Brad Hall Email & Phone Number

Charleston, Sc, Us

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States

Responsible for enhancing and maintaining the security and compliance for the company by working cross-functionally with other leaders in the company and their teams. • Enhanced Compliance: Strengthened the company’s compliance posture by expanding SOC 2 Type 2 compliance from Security TSP to include Confidentiality and Privacy in my first 6 months.• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborated seamlessly with various departments, to ensure security alignment and proactive measures throughout the organization. • Sales Support and Finance/Legal Collaboration: Collaborated closely with the Sales team, Finance, and Legal departments to respond to security questionnaires, negotiate Terms & Conditions (T&C), Data Processing Agreements (DPA), and other essential legal documents. Additionally, actively participated in customer calls to address security inquiries, contributing to increased sales closures.• State Certification: Successfully led efforts to obtain TX-RAMP certification, aligning the company with Texas-specific compliance requirements and enhancing client relationships within the region.• Automated Compliance Solution: Implemented an audit automation solution that continuously monitors evidence collection requirements, demonstrating ongoing compliance and reducing manual effort.• Cost Savings Technology Migration: Successfully orchestrated the migration of the company's phone and video conferencing systems from RingCentral to Zoom, resulting in a remarkable 48% reduction in annual expenses. This initiative not only significantly lowered operational costs but also improved communication and collaboration capabilities across the organization.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Responsible for Compliance and Security, corporate IT initiatives, DevOps, and working cross-functionally with others in the company to achieve company goals.• Standardization and Mobility: Implemented internal IT infrastructure standardization that introduced a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution, Mosyle Business, for company-provided MacBook devices, enabling efficient and secure management for a mobile workforce. Managed core IT infrastructure systems, including multiple office firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, endpoint protection, and Google for Business implementation.• Supervised, compiled results, and coordinated testing of our annual outsourced Web Application Pentest and provided all actionable items to our CTO and Development team to resolve application vulnerabilities. • Security Compliance Leadership: Led the SOC 2 Type 2 (all 5 Trust Service Principles) compliance initiative, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define scope, document policies and procedures, and implement technical controls. Achieved a zero-discrepancy ("clean") SOC 2 Type 2 report.• DevOps and SaaS Migration: Supervised and supported an outsourced DevOps team during the migration of the SaaS platform to a new CI/CD AWS Infrastructure, ensuring SOC 2 compliance requirements were met.• Cost Optimization: Achieved a 45% reduction in AWS costs while maintaining security, functionality, and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) requirements.• Productivity Suite Migration: Supervised the migration from Google Suite to Microsoft 365 through outsourced teams, ensuring a smooth transition.

Mount Pleasant, Sc

● Led an eight-member team (3 Network Admins, 5 PC Techs) responsible for computer and network systems design, installation, maintenance, and connectivity alignment with company goals.● Compiled and presented annual Pentest results to company leadership, driving vulnerability resolution efforts to enhance security.● Orchestrated out-of-state office moves, coordinating circuit installation, cabling design, network rack configuration, and on-site support. ● Implemented storage migration from EMC to Pure, upgraded backup storage to ExaGrid, and enhanced the storage fabric, resolving performance issues.● Led VMware infrastructure optimization, addressing user connectivity and software timeout issues.● Spearheaded the implementation of SD-WAN at remote sites, significantly reducing monthly expenses by leveraging lower-cost ISPs instead of MPLS.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

(Acquired PeopleMatter in June 2016)As a member of PeopleMatter’s management team, I worked with my counterparts at Snagajob to ensure a smooth transition of IT Systems for both companies. ● Led the successful migration of PeopleMatter's Exchange server and Google Drive to Snagajob's Google implementation, resulting in $18k/year savings and improved productivity. ● Standardized the company on an encrypted password management solution.● Negotiated and led the migration from Join.me over to GoTo Meeting, saving over $10k/year● Implemented a unified endpoint protection solution for streamlined management. ● Spearheaded the adoption of Veeam backup software for Corporate IT BCDR.● Implemented DMARC for domain security and authentication of e-mail services. ● Led the TechOps Team efforts in all aspects of SOC2 compliance. This included GAP analysis early in the year as 2017 was Snagajob’s first year working with SOC2. Participating with the Leadership Team in writing several policies, working with department managers to understand the policies, and working with auditors to provide proof that we are maintaining compliance.● Led the TechOps Team in all aspects of our Charleston office move. Migrated our server room in 32 hours over a weekend with full connectivity available by Sunday afternoon. Engaged with electrical, cabling, property management and security vendors to ensure the office would be fully completed by our move in date.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Ensured that my team aligned our efforts to better support the growth of the company and that all team members had the technology they need to do their jobs securely, efficiently, and productively. ● Directed Corporate IT initiatives, including budgeting, performance reviews, coaching/mentoring team members, vendor management, and SOC 2 compliance.● Led my team to complete and maintain our SOC 2 compliance each year from 2014 onward with no exceptions on our SOC 2 report. This included writing all Corporate IT Policies and updating them each year as required.● Designed and implemented our Corporate IT BCDR environment (RPO went from 7 days to 5 minutes, near real time)● Consistently under budget while still effectively accomplishing corporate technology initiatives

Charleston, South Carolina Area

● Led a team of 2 Systems Engineers and 1 Help Desk Technician● Worked with Sr. Mgmt. to design, engineer, implement and document our move from our office in North Charleston to downtown Charleston● Led my team in moving our entire corporate infrastructure from our North Charleston facility to our new location in downtown Charleston over a weekend and in less than 40 hours (My team won the company’s highest award, the Rock Star award for this project. It was the only time that an entire department won this award.)● Successfully migrated our phone system from our internal Trixbox PBX to a hosted solution with EarthLink during our corporate office/datacenter move

North Charleston, Sc

● Managed corporate IT and DevOps infrastructure, implementing and securing the SaaS environment.● Saved the company thousands per month by migrating SaaS infrastructure to GoGrid.● Optimized and redesigned the corporate network, Active Directory, VPN, and other systems.● Implemented badge access, endpoint security, and patch/vulnerability management.● Deployed and maintained the internal PBX system, including creating and maintaining the ACD Queue and IVR