Career Highlights
Compliance:
Authored a comprehensive Information Security Program, resulting in the successful attainment of a SOC 2 Type II report.
Entrepreneurship:
Established a streamlined ITSM-focused InfoSec/IT department, encompassing DevOps, AppSec, GRC, IT, and SOC teams.
Partnership
Conducted security and technical due diligence during the vendor selection process for business services and technologies.
Advocacy
Advocated for thorough documentation and ticket logging, leading to the creation of over 3,000 ITSM tickets and 250+ Confluence articles within a year.
Leadership
Oversaw multiple construction projects for the development of the head office and satellite offices.
Communication
Conducted monthly company-wide Information Security training and onboarding security sessions for new employees.
Results
Played a key role in scaling the workforce from 40 to 120 employees within a single fiscal year.
Engineering
Implemented a modern IT infrastructure seamlessly integrating HRIS, Okta, Jamf Pro, Google Workspace, Slack, AWS, Jira, Datadog, IaaS, and various open-source tools.
Integrity
Led the development of policies, standards, and technical safeguards for the Information Security Program, ensuring alignment with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification requirements.
Accountability
Managed an annual InfoSec/IT budget exceeding 5 million dollars.
Infra as Code
Proficient in AWS services including ECS, EC2, VPC, ELB, RDS, Route 53, CFN templates, and EKS.
CI/CD
Experienced in CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and ArgoCD.
IdP
Implemented 165 SAML and SWA SSO applications in Okta and developed automation using Okta Workflow.
Zero-Trust
Implemented a zero-trust access policy utilizing an identity provider, network zones, device trust certificates, MFA, VPN, and ZTNA.
Client Platform Engineering
Developed a self-healing and auto-patching software update policy utilizing MDMs and various open-source tools.
Monitoring
Integrated a variety of metrics and logs into Splunk and Datadog for logging and monitoring purposes.
