Responsibilities include:

• Led efforts to secure and operationalize a critical software platform, accelerating deployment timelines by 50% and enabling $10M in strategic investments.
• Streamlined application approval processes, reducing time-to-production by 92%, saving $1M annually, and providing scalable solutions for enterprise-level software adoption.
• Developed and deployed comprehensive security policies and architecture that bolstered compliance across 20 teams, improving regulatory adherence with required controls by 30% in the NIST 800-53 rev 4 framework.
• Developed innovative automation pipelines to replace costly licensed tools, cutting deployment costs by $350K annually and reducing delivery time by 65%.
• Facilitated collaboration by representing the organization at twenty major industry events; interfaced with a network of hundreds to develop joint strategies that resulted in improved threat response protocols for both parties.
• Directed yearly penetration testing for platform hosting eight production applications and seven development applications.
• Coordinated hands-on workshops for a cybersecurity team, facilitating knowledge sharing sessions that engaged 7 team members; sessions improved task completion time by 30% and strengthened overall team collaboration.

Responsibilities included:

• Directed cybersecurity engineering for a 1,500-person organization, enhancing threat detection and response across 16 AWS accounts and 900+ devices.
• Engineered a sophisticated monitoring system that streamlined compliance protocols, enabling real-time insights to identify and mitigate risks across 23,000+ devices within the organization’s environments.
• Automated security tool deployments, cutting setup time by 70% and improving efficiency across development teams.
• Established organization-wide data protection protocols that safeguarded all managed endpoints—over 23,000 devices—against unauthorized access; aligned measures with evolving cybersecurity standards to mitigate operational risks.