Dave Anderson

Founder

Miami, Florida, United States30 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of TSC Security, transforming security into a growth driver.
Led successful audits achieving SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications.
Expert in embedding security teams in venture-backed SaaS companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Security Consultant with extensive experience in compliance and risk management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Security ConsultingComplianceInformation SecurityRisk ManagementSite Reliability Engineering

Other Skills

Team ManagementVendor ManagementStart-upsInformation Security ManagementISO 27001PCI DSSExecutive ManagementProject ManagementDisaster RecoveryNetwork SecurityVirtualizationData CenterCloud ComputingHigh AvailabilityNetwork Architecture

About

Most B2B SaaS founders see security as a roadblock. I help them turn it into a competitive advantage. The problem: Security questionnaires kill deals. Audits are expensive and scary. Hiring a CISO costs $200K+ before you're ready. The solution: TSC Security acts as your fractional security team, building programs that win deals and pass every audit. What you get: - Security that closes deals instead of blocking them - Audit readiness without the audit anxiety - Professional responses to every security question - Compliance frameworks that actually make sense Bottom line: Security should accelerate your growth, not slow it down. DM me if you're tired of losing deals to security objections.

Experience

Tsc security

Founder and Managing Partner

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Eastern Caribbean · Remote

Leading TSC Security, a consulting firm that helps startups turn security into a growth driver. We provide vCISO and Fractional CISO services tailored to the unique needs of fast-growing companies—so security becomes a sales enabler, not a roadblock. From compliance readiness to deal support, we make sure our clients can build trust and close deals with confidence.

Security ConsultingCompliance

Mparticle

Chief Information Security Officer

Apr 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · New York, New York, United States

Greenhouse software

Director of Security

Oct 2014 – Apr 2020 · 5 yrs 6 mos · New York, NY

Director of Security & IT
Built and Manage Information Security and Risk Management program
Led company through audits achieving SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certification
Built enterprise IT function across two offices
Manage a team of security and IT engineers
Collaborate with product, legal, and engineering teams to ensure compliance with EU GDPR
Systems Architect - October 2014 - December 2015
Building an in-house PaaS using modern containerization technologies
Automating AWS through IaC
Write tools in Ruby to interact with internal and external APIs

Information SecurityRisk ManagementComplianceTeam Management

Adobe

Senior Technical Operations Engineer, EchoSign

Feb 2014 – Sep 2014 · 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

Remediate security vulnerabilities found by external tools and internal staff
Write chef cookbooks for automating server builds and system changes
Author AWS EC2 automation tools for building cloudformation stack
Key member of team managing and implementing migration from Rackspace to AWS
Work with software engineers to diagnose and fix production issues

Schoology

Systems Engineering Team Lead

Nov 2013 – Feb 2014 · 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

Managed systems engineering team
Managed linux systems in a Rackspace hybrid cloud and AWS
Built new monitoring and metrics system
Wrote chef recipes to automate cloud server builds
Managed hiring for systems engineers

Integral ad science

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

May 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, NY

Manage team of site reliability engineers (systems, network, software, security)
Work with vendors to negotiate pricing on new purchases and bring down costs on existing service
Managed 250+ servers across 5 global datacenters
Managed growing Hadoop cluster and associated services
Managed network delivery performance for BGP Anycast
Implemented cobbler and chef to provide consistent system builds
Implemented network device monitoring to aid in troubleshooting and capacity planning
Created information security program
Manage external general controls audits
Work directly with executive management on tech strategy and execution

Limelight networks

SaaS Security Architect

Jun 2008 – Apr 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Lead information security related initiatives
Developed and maintain information security policy and procedure documents
Provide support and materials for use in sales generation and pre-contract due-diligence
Lead Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning and testing
Develop and conduct recurring security awareness training for entire staff
Developed and maintain incident response procedures
Lead security incident response team
Developed, maintain, and conduct IT audits to assure systems and controls comply with policy
Work with software engineering team to ensure secure coding practices are followed
Manage 250+ Linux (CentOS 5) systems running on bare-metal and Amazon EC2
Support SaaS product consisting of J2EE applications running on Apache and Tomcat
Create puppet manifests to manage automated system deployment and configurations
Provide leadership and guidance around all Content Delivery Network(CDN) integrations
Compile and evaluate metrics for capacity planning and capacity management activities
Handle day-to-day network administration tasks(R&S, LB, GSLB)

Site Reliability EngineeringInformation SecurityVendor Management

Here media, inc.

Senior Unix Administrator

Jul 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

Installed and managed RSA SecurID system supporting two-factor authentication
Regularly provide security audits for PCI and SOX compliance
Member of security incident response team
Managed day-to-day storage engineering needs on EMC Clariion and NetApp
Led initial setup and regular maintenance of Nagios-based monitoring system
Major contributor in complete production network redesign and implementation
Set up Solaris Zones for datacenter virtualization
Managed over 400 systems running a mix of Solaris 8-10, and Linux (RedHat/CentOS)
Led migration from Sun-branded SAN to EMC Clariion CX3 on a Cisco MDS9000 fabric.

Yahoo!

Senior Technical Yahoo

Mar 2001 – Jul 2006 · 5 yrs 4 mos

Yahoo Mail - Senior Service Engineer - 2005-2006
Managed over 10,000 servers in geographically diverse datacenters
Lead liaison between Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Small Business in supporting the Small Business email product
Setup and maintained monitoring infrastructure for Business Mail product
Collected data and presented monthly capacity and metrics for Business Mail product
Defined new SLA and escalation processes for support of the Business Mail product
Yahoo HotJobs - Senior Unix Systems Administrator 2001-2005
Managed over 600 Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD systems
Developed large environment system admin tools to maintain consistency among large numbers of systems
Managed EMC Clariion 4500/4700 storage systems
Created standardized system build procedure documentation
Implemented automated change management system for network devices
Managed load-testing and roll-out for new resume search engine technology
Managed integration of Yahoo technology into HotJobs infrastructure
Moved primary datacenter from HotJobs NYC datacenter to Yahoo Virginia datacenter
Participated in BCP failover of primary site to disaster recovery site so that primary site could be moved
Set up and maintained Veritas Cluster Server on multiple Oracle database servers

Imaginova

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Jul 1999 – Mar 2001 · 1 yr 8 mos

Managed two systems administrators
Designed, set up, and maintained web and content management infrastructure running on Solaris and Linux
Wrote software to manage content, code deployment, and monitoring

Smart world technologies, llc

Senior Unix and Network Engineer

Aug 1998 – Jul 1999 · 11 mos

Maintained RADIUS, LDAP, Web, Email, USENET News, and other ISP-related services
Designed and implemented a major wide-area network expansion
Moved primary data center from CT to NYC

Mail.com

Unix Systems Administrator

Jun 1997 – Aug 1998 · 1 yr 2 mos

Set up and maintained Web-Based Email infrastructure serving over 4 million users
Set up Auspex and Network Appliance network filers for email storage
Set up automation scripts to keep configurations consistent among all key systems

Conde nast

Systems Administrator

Apr 1997 – Jul 1997 · 3 mos

Set up, managed, and monitored Netscape(iPlanet) web servers running on Sun Solaris
Engineered and implemented improved security policy
Wrote scripts for automating the retrieval and processing of webserver log files for data mining purposes