Project Management Manager

Areas of Expertise:

Change Management

IT Compliance

Risk & Vulnerability Management

Microsoft Office 365

Remediation

Training & Development

Application Security & Development

ITIL

Vendor Management

Cyber Security

Data Centers & Call Centers

Agile & Waterfall Methodologies

Career Profile

Navy Federal Credit Union Atlanta, GA January 2023 – Current

Security Project Manager: Manage security projects meet NIST and NCUA requirments in the Identify and Protect frameworks.

Replace and update Wireless Intrusion Prevention (WIP) devices.

Completed discovey phase of Zero Trust Just in Time Access

Developed an antivirus program to include mobile devices, exclusions and aduits management.

Leverage Varonis to remediate 28M broken permission folder

Wells Fargo Atlanta, GA May 2021 – December 2022

Security Initiative Manager: Ensured security initiative projects meet NIST requirments in the Identify and Protect frameworks.

Manage sercutiy initiative for: Thrid Party Cyber Risk Intelligence and Vendor Data Explorer

Server as Scrum master for protect initiative projects: Proof Point, Venafi Code Signing, Crypto Agility and Crypto Discovery, Qualys Certification View

Genuent(Avaya) Atlanta, GA Feburay 2020 – February 2021

Sr. Project Manager: Manage call center and data canter implementation and migration projects. Avaya’s East region Security SME.

Implemented mobile VPN install for Xcelenergy

Corrdinate IAM and PAM activities for Avaya Enginners working on Qurate (QVC) network.

Adapture (NCR) Atlanta, GA October 2019 – December 2019

Sr. Security Project Manager: Manage all security project within NCR Digital Banking division. Oversaw the remediation of the 2019 audit findings.

Migrated 20+ financial institutions on to CloudFlare for add firewall protection

Decrease Java vulnerability by 100k in 60 days.

Matrix (State of GA) Atlanta, GA April 2019 – October 2019

Sr. Applications Project Manager: Mange a portfolio of applications development and enhancement projects within the Environment Protection Division. Manage 3rd pary vendors that support data centers and technical support of applications. Agile and Waterfall methodolgy used in client facing environment. Engage developers using Jira.

Managed O365 migration for EPD’s Land and Water division

Coordinate application enhancements to comply with EPA regulations including IAM and PAM.

Facilitate the clean-up of Win10 project (upgrade over 100 clients)

TEKsystems (WellStar) Marietta, GA April 2018 – March 2019

Security Program Manager: Mitigate cyber risks and threats across WellStar IT department with budget ranging from 20k to 2 million dollars.

Coordinate HiTrust and NIST Security Risk Assessments and created remediation plan to resolve findings.

Remediate and manage Threat & Vulnerability findings within IT Security, Application, IAM & PAM, Network, Sys Admin and Disaster Recovery Teams

Deploy ReliaQuest, Palo Alto, Symantec 2FA, DLP and SEP, Bitlocker, VM Ware AirWatch, PGP and Bomgar technologies.

Created IT Communication meeting to inform the entire IT department of projects and activities within WellStar’s IT department

Managed SOC monitoring project including vendor selection and creating incident response plan

KForce (Kaiser Permanente) Atlanta, GA May 2017- January 2018

Security Project Consultant/Exemption and Compliance Specialist: Identify and prioritize NIST IT Security, HIPAA and PHI related requirements, facilitate intake reviews and begin the risk assessment process. Request scans and patching audits on devices requiring exemptions. Assist stakeholder on exemption management process for operating system technical security standards, electronic communications policy and network security.

Single Point of contact for ePHI exemption and compliance acceptations reporting and request

Conduct initial review of systems (Epic) patching, End Point, anti-virus, Windows, and remote access exemption requests

Provide vendor management to IBM managed devices to ensure compliance with KP’s standards

Genesis 10 (Bank of America) Atlanta, GA February 2017 – May 2017

Implementation Engineer:

Provide technical advice in client facing environment.

Upgrade network bandwidth and Wi-Fi at Financial Centers and Training Center co-location

Replace and upgrade Avaya phone system with voice recording system for bank’s Call Center.

Optiv (McKesson) Atlanta, GA September 2015 – September 2016

Security Project Consultant/Program Manager: Manage and advocate McKesson’s Portfolio of External Web Application and Software project with an initial budget 10 million, using ITILv3, Waterfall and Agile methodology.

Conduct One on One threat and vulnerability assessment consultation with McKesson’s 12 Business Unit on the company’s security standards and provide C-Level management with QA status reports

Oversaw Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Identity Access Management (IAM) for security scanning tools Rapid 7, Web Inspect, and Tenable.

Manage 3rd party vendors including Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Akamai, and Incapsula.

Insight Global (Coca-Cola Enterprises) Atlanta, GA May 2015 – July 2015

Sr. Security Project Manager:

Close out Microsoft Office 365 implementation project with Okta Single Sign-On.

Created project plan for the Qualys, Threat and Vulnerability Management Platform Implementation

Develop Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) reports using Splunk Technologies

CHC Consulting (AT&T Wireless) Atlanta, GA August 2013 – December 2014

Sr Technical Project Manager: Organize and lead cross functional virtual project teams and steering committees. Agile and Waterfall methodolgy used

Implemented the delivered of Apple’s first pre-paid iPhone (Application and Network)

Build, relocate and/or upgraded 20 plus Data Center which included over 60,000 pieces of equipment (router, switches, and servers)

Manage the F5 security gateway upgrade (hardware and software) for entire wireless network

Budget ranged from 2 million to 20 million dollars

Academic and Organization Credentials

Master of Project Management: Keller School of Management (2010) PMI Certified

Bachelor of Science, Technical Management: DeVry University (1999)

Certificate of Project Management: Georgia Institute of Technology (2015)

Project Management Institute (PMI), (2003)

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