"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
All of my jobs in the last 11 years have been computer related. In high school I built clone PC's for a local shop a few days a week. When I got to Rutgers I learned fairly quickly that with a University that large, there isn't enough full-time staff to do all of the things needed to keep all of the computers and equipment running 24x7 - and that they often let students do work that many other schools wouldn't even consider. In my 4 years at Rutgers, I was a computer lab consultant, a Windows NT system administrator, a Linux / Solaris system administrator, and webmaster for over 20 Rutgers websites at one time. My work at Rutgers spanned 8 departments.
Upon graduation from Rutgers in 1998, I went to work for Alpha Technologies (now known as Immedient) in the Advanced Services group. I coordinated and worked on various infrastructure projects for clients such as the Saint Barnabus Healthcare System, Nasdaq, and Penguin Putnam Publishing.
I left Alpha in Fall 1999 to work for a start-up called Aptegrity. I was an Infrastructure Engineer and led in the design and implementation of all network and server deployments including the corporate messaging platform. I was part of the team that lead a construction effort for a new production datacenter. During the time I was at Aptegrity we went from 8 people in a single office to having more than 250 employees in two countries. Aptegrity was eventually bought by Globix.
Since 2001 I have worked for Retail Decisions, a UK, US, and Australia based company that specializes in payment card, fuel card, and card fraud prevention services. As the Head of Global Security and Infrastructure my duties include network security planning, policy development, infrastructure performance metrics, pre-sales Security and PCI discussions, and oversight of all security audits for the real-time processing platforms.
A few current ReD clients include Wal-Mart, Macy's, Bloomindale's, Tesco, Texaco, Shell, Asda, Comet, Travelocity, T-Mobile, and Virgin Mobile
More infomation about my security work and speaking engagements is available here.
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