Leawood, Kansas, United States
Cybersecurity leader with 10+ years of experience guiding organizations in building effective security programs. Works closely with leadership to translate complex technical risks into clear business decisions. Brings deep technical expertise together with strong business acumen to drive valuable investment in security. Expertise in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), NextGen Firewall (NGFW), Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN), Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Cloud Security and AI Security.
- Leader in the Network and Edge Security Practice, responsible for defining the technical vision of the practice - Direct consulting teams through high-visibility engagements, often multiple workstreams involving high-degrees of uncertainty in large, complex environments - Lead offering development, and own technical components of practice methods and technology use cases - Partner with sales leaders to close complex opportunities
- Led customer engagements in the network security space, designed and implemented security solutions for customers - Technical leader in a joint Go-to-Market initiative between Accenture and Palo Alto Networks, primarily involvement included identifying common customer pain-points, developing use-cases to address pain-points, broader service offering development, messaging and strategy around selling offerings - Selected to lead the Accenture Cyber Defense 'Community of Practice' focusing on Network Security. - Developed a lab environment to strengthen sales opportunities by providing options to PoC or Demo for sales opportunities
- Engaged directly with customer engineering teams to solve technology problems on network security solutions - Recommended and implemented changes to solve problems in customer environments - Monitored client infrastructure and engaged customers on findings and recommendations