Member Team Security Architect

Megan Williams Vietor

Enterprise Solution and Cyber Security Architect

Summary of Qualifications:

Extensive Cyber Security background in threat modeling (MITRE), OWASP identification inside application code, secure code repositories, Cloud Security for Azure, AWS, Oracle and Google Cloud and Hybrid Cloud solutions.

Evaluated Latest authentication products both Cloud based and on premise (Hybrid Cloud) for multifactor authentication, IAM provider architectures and worked with client to identify the user profiles for each type of user for both internal and external application users.

Use Federal regulatory playbooks from NIST to design architecture to guarantee compliance.

Enterprise Architecture Design: TOGAF

Team oriented, highly skilled professional specializing in producing application/infrastructure results for public sector/private sector organizations on key business driven applications and the overall security of those applications, processes/network and related data. Able to assist with strategic direction for clients based upon extensive industry knowledge if required. Remains current on technologies making up the transformational/modernization architecture and security issues in each. Conducts assessments to uncover single points of failure, security gaps, application performance and end to end security including endpoints, network design, database design and use, dev sec ops environment and cloud migrations.

Identify global and domestic requirements to ensure compliance with multiple regulations and network, data and security compliance- end to end review of applications to identify any gaps

Academic Background

SIMMONS COLLEGE

oBA Political Science and Economics

American University

oAdvanced program in Political Science

Industry Experience:

oFinance and Banking

oFederal Government agencies

oState Agencies

oOil and Gas

oShipbuilding

oConsulting

oTechnology

oTransportation

oRetail

Core Competencies

Strong Technical and Project Team Lead

Enterprise Architecture Design: TOGAF

Extensive operations background in DOD and Commercial applications and networks

Master Architecture Planner-Cloud technology (Google, Azure, AWS and Oracle)

Point solution vendors- Salesforce, Workday, etc.

Overall Secure Solutions- Network design both International and Domestic networks (DNS, IP management, Domains)

Multi Factor Authentication architecture design reflecting NIST and other Federal standards.

Federal, State government and Private Sector experience

Federal regulations: NIST, Banking, DOD, MARSe, COBIT 2019, Transportation, Oil and Gas

Professional Experience:

Oil and Gas Company (global) March 2021- March 2022

Security Architect reporting into Architecture and Governance team

Tasked with supporting existing architecture team on a global basis including chairing the architecture review board, creating technical standards for the company going forward and leading the team for a modernized and secure architecture utilizing the patterns for hybrid cloud architecture. Worked with Azure, OCI, Google and operations team to consolidate the footprint, save on carrier expenses and identify the most critical applications and create Service Level Agreements in conjunction with the business teams and capacity levels for the network and overall infrastructure architecture- I also was part of the Cyber team to identify gaps in the infrastructure and the application code to ensure that breaches would be identified quickly.

The final design resulted in a proposed architecture that used disaster recovery (Commvault storage to complement the Cloud environments, Cloudflare for DNS efficiencies among the Cloud vendors, Global load balancing F5 for application load movement, Cisco for network design and OKTA for IAM multifactor authentication)

Federal Reserve Bank Research October 2020- February 2021

Performed a deep dive assessment of a key FRB application used in the research division. This included an end-to-end evaluation of the 500,000 public users of the application as well as the internal users of the application and all the related data repositories, authentication methods, and the underlying infrastructure- Netsuite experience

MBTA, Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Senior Security Architect November 2019 to January 2020

Built out a SOC to monitor and perform predictive analytics based upon threats to the Massachusetts transportation systems. Evaluated end-to-end architecture and applications in place, and migrated to the AWS cloud and secured those environments.

Spectrum Healthcare Partners July 2019- October 2019

In this position, she performed discovery on the “As Is” state of the healthcare applications for SHPC and create a security heatmap to identify security risks as part of the current system design. Worked with the compliance team, reviewed the both security and privacy issues around the PHI patient data as well as the PCI billing data for 5 physician practices and hospitals where Spectrum physicians were under contract. The final deliverable was a comprehensive view of the security vulnerabilities and recommended remediations for each.

Wells Fargo Bank, Payment Operator Profile Project and Endpoint Security December 2018- July 2019

Lead Security Architect

Created the “As Is” infrastructure environment documentation, analyzing the current authentication methods and overall security for the High End Payments Application, their respective authentication methods and the end-to-end performance of the payment applications. Acted as lead architect responsible for designing an ABAC/RBAC solution for the bank.

State of South Carolina, Department of Health and Human Services November 2017- April 2019

Infrastructure Lead

Managed the consulting firm engagement to determine current state of the DHHS operational environment supporting on going DHHS applications. The team used Jira as the tool of choice to track and plan the development effort of the new Medicaid application. Designed and implemented both a Cloud and on-premise environment for DHHS/Medicaid including a new infrastructure environment using the TOGAF framework.

Onx Consulting, Boston Consulting Group- 4-week contract: October- November 2017

Infrastructure Lead Architect

Conducted an internal architecture evaluation for BCG at their headquarters in Boston. Delivered the results of the assessment with short and long-term recommendations for transformation of their architecture. This included infrastructure and application mix, authentication methodology, and ongoing operations framework.

Operations, Mindlance, Bath Iron Works Shipyard Bath, Maine April 2017- September 201

Infrastructure Technical Lead

Contractor for DXC for Bath Iron Works as Operations Manager and Architect for the Planning Yard Applications and Manufacturing or New Construction

Managed the resources responsible for ongoing operations and present architecture options to improve the performance of the applications, databases and infrastructure. This includes look at and evaluating Cloud options such as SAP, Azure, and AWS etc.

UNISYS CORPORATION Blue Bell, PA December 2015- July 2016

Lead Solution Architect

Performed architecture solution process (SVR) on internal projects for State of South Carolina, outsourcing and security solutions within the Unisys Security Team

Supplied Western Union outsourcing of global application ( SAP) for relocating a mission critical application to Unisys data centers in the US

Planning for State of New York data center consolidation project from 18 data centers down to 3, with related security issues and the associated applications after a major data intrusion.

Led migration team in migration of SAP instance, all of the back end system feeds and the Oracle database instance to new data center. Evaluated HANA as a potential replacement for Oracle 12 g database for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

UNISYS CORPORATION Blue Bell, PA February 2015 to November 2015

Agency Architect

Agency Architect for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania working on a large data center consolidation project. Agencies include the Office of Administration, the Departments of Transportation, Education and Public Utilities.

Designed the overall secure solutions for each agency and recommended future technologies to bring the Commonwealth current in security methods and their technology roadmap.

Led on hands-on migration activities from the current data centers to new state of the art data centers.

Applications included SAP, Custom applications for the Department of Transportation and the EMC storage repositories.

The tool of choice in tracking this wrok was ServiceNow where we build a service Catalogue for agencies to order hardware and services for their environments.

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, ORACLE CORPORATION East Coast Coverage April 2011- September 2014

Principal Sales Consultant

Worked with customer, the US Air Force, 300,000 employees with over 3000 applications to collect their system requirements and apply Oracle technology to meet them. She was a key leader in the Air Force team covering the Command and Control Systems for DOD as well as the business systems for the Air Force specifically EITSM, and the Remedy ticketing system.

Architected solutions both for onsite data centers for the military and for private cloud at another site, including disaster recovery solutions, business continuity, and virtualization and security considerations. Led an effort for USAF data center consolidation including location, network providers, energy consumption, footprint and operational support.

Determined requirements for the customer and designed an architecture/solution, using EITSM, TBMCS, IPM, and Joint Stars,

Oversaw the development of an API that linked a DCIM tool with EM12c and Ops Center and replaced Microsoft products such as SharePoint, Active Directory and Exchange with Oracle’s management system, Unified Communications and Oracle’s IDM system.

Worked on analysis of the various CRM application suites in the market place, including Siebel, Remedy, Salesforce and PeopleSoft, Netsuite

VCE LLC Southborough, MA November 2010 – April 2011

Enterprise Architect

Gathered business requirements and translated them into an enterprise framework for fast growing technology Industry Company, working on the manufacturing system, the human resources system and sales delivery system as part of the enterprise requirements.

Recommended an enterprise framework (Oracle) to meet growth requirements from $1billion in sales to $3 billion in sales in two years.

Analyzed and evaluated Sales Force., Workday, Netsuite and other SAAS vendors for implementation in VCE.

EMC CORPORATION Westborough, MA June 2010 to November 2010

Enterprise Architect

Part of the internal architecture team at EMC designing solutions for the various business units within the company, including international.

This included application functionality, network redesign, backup and recovery solutions, manufacturing systems and financial systems. Evaluated the use of SalesForce as a competitor to EMC’s solution.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MASSDOT Boston, MA November 2009 to June 2010

Enterprise Network Architect

Short term contract to evaluate and consolidate myriad of networks supporting the various agencies that make up the new MASSDOT organization. Analyzed the SLA for the applications that traverse the networks and determine the best design, by protocol, QOS service, network hardware, firewall placement and network framework for monitoring the health of the network on a regular basis.

Reviewed Cisco and Nortel equipment and redesigned network to reflect the merger of two organizations; two networks collapsed were both running RIP and the proposed design replaced all of the Nortel switches and routers with Cisco and upgraded the protocol to OSPF.

The team used a combination of Mercury Loadrunner and Open Sta to test capacity planning and application load for the NEWMARS accounting application as we moved it from a mainframe to the n-tier environment.

TD BANK NORTH West Falmouth, ME September 2006- November 2009

Senior Enterprise Architect

Architect for data center move to Toronto following the acquisition of TD BankNorth by Toronto Dominion Bank, also a key resource on the integration of Commerce Bank of New Jersey with the TD BankNorth network. Worked with the Federal Reserve Bank to design a safe, compliant infrastructure design that would allow the US banks to continue to transfer and accept files with the Federal system going forward.

Part of three-person team who created an application blueprint and data center placement for the combined US banks in preparation for integrated testing prior to the go live in September of 2009.

During the planning for the application moves to the Toronto data center, worked with the team to design the placement of the servers, select the products required for DR and BC for each application and worked with the monitoring team to determine the monitoring requirements for each application

Other project experience:

AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES Cambridge, MA

Network Engineering Manager

Directed ongoing operations team, including the Security team of the company’s deployed network and the corporate network worldwide. Interfaced with network customers, determined capacity and applications requirements, and created/enforcing the IT Sarbanes Oxley audit controls for the network engineering group and managed the team that was responsible for interfacing with the auditors.

Managed upgrade of the billing system for the deployed network, providing faster switching and firewall throughput, supervising six engineers and co-managing the deployed network group, negotiated with vendors for bandwidth pricing, SLA’s, hardware and software pricing and maintenance

Created and streamlined support escalation model for on-going network support and was on-call 24x 7 for the network.

ITD, COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Technical Project Engineer

On technical team on Commonwealth’s Verizon SONET project for the upgrade of the Boston network infrastructure and the deployment of VOIP and QOS within the Commonwealth’s network. Sized the project and performed application and bandwidth analysis, worked with organization to determine resources for the infrastructure upgrade and disaster recovery plan.

Redesigned Mass Mail (Exchange) System, consolidated servers and deployed Active Directory within the Commonwealth agencies. 1-year project

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Senior Network Engineer/Network Architect - NewMMARS Project

One of a two-member team (project team was 125 technical resources) that performed the analysis for the NewMMARS application team on end-user performance of the new application to be deployed to 3800 users in Massachusetts. Managed the network infrastructure failover test within a P690 (AIX), WebSphere, Cisco Layer 3 switches with SLB feature-tier application development environment and worked closely with the application developers to create the test and run it across the user networks. 2-year project

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