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Stratascale is a leading services company in cybersecurity, focusing on delivering resilient and innovative solutions to fortify organizational defenses.

• Drove the strategic direction and execution of a comprehensive services strategy, enhancing client engagement and market penetration.
• Acted as trusted advisor to the CEO, shaping multi-year technology services and AI investment strategy tied to growth, margin, and customer experience.
• Led AI and emerging-technology adoption, identifying high-impact use cases, defining governance models, and operationalizing responsible AI across the enterprise.

Critical Start is a Managed Detection and Response provider that focuses on delivering outcomes through precision alert handling and expert analysis.

• Partnered with the CISO to establish AI governance and readiness frameworks, including ISO 42001 evaluation and enterprise risk alignment.
• Directed multiple AI-driven transformation initiatives, including internal LLM platforms and RAG-based systems, that materially improved knowledge retrieval and productivity.
• Led enterprise-scale technology operations and platform modernization across Managed Security Services, overseeing 26 engineers and architects.

• Founded and scaled a zero-to-one enterprise Security Implementations program, owning hiring, architecture, tooling, and operating model.
• Led modernization of onboarding, integrations, and incident-response platforms in partnership with product and engineering leadership.
• Supported SOC 2 Type II readiness through enterprise process definition, technical controls, and audit evidence development.

• Responsible for both technical implementation of systems and communication of security requirements to management and security leadership.
• Perform vulnerability scanning and analysis using security testing tools and processes used to expose known and undocumented vulnerabilities in various information systems.
• Creation of vulnerability reports to disseminate to groups based on operational hierarchies.
• Responsible for developing, deploying, monitoring, tuning, evaluating, reporting and maintaining systems and procedures.
• Identify and mitigate threats to corporate and customer networks, assets, and users.
• Identify core requirements, design and implement security technologies, and work with stakeholders to perform ongoing tuning and alerting.
• Integrating and ingesting APIs from various security-related products and tools into Splunk.
• Automation of AWS architecture using Terraform.
• Provide knowledge and support for software and web application migration devices (CloudFlare WAF).

• Front-end development and UI/UX lead for online gaming platform.
• Responsible for defining the front-end architecture and build processes to meet web application performance goals.
• Used modular component based architecture for Vue JS and SCSS components.
• Designed several web application mock-ups and prototypes using Adobe XD and Adobe Photoshop.

• Front-end development lead for re-design of ecommerce website.
• Rebuilt and optimized the front-end of the website enhancing responsive design, page load speeds, and enabling marketing to manage content by integrating the front-end with the Sitefinity CMS platform.
• Designed and developed 2 style-guides for internal use by other developers and content creators.
• Maintained and developed all current and new pages across US, Europe, and Australia domains.
• Developed and modified pages according to mockups while providing solutions to improve user experience and enhance implementation.
• Used AngularJS to build the administrative side of an internal marketplace app allowing the store owner to maintain all aspects of product inventory and product control.
• Developed 72 transactional and informational email templates as per the requirements of the Marketing department.
• Daily use of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, SASS/SCSS, JIRA, VSTS, and Git.

• Encrypted servers and client computers using Sophos drive encryption and BitLocker.
• Performed investigation of malicious activity and performed virus cleanup on all servers and client computers.
• Used EMC Avamar to manage backups and restore files for over 300 hospitals nationwide.
• Deployed and configured IT Infrastructure to a newly constructed hospital which resulted in the successful installation and configuration of over 400 network devices and peripherals.
• Programmed a navigable script reducing the duration of routine maintenance and troubleshooting tasks by 92%.
• Created a scripted installation of the enterprise OS image that was deployed to 3,000 newly purchased computers.
• Administrator of Enterprise Active Directory environment for over 300 hospitals and their associated users, groups, and assets.
• Resolved over 1,080 trouble tickets created by executive staff, facility IT contacts, and hospital end-users.

• Responsible for the completion and safekeeping of classified server backups and cryptographic inventory.
• Performed security risk analysis and vulnerability assessment of Windows and Unix systems using Retina Vulnerability Scanner and Nessus.
• Performed TCP/UDP packet analysis using Wireshark.
• One of two Administrators for the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System and Turbulent Wave networks with over 800 users utilizing Active Directory and Exchange environments.
• Ensured end-to-end data encryption by configuring Taclane inline network encryptors.
• Help Desk Supervisor - responsible for the quick diagnoses and repair of computer and network related issues submitted via intranet help desk.
• Directly responsible for the operation and support of the Defense Messaging System and Legacy Messaging support systems to 2,629 Atlantic and European customers.
• Provided leadership and supervision to 38 civilian and military personnel.
• Created and revised 16 standard operating procedure manuals for network communication systems and policies.
• Coordinated the successful connectivity and operation of over 600 IP Video Teleconferences saving over $500,000 in travel expenses.
• Training Coordinator - provided weekly training presentations and lectures to personnel resulting in over 84 completed qualifications.

• Received computer terminals for repair or upgrades from 542 locations.
• Responsible for the packaging and processing of outgoing computer terminals.