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Kirkland, WA, US

Boca Raton, Florida, US

Lead enterprise cybersecurity, compliance, and product security at ADT.

Appointed to serve on a subcommittee of the POTUS’ National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) tasked with developing recommendations to the President of the United States on cybersecurity.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Lead cybersecurity strategy, architecture, security assurance, governance, risk management, compliance, vulnerability management, pentest, bug bounty, and Business Information Security Officers (BISOs) for all lines of.
• Lead compliance programs: PCI DSS, CMMC, NIST-800-171, NIST-800-53, SOC2 Type II, SOC2 Type I, ISO 27001, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
• Lead 400+ person organization, accountable for budget planning and execution.
• Prepare briefing materials and periodically brief Board of Directors.
• T-Mobile: 75,000+ employees, 7,500+ retail stores, huge retail partner network, multi-billion-dollar B2B business, global call center infrastructure, ~$80B in revenue, $173B market cap, deemed critical infrastructure.

Seattle, WA, US

• Group leader of a global multidisciplinary team that included Security Specialist Solutions Architects, Technical Business Development Managers, and regional Executive Security Advisors located around the world
• Brought the latest disruptive, cutting-edge cloud computing technologies to bear on cybersecurity challenges facing public sector customers around the world
• Cybersecurity advisor to CxO roles in Public Sector organizations, national security agencies, financial services firms, energy companies, and other industry verticals.
• Led cross-geography security initiatives at AWS, such as the cross-company anti- ransomware initiative
• Provided thought leadership via webinars, blogs, articles, videos, speaking at AWS and industry events, and conferences.
• Helped customers comply with GDPR, PCI DSS, CMMC, NIST-800-171, NIST-800-53, SOC2 Type II, SOC2 Type I, ISO 27001.

Seattle, WA, US

• Leader of international team of cybersecurity advisors to federal and provincial/state governments, pan-European institutions, national security agencies, healthcare and educational institutions, non-profit.
• Advised CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, Data Protection Officers, security teams, and regulators how the Cloud can improve their cybersecurity and compliance postures, address GDPR, mitigate CLOUD Act risks, among other business.
• Provided thought industry leadership via webinars, blogs, articles, videos, speaking at AWS and industry events and conferences
• Extensive business travel in EMEA to meet with customers, partners, and market influencers
• Key results: - Built EMEA security team from scratch (recruiting, hiring, strategy, priorities) - Helped expand AWS’ Public Sector business in EMEA from less than 50 FTEs to more than 1,000 and helped drive revenue.

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

• Las Vegas Sands: 50,000+ employees, $12B in revenue, $50B market cap
• Senior global cybersecurity leader responsible for cybersecurity strategy and architecture for multiple lines of business including hotels, resorts, gaming/casinos, convention centers, retail malls and restaurants.
• Managed group that designed and implemented network and system level security for properties located in the US, Singapore, and Macao, China including the Venetian Las Vegas, the Palazzo Las Vegas, the Sands Expo &.
• Global CTO for cybersecurity - owned cybersecurity product/service selection process
• Responsible for vision, development, and execution of the company’s global cybersecurity strategy
• Prepare briefing materials for quarterly Board of Directors meetings

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managed marketing communications, public relations, and analyst relations for all security, identity, and enterprise mobility product lines produced in the Cloud & Enterprise division at Microsoft including Microsoft.
• Official Microsoft cybersecurity spokesperson working directly with subsidiary marketing and communications teams, multiple outside PR agencies; interviews with press, analysts and market influencers
• Primary contributor to the popular Microsoft Cyber Trust blog focused on security and cloud topics
• Delivered many press and analyst briefings around the world, participated in cybersecurity panels at industry conferences such as Cloud Security Alliance Summit, Milken Institute Global Conference
• Key Results: - Helped develop global go to market plans for Enterprise Mobility Suite versions E3 and E4

Redmond, Washington, US

• Most senior security advisor for Microsoft’s largest enterprise and public sector customer accounts
• Directly managed Microsoft's relationships with CISOs and security executives of Microsoft's largest enterprise accounts
• Briefed CISOs and their teams on threat intelligence and technical mitigations to protect, detect, and respond to threats to them; took their feedback to Microsoft product teams
• Leader of Microsoft’s customer CISO Council/advisory board
• Provided thought leadership via blog posts, videos, speaking at conferences and industry events including RSA Conferences, ISC2 Congress, ISSA International Conference, Security Education Conference Toronto and many.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Leader in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division managing Microsoft's global security and privacy reputation
• Led Product Management and Marketing Communications for the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, the Microsoft Security Response Center, and the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) group
• Managed the Microsoft security intelligence program that provided Microsoft enterprise customers with global threat intelligence; conducted thousands of threat intelligence briefings around the world
• Managed production and go to market plan for 20+ volumes of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR), as well as numerous security programs, tools and services
• Official spokesperson for security response issues (crisis communications) at Microsoft and worked with dedicated PR team and multiple outside PR agencies; hundreds of interviews with press, analysts and market.
• Provided industry thought leadership via the Official Microsoft Security Blog, Trustworthy Computing Blog, keynotes and sessions at major industry conferences

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managed development of multiple networking features in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 including the Network Diagnostics Framework (NDF), the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), the networking features of.
• Authored technical specifications: wrote functional specifications for features in Windows operating systems that developers and testers used to develop features
• Scheduling: scheduled all aspects of each project including development, test, UI design, SDK development, help content, release management
• Managed feature bugs: filed and triaged bugs in networking features for resolution
• Wrote a Software Development Resource Kit (SDK) documenting APIs for third party developers

Redmond, Washington, US

• Technical leader of Microsoft’s customer facing Security Incident Response Team (100+ people worldwide)
• Helped build and operate Microsoft's global Software and Services Incident Response Plan (SSIRP)
• Conducted thousands of incident response investigations for Microsoft enterprise customers worldwide; provided technical support for all security updates and anti-malware solutions from Microsoft
• Developed new incident response tools for conducting live forensics on customers' Windows based systems, using C/C++ and C# programming languages including Port Reporter and WOLF
• Technical Lead for all major security incidents including SQL Slammer, MSBlaster, MyDoom, Sasser, etc.;
• Worked closely with the Microsoft Response Center (MSRC) to identify and develop mitigation strategies and technologies to combat hackers, worms and malware

Redmond, Washington, US

• Technical leader for 150 support engineers specializing in Microsoft networking technologies including Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Windows.
• Reviewed and published technical TechNet articles and Webcasts
• Developed many popular support utilities for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Support Tools using C/C++ and C# including PortQry, DNSLint, Browcon, NBLookup, SPCheck

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Masters Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing, Management

Computer Systems Technology (Honors), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science, Psychology