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Working with our customers to meet their business objectives, mitigating their risk in the most cost-effective, sensible way. I perform formal and informal risk assessments in both the cloud (AWS, Azure) environments and on-prem/co-locations.

Provided senior-level cybersecurity strategy, and support. Improved Viverae's security posture based on industry best practices and business objectives.Provided road map for operational information security program directly to Director of Securityand the Chief Technology OfficerDelivered in-depth analysis of events generated from all security-related infrastructure includingfirewalls, IPS, DLP, SIEM and vulnerability assessment.Directed development and operational team with security best practicesProvided Security Architect ExpertisePerformed Security AuditsOptimized security practices and provided top level executives with risk analysis

Provided consultant services including staff augmentation and platform deployment services, Created base security policies, standards, and procedures to be customized to fit customer requirements. Performed security audits and provided guidance to customers regarding best practices and adherence to security standards including PCI-DSS and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).

Security Operations Center and Network Operations Center Management: Directed internal Security Engineers and external Security Operations/Network Operations team managing large implementations of switches, routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, log collection and other infrastructure solutions including virtual environments.Firewall Management: Controlled a 500+ node, high availability global firewall infrastructure. Responsibilities included ensuring fast fulfillment of rule base requests, rule base audit, incident and problem remediation, hardware and software installation and upgrades.Risk Assessment: Performed Risk Assessment for connectivity requests outside of security policy and provided business partners with alternative, more secure solutions where possible. Provided final approval for security policy exceptions where risk was deemed necessary and acceptable.

Top level operational responsibility for IDS, Firewalls, and Network Equipment including load balancers, firewalls, routers and switches, proxy, accelerators, vulnerability analysis system, intrusion detection system, and log management systemEnsure smooth operation of high availability environmentSolved complex problem escalationsNetwork designDevice installation and configuration Installation of new client VPN connections for Nokia.WAN circuit installation and testingFirewall Security, rule implementation, rule base auditDay to day administration of network and Vendor support.Documentation creation and maintenanceProcess and concept development.IT platforms management

Performed network troubleshooting in a large network consisting of thousands of point to point circuits, a mainframe environment, and distributed environment.