Senior Security Consultant

Senior Security Consultant — Vanguard Cyber Group

Arlington, VA | January 2022 – Present

• Led security architecture assessments for 14 enterprise clients, identifying 120+ high-severity vulnerabilities and reducing client threat exposure by 34% over a 12-month period.
• Designed and implemented zero-trust access controls for a SaaS platform with 45000 active users, reducing unauthorized access attempts by 88% and lowering threat incidence by 22%.
• Managed compliance preparation audits for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II across 8 customer organizations, achieving certification with zero major non-conformities and cutting prep time by 22%.
• Conducted threat modeling workshops and secure code reviews for a developer group of 35 software engineers, which decreased post-deployment security defects by 41% across 4 release cycles.

Security Consultant — Nova Health Technologies

Fairfax, VA | August 2016 – December 2021

• Executed penetration tests and vulnerability scans across 24 cloud applications, identifying 80+ vulnerabilities and reducing time-to-remediate critical flaws by 29% in 6 months.
• Formulated incident response playbooks and directed tabletop exercises for 5 corporate business units, boosting security incident response readiness times by 37% during simulations.
• Configured cloud security postures (AWS/Azure) for 6 healthcare clients, mitigating 92% of misconfiguration risks and ensuring compliance with HIPAA guidelines across 18 environments.
• Reviewed and updated security policies and vendor assessment criteria for 12 external partners, reducing third-party risk audit cycles by 15 days and saving $45000 in assessment costs.

Threat modeling, Cloud security architecture, Penetration testing, Vulnerability management, Risk assessment, IAM, Zero-trust architecture, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA compliance, NIST CSF, AWS, Azure, Nessus, Burp Suite, Terraform

Zero-Trust Network Migration

Role: Lead Security Architect

Tools: AWS IAM, HashiCorp Vault, Terraform, Okta

Secured access for 2500+ employees and contractors, decreasing unauthorized access attempts to zero and improving user authentication speeds by 15%.

Enterprise Compliance Alignment

Role: Principal Security Consultant

Tools: Nessus, AWS Security Hub, Drata

Guided a financial services client to SOC 2 Type II compliance in 3 months (instead of 6), remediating 18 security gaps and securing $12M in new enterprise contracts.

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) (2021)
• Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) (2023)

• Languages: English (Native), French (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Pro-bono security auditor for local non-profit educational platforms (2020-present)
• Availability: 4 weeks notice