Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Cybersecurity Professional with 10 years of experience in technology with a focus on securing systems in the financial sector. Driven problem-solver with a demonstrated ability to adapt to new challenges at the pace of the threat environment. Adept at leading high-performing teams and acting as a technical resource while focusing communication on business cyber risk. Career Highlights: Managing Security Operations Centers Incident Response Vulnerability Management
Capri Holdings is the parent company of luxury fashion brands Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo (previously also including Versace) - Lead Security Operations, Security Engineering, and Application Security functions, driving strategy and execution across incident response, detection engineering, vulnerability management, SOAR, threat intelligence, and secure application design in a complex, multi-brand global environment. - Transform the Security Operations Center by consolidating fragmented SOC functions across global regions, brands, and partners into a unified operating model, standardizing detection, response, and service quality while defining internal team structure, roles, and workflows. - Re-establish and modernize the enterprise security program by developing a forward-looking security strategy and roadmap, revitalizing previously paused initiatives and aligning capabilities with evolving industry standards and business growth objectives. - Support the secure divestiture of Versace by contributing to network and access control redesign, asset ownership transition, and data protection efforts, to ensure effective system separation and continuity of security controls throughout the transition. - Enable secure cloud adoption across a hybrid, multi-cloud environment by guiding architecture decisions across IAM, network security, and platform controls to support the organization’s transition from legacy infrastructure alongside new business initiatives. - Apply deep expertise across regulated environments (PCI, SOX, GDPR) to ensure security controls, data protection practices, and governance frameworks align with compliance requirements while supporting business agility.
- Demonstrate exceptional leadership by overseeing a team of security analysts and engineers, and foster a culture of innovation and excellence in the Security Operations Center. - Collaborate with the CISO to define the organization's long-term security strategy, aligning security initiatives with the company's growth and expansion plans. - Serve as the escalation point for critical incidents, coordinating incident response efforts, and leading cross-functional teams to swiftly contain and mitigate security incidents.
- Transitioned from Incident Response Operations team to Engineering, spearheading the team’s efforts to to deploy controls that enhanced SOC detection and response capabilities. - Extensive technical experience with SIEM administration for an enterprise-wide infrastructure that includes complete configuration, architecture design, continuous deployment, and integrating complex security systems for comprehensive threat management. - Served as SME and Project Manager for a Vulnerability Management initiative mandated by an MRA, overseeing enterprise-wide implementation of VM tool. Technical project requirements included: deployment, scanner configuration, credentialed scanning, discovery scans, vulnerability assessment scans,and understand risk-based reporting based on the system’s methodology.
- As part of Operations (Incident Response) team, monitor enterprise security tools for malicious activity while providing appropriate correlation of threats across the entire attack surface. - Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement new security controls while providing guidance on how to configure systems securely. - Map incoming threats and attacks against the organization to MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain to provide insight into real-time attack trends as well as total control coverage.
Information Security Consultant on behalf of client Societe Generale: A leading global financial services group and investment bank with over €1.5 trillion in total assets under management. - Collaborate with different business lines to implement controls and establish security policies. - Perform trend analysis on current security issues and suggest enhancements to current controls. - Investigate insider threat incidents, perform root cause analysis, escalate, and communicate remediation with management. - Prepare requested responses and evidence for internal and external audits.
- Provide C-level desktop support and manage global conference meetings. - Prepare set-up and give support of laptops, projectors, microphones, lighting, and sound systems within conference rooms and auditoriums. - Update technical documentation.
Responsibilities included network setup, takedown, and solving end-user issues for the 2015 NBA All Star Games