KPIs). Evaluate technology solutions with architecture team including cloud components to ensure policy conformance. Engage senior leaders to set risk appetite, provide guidance on updated policies and regulations. Develop trusted advisor status with senior IT and business leaders. Actively manage open issues and mitigations, provide guidance towards resolution. Provide internal consulting services to several lines of business within the MassMutual US Insurance Group, focused on workplace and institutional solution businesses. Drive efforts to lower corporate risk through education and KPI-driven discussions with internal CIOs and business partners.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Working with Lean principles to address the opportunity for improvements across various Information Technology departments. Through the collection of empirical data, seek to reduce pain points, waste, cost of doing business.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Information Security Domain Advocate in the Enterprise Architecture organization. Lead architect for Active-Active data center project; facilitated Architecture Community of Practice (CoP). Engaged across architecture teams as security advocate and SME. Engaged as SME for many projects involving introduction of new technology with focus on protection of customer and internally sensitive data, new products and new use cases. Guided technical project teams on conformance to policy and protection/transfer of NPI/PII and company intellectual property. Focused on protecting the brand via reduced-risk outsourcing, protection of intellectual property and customer data.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Provide technical leadership for security architecture development/design, system and software requirement analysis, specification, implementation, testing, integration, and accreditation of trusted systems. Focused on finding creative, out-of the-box solutions to increasing security challenges in a fast-paced retail environment. Educate all levels of management in this Fortune 200 company in protecting intellectual property and customer information. Provide expertise on how to secure consumer-based transactions for PCI and SOX related issues; evaluate data protection and risks during M&A discussions. Oversee system access and policies for all 50,000+ corporate users; manage access for all business partners; lead information security analyst for all internal data loss investigations, lead consultant / analyst for all legal and human resources data issues. Customer advisor for security tool vendors.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Senior IT specialist dealing with all aspects of the rapidly changing IT world. Technical sales support for multiple Fortune 100 customers including multiple DOD / aerospace companies (Lockheed, Allied Signal, McDonnell Douglas, Rohr) as well as for local city governments and higher education (University of Phoenix). Provided all internal IT support (network, PC, AS/400, UNIX, PBX, voicemail) and external customer support for key accounts. On-site project management for Windows 98 migration for Equitable Assurance (AXA) offices nationally (1 - 2 weeks per site).Senior IT specialist dealing with all aspects of IT for internal systems and customer technical and sales support. Technical sales support for multiple Fortune 100 customers including multiple DOD / aerospace companies (Lockheed, Allied Signal, McDonnell Douglas, Rohr) as well as for local city governments and higher education (University of Phoenix). Provided all internal IT support (network, PC, AS/400, UNIX, PBX, voicemail) and external customer support for key accounts. On-site project management for Windows 98 migration for Equitable Assurance (AXA) offices nationally (1 - 2 weeks per site). Tagged as a critical transition employee during multiple acquisitions, retained to support system integration into acquiring corporations (Sunland to Dataflex to Vanstar and finally to Inacom).