Chief Security Officer, Director of Information Security

DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SECURITY

Strategic Planning - Business Planning - IT Architectures - IT Infrastructure - Project Management

Leadership - Change Management - Conflict Resolution - Relationship Building

Results-driven and dedicated professional with qualified years of experience in coordinating with senior management, obtaining support for corporate initiatives and translating comprehensive technical details to any audience. Demonstrated capability to manage multiple and complex IT security operations. Established high-performance IT security department utilizing in-depth knowledge of information system technologies, security, and business and personnel management.

- Accustomed to coordinating technical and non-technical persons as well as in identifying requirements, organizing projects and planning technologies

- Hands-on manager with the ability to lead, motivate and direct technical teams and projects

- Track record of success in reducing costs, improving efficiency and increasing productivity

- Career history includes introducing key technology solutions using available tools and technologies in the changing needs of a dynamic business environment

- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NCCI Holdings Inc., - Boca Raton, FL

DIRECTOR, ENTERPRISE SECURITY SERVICES JUN 2004-MAY 2009

Established the Enterprise Security Services Department and executed a strategic plan aimed to implement key tenants of the department over the past 5 years.

Key Contributions:

- Created formal corporate security awareness program and logo based on SAFE (Security Awareness for Everyone) acronym that included facilitation of periodic training for all employees, monthly newsletter and targeted communications based on current risks such as malware scams

- Improved a secure coding program that included the establishment, communication and training of secure application development coding standards

- Coordinated with infrastructure teams to ensure systems maintenance and security; initiated initial and quarterly maintenance of certification of compliance with PCI DSS standards for credit card processing systems as required by the merchant bank

- Spearheaded the development and implementation of corporate information classification program to include classification rules and guidelines, handling procedures (technical and business), classification inventory of information by business description, prompts in project management office (PMO) templates to ensure new systems were built considering the underlying information’s classification and development of computer-based training (CBT) module

- Utilized and applied various strategic solutions to meet current and potential future risks, avoiding short sighted quick point solutions. Solutions included Enterprise Log Aggregation, Network Access Control (NAC), and whole disk encryption

- Developed multi-year tactical projects to resolve issues identified in past security, privacy and system audits to include elimination of embedded passwords, network based end-user activity monitoring, and identify access and management suite solution

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT MANAGER,

SUPPORTING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS JUN 2000-JUN 2004

Directed the establishment of the concept of IT discipline architects (application development, data, security and infrastructure). Initially assumed position as Application Development Architect tasked to deploy tenants development of the Software Development Lifecycle such as the improvement of coding standards and concept of enterprise components and solutions.

Key Contributions:

- Established Technology Architecture Steering Committee program (TASC) to reduce duplicity in solutions with overlap between technology disciplines

- Facilitated developers forum to provide a venue to keep developers informed of industry changes and the standards solutions employed by NCCI

- Maintained the Discovery Laboratory and required the usage as part of the TASC process to guarantee new technology testing in a laboratory environment before using the solutions into core environment

- Supervised a team of 13 developers supporting Corporate Communications Division and Business Development Department of the Customer Operations Division

- Designed, improved and implemented various business systems and enterprise solutions

Redis Media Corporation - Raleigh, NC

DIRECTOR OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FEB 1997-JUN 2000

Key Contributions:

- Led a team of internal and outsourced technical resources that provided assistance for numerous hosted online real estate magazines

- Initiated the expansion of an online rental finder application similar in concept to the MLS system for real estate that allowed apartment management companies to update system with live apartment availability information

Lockheed Martin Corporation - Canaveral Air Station, FL

LEAD CONTROL SYSTEMS DESIGN ENGINEER AUG 1988-FEB 1997

Key Contributions:

- Performed numerous positions from Launch Control Systems Test Engineer to Lead Design Engineer for facility launch control systems

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING,

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

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