Pflugerville, Texas, United States
Senior credentials with strong business acumen, guru-level technical capacity and successful international entrepreneurial experience. Over 25 years building cost appropriate Information Security organizations and reducing risk through standards based technical solutions and compliance programs. Experience with large-scale Fortune 50 clients as well as startups in healthcare, education, manufacturing, technology, and government verticals. Results oriented with proven track record to deliver on time and under budget. Versatility to communicate at all levels of an organization from C- level to system administrator as well as cross-functional and cross-industry talents. RFC contributor, industry shaper and noted speaker: Contributed to the RFC standards, participated in Internet2 standards, lectured for the Ministry of Defense in the United Kingdom and the University of California system in the United States, and created several white papers describing inter-bank ACH commerce standards. Formerly an adjunct professor at San Francisco State University, and University of Texas Austin in Engineering. Proven staff management and executive leadership with several security teams driving excellence in Enterprise Risk Methodology and corporate Governance to achieve a security mindset, budget, executive support, and initiative adoption in often politically charged environments.
Led the Global Architecture and InformaDon Security Engineering teams of over 100 people in India, Netherlands, and United States driving security initiatives such as: global endpoint protection, Crowdstrike deployment to over 60,000 devices, SIEM unification (Falcon, Cisco Splunk, Palo Alto Cortex), common criteria lab security, engineering toolset rationalization, supply chain security, Palo Alto CASB/DLP deployment, Intune MDM/MAM deployment, Forcepoint DLP deployment and Everfox UBEA enhancement and trade control export compliance with China security separation. § Managed an annual budget of US$20M consistently driving risk-based costing and modeling. § Led the global Agentic and generative AI projects across the worldwide enterprise including: Claude, OpenAI, Deepseek, Bedrock, Sage, Moveworks, Copilot, and others. Responsible for security standards (OWASP, SAFE, ISO and others) as well as: adversarial machine learning, fairness detection and mitigation, data privacy and ethics, threat intelligence, input sanitization, homomorphic encryption and secure API design. Tools such as: IBM ART, Model Card, Python, and Vertex deployed. § Ran operational units including: identity services (IAM, PAM, MFA, IGA, Sailpoint, Savyint, Workday HRMS integration), directory services (MS AD, Azure, Oracle OUD, OpenLDAP), DLP (ForcePoint, DTEX, Palo Alto), Incident Response (Everfox), Secure Web Gateway / WAF (Symantec, Palo Alto PRIMA, CASB/DLP, CNAPP, Zscaler), and PKI (Thales HSM, MS PKI, others). § Re-designed existing manufacturing, R&D and corporate networks to a zero-trust architecture. § Authored 30+ processes and TOGAF architectures for onboarding M&A assets resulting in the company saving millions in Kinara, TTTech, Wistron, TSMC, and Aviva Links M&As. Onboarded over 200 applications in the Manufacturing, Engineering, and Sales/marketing business units to the central IAM solution decreasing the annual external SOX audit cost by over $1.75M per year.
+ VMWare is an $16B public software company with over 31,000 staff and 600 worldwide locations (eventually sold to Broadcom) + Created and documented processes and architecture reference model for onboarding M&A applications in the VMWare IAM tool AccessNow + Was responsible for the M&A portfolio for Pivotal, Carbon Black and AirWatch applications for the IAM group + Built a governance model for discussion, documentation, approvals, status, and post go-live + Created weekly analytics reporting for all M&A activity and onboarding actions, escalated issues to Savyint + Coordinated and led development teams in providing deep level architectures and code-level documentation for onboarding + Was responsible for Federal compliance program teams including: FedRAMP, CMMC and other government related requirements + Coordinated closely with audit, legal, and risk teams + Worked with technically challenging application infrastructures, and often politically charged environments to gather requirements and provide solutions to the development team for AccessNow + Conducted UAT meetings for AccessNow including workflows, approval structures, and role breakdowns + Conducted weekly status meetings with Internal Audit, Risk, InfoSec, Legal, Application Owners, Active Directory, Workspace One, AccessNow, Project Management, M&A Management, and Finance teams.
+ CertaScale is a private startup focused on datacenter security software with $40M of funding from private investors with 4 international locations + Led the product architecture and participated in coding of full stack back end and front end web3 dApp and mobile based product + Designed and developed blockchain solution in Hyperledger + Designed and developed REST API services layer for community and third-party access/automation + Technology stack developed on included: GoLang, Javascript, Python, React, Mobile Native, Hyperledger (Aries, Fabric, Indy, and Caliper), MongoDB, Azure, AWS, Jenkins, CodeScout, kubernetes + Toolsets used in development: gitlab, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Postman, Visual Studio Code, slack, docker swarm, selenium, karma, browser stack, and signalFX + Ran security operations center (SOC) team to monitor environment using tools: Prometheus, Cacti, ELK, and Grafana + Led team of 85 software engineers and operations staff internationally + Designed and authored an extensive IP patent portfolio for the company
+ Presidio is a $5B private value added reseller with over 2,500 staff and 58 domestic locations + Gave seminars in over 17 cities on software defined futures, MapReduce, in-memory computing, and other topics + Regularly conducted quarterly 1:1 meetings with Fortune 25 CIOs (Presidio customers) to include: Starbucks, Microsoft, Nordstrom, Nike, Costco, Yahoo, MD Anderson, BHP Billiton, Flextronics, CBRE, Calpine, Baylor College of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Houston Metro, Experian, St Lukes, PGE, and Sony + Led architectural committees in MPLS, OSPF, BGP, LTE, FCoE, and VoIP design sessions + Designed datacenter & virtualization strategies to include failover, fault tolerance, resource sharing, load balancing, and load distribution models + Built and specified datacenter reference architectures to include VCE V-Block and NetApp FlexPod solutions + Designed shared services model for Bexar County, City of Schertz, City of San Antonio, and other municipalities + Created network, storage, platform, and application segmentation strategy solutions + Provided thought leadership and go-to-market strategies for sales team of over $1B in targeted revenue for Presidio + Provided monthly briefings to industry analysts including: Sterne Agee, Forrester, and Gartner + Participated in leadership advisory councils for financial firms as well + Held Presidio's seat at the Partner Advisory Council for Cisco, VMWare, Microsoft, EMC, and F5 + Aligned industry strategy, marketing data points, sales overlay maps, and Presidio sales motions to provide increase in revenue, and market recognition + Noted speaker at Presidio seminars, VM World, Cisco Live, EMC World, and other major industry events +.Authored several white papers to gain sales and market sector awareness to include: Dynamic Datacenter, Software Defined Futures, Storage Automation, and more + Created sales, and technology reports for the Board of Directors + Gave reports to sub-committees as requested.
+ Xirrus is a private startup focused on wireless technology with $40M in funding from private investors with 12 international locations + Built and led customer facing security and deployment teams in a 160 person (US$80M) wireless startup (eventually sold to Brocade) + Engaged customers directly to: + Evangelize design and customer-specific solutions + Discuss and outline the product roadmap + Aid in explaining complicated RF principals and ease the sale ultimately closing deals + Spoke at International events including: Keynote at the World Wi-Fi Summit in Barcelona, Spain, and Keynote at Cavium World in Northern California + Managed key accounts and contacts directly including: SFR, Eircom, AT&T, Telesta, Morgan Stanley, CreditSuisse, Las Vegas Sands Corp, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and others + Instituted an Agile SCRUM methodology in Engineering and QA to increase product quality and TTM feature velocity + Designed next-generation cloud management platform and DevOps group + Created reports and gave directly to the Board of Directors on status, metrics, and goals + Participated in architecture and engineering designs for carrier offload (802.11u), Apple Bonjour, and Deep Packet Inspection modules + Created and promulgated SDK, Reference Architecture, and API stack for open interconnect strategies + Created SDN strategy for large customers, and interoperability with OEM and partner relationships + Outsourced VoIP, Sharepoint, Exchange, CRM, and time management solutions for the company as CIO.