Lead a team of assessors performing security assessments following NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 controls for a US state government Department of Transportation (DOT):• Lead a team of 3 assessors and a project manager performing a common controls assessment for an allocation of 396 NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 controls made by the DOT • Lead a team of 4 assessors performing security assessments of 8 information systems following 65 NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 controls.Perform Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance and readiness assessments, or tasks within them, such as Quality Assurance (QA), for more than 24 merchant and service provider clients in multiple verticals, including retail, merchant services, banking, airlines, travel/logistics, and municipal government. • As a lead QSA, performed two consecutive Level 1 compliance assessments for an Over the Top (OTT) entertainment billing service provider with an infrastructure implemented with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Completed training for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 2019 to prepare for the project. • As a lead QSA, performing Level 1 annual compliance assessments for a Fortune Global 500 retailer for eight years, including: o North American group (US, 5 banners; Canada, 3 banners), 5 assessmentso Australia, 1 banner, 1 assessmento UK, 2 banners, 3 assessments• As a lead QSA, performed Level 1 compliance assessments for a Fortune 100 global company for five consecutive years, including creating the Reports on Compliance (ROCs).

Contracted by ACMBS, Inc., to the Risk Management & Compliance department as a Project Manager to create, implement, and administer risk management and security systems, including compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and Privacy regulations, laws, and standards.

Lead teams of project managers, engineers, vendors, partners, and customers on international computer network consulting and integration projects for global customers such as Schlumberger, Dell, and Jacobs Engineering.

Provide engineering project management and security expertise for AT&T top-tier (“Signature”) customers, including: PepsiCo, Yum, American Airlines, ExxonMobil, JC Penney, 7-Eleven, Nokia, A. G. Edwards, DST, and others. Gather customer requirements to design and propose valuable and complex projects.

Lead technical sales efforts in the US for leading provider of pan-European and international data services. Gather customer requirements to select, configure, and offer WAN, hosting, and network security solutions.

Create and deliver technical sales messages and product definitions for start up Optical Broadband Telecommunications Company. Other responsibilities include meeting with customers, such as Broadwing, Universal Access and Enron, to understand requirements, and select, configure, and offer product solutions; leading efforts to respond to eleven Requests for Proposal (RFPs) for SONET, Wavelength, and Gigabit Ethernet services, worth more than $45M; and creating and delivering technical product training for all employees with presentation materials approved by CEO and executive committee.

Led architecture, engineering, implementation and consulting efforts for international multidisciplinary computer network projects with clients worldwide. • Led efforts to develop a network security practice. Successfully closed sales on several security projects. • Serving as project manager, architected and engineered an 80-site, 500 workstation network for National Tilden Car Rental of Canada. Led a four-person team to implement IP, frame relay, ISDN, NT systems, network security, messaging, and Cisco routers. Directed purchasing, cabling, workstation image development, and scheduling.• Serving as Account Manager, led a team of three to move about 1,000 workstations and servers into Y2K and firm compliance at Baker McKenzie, a large global law firm, resulting in uninterrupted operation over Y2K and increased interoperability between firm offices. Developed, documented, and implemented process to assess firm’s IT standards compliance, and remediated offices as required.

Technical Sales Manager, Dallas, TX (1994-1996)Determine the technologies to offer customers for data networking and to deliver solutions.• Supervised five technical specialists on about 10 global accounts, each generating more than $4M in annual revenue.• Provided technical leadership for more than $36M in contracted new and win-back revenue. MTS (Member of Technical Staff), Bell Laboratories, Dallas, TX and Chicago, IL (1986-1994)Develop network architectures for major clients such as Kraft General Foods, Motorola, 3M, Mobil, EDS, and Southwest Airlines. Maintained expertise in TCP/IP, AppleTalk, Frame Relay, ATM, SONET, Cisco, and Apple systems.• Analyzed more than 64 networks for more than 50 customers, leading to more than $10M in new annual revenue.• Wrote more than 10,000 lines of software using C and UNIX to develop the ISDN Primary Rate Interface (PRI) for the 5ESS Switch.• Designed technical demonstrations, staffed, and represented company at trade shows.