SUMMARY:

Experienced and driven Director of Information Technology with a proven track record of leading five cabinet level federal agencies and multiple Confidential 500 companies in the industries of Health, Banking, Media, Manufacturing and Air Transportation. I have over 20+ years of knowledge devoted to performance optimization of large - scale enterprises with exemplary cost saving efficient methodologies in all areas of Information Technology to support any organization to reach their goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Core Competencies: Cloud Security, Cloud Migration to IaaS, VMware and Hyper-V Virtualization, Enterprise IT Architecture, Business Intelligence, Cloud Storage and Big Data, Wireless Network Security, Windows Desktop Support

Platforms: UNIX (Solaris), Centos (Linux) 4, 5, 6.5, 7.5, MS Windows 95/98/NT/XP/Vista/Win 7/ Win 8.0-8.1/Win 10, Server 2000, 2003, 2008R2 with Hyper-V, 2012, 2016 standard & enterprise VMWare player, workstation, vsphere 3.1, 4.1, 5.0 and 5.5, Citrix XenDesktop 3.0 to 7.5 Veeam backup & cloud connect, VMware Cloud Foundation.

Languages: Intro UNIX, Linux, C++, COBOL, JAVA, SQL, DOS, HTML

Tools: AWS CloudFront & IAM, Confidential ORadar, LogRhythm, Solarwinds, Blue Coat, Netforensics with Cisco, Sourcefire with Cisco, Confidential BigFix, Foundstone, Nexpose, Nessus and Comodo, ServiceNow, Cherwell, CA Service Desk, Tipping Point, Check Point, Check Point, Fortinet Firewalls, ASA Firewalls, Symantec, End Point Manager, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6.0, Virus Protection Utility, Symantec VIP, MX Logic, Gmail/Google for business, Websense & IronPort Web Filtering & Email Security Appliance, Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010 Active Directory, MX Logic Utilities, HP Fortify, Encase Forensic 7/8, Entrust Authority Security Manager, Identity Guard Theft Protection and Credit Monitoring, Sailpoint, Oracle Identity Cloud Service, Carbon Black, Confidential BigFix & RESOne.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Director of Information Technology

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Developed Security Operation Procedures for the IM30 group base on Confidential 800-61 r2 for Confidential .
• Consultant with Confidential executive management regarding client strategies and security product joint ventures & alliances to better serve the CEO, EVP and CIO profitability goals for the company.
• Led a team of subject matter expert engineers in the implementation and use of Oracle’s Identity Cloud Service to work with United Airlines Sun Identity Manager/Oracle Waveset on-premise solution.
• Delivered a comprehensive phased road map approach for building a Security Transit
• Managed a nationwide initiative for the implementation of Confidential BigFix and RESOne through team meetings and workshops with the Internal Revenue Service ( Confidential ).
• Developed mitigation strategy with engineers to implement Office 365 and Azure AD premium service with MS Identity Access Management with the Trilogy Education Services.

Director of Information Technology

Confidential, Miami, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Managed and trained 5 onsite employees from Kentucky and South Florida along with 40 offshore employees Tier 2 & 3 coverage for monitoring services of cloud security, vulnerability scanning, threat intelligence, wireless network security, and security patching.
• Created strategic transition modules to ensure accurate knowledge gathering and transferring from managed services of enterprise network security, AWS infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) and AWS Cloud storage at Confidential .
• Led a team of subject matter experts in the implementation and knowledge transfer of Symantec VIP for two factor authentication and Symantec Identity Access Manager (SAM) for Confidential.
• Oversaw the gathering of documentation related to PCI and SOX requirements for Confidential, in which the CIO and CFO had to give their verification via signature that they network credit card information was protected.
• Created and managed a charter for the Vulnerability Assessment Testing (VAT) Team weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting on all non-compliant devices on the network, DMZ and cloud business devices using PCI for Vantiv.
• Led a team of subject manager experts to explore expanding CA Technologies solutions for PCI compliance and IAM within Vantiv to newly acquired companies to eliminate waste.
• Managed a team of 25 direct reports, 35 indirect reports and 50 overseas employees for Catholic Health Initiatives Confidential for 24/7 monitoring of Tier 2 and 3 ticket requests expanding over 104 hospitals and 30 plus clinics nationwide.
• Created and developed Catholic Health Initiatives policy and procedures derived from compliance regulations, statues and accreditation requirements

Senior Network & Security Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in managing 160 employees comprised of Network Engineers/Architects, System Administrators/Analyst, Security Analyst/Engineers, Database Engineers, Program/Project Managers and Lead Technical Analyst/Engineers.
• Provided direct technology support and organizational leadership within the weekly Change Management meetings geared to improve the overall service level and capacity management of Tier 1, 2 and 3 employees.
• Delivered structure and knowledge to smaller divisions within the agency utilizing AWS GovCloud services to host internal websites and backup local data.
• Effectively implemented risk and cost saving measures to neutralize network security gaps within our intranet and demilitarized zone (DMZ), which prevented the leak of government secure information to the public.
• Developed and gathered network & security infrastructure metrics to present to senior executive during the bi-weekly steering committee.
• Directed the certification and accreditation activities (C&A) for audit support with KPMG reviews and improvement development of the Security Operation Center (SOC).
• Oversaw and worked hands-on with FedRAMP requirements for the security architect design for AWS GovCloud.
• Led the agency-wide Citrix upgrade and XenDesktop 7.5 deployment contract which supported the implementation of the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 signed by President Barak Obama.
• I created and developed policy and procedures in the establishment of Confidential ’s first Security Operation Center (SOC), where I assisted the CISO in job description creation along with hiring of staff.
• Oversaw the development of the SOC into a Confidential moving from multiple shift overlapping at different times during a 12-hour period to a 24/7 work schedule.

Senior IT Specialist/Program Manager

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Directly managed 12 Confidential contractors, developed budget & finance data tracking to display profitability improvements derived from an agency wide joint alliance.
• Provided strategic planning, financial and network implementation updates for senior executives during weekly or bi-weekly steering committees.
• Conceived and reengineered Cobol programs to manage US citizens tax returns within the Confidential environment during production and testing phases throughout the fiscal year.

IT Helpdesk Associate/Bank Manager

Confidential, Oxon Hill, Maryland

Responsibilities:

• Worked a weekend shift in the IT helpdesk call center in support of internal employees and external customers computing needs.
• Coordinated with customers and Branch leadership to schedule financial investment appointments and meetings to discuss investment opportunities and to present proposals for promotional consideration to the Branch leadership.
• Oversaw the daily operations of Branch activities, which includes managing and ensuring proper training and development of a staff of 8 banking professionals.