Experience

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  Lender Price

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • EVP, Head of Information Security

    • Nov 2023 - Present

  • SVP, Head of Information Security

    • Apr 2018 - Present

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  Hyperloop One

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • IS Security Manager, Head of Information Security

    • Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

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  DataDirect Networks

  • Manager, IT Operations & Security

    • Jan 2012 - Aug 2016

    Directly responsible for DDN’s datacenter, server, hypervisor, storage and telecom infrastructure, messaging systems, security, availability and incident response. Supervise the network operations and security team. Lead technical resource for diverse IT projects requiring business process analysis, system design, security risk assessment and integration. Develop and maintain standards and policies. Negotiate contracts with and manage vendors. Prepare budget estimates.

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  City of Pasadena

  • Senior Info Systems Engineer

    • Aug 2010 - Jan 2012

    Led a team of highly competent sysadmins in the drive to move the Department of IT from multiple end-of-life systems onto solutions that properly fit the organization and supported our mission “to provide proven, state-of-the-practice Information Technologies to our customers in the most strategic, cost effective and efficient ways possible” under the IT Strategic Plan. Directly responsible for City’s datacenter, server, hypervisor and storage infrastructure, messaging systems, security and availability. Served as lead technical resource for IT projects requiring system design, security and integration services in an evolving ITIL-oriented organization. Developed and maintained standards and policies. Prepared budget estimates.

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  DIRECTV

  • Information Security Engineer

    • Mar 2009 - Aug 2010

    Security risk and vulnerability assessment of critical infrastructure and applications. Developed and maintained security standards and policies. Conducted both security and compliance driven vulnerability assessments, port scans and blind security tests. Worked with risk management team on remediation. Evaluated new OS, network, app and database assessment and testing tools. Reviewed firewall configuration changes. Engineered event detection, collection and analysis systems. Event management.

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  Sheppard Mullin

  • Systems Engineer

    • 2003 - 2009

    Designed, implemented and maintained secure, HA messaging systems for Int'l AmLaw 100 law firm with over 550 attorneys and 4TB Exchange data. End-to-end responsibility for multiple mission critical systems and apps including Clustered Exchange 2003, Active Directory, BlackBerry, PGP, Autonomy Zantaz, Equallogic SANs across eleven-site enterprise meeting requirement to support no-limit mailboxes while maintaining stability and maximizing uptime. Developed disaster recovery plan. Legal holds and eDiscovery searches and productions.

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  UC Irvine

  • NT/UNIX Sys Admin

    • 1999 - 2004

    Design, implement and maintain Windows and UNIX/Linux network systems, policies, and documentation. Provide hardware / software support to faculty and researchers. Troubleshoot and secure diverse systems in research labs. Deploy myriad course-related engineering software packages in student computer labs. Solve problems, protect digital assets and facilitate excellence.• Led successful and pioneering effort to enable UCInetID (krb5) authentication on HSSoE Windows & UNIX systems.• Developed POC of McAfee AV for UNIX e-mail with MailScanner and Sendmail -- was later adopted by uci.edu mail system.

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  Claremont McKenna College

  • Computer Lab Manager

    • 1994 - 1998

    Design, implement and maintain Windows NT and Macintosh network systems, policies, and documentation for the campus. Manage 25 student employees. Lead website development projects. Work with faculty to provide hardware / software support and course-related software in labs. Design secure faculty/staff workstation images. Solve problems and manage change.