Information Security Cloud Architect Resume
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Houston, TX
SUMMARY
- I’m a multi - platform Cloud trained and certified Security Consultant. Action oriented, hands-on team leader with proven record of success bringing multiple projects to completion on time and within budget.
- Extremely well organized, possess excellent problem solving skills, excellent communication and very experienced with helping companies with their Digital Transformation and Service Delivery models.
- Executing on Cloud Security engagements during different phases of the lifecycle, design, and implementation.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Network Infrastructure Development LAN/WAN/METRO-E
- IT Infrastructure Project Management
- Solid understanding of the overall Cloud infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, CloudFormation etc.)
- Proficient in networking and network security
- Experience developing, documenting and maintaining security policies, processes, procedures and standards
- Security Policy creation & Vulnerability Assessments
- Risk Assessments and Business Impact Analyst
- GAAP, AICPA, CobiT, COSO, OWASP, ISO
- Network & Audit Tools (Solarwinds, Wireshark, Nessus, Archer, Slunk, IDS/IPS, Security tools in AWS )
- Data Center Migration
- Compliance (PCI, SOX, HIPAA & Privacy Compliance, NIST 800-53A
- Risk Management
- Strategy/ Technology Roadmaps
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Houston, TX
Information Security Cloud Architect
Responsibilities:
- Leading an Digital Transformation effort to create processes that create and enable, manage services that deliver new application solutions
- Implementing and managing Cloud security, automation, AWS, Amazon Web Services, and Azure, deployments, salt, puppet, chef, configuration management, IDS, IPS, MFA, multi-factor authentication, security frameworks and implementing defined monitoring, metrics, and logging solutions. Developing automated solutions to monitor and support our software development and release processes.
- Tools/Platforms used; Cloud platforms AWS, Azure; Agile project management Jira and MS Project; Source code repository (GitHub, GitLab); Application performance monitoring (AppDynamics, DynaTrace, App Insights)
Confidential - Houston, TX
Information Security Risk Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Coordinated and managed Information Security risk assessments for over 20 projects managed by Confidential third party suppliers
- Assessed high risk Confidential suppliers Downstream and determined suppliers that required full risk assessment or security risk assurance reviews
- Led Information Security assessment findings remediation efforts across the global environments using ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) Framework in compliance with engineering lifecycle
- Led security assessment against Confidential ’s newly rolled out Azure cloud solution
- Contribute to the GRC supplier assurance procedures, guidelines, frameworks to help improve security assurance and governance
- Created new policies enabling better Service Delivery for new offerings and products
Confidential
AWS Security Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Performed technical health checks for Cloud platforms/environments prior to broader deployments
- Executed on Cloud security engagements during different phases of the lifecycle assess, design, and implementation
- Implementation of industry leading practices around cyber risks and Cloud security for clients. Designed and developed Cloud-specific security policies, standards and procedures
- Documented all technical issues, analysis, client communication, and resolution. Executed on Cloud security engagements during different phases of the lifecycle assess, design, and implementation
- Implemented industry leading practices around cyber risks and Cloud security for clients. Provided internal technical training to Advisory personnel as needed
Confidential
Program Manager
Responsibilities:
- Led the implementation of digitalization activities in workflow and best practices
- Managed a major Workday deployment and data migration effort
- Managed the yearly budgeting process to create the operating budget for high priority projects
- Created process improvement for operational policies, procedures and governance leading to fewer incident management meetings and over all better communication
- Created higher levels of practice confidence between Corporate and the practices by relationship management and including them in IT Strategy
- Led MPLS Upgrades, and other type circuit installations projects
- Program Managed a Data Center closure and data migration
- Completed POC on WIFI subscriptions (SecurEdge and Cisco) across 500 locations
- Led design and deployment of Network hardware refresh at all 500 sites leading to improved network performance
- Built an NOC and created monitoring governance leading to better monitoring and communication
- Led an effort to reduce data circuit costs and software licensing fees by negotiating better rates and terms saving over $1,000,00
Confidential
Infrastructure and Security Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Directed a multi-disciplined team of 20 including Third Party vendors in developing state of the art solution for enhanced security at the Rig including 3 factor authentication and identity management
- Led MPLS Upgrades and circuit migrations efforts from one provider to another.
- Project managed several Security deployments in areas of DLP, Servers management and hardening and data protection resulting in a better secure environment while protecting company assets
- Managed the Piloting of Cisco NAC in Production environment that impacted about 5,000 employees globally
- Managed the Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise project that ended up saving about $1.6 Million annually in lost productivity in man-hour costs adding additional functionality and scalability
- Led the Enterprise Monitoring system migration from MOM to SCOM in production environment affecting 850 servers globally leading to better server monitoring using ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) Framework
- Managed new an IT Operations Service Offering using McAfee Encryption in North/South America, Europe and Asia securing corporate and customer data with a scope of 60,000 systems getting encrypted
Confidential, Bentonville, AR
Sr. I.T . Compliance Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managed the remediation effort for Sarbanes-Oxley 2008 and 2009 Audit’s created Narratives and validated I.T. General Controls while working with Audit on new testing procedures using ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) Framework in compliance with engineering lifecycle
- Managed the Payment Card Industry assessments in Asia Pacific and Argentina markets - Assembled and led cross-functional teams to create new business processes, infrastructure design and implementation of new secure networks. Goal was to achieve end-to-end project management from initiation through development of project scope, estimating, present/request for funding, and implementation to closeout with Record of Compliance (ROC)
- Project Managed 2008, 2009 SOX Remediation effort to a 100% completion each year
- Mentored and developed junior team members on effective ways to manage global remediation efforts
- Led efforts for strengthening better identity management processes and policies
- These efforts all led to more secure E-commerce/ Retail environments, helping the company to improve their Digital transformation goals