PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Leverages entrepreneurial vision, pragmatic leadership, and dynamic change management to advance business objectives such as business expansion, optimizing cash flow, decreasing total cost of IT ownership and market dominance in startup and established environments.
• Excels in leading large - scale IT programs and operations, offering proven success Confidential building and directing IT services for internal and external clients.
• Proactively initiates, develops and manages business strategy and technology integration/alignment/synergy/partnerships for high-performance IT organizations to successfully design, build, support and operate a business enterprise.
• Confidential is a proven proactive leader for multinational efforts, international business initiatives, and transparent impactful communications with worldwide stakeholders and strategic partners.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Information Security Architect

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Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system architectures and networking infrastructure for adherence to Confidential information security policies and standards, and to develop appropriate requirements that enforce Confidential policies and standards.
• Securing / “sanitizing” the legacy Confidential environment; continuous improvement
• Reviewed network architecture for adherence to Confidential information security policies.
• Risk assessment/analysis of exceptions to Confidential information security policies.
• Delivered consulting services to various Confidential organizations, Confidential HQ and/or Confidential the manufacturing centers dependent on the project requirements, to develop appropriate risk treatment and mitigation options.
• Effectively delivered findings on multiple simultaneous fast-paced projects and tasks concurrently.
• Effectively articulate findings and recommendations to IT project teams and management.
• For those projects not meeting Confidential information security policies and standards, work with the project teams for any changes needed whereas the project can now be in adherence to Confidential information security policies and standards.
• Primary infrastructure elements: Cisco routers & switches, Juniper routers, F5 Networks load balancers, Palo Alto Networks firewalls; MS Server 2014/2016, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM OS/2; MS SQL Server, Oracle database
• DevSecOps and primary cloud partners: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure

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Qualified Security Assessor

Responsibilities:

• Independent Cyber Risk Management Advisor / Senior Security Consultant
• Conduct assessments to determine whether the business has met the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard ( Confidential ) v3.1 requirements, either as required or by compensating controls; for areas of deficiency, a remediation analysis was conducted to recommend actions needed for businesses (primarily retail) to meet Confidential v3.1 requirements.

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Sr. Program Manager / Scrum Coach

Responsibilities:

• Led implementation of Agile/Scrum (with Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe, attributes) processes and procedures for the Tech Mahindra PMO, tracking and reporting via Rally, then transitioned from a solely tactical focus to a balanced tactical/strategic enterprise focus; managed a $50M/year program portfolio; and, supported the Confidential & Confidential Foundry DevOps organization.
• Directed PMO process implementation and ensured that information concerning content (deliverables, risks, issues) passed to and from sponsors; improved consistency, predictability and efficiency of the organization project delivery capability consistent with customer expectations and Confidential & Confidential best practices policies and procedures.

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Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Responsibilities:

• Duties of Divisional Director: financial & budgeting management, ITO/service operations, enterprise applications, enterprise service management, strategic IT development plans, VMS (vendor management); directed ITIL; direct report to CEO. Designed, implemented and directed the IT (includes Java, .NET and HTML5 DevOps) 42,500 CPUs infrastructure for radio-surgery, radio-therapy & diagnostic imaging Oncology medical clinic & co-located resort hotel. Created policies and procedures for personnel to manage and verify vendor SLAs and deliverables. Developed and implemented strategy for operational management and development to meet performance targets; established and maintained performance metrics’ systems for measuring operational management and development. Bottom line cost savings of more than 60% of initial start-up estimated $32 million CAPEX budget for IT infrastructure; doubled ROI and utilization rates of standalone surgical centers and hotel industry benchmarks. Identify IT gaps; coordinate with CFO to fund the design/build/operate/continuous-improvement of in-house infrastructure, cloud healthcare exchange, cloud PCI Payment Island, Supply Chain Operations, and PMO operations
• Duties of Confidential Director / Scrum Coach: Established and directed Enterprise Project Management Office (Management-by-Objectives, SDLC, and Agile/Scrum (with Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe, attributes) processes and procedures for delivery of integrated products/services); financial & strategic analysis; established and maintains governance, best practices, processes/procedures, program/project management tools, and documentation; hands-on program manager for key business strategic initiatives.
• Duties of IS-Compliance Director: Designed, implemented and directed the Vulnerability Management and Business Continuity framework; best practices’ processes, procedures, and training for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), GLBA, FISMA, ITIL/ITSM, COBIT, and ISO/IEC 20K. Designed, implemented and directed corporate IT security infrastructure (IDS, IPS, firewall, etc.) of EMR/EHR/HIE and HIS/RIS, incorporating ITIL v3 and HITRUST’s CSF framework; compliance infrastructure for HIPAA and ICD-9 for USA, and ICD-10, JCI, Confidential v1.2 to v3.0, and NHI/NHS standards (includes HL7) for Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Costa Rica.
• Duties of Chief Infrastructure Architect: Implemented and directed the Infrastructure Design & Engineering Services (IDES) framework; implemented and directed Cisco’s Medical Grade Network 2.0 Security Architecture and the Cisco Containerized Data Centers with Unified Communications and Unified Computing System; Cisco IronPort (RSA AA); Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel; OpenEMR & OpenERP; Oblong Mezzanine for physician collaboration. SaaS to deliver desired business unit specific and/or enterprise-wide applications throughout the company. Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) migration from private cloud to AWS. Data center migration from USA to Panama

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Divisional General Manager

Responsibilities:

• Duties of Departmental Director: Managed, monitored, measured, controlled and reported departmental costs, cash flow, major projects’ status, operational issues, supply chain operations, business opportunities, development plans and achievements to C-level Executives. Developed and implemented strategy for operational management and development to meet performance targets; established and maintained performance metrics’ systems for measuring operational management and development. Directed the design, implementation, and operation of an Information System Security (ISS) Infrastructure, overseeing initial benchmarking, gap analysis, regulatory assessments, forensics, and policy reviews. Created and manages policies and procedures for business continuity and disaster recovery operations and directed the creation of a proactive computer security incident response team to provide added protection and preparation in case of threats, problems, or events; headed initial compliance testing, vulnerability scanning, and testing/solutions
• Duties of Confidential Director: Established and directed Enterprise Project Management Office (IT infrastructure, CBPM and PMI; software development, SDLC and Agile/Scrum); direct hands-on for projects exceeding $10 million in business impact and/or of key strategic significance. Established and maintains best practices, tools, documentation as well as policies and procedures for direct accountability of deliverables; directed formal code reviews to ensure corporate quality/security requirements. Led senior staff in addressing products and/or services issues and in identifying training needs to improve PMO function and delivery. Directed new business reviews for quality, scope, operational feasibility, and business strategic alignment. SaaS to deliver desired business unit specific and/or enterprise-wide applications throughout the client company(s). Major Projects:

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Senior Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engineering lead and architect, managed services and operations, delivery project management (utilizing dynamic systems development method ( Confidential ) that evolved to be part of the Agile alliance methodology, with Scrum), strategic planning, business development, account management, and P&L of $40 million yearly net income obligation as part of an $800M yearly net income division; managed 6 direct reports and 75 personnel overall for client services delivery of network consulting, security information systems consulting, performance base lining, implementation and integration, configuration and staging, and maintenance