Executive Partner C|CISO, & CxO Team Member, responsible for meeting with all levels of an organization from the executive level through the interns, and handling day to day needs.

Cybersecurity & Ransomware Expert responsible for assessing threats, navigating breaches, architecting paths forward, implementing solutions, and working with C-Level on all stages post compromise.

Zero Trust Architect tasked with assessing, designing, and implementing solutions for Critical Infrastructure, the Public sector (State, Local, and Education) and Private Businesses (Medium to Enterprise level organization). 

 Solution Architect & Pre-Sales Engineer for all organizations under my management, along with the being a solution architect for the Sales staff.

Day to day responsibilities include meeting with clients, architecting solutions, creating "statements of outcomes", performance work statements, and statements of work, seeing the solution through completion, working with the engineers to ensure a successful transition, and managing accounts.

As a Senior Consultant, I foster a Collaborative Partnerships, and remove the Vendor/Client mentality.  To be successful in any system we need to work together as partners towards a mutually beneficial goal.

As CEO, I led a boutique consulting and systems integration firm specializing in secure infrastructure migrations for banks, healthcare organizations, and high-compliance enterprises.

I oversaw end-to-end solution delivery, from needs assessment and vendor alignment to architecture, implementation, and post-deployment support.

Under my leadership, our organization became known for its hands-on, vendor-agnostic approach to solving complex infrastructure and cybersecurity challenges, enabling clients to modernize legacy environments while ensuring compliance with industry standards such as NIST and HIPAA.

I oversaw the creation of the business, managed strategic partnerships, and enabled a diverse technical team while also serving as principal architect on key engagements.

Architecture, and Design of Infrastructures in a variety of verticals, including:  City/State/Local Government, Military, Professional Sports Teams, Attorney General Office , District Attorneys, Local Towns and Municipalities, Police and Fire, Real Estate, Education, Biotechnology, Defense, Credit Unions, Banks, Investment firms, Manufacturing, Hospitals, Housing Authorities, etc.

Executive partner who focused the designing of solutions on budgets, forecasts & business trends, all while working cohesively with Strategic Partners, Vendors, Clients, Various Departments, C-Level Executives, and Board Members to reduce overhead, implement new solutions, merge systems, streamline operations, as well as forecast product life cycles, and help prepare businesses for their next phase.

Created and Implemented designs including Microsoft 365 environments, Cloud Computing environments, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Solutions, Company Mergers & Acquisitions, Office/Warehouse Designs, Network Audits, IT Assessments, Complete Environment Restructuring, Department Outsourcing, etc.

Solutions were focused around Dell, EMC, VMWare, Cisco, Fortinet, Meraki, Aruba, Microsoft, Linux, Appassure/Rapid Recovery, Intronis, OpenDNS/Umbrella, and many other enterprise class vendors with Cloud designs that leveraged Private Clouds, AWS, Azure.

Quarterly reviews of hardware, software, security issues, and a Proactive approach to reducing the issues by addressing it at the infrastructure level.

Spearheaded the design, and creation of DR/BCP plans for critical Government/State infrastructures.

Business Tasks including Management and oversight of the IT Department, Budgeting, Forecasting Trends, Streamlining Operations, Managing Staff, Collaborating with Strategic Partners, Working cohesively with Development, Design, QA, HR, Finance, Data, Product/Project Management, Health Communications, Executive Sales, Marketing, and Senior Management to  Reduce Overhead, Implement New Policies, Create Procedures, as well as Working on Product Life Cycles, and the Re-Architecting of 8 Networks.

Management and oversight of the corporate computing, networking, and telecommunications infrastructure and ensuring the infrastructure is consistent with business objectives.

Implemented Virtualization technologies (VMware, and Xen), on over 100+ servers leveraging technology stacks such as DNS, SMTP, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, OWA, BES, IIS, Centralized A/V, Barracuda devices, SQL, Custom Designed In-House Application Servers, File Servers, multi-site/domain and forest configurations, all while securely segmenting networks which consisted of routers, switches, servers, ASA firewalls, VPNs, Trustwave WAFs, ACE load balancers, SANs, ESXi Hosts, etc.

Key Stakeholder in aligning Corporate Governance to NIST Frameworks for the creation and enforcement of policies including Access and Authentication Policies, Corporate Wireless Policy, Disaster Recovery Policy, Backup Policy, Mobile Security Policy, Network Security Policy, HIPPA and HITECH Privacy Policy, Confidential and Sensitive Data Policy, Email Security Policy, Password Policy, and the list goes on.

The systems I designed, hand built, and supported were responsible for feeding health related data to the Federal Government, to assist in FDA's decision making process.

COO operational tasks included Payroll, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Vacation Time, Reimbursements, Authoritative Signature, Vendor Relations, Security, Building Maintenance, License Management, 401K, Health, Dental, Shipping & Receivables including USPS, UPS, FedEx, etc…

CTO technical tasks include the alignment to corporate technologies to support business outcomes, allowing our systems to support the primary communication systems leveraged by the Federal Government and more particularly, the White House..

Technical support of Operating systems including Windows XP, Vista, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Storage Server 2003, Redhat 7 - 9, Fedora Core 1-5

Server / Network Applications including DNS, DHCP, WINS, McAfee, Print Servers, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Postfix, Sendmail, OWA via SSL, ClamAV, MIMEDefang, Pyzor, Razor, DCC, amavisd-new CVS, IDS, IPS, CFS, SSH, Active Directory, BackupExec,  Authoritative Time, etc.

Building, Configuring, & Maintaining Cisco 2621, Pix506, Pix501, SonicWall 2040 with Enhanced OS.

Building, Configuring, Upgrading, and Maintenance of a Multi-Tiered Secure Email Solution.

This business in particular had leveraged the Country of Iceland as our testing ground for Ship to Shore Cellular communications, and also included our technologies being leveraged by the Federal Government, including the White House, for their day to day operations.

As Co-Founder and Vice President, I served in a key leadership role within this niche Trade Show design firm.  Here we specialized in high-impact trade show installations for globally recognized brands.

I led the integration of cutting-edge digital infrastructure into custom-built trade show floor environments, delivering immersive brand experiences at major industry events including the prestigious Detroit Auto Show and BIO International Convention.

Working directly with clients such as Internationally known Major Auto Manufacturers, Pharmaceutical Companies, and Satellite technology vendors, I coordinated cross-functional teams to design, implement, and support technology solutions that showcased innovation and precision under intense public and media scrutiny.

Responsible for all aspects of business from working with employees, to delegating projects, reviewing and creating budgets, working with vendors, networking with clients, billing and payroll, advertising, etc.

Installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade of networks, routers, servers, desktops, wiring, wireless, IDS, internet technologies, etc.

Building, upgrading, and deployment of both Microsoft, SUN, and Linux servers.

Fluent in building, and troubleshooting the following servers: VMWare Server, VMWare ESXi, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server,  Windows 2000 Server, NT 4.0 Server, along with the following Applications :
Apache, DHCP, WSUS, Centralized Anti-Virus, DNS, IIS, Exchange, SQL, MySQL, PHP, OWA, WINS, SAN, File servers, Print servers, Content Management servers, RAS, RIP, Routing servers, RAID, PDC, BDC, Citrix, Linux, Active Directory, IDS, Samba, BIND, Sendmail, Qmail, etc.

HP, Compaq, 3COM, Microsoft, Linksys, and IBM partnerships.

Solution Provider for Web Hosting, Web design, Email Services, Desktop config, Networking, Cabling, IDS installation and configuration, Firewall technologies, etc.

Support clients include:  home users, startups, small businesses, mid size businesses, and Fortune 500 Corporations.

National Republican Congressional Committee, Business Advisory Council's Businessman of the Year from the State of Rhode Island in 2005

Hands-on System Administrator, responsible for the design and implementation of a system which would support aggressive growth of an organization from 7 locations in 1999 to over 230 locations in 2002.  Throughout my tenure here, my design allowed for the support to be streamlined through our Newport Rhode Island location, only requiring 2 additional IT Staff to support the explosive growth during this time period.

Tasks included:
Installation, configuration, security, upgrading, wiring and maintenance of a Windows 95, 98, NT4 Workstation, NT 3.51-4 Server, Windows 2000, XP, Citrix, Exchange 5.0, Exchange 5.5, SQL 2000, SCO Unix, Sun Microsystems, Novell 4.11 through 5, Sonicwall, Frame, T-1, Fractional T-1, and DSL environment

Installation, Configuration, Design, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting of the network infrastructure with programs including:
  Great Plains, and Solomon accounting software
  McAfee Netshield, Groupshield for Exchange, etc., virus scanning utilities
  PcAnywhere, Timbuktu, Netop, LapLink, and VNC remote          administration software
  HP Jetadmin, and TCP/IP printing
  UNIX’s Pine email
  Reflection 7, and 8 client sessions, Telnet terminal emulation, and FTP
 
Including daily support for the following:
  Full Technical, and Administrative support in a Multiple Master Domain       
  Network Printing from Windows, Unix, and HPJetadmin platforms
  Monitoring and maintaining network integrity and security (ex: Sub7, Netbus, and Smurf Amplification attacks, IP address spoofing, and more)
  Security practices for Windows, Novell, and Unix environments
  DSL, T1, and Frame Relay maintenance and troubleshooting
  SonicWall Firewall and VPN programming configuration, and maintenance
  DNS, WINS, and DHCP server building, utilities, and maintenance
  Implementing, Maintaining, and Supporting an 802.3 and 802.11 infrastructure, both locally and remotely
  Exchange 5.0 and 5.5 server building, utilities and maintenance
  Support for a variety of Hubs, Switches, and Routers
  Scripting for Logons, Scheduling, etc
  Batch files and .EXE composition for daily operations and specialty tasks
  Mitel switch and phone system maintenance, wiring, and troubleshooting
  Network, Server, Desktop, and Security maintenance and troubleshooting
  Support for the entire worldwide network of resorts, corporate offices, sales offices, banks, and telemarketing centers
  In charge of Planning, Design, and the physical merging of many large scale companies into a single Enterprise Corporation.
 
Acquired excellent skills in system/network administration, security, mergers, maintenance, configuration, upgrading, and troubleshooting both clients and servers.

Worked with the National Guard in the design and implementation of a Windows NT network, to allow Internet access in every classroom for the entire Coventry School District.