PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Responsibilities:

• Developing and deploying continuous auditing and risk assessment solutions for key IT compliance frameworks, including NIST, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA and help clients with Cloud Security, Network Security, CyberSecurity with VMWARE vCloud, Oracle IAAS OCI - OVM, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Data Security, Data Protection Strategies and Technologies and offering fractional vCISO/ vCPO Services.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed security architecture with Security Teams for enterprise and for security operations and standards, including PCI-DSS, GDPR, NIST 800-37, OWASP and managing Internal & third-party assessments.
• Architected and oversaw migration of company private cloud from AIX/VMware to Oracle Exadata/Exa* and Oracle/ Azure cloud infrastructure and redesigned Disaster Recovery / HA with better RTO/ RPO.
• Project Management with portfolio of 16+ projects with budgets up to $4 Million and participation in strategic vendor relationship management.
• Saved company approx. $1.9 Million by Engineering / Architecting more cost-effective DBAAS RDBMS / Middleware cloud infrastructure solutions while Integrating with vCloud /VSAN solution with HCI Systems.
• Led assessment, design, implementation, and operationalization of multiple security solutions including:
• IAM/IDM deployment Kerberos integration w/ Hortonworks and Cisco UCS, SAML, OAUTH, SSO, Centrify
• Data Protection, Data Security, Data Classification, using encryption solutions using Oracle DB Vault/Key Vault for Oracle DBs, Veritas NetBackup Data Discovery, GDPR eDiscovery.
• Rapid7/Carbon Black POC Integration implementations assisted /planned Internally with regular PCI- DSS Vulnerability Assessments / Penetration Testing / Pen Test and update IR Processes / IRT Procedures, Help simulate CIS Tabletop Exercises/ Scenarios for Cyber Breach / Malware / Cloud Compromise, etc. with Cyber Security and other teams for BIA and IT Risk Assessments.

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Responsibilities:

• Saved company approx. $3 Million by designing new cloud architecture and migrating Oracle ERP applications and Fusion WebLogic Middleware to Oracle Linux with vCloud/Oracle Cloud.
• Improved enterprise security and compliance by supporting implementation of automated patch management and the Implementation of standardized IDM/IAM and automating DevOps processes with vRO Orchestration.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated $2 Million reductions in annual IT costs by designing new Oracle/Cloudera Big Data solution.
• Ensured data security and data protection through the integration of IDM/ IAM with Kerberos/AD/LDAP with Cloudera clusters, assessing and updating security controls, and automating future server builds using CIS images.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Saved regional bank $550,000 in annual fees by conducting a licensing audit of all Oracle platforms.
• Improved security in the environment by auditing all server builds against the gold image, based on The Center for Internet Security (CIS) standards, Improved the Data Loss Prevention processes and standards.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Saved company $1.7 Million in IT operational costs and improved environmental stability by redesigning VM architecture and overseeing Oracle Virtual Infrastructure Architecture implementation.
• Increased server performance, security, reliability by auditing server builds against standard CIS images.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primary architect for new business continuity solutions for Linux, ESX, VMware, and Windows systems, Integration/ with Splunk/ Hadoop SIEM as part of the NGE infrastructure modernization program.
• Audited, improvised Vendor management, Project Management processes, and standarized operation processes on Sharepoint, for implementation and support to ensure all new systems conformed with security, business continuity, DR and Data Protection standards & required IT controls.

Senior Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the integration of major bank acquisition by successfully migrating over 1,000 ESX servers to JP Morgan data center and cloud environment under very tight timelines.
• Improved overall enterprise security, Availability by designing and deploying gold images for all virtual machines and servers ensuring better security posture with Data Protection and Security standards.

Confidential, Addison, TX

Responsibilities:

• Closed major enterprise security gaps by the rearchitecting company data center and instituting new standard security policies and procedures.
• Architected & Implemented new business continuity capabilities from the ground up by implementing DR / HA processes improving operational efficiency, availability, Data Security and Data Protection Standards.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Frameworks: PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, COBIT, NIST, FeDRAMP, TOGAF, OWASP, GDPR, CCPA

Software/Technologies: AWS, AZURE, VMware, vCloud, Windows 2012, Active Directory, Sun Solaris, Unix, Red Hat Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE, Confidential AIX, Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL), VMware, ESX, Oracle VM/Xen OVM, OVCA Appliance, Oracle 10G/12, Oracle EBS 11i/12G, Checkpoint, Apache, SQL Server, Veritas NetBackup, XML, Tomcat, Business intelligence OBIEE, IronPort, Juniper SSL VPN, Nessus, Kali, Nmap, Cisco UCS, LDAP, WebSphere, EMC, Splunk, SolarWinds, SIEM, Xen, Oracle Big Data BDA Appliance, McAfee ePO, Veritas Netbackup, ediscovery, Data Domain, Oracle IAM, Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, HDFS, Kerberos, Docker, CIT, Puppet and Jenkins, ServiceNow ITSM, SIEM

Hardware: Cisco Routers/Switches, Dell EMC CX/Unity, Isilon, Data Domain, Sun Servers, Quantum, SonicWall Security, Checkpoint Firewall, Juniper Appliances, Dell/HP/Confidential/Oracle Blades and Hyperconverged Servers, SAN/NAS, Netapp, Brocade Fibre Channel Switches, iSCSI, ZFS, OVM, UCS, Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics.