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MK7, LLCAI Governance Advisory Partner
Jan. 2025Oro Valley, Arizona, United StatesAdvisory partner for MK7LLC.com to help develop an artificial intelligence (AI) governance practice. The role will incorporate SEO content creation including blogs, lead generation, podcast content, and engagement best practices. The AI-governance practice will also include AI-automation and AI-security strategies.
CyclewriterLLCContent Creator
Jan. 2022Oro Valley, Arizona, United StatesI am a published author, experienced community manager, and blog frequently around cybersecurity trends, including malware, ransomware, and the financial impacts of cyber attacks. I often speak at ISSA, ISACA, and FBI InfraGard events throughout the U.S. Upwork freelance writer, blogger, content creation, SEO services. Extensive experience with SEMRUSH, Tubebuddy, SurferSEO, and Fraze IO tools for SEO optimization, content creation, and competitive analysis.
LogRhythmRSM- Customer Success Southern California - LogRhythm
Dec. 2020 - Dec. 2021San Diego, California, United StatesRegional account manager for security event information management (SIEM) solutions. My focus was to provider customer service, account management, and new account development. I also focuses on developing a community within my region to help promote the solutions and alignment with the reseller network.
ProofpointSr. Named Account Manager- San Diego/OC
Jul. 2019 - Oct. 2020Greater San Diego AreaSr. Named Account Manager III for Proofpoint focusing in the San Diego and Orange County markets. Primary focus is around "protecting companies most important asset; employees". Duties including net-new logos for Unified DLP, Encryption, DEVOPS Sandboxing, Kubernetes, SAAS, SASE, Zero-touch remote access, and email security.
BlackBerryNational Security Account Manager - Global Banking
Apr. 2017 - Jul. 2019Irvine CaliforniaGlobal IOT&EOT Security account manager for Blackberry supporting Global Financial, movie studios, medical device companies and SLED clients. My primary focus is win new logo's, drive new pipeline for Security solutions and grow our secured mobility, IOT/ DEVOPS, Kubernetes, Crisis Communications/alerts and collaboration workspaces document exchange practice. We leverage our solutions in order to help clients with compliance and regulatory mandates. Many clients are focusing on the new generation digital transformation and security is paramount from day 1. Workspaces and secured document and data exchange is critical to the next generation digital transformation. Along with selling solutions, I also managed the customer success strategy in the key accounts.
Pivot3RSD/Major accounts/ASIAPAC/USwest
Mar. 2015 - Apr. 2017USA Socal/NorcalArea Executive Sales supporting US strategic accounts NVIDIA, Facebook, NTT-Japan, and key clients including Huntington Hospital and ICW Group for Hyper-convergence solutions and Video storage. Also helped develop the OEM/embedded partnership with Advantech Taiwan and the channel/distribution network in ASIAPAC to support hyperconvergence architectures in wind/power, transportation, healthcare, and IPC solutions.
Khiet Thanh Water Company, VietnamVietnam Clean Water Project - CEO Investor
Mar. 2014 - Mar. 2016Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamKhiet Thanh- Water company based on Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam is committed to bottling clean fresh water for the people of the region and the proceeds from the sales of the bottled water goes to help support the various orphanages and temples in the region. Khiet Thanh features four products: Cassini 19 liter (wholesale), Khiet Thanh 19 Liter (commercial, retail) , Lotus 500 ML (restaurants, Hotels, schools, conventions, retail) and Power Sports H20 (Sports clubs, badminton teams) - Website http://khieththanhwater.vn
TrusteerEnterprise Sales Manager
Mar. 2013 - Mar. 2014Southwest regionAcquired by IBM in 2014. Founded in 2006, Boston-based Trusteer is the leading provider of CLOUD based SAAS endpoint cybercrime prevention solutions that protect organizations against financial fraud and data breaches. rusteer Apex applies a new approach to stop zero day application exploits and data exfiltration. By analyzing Application Context (what the application is doing and why it is doing it) Trusteer Apex can automatically and accurately determine if an application action is legitimate or malicious. Trusteer’s Context-Aware Application Control enables automated enterprise malware protection that maximizes security while simplifying deployment and minimizing management overhead. * Acquired by IBM in 2014- Enterprise sales manager focus on Trusteer (Division of IBM) APEX product line in enterprise accounts in Southern California, Hawaii, NV, AZ, and CO market places.
Citrix SystemsGlobal Account Manager - Networking Group
Mar. 2010 - Mar. 2013Rocky Mountain Region & Global AccountsI served as the Application delivery specialist and global account manager for the Rockies territory for Citrix Systems. My main focus is driving sales, partnerships, and awareness around the Netscaler Application Delivery Controller( layer 4-7 Load balancing). Also, focus around the CLOUD based SAAS SD_WAN Optimization technology and Application firewall. 245%, 125% and over 170% over plan the last 3 years, awarded 100% club 2011 and President's Club in 2012.
AvanadeBusiness Development Executive
Jul. 2009 - Mar. 2010Focusing on creating new opportunities in the southern California market place around Microsoft solution stack. Many of the solution sets currently offered are moving in the SAAS/cloud computing direction. One of main focuses in FY 2010 is to work on more SAAS application projects and more Microsoft Dynamics deployments.
SymantecRegional Business Develop Specialist - Compliance, E-discovery, and Messaging
Oct. 2006 - Jul. 2009Responsible for territory development of messaging archiving, e-discovery and compliance solutions. As a Business Development Specialist (BDS), engage with CEO’s, CIO and Chief Counsels of Fortune 500 companies and provide expertise in compliance and e-discovery. Align client’s legal, IT and compliance departments to unify their strategy around records retention, message archiving and life cycle management. Noted clients include DHL, Amgen, TV Guide, DreamWorks Studios, Disney, Adidas and Nestles to name a few.
• Assisted in the development of regional marketing events to drive subject and technology awareness into banking, entertainment, engineering, mortgage, and financial verticals.
Cisco/ArrowpointProduct sales specialist -Application Load balancing and Information security
Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2006SOCAL MarketServed as subject matter expert in Network Security and Layer 4-7 load balancing for clients including, Aramark, AT Systems, the State of Nevada, University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of California, AECOM, Tetra Tech, Unocal Oil and the State of Hawaii. Developed marketing events in southern California, Nevada and Hawaii including solution seminars to raise awareness of NAC, network security, application security and reporting. These seminars were aligned with industry experts, product teams and Cisco partners.
First American Credco, San Diego, CaI.T Manager
Jan. 1998 - Dec. 2000Managed 12 employees and responsible for 2000 desktops, 35 application & exchange servers, 47 WAN connections and client connectivity generating 100,000 credit reports a day. Served as IT Network Manager for the Credit Division. Additional responsibilities included Y2K planner and Information Security policy writer for IT infrastructures. Created and facilitated a weekly a leadership group meeting to mentor others to become leaders. During the consolidation of 6 offices and two data centers in into a new complex, built out parallel connections and local area networks so that all credit reporting systems stayed up and operational for clients with no down time outside of the normal maintenance window.
Cox CommunicationsLAN WAN ADMIN
Jan. 1996 - Dec. 1998My main focus as a LAN/WAN admin for Cox was to support all the Cisco routers & switches in the call center along with the various IP telephony applications tied to the Aspect ACD system.
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