SUMMARY:

• Dynamic professional with more than 25 years of proven business and technical talents specializing in IT Security and Program Management.
• Heavy experience in Financial, Technical and Healthcare industries.
• Tenacious problem solver, brings solid background to investigate and resolve issues as well as implement new procedures with increased optimization.
• Strong drive to focus on solutions, encourage support for new ideas and guarantee expeditious project transitions from conception to completion.
• Strengths include risk evaluation, decision modeling, researching issues, designing comparison matrices, policy and procedure creation and training.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Windows, SharePoint, Citrix, Exchange, Project, Visio, Word, Excel, OneNote, Access and PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Senior Project Manager / Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• SPOC for over 50 IT Infrastructure and Security Initiatives for 12 geographically dispersed sites.
• Managed multi - discipline project teams that increased security, scalability, flexibility and availability of voice and data networks.
• Security Analyst:
• Meticulously researched, implemented and managed a successful Security Education, Training and Awareness (SETA) Program at Confidential lowering Phishing rates by 90%.
• Thoroughly documented the entire SETA process and standardized the approach for roll out to Confidential ’s client base as an additional profitable service offering.
• Directed the Confidential SOC 1 & 2 Attestation project which reported on all corporate controls relevant to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy.

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Established a comprehensive Business Intelligence Program within the EIS Education &Awareness Department.
• Analyzed and implemented viable Business Intelligence tools for the data reporting required by the department.
• Created and promoted the 2016 EIS Education & Awareness Security Survey that will be distributed internally to the organization. Survey will generate individual Risk Assessment Score that will be aggregated across the company.
• Identified the top human risks to the organization and the behaviors needed to change and mitigate those risks.
• Responsible for the capture and analysis of evaluations metrics to demonstrate an effective and positive awareness among Confidential team members.
• Co-authored an internal Security Awareness Assessment that compared and ranked bank’s internal education and awareness activities with several industry standards such as NIST, SANS, ISO and PCI.
• Assisted with the research, creation and presentation of information security awareness materials (webinars, promotional games, etc.) to ensure that team members were aware of new threat avenues.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the implementation of the Confidential GTI (Artemis) product on the bank’s entire international network enabling superior protection against zero-day malware attacks. Rolled out Confidential suite of products to over 450,000 endpoints.
• Successfully ran the Phishing Replacement Project which designed, developed and then implemented a Confidential anti-phishing platform that replaced the program and contract that they had with existing vendor (PhishMe).

Confidential, St. Thomas, VI

Senior Researcher / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Researched best practices for implementing a world class Business Intelligence Program for Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Performed gap analysis and wrote a 65 page white paper documenting all aspects of a successful BI program including role descriptions, hiring procedures, suitable infrastructure and appropriate reporting tools.
• Directed international development teams in USVI, US and India to design, develop and implement a customized project management portal for Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). Project size: >$3M. Project delivered on time and on budget to 7 different facilities in the US and USVI. Educated end users on full functionality of system.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Business Technology Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Established $1.4 million pioneering business intelligence program to re-engineer process of assigning credit risk. Directed network architects on the establishment of appropriate data infrastructure which allowed for the seamless integration of the new BI system.
• Directed the development of enterprise software and systems in an Agile driven Waterfall environment. Led daily scrums to ensue high quality, on time delivery of code to internal and external customers. Determined sprint schedule in conjunction with product manager and the customer.
• Contributing team member for new SDLC 2.0 methodology, processes and artifacts.

Confidential, Newtown Square, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Completed successful program for 2 role delineation studies (Big Data Projects) regarding current knowledge skills and tasks required to perform Project Manager and Program Manager roles.
• Initiated project to design policies and technical systems required to securely permit candidate application and schedule for CAPM® prior to completing eligibility requirements.
• Partnered with Prometric and select universities to implement new certified testing centers.
• Redesigned internal system processes and procedures to monitor application process flow and flag irregularities.