Career Profile
Hello, I am a software dev and IT Cybersecurity Professional with over 10 years of professional IT experience. I am a dedicated lifelong student, continuously seeking opportunities to enhance my expertise and adeptly tackle complex challenges. As a proactive individual, I take ownership of my responsibilities and consistently strive to help my team achieve excellence. I am passionate about DevOps and love working in cloud environments. My passions also lie in networking and software development. I am dedicated to delivering top-quality products and solutions, and am excited for the opportunity to collaborate with your team to drive your organization to achieve exceptional results.
Experiences
Enhanced cybersecurity governance, maintaining above a 95% compliance for 3 medium-risk systems and 4 low risk systems.Led an AI-driven cybersecurity awareness initiative, reducing content creation time by 50% and increasing the phishing reporting metric by over 60% increasing cyber maturity.
Led campaign to audit over 10,000 Azure accounts and discovered 3% of users with unauthorized access in Microsoft Entra ID, mitigating security threats.
Consulted with various business partners to create automated workflows using Microsoft Power Platform, cutting document processing time by over 80%. Facilitated continuity and contingency planning efforts with two medium risk systems forcing the technical architects to realize discrepancies within their back-up plans.
In this role, I created supporting technical documents that drove forward the design and operating effectiveness of various controls related to the integration, monitoring, and reporting of information indicative of internal threats.
In addition, I updated process maps that identified business partner workflows that highlight technologies within the Internal Threat Management engagement, the work produced highlighted controls that require further refinement and opportunities for improvement.
In this role, I expertly developed and implemented custom business solutions using Microsoft PowerApps. These solutions included automation of business processes and data visualization dashboards, which helped drive more informed business decisions and boost productivity for various departments within the organization.
Additionally, I successfully managed and administered the Azure cloud infrastructure for an organization of 200 people, including the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of virtual machines, storage, and network resources, resulting in increased scalability and security for the organization.
Served as the Infrastructure Manager who managed and provided supervision of the maintenance of applications and computing infrastructure activities, to include Windows, LAN, and cloud backups ensuring the company maintained availability and resilience of data.
Delivered same-day technical assistance to a diverse employee base of over 200 individuals located throughout the United States and ensured ticket to response and resolution resulted in less than 2-hour completion.
In this role I was responsible for developing and executing plans, operations, and training for a 40 employee organization. Our organization was responsible for providing musical and logistical support to over 17,000 families and civilians in Upstate NY.
I developed a strategy for digital marketing, developed a vision and represented the unit director at meetings at the local and corporate levels; I prepared reports and made recommendations to the Deputy CEO following research on maximizing the returns on investment.
Projects
I enjoy tinkering and combining electricity and programming. In my alternative life I’d been a computer engineer as I have developed a hobby of building IOT devices. I truly just enjoy technology and hope you like what you see!