Overview

Welcome to my collection of professional initiatives. These projects highlight my ability to lead, plan, and execute IT solutions that align with organizational goals. From enhancing cybersecurity resilience to modernizing IT infrastructure, each initiative demonstrates my commitment to delivering impactful results.

Explore the initiatives below to learn more about my contributions to IT leadership, strategic planning, and technical excellence.

The firewall project really started the morning of the ransomware incident, when one of the paths the threat actor used to move around the network turned out to be a legacy VPN appliance that nobody had been watching closely. Replacing the perimeter was already on the roadmap. After the incident it became the roadmap.

When a ransomware attack hit our organization, it was a wake-up call. It exposed vulnerabilities in our endpoint security and made it clear that we needed a stronger defense. Leading the charge, I deployed CrowdStrike Falcon EDR to transform our cybersecurity posture and ensure we were prepared for the future.

On a Saturday morning in September 2023, a Play ransomware variant encrypted virtually every Windows system across the company in about two hours. More than 500 endpoints and over 125 virtual servers were down before 8 a.m. I was the Service Desk Supervisor on paper. Within the first hour I was directing the technical response, and I ran it through recovery and the hardening that followed. We paid no ransom, lost no critical production data, and had roughly 80% of operations back within 24 hours. The work during and after the incident is what moved me into an infrastructure leadership role the following year.