Ron Sharon

360 SOC, Inc.

360SOC is a security company that specializes in offering a comprehensive range of security products and services. Key among these is their Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and (SOC) services.

SVP IT and Security 

Throwing The Box

Content Writer

Mercer Advisors

Mercer Advisors is a total wealth management firm that provides financial planning and investment management services. Mercer Advisors has a staff of over 900 in 80+ offices coast-to-coast, including financial advisors, attorneys, CPAs, and investment experts.

I brought order and structure to Mercer Advisors  and transformed the entire IT department, including site security programs, information security platforms, and platform selection and management. Led a team of 20 and a $6M budget. Served as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and C-Suite executives. Set the strategic direction across (Undisclosed) and established and administered corporate information security policies and procedures.

Highlights of my accomplishments include:

•	Led an initiative to review current platforms and redevelop them in alignment with business needs. Worked closely with COO and began process of organizing data and managing assets. Saved ~$1M per year and improved processes and performance enterprise-wide. 

•	Directed a migration of 10k records to a new Salesforce platform that enabled the development of new platform features.

•	Steered the rollout of a new comprehensive security program Security as a Service (SOC), policies and procedures, passed audits without any deficiency letters, and reduced the threat of cyber security and phishing attacks by 80%.

Vice President Information Security

Director of Information Security & IT

Director of Information Security

Ibotta, Inc.

Ibotta is a technology company that enables users with its smartphone app to earn cash back on in-store, mobile app, and online purchases with receipt submission, linked retailer loyalty accounts, payments, and/or purchase verification

In this role, I built the entire IT department, security program, and teams from the ground up for a rapidly scaling technology company that grew from 150 employees to 500 employees in 2 years. Established policies, procedures, incident response, and crafted a 3-year strategic roadmap to maximize ROI. Led a team of 3 directors, a budget of $6M, and responsibility for all in-house technology needs and services. Hired and onboarded helpdesk and engineering teams. 
Highlights of my accomplishments include:

•	Resolved complex problems by reworking the entire network infrastructure that reduced downtime by 80% and lowered core connectivity costs by 70%.

•	Stood up the information cyber security group and the internal IT team, onboarded 12 employees per week and ensured equipment and infrastructure was in place to support the company’s rapid growth. 

•	Led contract renegotiations with vendors to reduce costs while concurrently increasing overall profitability.

Director Of Information Technology (CIO / CISO)

Maxsys LLC

Maxsys was an IT and Information security consulting firm. Serving small to mid-size clients, its primary focus was to provide technological and security solutions to fit any business need.  

I owned and operated a consulting practice providing general IT, security, networking services and bespoke technical solutions to medical offices, accountants, and small- to medium-sized businesses. Managed all back-end accounting and financial processes. Facilitated technical trainings to employees via in-person and 1:1 virtual sessions. 

Highlights of my accomplishments include:

•	Ensured all security programs and services complied with HIPAA requirements.  
•	Consistently monitored and updated systems to improve overall productivity by 15%.
•	Managed network security using a bottom-up approach, circumventing risk by 40%.

Founder

Zetta Pros

Zetta Pros is an IT services platform providing a full team of IT specialists for clients, keeping systems safe and in excellent working order. They monitor client systems 24/7, apply patches, ensure backups, keep viruses at bay, and perform a host of other proactive measures.

Here, I oversaw a team of 4 providing consulting work for companies and managing IT processes, systems, and programs.  Met with clients to evaluate their unique needs, recommend the appropriate services and solutions, and guide them through the onboarding process. SME for information and computer security. Established disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Highlights of my accomplishments include:

•	Proactively improved and enhanced processes across the organization including reducing waste and decreasing redundancies by enforcing budgetary guidelines, boosting ROI by creating strategic roadmaps, and driving efficiencies by incorporating new technologies, including VoIP and remote desktop.

Co-Founder

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.

IT Consultant

Canon USA

Universal Music Group

LA Clippers

I am Ron Sharon, bringing over two decades of expertise in technology and cybersecurity. As a dedicated leader and a fervent innovator, my career is marked by a commitment to empowering cybersecurity professionals. My mission is to foster the development of both emerging and seasoned leaders, helping them achieve their career aspirations and reach their fullest potential.

Beyond my professional endeavors, my passion for information technology is a personal commitment. I actively seek connections and collaborations with professionals who share my vision, underscoring my inclusive approach to knowledge sharing and community building.

In the tech world, my influence is transformative. I am always ready to share my knowledge and insights. My proactive approach makes me a valuable asset to any professional network, particularly those navigating the complex and dynamic landscapes of technology and cybersecurity.

(Undisclosed) is a total wealth management firm that provides financial planning and investment management services. (Undisclosed) has a staff of over 900 in 80+ offices coast-to-coast, including financial advisors, attorneys, CPAs, and investment experts.

I brought order and structure to (Undisclosed) and transformed the entire IT department, including site security programs, information security platforms, and platform selection and management. Led a team of 20 and a $6M budget. Served as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and C-Suite executives. Set the strategic direction across (Undisclosed) and established and administered corporate information security policies and procedures.

Highlights of my accomplishments include:

•	Led an initiative to review current platforms and redevelop them in alignment with business needs. Worked closely with COO and began process of organizing data and managing assets. Saved ~$1M per year and improved processes and performance enterprise-wide. 

•	Directed a migration of 10k records to a new Salesforce platform that enabled the development of new platform features.

•	Steered the rollout of a new comprehensive security program Security as a Service (SOC), policies and procedures, passed audits without any deficiency letters, and reduced the threat of cyber security and phishing attacks by 80%.

Bresco Broadband

Network Engineer for core network team plus additional roles

Senior Core Network Engineer

Experis / Cisco

Support site upgrade and rollout activities. 
Install , Decommission or update new technology across locations
Perform conversions network and hardware 
Cisco Switching and Routing
Switch and Router configuration via console cable.
Cisco Meraki AP Wi-Fi deployments
Dual SD-WAN wiring and activating
On-site diagnostics of devices (as needed for night-of support)

OH / KY / IN Field IC Engineer

BroadbandOne

Sr Network Engineer+ DNS, DHCP, BIND, Python, YAML, Jina2, Infoblox, Zabbix, Rsyslog, Netbox , RemoteWinbox are some of the daily tools i use. I build network infrastructure from beginning to end. Router configurations and activation, Troubleshooting and testing. Linux servers to run infrastructure, Virtualization, Containers . Work with other carriers to have backhaul circuits installed and tested.  5G, Fixed Wireless radios etc.
If it has to deal with network infrastructure being built and tested i cover it all. I document processes needed to implement services and proceedures used across the Network as well.

Senior Network Engineer

ABSS SOLUTIONS, Inc. 

Temp Government contractor brought in to help resolve US Census conversion project.
Triaged Tickets for DDI and Network teams
Built proof of concepts for Infoblox upgrades, DNS64, DNS Anycast
Point of contact for HQ Network switch grooms project
Assisted in the setup Process for getting DDI team in Github and AWS
Assisted on Cloud Monday weekly Training calls.
Worked many of Tickets that didn’t have a process to move projects forward.

Subject Matter Expert IV

Qwest Communications International, Inc. ( Lumen Technologies )

Picked up additional Role within company as Specialist for Canada/Europe/Puerto Rico Ordering Network connectivity services for Customers.  This was a solo effort on my part as previous team was broken up and members left company. I ended up training 7 people to do this work.

I should mention nearly every position held could encompass any overlaid services ( Voip, SDWan Wireless Backup, Firewalls etc ) and numerous pieces of equipment to support the end to end service.

Lead Provisioning Architect Specialist Canada/Europe/Puerto Rico

Moved back as new management was hired . Business and IT Analyst, Operational Planning, Design and Engineering, Product Management. Lead Solutions Architect for all Non Standard, Federal and Government services.

Included SDWan, Wireless Backup, Firewalls, Customer and Network routers Juniper/Cisco, configurations, activations, grooms and decoms and disconnects.

Systems, Teams, O365, Carrier Webportals, Salesforce, Zendesk, SAP, Asana, Jira, Cloud Connect Tool, LIMS, TIRKS, Metasolv TBS, Coastal, Order Tracking System, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Service Now, Core, ERP and CRM tools, Architect Golden Design Model system and resources.

Lead Provisioning Architect Specialist

Picked up additional Role within Company as Senior management within Product team wanted to launch Cloud connectivity with Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Helped develop systems that nearly completely automated services to be built to customer account or key.

Included SDWan, Wireless Backup, Firewalls, Customer and Network routers Juniper/Cisco, configurations, activations, grooms and decoms and disconnects.

Systems, Carrier Webportals, Cloud Connect Tool, LIMS, TIRKS, Metasolv TBS, Coastal, Order Tracking System, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Service Now, Core, ERP and CRM tools, Architect Golden Design Model system and resources.

Lead Provisioning Architect Specialist Cloud Connect

Picked up additional Role within Company as Senior management within Product team wanted to launch Network connectivity for customers to connect with financial data services. IE NYSE, NASDAQ etc. This allowed real time traffic for financial data feeds for customers to use.

Included SDWan, Wireless Backup, Firewalls, Customer and Network routers Juniper/Cisco, configurations, activations, grooms and decoms and disconnects.

Systems, Carrier Webportals, Cloud Connect Tool, LIMS, TIRKS, Metasolv TBS, Coastal, Order Tracking System, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Service Now, Core, ERP and CRM tools, Architect Golden Design Model system and resources.

Lead Provisioning Architect Specialist Financial Services

Picked up additional role within company as teams was shifted around. Was responsible for Carrier network connectivity between company and other carrier networks.  Remained SME for all teams until i left company.

Included SDWan, Wireless Backup, Firewalls, Customer and Network routers Juniper/Cisco, configurations, activations, grooms and decoms and disconnects.

Systems, Carrier Webportals, Cloud Connect Tool, LIMS, TIRKS, Metasolv TBS, Coastal, Order Tracking System, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Service Now, Core, ERP and CRM tools, Architect Golden Design Model system and resources.

Network Solutions Architect

Picked up additional Role within company as Specials Product Custom Request member. I would take a custom request submitted from sales teams to see if we could come up with a Custom Network Solution outside the standard Offering that could be supported from end to end without harming customer experience.

Specials Product Custom Requests

Picked up additional position within Company as Carrier Account Manager. Was responsible for several external companies to add and remove personnel to allow services to be placed with vendors. Telx/Equinix etc.


Included SDWan, Wireless Backup, Firewalls, Customer and Network routers Juniper/Cisco, configurations, activations, grooms and decoms and disconnects.

Systems, Carrier Webportals, Cloud Connect Tool, LIMS, TIRKS, Metasolv TBS, Coastal, Order Tracking System, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Service Now, Core, ERP and CRM tools, Architect Golden Design Model system and resources.

Carrier Account Manager

Picked up additional Role within company as Product Management. Helped build and design, roll out new product and update existing ones to further enhance company portfolio.

Products Launched: Networx, EIS, Cloud Connect, IQ networking, IQ+ Networking, Bundled Routers and overlaid services ( IE Voip , Mailboxes, Firewalls, DDOS, Spam and Antivirus )


Included SDWan, Wireless Backup, Firewalls, Customer and Network routers Juniper/Cisco, configurations, activations, grooms and decoms and disconnects.

Systems, Carrier Webportals, Cloud Connect Tool, LIMS, TIRKS, Metasolv TBS, Coastal, Order Tracking System, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Service Now, Core, ERP and CRM tools, Architect Golden Design Model system and resources.

Product Manager

Picked up additional position within Company as Business Analyst to assist company in building rules and systems for current production systems and decommissioning for older systems.

New Systems Launched: Flighdeck, Eflow, Lims, (NGWM) Next Generation Workflow Manager, Topology Viewer, Router Configuration Builder Tool, Vlan Management Tracking System (VMTS), Coastal


Included Customer and Network routers Juniper/Cisco, configurations, activations, grooms and decoms and disconnects.

Systems, Carrier Webportals, Cloud Connect Tool, LIMS, TIRKS, Metasolv TBS, Coastal, Order Tracking System, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Service Now, Core, ERP and CRM tools, Architect Golden Design Model system and resources.

Senior Information Technology Business Analyst

Was asked to take over as Supervisor/Manager as previous management retired from company. Team consisted of 11 US Based and 25 Offshore based Employees

Included Customer and Network routers Juniper/Cisco, configurations, activations, grooms and decoms and disconnects.

Systems, Carrier Webportals, Cloud Connect Tool, LIMS, TIRKS, Metasolv TBS, Coastal, Order Tracking System, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Service Now, Core, ERP and CRM tools, Architect Golden Design Model system and resources.

Supervisor / Manager

Company downsized and 2nd Shift was completely Eliminated. Moved back to Specialist IV for 1st Shift.

Included Network routers Juniper/Cisco, configurations, activations, grooms and decoms and disconnects.

Systems, Order Tracking System, Ceaser, Arms, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Facilities & Equipment, Core, ERP and CRM tools, Architect Golden Design Model system and resources.

Provisioning Specialist IV

Picked up additional position within Company as Internal Corporate Telecom Lead. I was a 1 man team responsible for installing all the Network backbone Infrastructure to New Company locations and doing Grooms and upgrades to existing Network that was deemed as needing upgraded. Ended up training another team later on to assist with main workload.

Included Network routers Juniper/Cisco, configurations, activations, grooms and decoms and disconnects.

Systems, Order Tracking System, Ceaser, Arms, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Facilities & Equipment, Core, ERP and CRM tools, Architect Golden Design Model system and resources.

Corporate Telecom Lead

Promoted to Supervisor / Manager for 2nd shift Provisioning team. Had 82 personnel reporting to me , which covered Ordering Network connectivity services for Eastern Half of US Sales teams, plus was over disconnect team for customer placed disconnects.
Included End user routers, configurations, and activations.

Systems, Order Tracking System, Ceaser, Arms, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Facilities & Equipment, Core, ERP and CRM tools.

Supervisor / Manager 2nd Shift

Promoted to Specialist IV. Started working as lead and training personnel for various projects.

Included End user routers, configurations, and activations.

Systems, Order Tracking System, Ceaser, Arms, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Facilities & Equipment, Core

Promoted to Specialist 3. Picked up Ordering Network connectivity services for Northeast Sales region from Virginia Area to Maine. Encompassed Small, Mid and Wholesale customers as well as Federal.

Included End user routers, configurations, and activations.

Systems, Order Tracking System, Ceaser, Arms, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Facilities & Equipment, Core

Provisioning Specialist 3

Promoted to Specialist 2. Started working with more customers outside the US Treasury project. Learned new systems as company moved people and roles around.

Included End user routers, configurations, and activations.

Systems, Oracle, Prod, Orion, OSP, Facilities & Equipment, Core

Provisioning Specialist 2

Worked on Complex Installs Team, Ordering Network connectivity services for US Treasury Dept

Included End user routers, configurations, and activations.

Systems, Oracle, Prod, Facilities & Equipment, Core

Provisioning Specialist 1

Telecommunications Industry: Completed Network Infrastructure expansion projects for Meta, Microsoft, Akamai, Google, Ebay and other companies totaling over 25000 services. 

Project/Program Managed Customers such as Federal and Local government totally near 10k locations over a period of 20 years.

Created custom Network Infrastructure Solutions for customers for a period of over 10 years allowing their companies to expand and meet their timelines provided.

Configured and implement  SDWan Meraki, Cisco ISR and ASR, Juniper SRX and EX, Arista, Fortinet, Accedian, Palo Alta, F5, HAProxy, Barracuda, Sophos, Mikrotik, Aruba, Calix and Alcatel devices.

Configured Wan and Lan network Infrastructure.

Built and configured, Firewalls, Access Lists, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, BIND, Load Balancing, Redundancy and Failover, Mailboxes, and Voip products.

Operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS) transformation and broadband support systems. 

Utilized Lab Environment to Build Virtual machines to test new architecture for test environments (XCP-NG/VMware/ESXi etc)

Deployed Containerization technologies to do quick tests of IT builds to ensure of smooth deployment ( Docker/Kubernetes)

User of Infoblox , Zabbix , Jira, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Nokia Flowone, SAP, TirksJx, Oracle Netsuite, Zendesk, GIS, TBS Metasolv, Cisco Unity Manager, Avaya UcaaS, CML 2.0, GNS3, iPerf, Ease/VFO, Visio

CCNA Continuing Education,     Cybrary.It,                                         Dec 3, 2023
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