PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Senior Information Security Consultant/Virtual CISO

Responsibilities:

• Deliver CISO/ISO and information security consulting services.
• Provide outsourced CISO/ISO functions with specialized credentials and expertise to oversee and secure financial institutions' technology environments in compliance with regulatory requirements, including teh New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Part 500 Cybersecurity regulations.
• Evaluation and revision/development of Information Technology/Information Security/Cybersecurity programs, policies and procedures.
• IT & Cybersecurity risk assessments, reviews and updating.
• DFS Part 500 Cybersecurity Assessments & Certification Support.
• Assist organizations with IT/Cybersecurity planning, project management, systems evaluation, contract negotiations, vendor management and remediation projects.

Confidential, New York

CISO/Vice President of Technology Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Confidential 's first dedicated Information Security department, security engineering team and program, including infosec ground up policies and guidelines based on NIST guidelines.
• Instituted CAN's first information security incident response program and first employee training and awareness campaigns.
• Technical evaluation, selection, implementation, monitoring and reporting of all Information Security web, cloud, application, perimeter, datacenter and endpoint solutions.
• Selected, managed and remediated information security based IT Risk Assessments, vulnerability and penetration testing.
• Technical point of contact for compliance and regulatory based audits, and lead responsibility for prioritization and remediation of identified IT risks.
• Hands - on management of operational processes and procedures for information security, infrastructure, support teams and external outsourced technical solutions.
• Budgetary design and control for information security, production support, technology capital improvement and technology operations budgets.
• Business Continuity planning, and Disaster Recovery implementation responsibility for infrastructure implementation and information security risk mitigation.
• Architected and implemented a complete technology re-redesign of enterprise-wide replacement of aging and non-scalable infrastructure, including Internal Network, WAN, Security, Virtualization, Compute, Storage and public cloud integration to allow technology to align enable business expansion growth.
• Project chairman and technical lead for enterprise-wide replacement of Call Center and Corporate telephony replacement.
• Managed multiple information security, engineering and support teams located in geographically diverse areas at offices located in New York, Georgia, Utah and Costa Rica.
• Completed numerous technology projects to enable business growth and flexibility: Office 365 migration, Telecom and network vendor consolidation, 100% server virtualization, InfoSec internal and perimeter controls, telephony solution replacement and core network upgrade.

Confidential, New York

Outsourced Director of Infrastructure/Senior IT Operations Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Customer facing consulting director for Confidential 's major clients for datacenter operations, cloud infrastructure provisioning and technology operational support responsibilities.
• Disaster recovery services expert utilizing in-house infrastructures, Co-Lo based laaS and cloud based (AWS) solutions.
• Pre- and post-sales management of engineering team for IT infrastructure projects, professional services and executive technology consulting.
• Completed multiple client datacenter projects, including relocation, in-place upgrade and Greenfield design.
• Virtualization, computing, storage, networking, replication, backup, disaster recovery and vendor negotiation services.

Confidential, New York

Vice President of Technology Operations

Responsibilities:

• 24/7 responsibility for DevOps and corporate support for dynamic online media company's web presence, and internal support infrastructure.
• Managed all information security, production launch, product support, datacenters, cloud applications for all consumer facing applications, websites and corporate infrastructure.
• Vendor Management and vendor IT risk management evaluation and selection.
• BCP and Disaster Recovery planning and testing using internal and external teams.
• PCI/PII/SOX regulatory compliance. Managed internal and external auditing and remediation teams.
• System operations and DevOps team management for teh production web and application datacenter infrastructure, IasS cloud services, database support and all production software launch control.
• Agile methodologies employed in coordination with development and business teams to increase website and application up­time, while increasing teh frequency of software code launches and configuration updates.
• Implementation of Salesforce, Drupal, MySql, Akamai CDN and Cisco Call Manager solutions.

Confidential, New York

Technology & Event Sales Manager

• Devised and executed strategies to develop new business for emerging technology services and advertising solutions.
• Full integration in all phases of development, including hardware sourcing/testing and software development, of cutting-edge asset tracking portable products in startup culture.
• Managed network, engineering and support teams across multiple locations for infrastructure and technology throughout teh Northeast Region.
• Managed and coordinated multiple data center relocations and consolidation initiatives during company's bankruptcy restructuring.
• Engineering technical support for trading floor systems, networks and applications for operations in teh U.S. and Australia.
• Lead technology initiatives for CTO Office of teh Emerging Technology Group, including integration of BlackBerry infrastructure and into corporate enterprise network, as teh first mobile email solution for Merrill Lynch.