Director of Cyber Security & Privacy

• Jul 2023 - Present

Director of Cyber Security (Cyber Threat & Incident Response)

• Sep 2022 - Aug 2023

This ongoing role has proven a great opportunity to accelerate my career growth. My effective management skills enable me to manage personnel, processes, and technologies associated with the 24x7 security operations program. I am involved in configuring, installing, and optimizing security systems and tools based on contextual information and threat landscape. Facilitate security operation center maturity efforts by designing efficient dashboards and metrics. I collaborate with business stakeholders and IT groups for effective management of threat hunting, investigation, containment, and other response activities. Lead cyber tabletop simulations and educational sessions with stakeholders. I coordinate with cross-functional teams overseeing information risk, privacy, architecture, infrastructure, and business functions. Following are some notable achievements from this position: • Enhanced Incident Response plans to perform initial triage within industry standard SLAs of a security event. • Reduced budget through optimization of the security program. • Real-world crisis leadership through security incidents. Resulting in improved detecting and preventative security controls. Show less

Senior Security Operations Manager

• Mar 2020 - Sep 2022

During this tenure, I was accountable for planning, design, and implementation compliance with industry best practices. One of my major tasks was to define evocative KPIs and KRIs to report on high volume/availability and critical production environment. My collaborative work style was proven quite helpful in requirements gathering, investigation, and analysis of security alerts. I was engaged in consolidating with business partners to evolve the vulnerability management program from theoretical to tactical. Among the achievements, you will note the following: • Evolved the Security program from Ad-hoc to Defined & Repeatable on frameworks like Gartner. • Created Security Operations lifecycle aligning the business, and IT Infrastructure with security architecture and compliance. Show less

Security Operations Manager

• Oct 2016 - Mar 2020

While acting as a Security Operations Manager, my day-to-day responsibilities were: 1. Spearheading over 60 cyber security programs for financial institutions. 2. Supporting incident detection and creation of preventive action plans. 3. Conducting penetration testing to identify and exploit vulnerabilities. 4. Deploying security controls such as IAM and GRC. Rolled out a program to determine all third-party blind penetration tests based on MITRE and NIST. Below are major achievements from this role: • Established KPI & KRI to identify the biggest security risks to client organizations. • Led the MSSP to 1,900 percent growth over 5 years while retaining 100% of clients. • Established multiple programs including MSSP, vulnerability management, penetration testing, compliance programs. Show less

Major Incident Manager

• Oct 2011 - Oct 2016

This role was a Kickstarter of my career in the civil sector. Here my primary focus was on developing multiple programs for the Application, DBA, & Incident Management teams. I played a vital role in the execution of incident response processes for technical and non-technical audiences. I successfully minimized downtime on high-availability systems by comprehending all levels from the big picture to the low-level technical view. I tracked all infrastructure incidents from root cause analysis to resolution by triaging and prioritizing issues as well as providing technical support. Some notable accomplishments from this role are given below: • Achieved and maintained a 99% SLA. • Established training & knowledge share program to ensure a common standard of knowledge across all IT • Process improvements to reduce downtime of critical systems. I also have additional experience as HR Information Systems Management at U.S. Army Reserve Show less

Information Systems management specialist

• Jan 2008 - Jan 2016

Aaron was primarily responsible for helping soldiers develop their Army careers, which includes providing promotion and future training information, and also includes personnel support for 5,600 soldiers in the brigade.  Received hero of the battle field award during 2013 annual training.  Documented new and existing process to ensure best practices were always followed.  Lead training sessions to ensure all knowledge acquired was shared and documented. Aaron was primarily responsible for helping soldiers develop their Army careers, which includes providing promotion and future training information, and also includes personnel support for 5,600 soldiers in the brigade.  Received hero of the battle field award during 2013 annual training.  Documented new and existing process to ensure best practices were always followed.  Lead training sessions to ensure all knowledge acquired was shared and documented.