SUMMARY:

• Sr. Information Security Project Manager with experience leading enterprise level information security and infrastructure projects and programs, both as a Lead Architect and as a Project/People Manager.
• Manage +$10 million cost plans, budgets, resource plans and MS projects.
• Work with senior managers from line of businesses and IT to obtain funding and to design and implement large - scale enterprise IT projects and programs.
• Technical background in networking, architecture, databases and security.
• Proven project management track record and certification (PMP, Scrum Master, and ITIL).
• Manage many teams with +20 Programmers, Engineers, DBAs and Analysts.
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Unified Communications (Cisco and Lync)
• Jira / Agile and Waterfall Project Methodologies
• MS Project / Clarity
• Data and Voice Networking
• Database Architect and Administrator
• Information Security Tools and Processes
• Resource Management & Outsourcing
• Vendor Integration and Management
• Chargeback Billing Design & Development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Information Security Project Manager, Santa Monica, CA

Responsibilities:

•  Project Manager responsible for implementing RAND information security infrastructure, procedures, security documents and deployment.
• Led the build out of a new PKI, including Root, Policy, Issuing servers,and HSM key store. Led the development of RAND PKI procedures, Practice Statement and Key Management plans. Managed the new Root certificate deployment and enterprise rollout of new certificate request and CRL processes.
•  Led the implementation of SSLv visibility
• Appliances, Gemalto HSMs, and FireEye security appliances, in RAND data Centers.
•  Led the deployment of Carbon Black Protect on RAND servers and endpoints, globally. Coordinated and documented application white-listing, High Enforcement, and staff impact assessment and communications.
•  Led a Jira Agile project to select and implement new Pure Storage FlashArrays in Santa Monica and Pittsburgh, to replace Hitachi HUS and VSP. Led product discovery effort (5 vendor selection process, FlashArray installation, and VM and data migration).

Confidential

Information Security Project Manager, Santa Monica, CA

Responsibilities:

• Symantec DLP architecture:Led the implementation the DLP product suite across mobile, storage, network and endpoint.
• Symantec Data Insight tool: Led the implementation of the Data Insight tool used to do unstructured data discovery and engage data owners.
• Classification Tool: Led the discovery, selection and POC of the Titus classification tool used by data owners to classify unstructured data.
• Defined and deployed DLP policies: Led the deployment of DLP agents to protect: (DIM: HTTP Block; DIU: Https Block, Exiting employee and high risk activity; DAR: Sharepoint and, Documentum policies).
• Classification, Retention and Vulnerability Management Policies: Defined and rolled out new Confidential Data Protection policies globally. .
• PGP Encryption: Led the assessment of the existing PGP encryption tool implementation globally, including architecture, performance, incident reporting, unplanned events. Recommendations provided to sr. management.
• Cloud: Led the assessment, standards definition and enterprise adoption of Confidential Cloud security requirements for O365, Exchange and Backup services, including storage connectors, key management, IAM, ADFS, and AAA.
• Lync UC: Program Manager responsible for the enterprise implementation of Lync 2013, (Agile project). Responsibilities included business case development, Microsoft licensing, infrastructure build, site-based appliance installs, and production cutover to 140k Confidential employees worldwide.
• Office 365: Program Manager responsible for the Leading a cross-enterprise team of senior business, IT and Finance managers to develop the O365 business case and strategic plan, provided to the Confidential Chairman for investment approval (3-year plan, and $40m). Created O365 cost plans and budgets, resource plans, WBS and MS project plan.
• Mobility: Program Manager responsible for NextGen Mobility projects, implementing Airwatch MDM, Symantec DLP, BYAD, AppleCare Enterprise, and service catalog integration.
• SAP: Led the migration of Confidential external EDI interfaces to SAP Process Integration, including ARINC, SPLS and SCNC. Led the testing of SAP
• UX (User Experience): Program Manager responsible for leading an enterprise-wide collaboration effort to develop a UX reference architecture, strategy and application roadmap for all future internal and external Confidential products, applications and websites, and provisioning Macs and Applecare to UX developers worldwide.

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Project Manager, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager for the design and implementation of the Confidential Data Protection program, Vulnerability Management, Mobile DLP, IP, and IT Compliance. Led a team of business, IT and Compliance managers to define enterprise strategies, plans and deliverables.
•  Systems Integrator and Program Manager responsible for an enterprise VoIP implementation across multiple locations, campuses and manufacturing facilities. Responsible for the integration and management of Cisco, AT&T, and Confidential contracts and deliverables, including SIP Trunking, PRI circuits, SRST, Cisco MCS7845, C2951 gateways, VG 224/220, Exchange integration.
•  Responsible for infrastructure tools implementation, including Tivoli suite, TEM, Tivoli PowerPath, TSM, TADDM, TAD4D, Fusion, SRM, and SEA on enterprise AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows and ESX servers.
• Program Manager responsible for the migration of +5,000 servers from the Confidential primary data center to a newly built data center in Raleigh, NC.
• Database Migration Test Lab - Led a team of 60+ AXP, Confidential, EMC and HP, DBAs, System Administrators, Storage Technologists and Network Engineers, and PMs, to successfully execute 44 separate use cases on four clustered use case platforms, (SQL 2005/Windows 2003; UDB 9.1/Solaris; Oracle 11gr/RH Linux 5.5 ClusterRAC; UDB 9.7/AIX 6.1).
• Pre-Migration Activities Program Management - Led multiple teams of AXP, EMC, and Confidential resources to uplift to 1000’s of servers in the existing data center to prepare for the migration to the upgraded infrastructure in the new data center. Activities included OS and driver upgrades; EMC Clarion and DMX SAN to a VMAX staging array in the existing data center in preparation to SRDF/replicate the data to VMAX arrays and Celerra NAS in the new data center; VMware ESXi upgrades; and TSM agent upgrades on +1000 servers.
• AXP Midrange Server Environment Data Center Migration - Responsible for migration of +5000 Amex managed midrange servers (Solaris zones on blade chassis, VMWare ESX Hosts, and physical database servers), large Citrix farm migration, and MPLS circuit implementation across mirrored DR sites in Raleigh, Phoenix and Minneapolis.

Confidential

Executive Project Manager, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

•  Program manager leading five Project Managers to for Confidential Tier 1 mainframe applications.
• Charge Authorization System - TPF-based POS card swipe system processing 25k transactions per second.
• Electronic Money Movement - Distributed and mainframe-based bank clearance system using VMware, WebSphere, SAN, UDB, Windows and UNIX.
• Credit Servicing Platform - Linux Web-based CRM for structuring card payments.
• Marketing Data Warehouse – Distributed and mainframe-based global data warehouse used to execute card marketing campaigns and business in
• Intelligence analysis using Cognos and UDB.
• Security Infrastructure Uplift – Managed data center security policy uplift, including threat identification, encryption policies, DMZ/firewall design; AAA strategy using Active Directory for user and device level access, Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention logging and mitigation, wireless 802.11/XEA and AES CMP, and switch port security policies.
• Parallel Sysplex Uplift –Clustered Confidential mainframes together using a single z/OS system image, requiring the update of all JCL jobs to enable high availability.
• Web Hosting – Program manager responsible for the design, implementation and support of the Confidential Web Hosting and Midrange server environments.
• Service, SLAs and Chargeback Processes – Designed and implemented the Amex internal hosting service, high availability SLAs, vendor support and chargebacks for +3000 servers.
• Data Center Consolidation – closed the Minneapolis midrange, web data center, and migrated all applications to the Phoenix data center.

Confidential

Director and Senior Technical Product Manager, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Program manager leading five Project Managers to for Confidential Tier 1 mainframe applications.
• Amex Online Information Services - Architect and Program Manager responsible for the design, development and market rollout of industry the leading Amex Online Information Services web site for Corporate Card Information productions and program administration.
• Amex Low Fare Search - Designed, managed development and market rollout of Amex proprietary Low Fare Search and only reservation system that interfaced real time with IPARs (Sabre, Galileo), to process Corporate negotiated airfares, hotel rates and car rental rates.
• International IT Director - International experience managing 5 Confidential IT Product Managers based in Brighton, England, Wiesbaden, Germany, Paris, France and London, England. Led the development of Amex Corporate Card information products used by corporations to negotiate airfares, hotel rates, and car rental agreements.