Achievements (2023 vs 2022):
Decrease MTTD by 51%
Decrease MTTR by 17%
Decrease Monthly average security tickets by 6%

Achievements (2022 vs 2021):
Decrease MTTD by 52%
Decrease MTTR by 2%
Decrease Monthly average security tickets by 20%
Decrease Unresolved rate by 557%
Automated EDR actions
Automated Firewall actions

Achievements (2021 vs 2020):
Decrease MTTD by 186%
Decrease MTTR by 269%
Decrease Monthly average security tickets by 150%
Decrease Unresolved rate by 53%
Automated Proxy actions

-	Establish and maintain metrics that help provide a high level of productivity, supportability and operational readiness while also participating in project planning activities such as infrastructure enhancements and change management controls
-	Develop and administer SOC processes and review their application to ensure that SOC’s controls, policies, and procedures are operating effectively
-	Follow multiple Security Frameworks (NIST, ISO27001, etc.)
-	Provide management oversight for the identification, triage and response of events or incidents of apparent security breaches
-	Escalation of issues regarding reported incidents
-	Produce and review aggregated performance metrics
-	Manage and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the SOC, through improvements to each function as well as coordination and communication between support and business functions
-	Build Operational scorecards
-	Oversee and coordinate the activities of SOC personnel and implement security assessment and incident response protocols
-	Coach personnel and verify that they follow SOC policies to ensure all components are functioning optimally
-	Significant role in long-term SOC strategy and planning, including initiatives geared toward operational excellence
-	Manage project budgets and hiring resources

SOC Manager

Smarttech247

Built, run and manage a full 24/7 SOC with 40 analysts working in shifts. Developed a hybrid SOC with dedicated resources for different project and shared resources for other projects.
Managed budgets, reduce costs, improve quality.
Created a cybersecurity magazine:

Director of SOC Operations

Smarttech247 is a cybersecurity company providing a complex range of IT security solutions to some of the world’s leading organisations from its SOC (Security Operations Centre). The SOC is a state-of-the-art ISO9001/ISO27001 NSAI certified facility. With offices located in Ireland, United Kingdom, Poland & Romania and armed with the best-of-breed technology stack, we leverage our partner network to provide the most cutting edge cyber security solutions available on the market.

Main responsibilities as a SOC Manager:

•	Manage team efforts to monitor for security events and provide first and final escalation analysis
•	Lead staff to proactively identify, prevent and respond to security incidents
•	Revise and develop processes to continually improve the Security Operations Framework
•	Ensuring SLAs are met
•	Responsible for team & vendor management, overall use of resources and initiation of corrective action where required 
•	Collaborate with technical security assessment and cyber threat intelligence teams to validate security events and perform advanced analysis

Smarttech247 is a cybersecurity company providing a complex range of IT security solutions to some of the world’s leading organisations from its SOC (Security Operations Centre). The SOC is a state-of-the-art ISO9001/ISO27001 NSAI certified facility. With offices located in Ireland, United Kingdom & Poland and armed with the best-of-breed technology stack, we leverage our partner network to provide the most cutting edge cyber security solutions available on the market.

Main responsibilities:

•	Monitor customer security systems
•	Work with clients to help remediate and answer questions regarding their security environment
•	Participate in client calls
•	Make recommendations to customers on improving their security posture
•	Use SIEM technologies and other native tools to perform the monitoring of security events
•	Perform analysis on logs produced by network devices utilised within SOC such as firewalls, content filtering, syslog from various devices, assorted Intrusion Detection capabilities, substantiating vulnerability scanner results, directory services, DHCP logs, Secure Email Gateway logs
•	Provide security events analysis and support to include identifying potential threat, anomalies and infections, documenting findings, providing recommendation within the SOC's incident management system, performing triage of incoming security events, performing preliminary and secondary analysis of those events, and validating the events
•	Perform technical analyses, such as analysis of malicious code, network traffic, web log data, cyber intelligence, hard drives, and other storage and forensics media, to control exploitative activity

Security Analyst

Brandpath Group

PCI DSS certification
Monitor the environment for alarms and vulnerabilities
Train 2 Junior Security Analysts

Security Analyst Team Leader

Printec Group Romania

Snr Technical Analyst Telecom&Security

Telco&Security Specialist

Network Admin

Military Equipment and Technology Research Agency

System Admin

Embrace hybrid work model (ability to work and relocate to any country in the world)
Built, run & managed 4 SOC for different companies in 3 countries and 2 continents
Increased SOC maturity level up to projected value
Create, set up and manage the main subsidiary for an international company in Romania
Train & Mentor 100+ cybersecurity analysts (Level 1, 2 & 3)
Lead on-site & remote teams across different continents


Experienced Manager with a proven history of working with multiple teams (onsite, remote and hybrid).
Successfully lead members (analysts, engineers, team leads) from all continents with different background.
Strong professional with a Master of Business Administration (MBA).

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