Build and lead an enterprise cyber threat exercise program focused on business continuity, technology resilience, incident response, industry engagement, and managing threat matrixes. 

Collaborates with key stakeholders to design, sequence, and deliver a series of risk-based cyber, technology, and business continuity exercises to enhance operational resilience throughout the firm and our critical vendors.

- Create and build a global cyber exercise program aligned to ISO 22398 and NIST SP 800-84.  
- Facilitate and lead 10+ annual tabletop, technical, and full simulation exercises for global teams.
- Established governance model by creating strategic SOPs and partnering with 1st and 2nd line risk management teams. 
- Lead and manage the Business Continuity Plan for the LOB, overseeing 5+ BIAs and all testing through Merlin.
- Managed a $250K RFP for a cyber range provider.

Lead Exercise Planner | Cybersecurity, Business Continuity, and Technology Resilience

Government to Private

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Founder | Resume Writer | Career Coach 

Expedia Group

•	Built an enterprise crisis management framework and strategic roadmap aligned to ISO 22361. 
•	Built 15+ workflows, RACIs, checklists, and scoping documents for the program.
•       Sourced 10+ passive candidates from Linkedin with a 60% hire rate.

Program Manager | Crisis Management

TikTok

•	Virtually managed regional teams in North and South America, comprising 12+ direct reports and a $3.2B project remit.  
•	Built and managed 4+ interaction models governing Product, Policy, Trust and Safety, and Global Investigations.
•	Led teams through two restructures with 0% turnover. 
•	Oversaw implementation of a global spam abuse mitigation policy which, in its first 6 months of operations, suspended over 2M bad actors and saved advertiser moderation approximately $25M in manpower hours.  
•	Led and participated in 10+ global Root Cause Analyses (RCA) revolving around incorrect fraud decisions which temporarily cost the organization $14M on average. 
•	Created 6+ KPI’s targeting stakeholder engagement, project implementation rate, and numerous individual project KPI’s for data metrics and impact. 
•	Communicated with and presented to multiple executive audiences on revenue loss mitigation strategies and crisis after-action reviews. 
•	Drove multiple cross-functional working groups with global stakeholders, with an emphasis on using data to tell a story. 
•	Led and managed 25+ projects on average including 60+ risk assessments, saving approximately $650M+ over 9 months.

Senior Manager | Advertiser Risk and Business Integrity

Program Manager | Supply Chain Security

Dell Technologies

•	Orchestrated global security risk management, business continuity, and the triage of threats for 165K+ employees in 180+ countries while leading 4 global SOC’s in Ireland, India, Malaysia, and the US. 
•	Part of a small team who built a global fusion center (GSOC) consisting of incident management, travel risk management, emergency response, tactical and strategic intelligence collection and analysis, supply chain security response and tracking, cybersecurity incident response, and enterprise resiliency. 
•	Managed 15+ contractors. 
•	Led 15+ “voice of the customer” discussions with department heads within the organization, security and non-security, in order to assess organizational needs and align them with the Security function. 
•	Assisted in the development and implementation of a corporate intelligence collection and analysis program within the Fusion Center, consisting of contractor intelligence analysts and training contract security personnel in open-source collection. 
•	Created 250+ intelligence products, including travel risk assessments, situation reports, tactical and strategic intelligence reports, and ad hoc requests. 
•	Led a $2.5M RFP for an enterprise software open-source intelligence collection platform used for protective Intelligence, Investigations, and all Intelligence products. 
•	Drafted the strategic vision document for the Physical Security and Supply Chain Security program. 
•	Implemented a professional development program for staff growth, including developing talents, planning for succession, and preparing IC's for people management. 
•	Conducted a business value assessment for an enterprise software platform, sparking $1.5M in annual savings.  
•	Implemented 15+ tabletop exercises for Fusion Center staff, leading to a 60% improvement in response time to critical incidents.

Fusion Center Manager

Capital One

•	Filed 1200+ Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) for all fraud typologies including credit and debit card fraud, card not present, account takeover (ATO), synthetic identity theft, first person bust out, money laundering, counter terrorism financing, and others. 
•	Recommended 5+ Actimize rule changes to ensure 100% compliance with a federal consent decree.

AML Investigator

Houston Police Department

•	Conducted 1500+ investigations into financial fraud, organized crime, and transnational organizations as a member of a federal task force.  
•	Served as the department Intelligence Manager for all bi-directional information sharing with 30+ agencies. 
•	Created and delivered 60+ intelligence products including both tactical and strategic reports. 
•	Instructed at the Houston Police Academy and 5+ domestic conferences, creating multiple curriculums and teaching 2K+ personnel.
•.     Led the overhaul of a national intelligence database utilizing existing personnel and resulting in a cost-neutral program with significantly enhanced user functionality.

Investigator | Intelligence Program Manager

Global security leader who is passionate about people leadership and development. 150+ Linkedin recommendations attest to my leadership success and track record of delivering consistent ROI above and beyond. My career has been marked by high impact success in each role and building enterprise programs from the ground up.  

Professional Highlights: 
- Part of a small team who built a converged Fusion Center for Dell Technologies and led global crisis management. 
- Managed and oversaw a $3.5B supply chain security program for Meta global data centers.
- Virtually led two regional investigative teams comprising 12+ direct reports and a $3.2B project remit for TikTok. 
- Implemented advertiser risk programs and saved TikTok $25M in content moderation hours and $650M total over 9 months. 
- Built an agile crisis management framework and roadmap aligned to ISO 22361 in one month for Expedia Group. 
- Built and led an enterprise cyber exercise program for TD Bank in under a year with zero headcount and budget. 

Areas of Expertise:

Investigations | Intelligence Analysis |  Strategic Planning | Financial Crimes | Interview and Interrogation | Threat Assessment | Crisis Management | Insider Risk | Corporate Security | Protective Intelligence | Emergency Management | GSOC | Fusion Center | Business Continuity and Resilience | Leadership | Threat Intelligence | Supply Chain Security | Trust and Safety | Performance Management | Ethics and Compliance | Strategic Leadership | Enterprise Resiliency | Physical Security | Travel Risk Management | Exercise Design | Tabletop Exercises | Resume Writing | Linkedin Profile Optimization | Resume Writer | Program Management | Problem Solving | Teamwork | Communication | Operations Management | ATS | Recruiting | Talent Sourcing 

"Integrity is not optional." by Michael Dell

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