Seasoned Software Engineering and Product Development Leader adept at seamlessly integrating project technical aspects and making information relatable to non-technical personnel as well as technical personnel for rapid delivery. Experienced leader with 10+ years in a leadership role managing large and small diverse teams for revenue generating product delivery. Clear communicator, decision maker, and problem solver.
Skills
Leadership
Engineering Architecture
UX Design
Product Design
Cybersecurity
Threat Intelligence
SOC operations
Engineering Financials
Strategic Planning
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Technology integration
Written Communication
Organization and Time management
Large Organization Management
Work History
07/2020 to Current
Sr. Director of EngineeringKaman Corporation – Bloomfield, CT,
Lead project specifications for database strategy, API strategy, ML Pipeline strategy. Deeply involved with the individual execution team to ensure rapid and correct delivery.
Control 30 million dollar budget that included AWS usage, on-prem datacenter usage, personnel, R&D, and COGS budgeting
Implemented SDLC improvement into daily procedures of Mandiant Advantage project to improve velocity and parallel execution plan to speed delivery to market.
Served as direct manager of the UX team providing the Mandiant Advantage mockups during the development market release.
Lead the Program and Project management capability to provide detail a project timeline, risk management and parallel execution of dependencies.
Evaluated existing procedures and made proactive adjustments to meet changing demands of the timeline based on rapid iterative process.
Provided technical leadership for company to effectively steer strategic plans and future projects planning of the Mandiant Advantage platform.
Provided technical direction on Mandiant Advantage project and initiatives to other engineers, designers and technicians.
Delivered Mandiant Advantage from concept to market release in 10 calendar months.
Coordinated project team of 100 engineers for the Mandiant Advantage project including Data Science Team, Intelligence Collection and Analysis, Graph Database Team, UI Team, UX Team and API development teams.
Provide direct strategic guidance on business intelligence capabilities of the rollout to ensure instrumentation of the market process post-launch and adoption using Marketo, Gainsight and Microsoft Power BI.
Lead personnel restructure during the same year as the Mandiant Advantage Platform we being developed to optimized the organization for execution.
Participated in pre-launch customer reviews with Product Management and UX team to provide insight into launch of the Mandiant Advantage platform.
Managed quality assurance of the Mandiant Advantage launch.
Participated in Market Strategy discussion with CTO of Mandiant Advantage.
Delivered Machine Learning pipeline to automate the M-Score associated with threat indicators in the platform.
01/2016 to 07/2020
Director of Intelligence EngineeringFireEye, Inc – City, STATE,
Designed detailed budget for engineering AWS costing for commercial rollout of Mandiant Advantage platform using AWS services.
Lead COGS, R&D, personnel and AWS cost management of engineering costs with a 50 million dollar budget.
Led strategic data initiatives to consolidate data to central graph database system
Developed Detailed Engineering plans to move existing data architecture to service the Mandiant Advantage Vision.
Lead team to covert existing Graph Database implementation on homegrown implementation to Janus Graph.
Directly and Indirectly managed central knowledge graph and surrounding ecosystem using Java, Python, and Golang programming languages. Technology stack including Redis, Elasticsearch, RDS, Janus graph.
Built from the ground up the central binary store that holds all binary receive on perimeter devices for dedication that totals over 2 PB of unique malicious binaries
Built from the ground of the central API infrastructure that all FireEye internal API use for authentication and authorization.
Build from the ground up the threat intelligence portal that service 100M dollar of revenue that includes intelligence reporting, binary analysis, email alerting and digital threat monitoring.
Build from the ground up API that delivers STIX 2.1 capabilities to the market.
Participated in production direction steering for Threat Intelligence product.
Delivered 4.5 Million dollars per year in cost-saving through Elasticsearch management infrastructure that is IaaS vendor agnostic.
Delivered on-prem data center moved to AWS technologies include Kubernetes deployments allow for true CI/CD pipelines using Drone, Harbor and Argo.
Managed green card process for several offshore employees with HR
Grew team to 30 engineers at the time of acquisition of iSIGHT Partners, Inc to 180 engineers in total.
01/2012 to 01/2016
Sr. Manager of Software Engineering Isight Partners, Inc – City, STATE,
Started and lead of team of 4 engineers that ultimately grew to 30 engineers at the time of acquisition with offices in PUNE, AMS, Virginia and US Remote.
Outlined engineering growth strategies to on-shore and offshore capabilities
Onboard PUNE office into organization for engineering cost optimization
Delivered Email Deliver system for intelligence reporting to customer that called to 5K emails per minute.
Delivered intelligence portal based on Mongo DB, Memcache, MySQL and PHP
Delivered API version 1.0 and 2.0 based on Python, Django, MySQL, CoucheBase DB, Rabbit MQ
Delivered content management system based on customized version of Nuxeo
Delivered platform to capture intelligence data in a flat format for threat actor and malware tracking
Delivered platform to track threat actor forum activity for HUMIT
Delivered collection capability of OSINT intelligence
Delivered Malware storage based on HADOOP and Elasticsearch
07/2009 to 01/2012
Senior Software Engineer/ Program ManagerVocalSpace, LLC – City, STATE,
Primary duty is to develop new SaaS technologies for telephony, multimedia markets and Amazon Web Services. Currently engaged as team lead of next release VOIP based SaaS system for end user and API development. Daily duties as software engineer in addition to development of new software include maintenance of SaaS media platforms hipcast.com, byoaudio.com and audioacrobat.com using PHP, JavaScript, C#, NodeJS, PERL and BASH. Designed and developed Simples3.com as SaaS to access Amazon S3 Cloud storage adding the ability to stream media directly from Amazon’s Cloud.
Education
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Master of Science: Computer Science Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, GPA:
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Master of Science: Computer Science Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, GPA:
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Bachelor of Science: Biology Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, GPA:
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