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I specialize in growing technology businesses from the ground up, scaling them from early-stage ventures to established revenue positive businesses. With over 18 years of experience in the venture and technology space, I have built and led high-performing sales teams, developed strategic partnerships, and driven expansion into new markets.

Throughout my career, I have worked with startups at pivotal moments—whether launching new products, refining go-to-market strategies, or expanding operations internationally. I have successfully opened offices and established market presence for high-growth companies across North America and APAC, navigating the complexities of new regions while building strong teams and customer relationships.

I thrive in fast-moving environments, helping companies break through growth challenges and accelerate success. If you're looking for insight on scaling sales, entering new markets, or strengthening partnerships, feel free to connect.

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As a CIAM/API Specialist I am involved in all stages of the customer’s development lifecycle. Part of my job includes consulting customers  on the best ways to secure cloud technology and solutioning target needs based on Okta API and Platform products.

Principal Security Architect 

Consultant / Self-Employed

•	Interview key subject matter experts to determine current IDM/security hardware and software profile.
•	Analyze current network layout, services and resources to determine required access.
•	Determine user roles and responsibilities, classifying like users into groups to ease maintenance and rule implementations controlling access to resources appropriate to user and group classifications.
•	Analyze and document (both existing and potential) solutions for the following: User account provisioning/de-provisioning, Enterprise Directory Services, Single Sign-On (web and desktop), Password Management, Role-Based access control, Strong Authentication
•	Provide documentation and recommendations detailing best practices for user and access control as determined by independent research and current like institution implementations.
•	Architect for the implementation of Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Internet Directory, and Oracle Virtual Directory
•	Implemented OIM and OAM through Development, Staging, and Production
•	Developing custom workflows and Generic Technology Connectors (GTC) for manual user dumps. 
Okta Implementation for a large financial client.

OIM/IDM Trainer (Consultant)

Altisource

Identity Management Architect and Implementation Engineer
•	Architect for and the implementation of Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Role Manager.
•	Integrated all systems with multiple back-end database systems.
•	Cut project scope and duration down by over 30% with discovery and project analysis

IDM Architect

City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law

•	Worked along side with Oracle on architecting and implementing the Oracle Identity Management Suite into a 22-campus environment with capabilities of managing up to 50k end-users.
•	Design was built around managing Students, Faculty, and Staff with multiple roles. 
•	OIM was configured to talk to three separate Authoritative PeopleSoft sources for all identites.
•	Provisioning from OIM was configured for Oracle Internet Directory (OID), Oracle Virtual Direcory (OVD), PeopleSoft using Apache reverse proxies and PeopleSoft’s Pure Internet Architecture, and Active Directory.
•	Managed a small team of 5 IdM engineers and worked directly with Oracle’s consultants to meet all deadlines.

Senior Oracle IDM Architect and Engineer

AURION PRO - US BASED SERVICE COMPANY

•	Architected and designed a six campus Identity Management solution that encompasses the Oracle Fusion Middleware Stack (Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Identity Federation, Oracle Access Server, and Oracle Enterprise Linux).
•	Design was built around managing all 150,000+ Students, Faculty, and Staff.
•	Managed a team of integration specialists to implement and promote through three environments and on a separate Disaster Recovery (DR) datacenter.
•	Responsible for reviewing and recommending enterprise identity management solutions and deployment alternatives to external customers and internal end-users.
•	Integrated all systems with Active Directory, SunONE LDAP, IIS and Apache web servers
•	Implementation was done on multiple virtual servers through VMWare running Oracle Enterprise Linux, Windows 2003, and SUSE Linux.

Team Lead

Slashsupport, Inc.

•	Perform Support and Implementation work in current architecture and new business requirements for an Infrastructure Security Solution.
•	Work on new PoC and potential Solution. 
•	Provide ongoing solution document with multiple vendors listing the benefits and disadvantages between each of the suggested product suites and combinations.

Security Specialist

Senior Solutions Architect, Security & Identity

- B2C facing identity service for a financial giant based out of New York.
- Largest single sign-on capabilities across customer-facing web portals and digital properties. ( Ecommerce Company )
- Multiple projects  with deep expertise and proven history with IAM related protocols such as SAML, OpenID, and OAuth.
- Cloud Security implementation with Azure, GCP and AWS. 
- Multiple Global CIAM Projects.
- Multiple LDAP/Directory Services projects. 

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