Mandiant Consulting | Strategic Security

• Responsible for delivery of large-scale cybersecurity initiatives for Fortune 500 clients with a focus on strategic enablement, cyber capability assessments, and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)• Evaluate client cybersecurity maturity capabilities against leading frameworks such as NIST CSF 2.0• Develop cybersecurity strategies with clients to advance cybersecurity posture and protect against internal and external threats• Manage large teams of onshore and offshore cybersecurity professional consultants

• Developed functional, technical, and security requirements to roll out multi-factor authentication to client's 6M+ digital customers• Developed ransomware recovery strategies for 20+ applications core to client's business• Led incident response teams to remediate critical security vulnerabilities• Developed 3-year strategic cybersecurity roadmap with Deputy CISO to address key risks• Manage teams of onshore and offshore cybersecurity professional consultants

• Rolled out IAM (SailPoint) and PAM (CyberArk) technologies for clients, including management of end-to-end program planning, technical platform configuration, onboarding of customers to platform, facilitation of end user training, and end user support and troubleshooting• Developed role-based user access (RBAC) business roles for lines of business inclusive of 10,000+ employees and contractors to streamline onboarding of logical access using standardized job information

• Provided regular updates to CISO on cybersecurity operational metrics, analyzing trends and risks• Revamped client's technology governance and SDLC processes to be risk-focused and introduced governance cost savings• Recommended enhanced processes for client's handling of subscriber copyright infringement

• Mentored seven master’s and MBA students serving as project leads in the program, each responsible for developing solutions for clients such as AutoZone and Books-A-Million• Established the foundation and structure for stage gate review meetings using agile and waterfall methodologies by consulting with faculty on industry best practice and student learning objectives• Facilitated weekly stage gate meetings with project leads and program faculty, which served to discuss project-related issues, identify potential risks, and report status updates• Focused on process improvement for UA-MIS seniors and master’s students and developed strategies to improve experiential learning for current and future Capstone students

• Performed first level customer service representative duties at the computer lab help desk to help students solve technical problems• Rolled out software updates on hundreds of lab machines so students could access up-to-date applications• Replaced faulty machines in the computer lab with working spares and ran diagnostic tests to isolate and identify the hardware component that caused the machine failure• Resolved software and hardware errors for Business College faculty through troubleshooting

• Managed and led a team of five UA-MIS senior analysts during the fall semester• Transformed millions of claims from Development Disabilities and Substance Abuse source systems using a uniform data model and loaded them into two client-centric data marts within a data warehouse in SQL Server using Integrated Services (SSIS)• Designed and deployed reports in SQL Report Builder that performed functions such as aggregating data from substance abuse care providers, including the average length of stay for clients across different levels of care for state agencies• Established a platform for predictive analytics and aggregation of data of clients in Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, and Developmental Disabilities systems

• Worked with the Cryptography Team in Security Services, responsible for encrypting data, ensuring public key infrastructure best practices, and issuing internal SSL certificates• Researched and compiled documentation to assist Walmart developers with data encryption topics, including frequently asked questions and code samples in C, C#, Java, and Perl• Designed and developed a monitoring program in C to verify that SafeNet Luna SA network-attached hardware security modules were functioning at full operational capacity

• Designed and developed “Compass,” an ASP.NET MVC 5 full stack web application, to match undergraduate students with external scholarships unique to their personal criteria• Developed administrator user interface, which included pages for adding new scholarships to the database, editing existing scholarship information, and managing user permission levels• Consulted with other stakeholders in UA organizations including Academic Affairs, Technology Support Services, and the Office of Information Technology to leverage opposing viewpoints concerning student needs, sensitive data, and application functionality• Conducted weekly meetings with the client to review deliverables and outline project goalsCompass was rolled out University-wide by the SGA to production in January 2015 for the student population of 36,000+.