The Kuiper Security team drives the research & development, deployment and operations of mission-critical security systems for the Kuiper constellation end-to-end. The team prevents unauthorized access to Kuiper assets and resources by identifying and mitigating threats, identifying and documenting technical requirements for ongoing improvements, maintaining compliance with global regulatory and legal requirements and preventing malicious or fraudulent behavior that would impact Kuiper's mission to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

Developing and delivering live online learning for professionals looking to gain skill in the emerging field of AI in Cybersecurity. Course content includes knowledge transfer and practical exercises covering anomaly detection, user behavior profiling, malware detection, NLP phishing models, cyber threat hunting, and adversarial examples with Python.The practical exercises in the course explores the intersections of AI & cybersecurity. Lessons cover handling log data, building anomaly detection systems, data analysis with ML, building detections for user behavior anomalies and crafting compelling data visuals.The final project will use AI/ML techniques to detect malicious activity, assist analysts, and visualize results using the ELK stack.

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Artificial Intelligence and Research Blue Team

Senior Security Engineer responsible for cloud and data center security programs and practices for Skype worldwide. • Subject Matter Expert for security monitoring in Skype focused on improving monitoring coverage and detection capabilities.• Led effort to significantly enhanced security detection and response capabilities in Skype which resulted in the first known detection and eviction of the O365 red team. • Drove security monitoring standardization on AzSecPack and O365 Vanquish for Skype private and public cloud infrastructure that resulted in a standard set of security telemetry and detections across over 35K hosts in Prod. • Developed operational security metrics for inclusion in unified reporting and release metrics which resulted in service teams being accountable for meeting operational and SDL readiness bar for release and deployment.• Drove enhancement to O365 Vanquish analytics to consume Geneva log data from Skype services to power detections which allowed simplified deployment and maintenance of the security stack for Skype micro services • Created a standard security tooling deployment process for Azure micro services that streamlined the deployment and maintenance of new security monitoring tooling for service owners.• Led review of PII scrubbing and data retention compliance across petabytes of security log data in data lake to achieve SOC and GPDR compliance • Let triage and remediation efforts for Skype pen test bug backlog resulting in several years worth of security bug backlog being cleared• Participated in FEDRAMP, ISO, SOC GDPR and PCI audits completing audit cycles with no significant findings related to monitoring controls• Implemented compliance configuration management standards using CIS benchmarks• Graph data security analysis using Neo4J and Cypher query language• Created ad hoc dashboards and reports using Scope, Kusto, Lens, PowerBI and Teams• Creation and tuning of security detections using ML and AI tools

Client Security Officer, HP Enterprise Security ServicesPrincipal point of contact for strategic, client-focused security engagements. Providing enterprise clients security and compliance expertise in support of corporate initiatives.• Translates technological and security issues and communicates findings to board level executives• Translates business strategies and regulatory requirements into actionable plans• Provide guidance on technology and operational decisions• Trusted advisor for security solution recommendations • Single point of contact for design, acquisition, deployment and operation of solutions

In previous career history I have held Director and Senior level engineering and consulting roles in several startups and Fortune companies. I managed employees and multi million dollar sales and consulting P&Ls, built and managed high performing engineering teams that delivered enterprise scale networking and security solutions to our client base. As an individual contributor I designed and delivered tooling and product enhancements, provided enterprise program management expertise, conducted IT audits and security reviews and contributed to the start-up of the Microsoft Security Response Center, Secure Windows Initiative and Trustworthy Computing program. I led the penetration testing activities for a major operating system security review and managed bugs and associated code changes and releases to correct flaws that were discovered.

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