New York, New York, United States
CIO.com CIO100 award recipient and author of The DevSecOps Playbook. Visionary technology executive with extensive experience in cybersecurity, development, DevOps, platform engineering, program management, and architecture. Innovative leader driving global business strategy and transformation. Management of large, globally distributed teams with significant direct budget responsibility. Take companies from dysfunctional models to mature, globally-scalable, world-class organizations, aligning business strategy and execution. Team-based and lean approaches to process that deliver on-time, on-budget services to increase revenue and decrease costs. • Transformational leadership • Strategy development and execution • Budget management • Resource management and strategy • Mergers and acquisition leadership (M&A) • Business and technology alignment • Process engineering
Lead the launch, development, and growth of ISMG’s strategic new offering focused on delivering on-demand, executive-level cybersecurity leadership to clients. Responsible for shaping the business strategy, building and overseeing a high-performing team of fractional security practitioners, and ensuring the consistent delivery of tailored, high-impact world-class cybersecurity leadership and advisory services across a diverse client portfolio.
Delivered comprehensive range of services including technology strategy, cybersecurity strategy, digital transformation leadership, and fractional CIO, CISO, and CTO roles. • Led security assessment and remediation for staffing company developing company-wide cybersecurity strategy from the ground-up significantly reducing risk from cyber threats. • Assisted in business development for cybersecurity startup helping to build proposals and meet with top clients driving new client acquisition. • Worked with CEO and CMO for startup in AI space to develop long-term strategy and go-to-market plan.
Responsible for technology leadership for all enabling functions including cybersecurity, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), end user services, and architecture. • Led transformation across cloud, DevOps, and service management (ITSM) resulting in 11% increase in velocity and 25% increase in mean time to resolve issues (MTTR) all while increasing employee engagement.. • Drove cloud strategy and cost reduction program resulting in cost savings of $1.5M annually. • Received CIO 100 award in recognition of shared containerization and continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) platform.
Responsible for business and technology leadership of global technology firm focused on helping companies to run their infrastructure, operations, and cybersecurity more effectively and efficiently. • Built DevOps consulting practice serving as principal consultant for largest clients. Assisted in implementation of DevOps best practice leading to reduction in costs through automation. • Led the development and launch of open source operations management tools including best-in-class Synthetic User Monitoring tool, xSUM, and correlation and presentation engine, xView.