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Serving as advisor Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at companies such as Hello Sky AI / Skyminyr● Spearheaded the development and implementation of comprehensive cybersecurity strategies, policies, and procedures to enhance the organization's resilience against potential risks and vulnerabilities.● Led cross-functional teams to successfully conduct thorough security assessments and audits, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices.● Established and maintained strong relationships with key stakeholders, fostering a collaborative approach to cybersecurity and privacy initiatives.● Oversaw incident response and management, swiftly and effectively mitigating cyber threats and minimizing potential damages to the organization's data and systems.● Established a global compliance process from Policy and Procedures to monitoring and reporting.● Maintained a consistent level of global compliance with requirements of over 200 privacy laws.● Established a SOC2 certified program in combination with ISO, meeting compliance and eligibility requirements that enabled the organization to compete for more corporate business and increasing net sales by 30-45% annually.

Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States

Serve as Data Privacy & Compliance Officer dealing with Fortune 1000 companies for audits, SIG, SIG-lite, SIG2020, NIST, NY Shield, GDPR, etc.● Enabled 30% sales increase as a direct result of market expansion through adherence to GDPR, PPIDEA, CCPA, NIST-800, DFARS, ISO-27001/27002, Privacy Shield legal compliance and regulations.● Participated in pre-sales reviews to ensure customer confidence and satisfaction in data and information security throughout the executive search process.● Conducted incident-response testing with federal law enforcement teams.● Established testing of all external touchpoints to provide independent confirmation on biannual security reviews.● Implemented strategic partnerships such as Data Theorem for API monitoring.● Established a lift-and-shift process to securely migrate legacy systems to AWS.● Implemented AWS controls and SOAR to manage threat surface and meet security and compliance requirements. ● Integrated Proofpoint into Office 365 environment for improved security ● Implemented Netskope as a CASB to monitor security and compliance of third-party and cloud-based applications.● Implemented SPLUNK and the MITRE framework to monitor and reduce threat surface.● Implemented incident response plans. ● Established an application security team to improve coding practice and processes.● Established a security champions program with developers, leveraging vericode badging process to improve secure coding.● Implemented a CDN with Akamai to improve security and leveraged monitoring capabilities to improve visibility and response into threat surface.● Implemented and enforced policies and procedures such as migrating from sans-training to Wombat (acquired by Proof-Point)

Radnor, Pennsylvania, United States

● Implemented incident response plans. ● Established an application security team to improve coding practice and processes.● Established a security champions program with developers,● Spearheaded the development and implementation of comprehensive cybersecurity strategies, policies, and procedures to enhance the organization's resilience against potential risks and vulnerabilities.● Led cross-functional teams to successfully conduct thorough security assessments and audits, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices.

Iselin, New Jersey, United States

● Led teams for JP Morgan Chase home finance teams.● Implemented a US based refresh of all Cisco hardware.● Implemented Cisco IP telephony for all Home Mortgage through all US sites.● Led a team of individuals to improve application performance for Chase home Mortgage and the CLOSR implementation.● Managed diverse teams for similar projects for other home mortgage teams.● Recognized for leadership with Chase home mortgage several times.● Team recognized for outstanding contributions 3 years in a row.● Implemented a US wide deployment of Citrix technology and standard desktops using Dell and Wyse terminals.

Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States