SUMMARY

• Proven top performer with 17 years professional experience in information technology and 15 years experience in international IT operations and IT security operations management (France, Brazil, Australia and Japan), data center operations security, Enterprise Architecture, compliance audit coordination, IT strategy, and program/project management.
• Developed strategic roadmaps and implemented IT strategies and enterprise architectures that aligned with the business strategy, improved business processes, reduced risk and reduced costs.
• Successfully implemented enterprise architectures and IT security architectures that reduce costs and met the regulatory compliance requirements (e.g. SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, PII, SB1386, EU Safe Harbor, etc.) for U.S, Canadian, Japanese and European Union companies.
• Effectively project managed cross functional technical teams, ranging in size from 4 to 15 personnel, on large regional and international projects up to $22 million, to design the IT architecture, build out data centers, implement IT Infrastructure (e.g. Cisco, SAN, storage, web services, virtualization, etc.) and ERP systems (e.g. Oracle E - business, SAP R/3/ ECC, and PeopleSoft).
• Experienced as a Chief Information Security Officer, IT Director, reporting to CIO, CFO and Controller executives in Fortune 500 companies and experienced with Big 4 management consulting firms’ receiving awards for my efforts on customer projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Torrance, CA

IT Security Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Duties included align IT security with the business, enterprise-wide IT security strategy development, regulatory compliance coordination with internal and external Auditors, incident response management, enterprise-wide IT security architecture design (e.g. PeopleSoft, SAP ECC, web services, data center, Cisco network, SAN, EMC storage, etc.), IT security systems implementation, enterprise-wide IT security policy, procedures and standards creation,.
• Successfully project managed large cross functional teams for the Company’s financial services division and sales division. Designed enterprise-wide IT security architectures (application, infrastructure and network) for projects ranging in size from $2 million to $22 million, and implemented IT security infrastructures to meet the Company’s regulatory compliance (SOX, GLBA, SB1386) objectives and reduce security risk while reducing costs.
• Saved Company $1 million in capital costs, while increasing IT security operations effectiveness and efficiency.
• Led the planning and implementation of strategic IT initiatives in cloud computing and virtualization as part of the regional planning committee.
• Developed the IT security strategic plan and successfully launched and managed the IT security program across three of the Company’s divisions nationally, incorporating cloud computing and virtualization technologies, to reduce the IT security budget’s annual capital costs by 30%.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Director, Global IT Security

Responsibilities:

• Reported to the CIO as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and reported to the CFO and Controller for financial systems regulatory compliance audits.
• Successfully set the strategic direction for IT security operations globally, creating enterprise-wide IT security policy, guidelines and standards and enterprise-wide IT security architecture and data center security, for video game distribution and online game entertainment division of international Fortune 500 French owned Entertainment and Telecommunications Company.
• Successfully project managed the rollout of the $12 million dollar Oracle E-business application project’s IT security infrastructure, IT security architecture design and Oracle 11i E-business applications, on a global scale, to facilitate Company’s business need for global operational integration.
• Directed large scale ($1 Billion in revenue) global massively multi-player gaming e-commerce application’s transaction security management strategy, fraud protection, risk management and compliance to meet US and European regulatory (SOX, SB1386, PCI, HIPAA, EU-US Safe Harbor) and security requirements for handling customer credit card transactions.
• System interfaces with 5 million customers worldwide.
• Full-line management of 5 Oracle 11i applications (financial, operations) system administrators with global support responsibility (24/7) for 12 countries in Europe, Asia/Pacific and North America.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

IT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Full-line management of 20 IT personnel and Data Center Operations 24/7.
• Responsible for the overall management of IT projects ranging in size from $500K to $3 million to improve the Company’s operational efficiency and competiveness.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

IT INFRASTRUCTURE PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Project management and full-line management responsibility of a staff of 15 IT operations personnel for the IT technical infrastructure design and installation of the $10 million dollar PeopleSoft Human Resources (ERP) application system for a financial services company, which reduced ten departmental systems to one enterprise system, saving the company over $4 million in operations costs over a 3 year period.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a $3.4 million dollar IT budget and full-line management responsibility of 12 IT operations personnel.
• Developed the enterprise IT architecture which allowed for the client’s company to expand its business operations regionally to be more competitive.
• Directed the planning and implementation for business applications’ consolidation and data center build out for a client to help improve inter-company operations efficiency, allow for growth, and reduced capital cost by $2 million over a 5 year period.

Confidential, Lombard, IL

ARCHITECTURAL SPECIALIST

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for: configuration and capacity planning, setting up user accounts, permissions and local area network connections.
• Managed security access and performed security audits.
• Conducted pre-sales with Account Manager and performed marketing research.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SALES REPRESENTATIVE

Responsibilities:

• Conducted inside sales and marketing research for boutique telecommunications consulting firm.

Confidential, Ft. Benning, GA

EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Responsibilities:

• Second in command of 200 soldiers with full-line management responsibilities.
• Directed IT operations staff of 15 soldiers, administrative staff of 20 soldiers and logistical operations staff of 165 soldiers.