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Skills

  • Cyber Risk Assessment Methodologies
  • Executive Reporting on Security Posture
  • Endpoint Protection and Monitoring
  • Cybersecurity Strategy and Roadmap Development
  • Cybersecurity Architecture Design
  • Disaster recovery planning and execution
  • Encryption Standards and Implementation
  • Security Operations Center (SOC) management
  • Vulnerability Management (e.g., Asana)
  • Threat Intelligence Data Analysis

Work Experiences

  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to conduct security audits, achieving a Top Performer for maintaining 100% compliance with industry standards.
  • Coordinated penetration testing as part of an annual audit, identifying and resolving 15 security risks before they became critical.
  • Authored and refined Security Operations Center (SOC) procedures that decreased false positive rates by 45%.
  • Achieved 23% adherence to enhanced security protocols.
  • Provided security, brand reputation, and privacy advice to the CEO, General Council, and Human Resources.
  • Cut release cycles by 73%.
  • Chaired a 2015-long project.
  • Achieved a 26% decrease in phishing attack success.
  • Conducted quarterly compliance audits.
  • Conducted threat modeling exercises that resulted in a 63% decrease in security vulnerabilities during applications' development stages.

Summaries

  • Achieved Top Performer recognition for 56% compliance.
  • Ensured long-term risk mitigation.
  • Addressed supply chain risks.
  • Decreased response times by 7 minutes.
  • Completed within 9 months.
  • Developed strategies to reduce incident recovery time by 20%.
  • Enforced security policies across all business units.
  • Engaged in security infrastructure projects that reduced reaction time during critical incidents from 16 minutes to 8 minutes, significantly improving risk containment.
  • Achieved a 80% compliance rate.
  • Created and enforced enterprise security policies.

Accomplishments

  • Built a cross-departmental incident response collaboration platform, which shortened recovery times from 15 hours to 5 minutes.
  • Coordinated comprehensive Red Team/Blue Team exercises that identified and allowed mitigation of 18 critical vulnerabilities before exploitation.
  • Created and implemented a proactive threat hunting program that reduced incident recovery time by 49%, leading to quicker containment.
  • Introduced centralized log management using Asana, improving threat detection and compliance reporting timelines.
  • Collaborated with cloud engineering teams to secure infrastructure as part of the method migration, reducing potential vulnerabilities by 3 percent.
  • Established a robust disaster recovery strategy, reducing operational downtime by 27% during network outages and on-site disasters.
  • Created detection playbooks for emerging threat vectors, leading the team to resolve 13 major incidents with zero downtime.
  • Authored robust SOC procedures that reduced false positives by 55%, enhancing threat triage efficiency and improving response times.
  • Directed SOC team to respond dynamically to metric, lowering total breach response costs by 18%.
  • Developed and optimized incident triaging layers within Asana, achieving a 51% faster response time to high-priority alerts.

Affiliations

  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) cert holder, maintaining ongoing membership in (ISC)².
  • Certified Member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), responsible for integrating cloud security best practices in enterprise environments.
  • Committee member of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), working on the latest financial sector threat mitigation initiatives.
  • Ethical Hacker Certification (CEH) holder through EC-Council, regularly attending industry workshops for penetration testing advancements.
  • Member, Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), actively participate in networking and knowledge-sharing initiatives to stay current on security trends.
  • Collaborated with MITRE ATT&CK Framework’s User Group, sharing techniques for improved adversary emulation and attack surface reduction.
  • Participant in quarterly (Vendor) Webinars about advances in Zero Trust Architecture, particularly for securing remote workers globally.
  • Affiliation with PECB International, maintaining ISO 27001 certification and active participation in compliance discussions.
  • Lead participant in Security Audit Conventions, keeping abreast of evolving compliance requirements and audit methodologies.
  • Chair of the Incident Response Committee within a regional cybersecurity association, leveraging experience to boost organizational security readiness.

Certifications

  • Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
  • Amazon AWS Certified Security – Specialty
  • Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP)
  • PCI Professional (PCIP)
  • Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA)
  • Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer
  • Certified Network Defender (CND)
  • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
  • Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP)

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