SUMMARY:

• C - level Senior Security Officer/executive and trusted advisor to C- Levels, Board of Directors Agency heads and GS15s.
• Expert at managing a global IT and network security organization providing IT, network and security operations center functions for major Fortune 500 and Federal intelligence/homeland security agencies.
• Provided 7x24 NOC, SOC, Service desk ITIL standardized functions.
• Expert vulnerability threat assessment and mitigation, CSIRT, watch desk, firewall/ proxy management. Deployment and 7x24 operations of SIEM systems, Tripwire, Qualys, Qradar, LogRhythm, Commodo End Point Management, Baracuda WAF, Radware WAF, CyberArk privileged access management, Netcool, MARS, Arc Sight, EPO, WSUS, ISS- Proventia, Enterysys, OPENLDAP, OPENAM, PING IDENTITY, HP Openview, Cisco ASA firewalls, Blue Coat and Zscalar proxies ArcSight, Netcool, ISS, Entersys, EPO, WSUS, Splunk etc.
• Provide technical guidance in security architecture, security applications design, and deployment.
• Experienced in evaluating networks and security vulnerabilities, daily management of production security systems including firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, antivirus, patch management, and encryption.
• Deployment of infrastructure with FISMA, NIST, FEDRAMP,NISPON, HIPAA and PCI frameworks/standards.
• Experienced with compliance with FISMA,HIPAA and PCI.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IT Security Infrastructure: Tripwire, Qualys, Qradar, LogRhythm, Commodo End Point Management, Baracuda WAF, Radware WAF, CyberArk privileged access management, Netcool, MARS, Arc Sight, EPO, WSUS, ISS- Proventia, Enterysys, OPENLDAP, OPENAM, PING IDENTITY, HP Openview, Cisco ASA firewalls, Blue Coat and Zscalar proxies.

IP Networking and Telecommunications Technologies: IP networking. MPLS, IP routers, switches, firewalls, proxies, Design, engineering and implementation of large fiber optic networks, Network surveillance and alarm monitor systems, Design, engineer and implement Broadband CATV networks (cable, HFC telephony, Internet), Packet switching with Dynamic Alternate Routing, Recognized expert at developing and deploying IP networks with MPLS, LAN/WANS. Satellite, Cellular and wireless (802.11) transmission technologies, Security, Network and SD operations centers deployment with ITIL.

Software: Enterprise Security systems MARS, ArcSight, Netcool, ISS, Entersys, EPO, WSUS, Remedy DNS, DHCP, Radius, Hp Openview, Netcool, Mercury Interactive, Metasolv), Applications Portal billing, CRM (Clarify, Siebel), ecommerce (Broadvision), supply chain management (Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, SAP, Oracle), ACCESS, EXCEL.

Management: 150 plus software architects, designers and integration personnel on large developmental programs.1200 network and IT personnel, Over $300 million in capital and $420 million in revenues.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Chief Information Security Officer

• Identified “crown jewels” to protect for the Enterprise.
• Presented to C-levels a 30/60/90 day plan with a customized Cyber Security technical, and organizational solution befitting a manufacturer.
• Within the first 60 days already moved the needle wrt Cyber Security visibility and protection.
• Providing technology lift to 17year old legacy IT infrastructure.
• Deployed security tools Qradar, Tripwire, Qualys and Comodo.
• Ensured maximum utilization of functional intelligence provided by these tools.
• Managing over 1000 servers, 1700 desktops, laptops and 175 applications.
• Presented to C-levels Cyber Security organization structure and IT Security technical infrastructure and well on the way to staffing the organization and building the infrastructure.

Confidential . Denver, CO

Manager

• Manage a global staff of Agile, aggressive, innovative technical SME personnel in India, Romania, Brazil and Mexico in the areas of Single Sign On (user and applications boarding),ID and Access Management, End Point (400K employee workstations) management, Certificate of Authority, Graded Trust, Virus and Malware management, end point Wireless management, Global Phishing Simulation and exercise.
• Upgrading/ modifying the current state of the art products (QRadar, ISAM, IBMCA, Graded Trust, etc.) and integrating into existing Confidential infrastructure. Our modifications are then released as product enhancements in future releases of Confidential products.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Head of Global Outsourcing

• Provided to the CEO, CIO, and CFO a 5-year roadmap for outsourcing/offshore in sourcing and transitioning of core service provider operating functions.
• Project managed the entire enterprise undertaking. A total of over $320 million of infrastructure was transitioned into India and China.
• Deployed networked multi continental disaster recovery.
• Managed local networks /ordering, provisioning and turn-up of network facilities and circuits in 120 countries.
• Managed global network control centers and dispatching for trouble fix in 120 countries.
• Deployed and operated a SOC and NOC with Voyence, Netcool, Cisco Works,NetQoS, Cisco ACS (TACACS), Cisco Security Manager, McAfee TOPS, Cisco MARS, WSUS, Enterasys Dragon, ArcSight, Tenable Nessus.
• Managed global outsourcing team in Australia, India, Kuala Lumpur, France, US. Provided RFP, RFI structure to procurement.
• Supported all operating divisions of the company (Finance, A/P, A/R, G/L, Billing, marketing/sales, MIS/IT, Network Operations, Data Centre, call centers.
• Worked with COO, CFO, Business Unit Heads, Senior IT Executives, participate in the development of strategic sourcing strategies and vendor relationship management strategies focused on application development and maintenance.
• Provided C-Levels with 3 year ROADMAP.

Confidential Co., Chicago, Ill

COO/CTO

• Organized a data center outsourcing, Applications Services Management, web hosting / IT outsourcing firm.
• Built 17 metro markets worldwide in 20 months each market with 200,000 sq ft data centers and over 4000 Unix, NT servers and EMC storage complexes in meshed software/hardware architecture.
• Directed and managed services strategy and architectures for—Managed services hosting, applications management, performance management, Business Assurance Guarantees (SLAs), customer experience and custom Dashboards. Architected, deployed and operated a centralized SOC and NOC and a distributed SD. Netcool, WSUS, EPO, Retina, CISCO
• Project managed and directed and built data centers internal designs and associated network infrastructure design.
• Planned, built and operated 17, 200,000 sq ft data centers.
• Initially staffed with 25 each growing to 100 personnel in each.
• Built and operated a 500 seat service desk inside our data centers worldwide.
• Directed the backbone and routing strategy and issued RFP for 10,000 miles of OC48 bandwidth nationwide.
• Employees—increased from 5 to 180 in 10 months.

Confidential, Denver, CO

CTO

• Organized a venture backed firm into a full-fledged Broadband ISP network service operating company and took it for an IPO through Lehman Bros.
• Engineering - Project managed the deployment of 10 major metro area market networks a week in cable operator’s territory. Over $30 million capital managed. Provided high-speed backbone, IP, MPLS expertise and created peer-to-peer relationship with backbone providers. Created 2 Superpops, 2 large hosting data centers (30,000 sq ft each) and 2 NOCS.
• Software Systems engineering- directed and managed the software systems strategy and architecture. This included UNIX and NT based systems for billing, customer services, network management, flow through services provisioning, radius and DNS services etc. all integrated into a cohesive whole.
• Developed a residential backup and disaster recovery service. Total of 110 software engineers.
• Operations- created and operated 2 customer service centers (call centers) and 2 Network Operating centers. (Louisville and Denver) with staff increased from 15 to 75 all in 4 months.
• Call waiting times reduced from 30 minutes to 2 minutes over a period of 2months.
• Created a field operations organization with technical support in 4 regions.
• Integrated and deployed UNIX and NT based Portal (billing), Micormuse Netcool, and Metasolv, Remedy trouble ticket management and HP OPENVIEW network alarming and surveillance systems on large server (HP9000) complexes. JIT, ERP implemented using JDEdwards on 1 assembly location, 110 distribution locations, 25 vendors, 350 SKUs.
• Program Planning—created an implementation and program planning support group to assist in the deployment of 10 markets per week.
• Employees—increased from 80 to 510 in 8 months

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Regional VP

• Project managed over $365 million in capital and infrastructure deployment. As part of project management created a financial management board to assist in the overall management of capital and revenue cash flow.
• Implemented a regional organization structure targeted to an integrated services (CATV, telco, HSD) offering.
• Consolidated/integrated 7 large autonomous markets functionally (construction, engineering, supply management)
• Implemented a strong construction capital management process.
• Built and put into service 4 NOCs. Over $65 million in capital savings through engineering redesign.
• Redirected construction efforts saving over $55 million.
• Built 5000 miles of cable (3.5x miles/3x capital over 97) Implemented ERP/supply chain management with PeopleSoft on 8 warehouses, 6 maintenance locations, 220 vendors and 2500 SKUs.
• Engineered - CATV--20, 000 miles of plant, 8 headends, and 45 hub sites.
• Construction - Managed a total of 28 construction companies. Supply/asset management--warehousing, purchasing, inventory management, fleet management Network operations- all control centers, preventative maintenance, reverse plant management, operations to the tap.
• Network and Data Center Management ;- Constructed, deployed and managed 5 data centers (each 10,000 sq ft), 5 call centers (each 80 seats) and 5 NOCS (each 15 seats)
• Capital management - $365 million Employees---380