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Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Lead Corvus engineering and data science teams from Series C investment to successful acquisition by Travelers Insurance Company. Corvus leverages AI models to predict and prevent risk and claims, improve underwriting, and provide data analytics and business intelligence to our brokers and policyholders. I implemented cloud native DevOps, MLOPS automated pipelines and modern Data Engineering data product practices to enable the company to scale and rapidly adapt our underwriting , risk and pricing models to market conditions

Boston, Ma, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Retained as Executive Advisor to the Founder and CEO on cyber technology and emerging markets, supporting the continued success of the cybersecurity start-up.

San Jose, California, Us

Operations and technical leader for an early-stage start-up in Silicon Valley. Led marketing, product development, and early market development for technologies. Wrote business plans, drafted datasheets, assembled customer-facing decks, and created market competitive analysis and investment decks. Focused engineering investment on delivery of solution for automating playbook for endpoint IR by providing full forensic state analysis with deep host inspection.

Mclean, Va, Us

Manage a complex organization of software engineers as well as cyber, technology, and ML engineers focused on threat and risk mitigation controls for multiple security domains, including data protection, application security, security scanning, and detection and mitigation as well as network and perimeter security platforms. Work closely with CISO and divisional line of business CIOs to set security strategy and continue close integration of security controls and scanning throughout design, development, test, and release cycles. Work in regulatory frameworks, such as ISO/IEC 27001, SOX, PCI, and NIST CSF, as well as data privacy standards GDPR and CPRA.● Establish new design standards for bot and WAF protection, and migrated significant number of production applications behind the new centralized network service.● Roll out key security controls for containers and endpoint detection and response across the enterprise.● Migrate to next-gen SIEM solution.● Integrate SAST, SCA, and DAST scanning into managed and automated development pipelines.

San Jose, California, Us

Served as research and engineering leader for McAfee Labs after McAfee was spun out of Intel. Acted as a core member of enterprise solutions leadership, team creating McAfee’s “Device to Cloud” delivery and go-to-market strategy, as well as product portfolio, revamp. Led development of new endpoint threat protection and cloud-based classification and intelligence solutions for portfolio, accumulating 100 patents within the last six years. Served as solution owner for McAfee’s first commercial machine learning-based behavioral analytics, AWS-based cloud platform for consumer, and endpoint products, ● Solution leader for McAfee Global Threat Intelligence Cloud Service, delivering 55 billion security queries (File, Cert, URL, and IP reputations) per day from 100 million active clients to McAfee Enterprise. ● Incubated security innovations, including emerging cyber threat analysis, prioritizing research agenda and commercialization of next-gen detection and protection security technologies, cloud-based global threat intelligence services, and device security controls as part of core product solutions.● Established quality initiatives to ensure development processes produced secure, high-quality software and content.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Played a key role in guiding integration into larger corporate structures. Continued to advance the company's mission to increase research and intelligence-gathering capabilities, protect and build technology, and provide best-in-class protection solutions in malware, host and network intrusion, email, vulnerability, and web security. Managed research engagements with Purdue University (CERIAS), Queen’s University Belfast, and Royal Holloway University of London.● Drove collaborative partnerships with Intel Science and Technology Center on security and privacy research as well as UC Berkeley and Drexel University on machine learning/analytics for malware, URL, and domain classification. Improved scalability of similarity comparison on malware behavior in execution traces.● Co-founded Cyber Threat Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving cybersecurity of the global digital ecosystem by enabling near real-time, high-quality cyber threat information, sharing among companies and organizations in cybersecurity.● Led award-winning team in receiving coveted 2016 Intel Achievement Award for outstanding execution in cybersecurity.

San Jose, California, Us

McAfee was acquired by Intel and became a wholly owned subsidiary. Rebuilt McAfee Labs organization and embedded a culture of quality, agility, focus, and operational excellence across PM, engineering, and delivery teams. Developed and tested new cloud and data analytics-based solutions that would drive growth for McAfee enterprise and consumer products. Led team of 600 multi-disciplined personnel in 30 worldwide locations. Managed budget of $60 million per annum. Led development and execution of rollout plans covering all aspects of new product introduction: legal/trade compliance, licensing, packaging, services, support and sales training, and channel enablement.● Fixed main broken area of McAfee’s core business, taking McAfee’s endpoint detection effectiveness rates from bottom to top of vendor rankings according to industry-leading AVTest.org.● Drove major improvements in engineering agility, quality, and operational safety of security protection delivered by McAfee Labs, achieving one of lowest false rates and highest quality of service in industry.

San Jose, California, Us

Acted as solution leader for the global security team located across the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Japan, Taiwan, China, and India. Provided and aligned core protection solutions for the company's security products for enterprise and Norton brand (consumer), ensuring security intelligence gathered from the global intelligence network proved actionable for customers. Served as key member of the business and technical acquisition team for multiple security and technology acquisitions, including DeepSight Global Intelligence Network. Co-founded the Anti-Spyware Coalition, working to build consensus around definitions and best practices for how organizations addressed adware and spyware. Early Symantec Roles:● Director/Senior Director of Development – Symantec Security Response, 1999-2008● Manager, International Engineering & Configuration Management, 1995-1999● Localization Program Manager (located in Dublin, Ireland), 1994-1995

Oversaw design and development of equipment for validating magneto-optical disk quality, including software control for mechanical disk handling systems. Served as member of Irish Quality Association’s software committee from 1992 to 1995. Presented paper on software quality at fourth European Conference on Software Quality in Basel, Switzerland in 1994.

Exton, Pa, Us

Led design of firmware for office automation systems, including digital scanners and storage systems.