Career Progression
Bank of America (2019 - present)
Sr Global Information Security – Policy Adherence Assessment
Sr Team Member of the Application Policy Assessment team specializing in
application policy adherence for worldwide financial services
organizational standards and regulations.
Policy and Control creation and implementation specialist.
Executing Regulatory Standards for financial institution applications, Security Risk Assessments and Risk Mitigation involving Data Privacy, Business Performance, Legal and Security Compliance,
application testing and the application environment.
Global Cyber Security Engineer - Alorica (2018 - 2019)
Resolved, remediated, mitigated and established compensating controls for 7,500+ Pen Test vulnerabilities which allowed the organization to regain their AOC (Attestation of Compliance) by providing a clean Penetration Test.
- Developed successful SOC 2 Type 1 (documentation of procedures and controls) and SOC 2 Type 2 (evidentiary proof of procedures and controls) compliance reports for Data Center environments required by American Express resulting in cessation of multiple imposed fines.
Sr. IS Cyber Security Engineer Blue Cross Blue Shield of S.C. (2015 - 2018)
Creator, Leader, and Mentor of the Operational Systems Compliance (OSC) Team – effectively training and mentoring OSC staff to enable effective Information Assurance (IA) practices – in accordance with corporate GRC standards through Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Secure Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), National Institute Of Standards and Technologies (NIST) 800-53, ISO 9001:2015 and organizational Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements.
Sr. System Engineer / Administrator PACOM - (2012 - 2015)
Created, provisioned, and maintained enterprise-level servers and workstations for multiple world-wide classified networks for Department of Defense (DoD) in Pacific Command (PACOM)
achieving NIST 800-53 compliance.
Developed an Endpoint Protection solution for local and remote based “Top Secret” networks (located in governments with information sharing agreements with United States)