Aug 2024 – Jun 2025 · 10 mos

• As Field CTO at Sumo Logic, I partnered directly with CISOs, SOC leaders, and cloud security teams to modernize their security operations. I specialized in driving adoption of real-time detection strategies, reducing alert fatigue, and enabling cost-effective threat visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• I led strategic initiatives around SIEM modernization, detection engineering, and AI-driven analytics—often acting as the technical bridge between product, sales, and customer success. My work helped shift customer perception of security from a cost center to a business enabler.

Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr

• FY24 - Presidents Club
• Served as the primary sales engineer, partnering with account executives to close over $53 million in Total Contract Value (TCV) by leveraging technical expertise and aligning solutions with customer requirements.

Jun 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

Oct 2019 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Boston

• SE of the Quarter Award - Q1 FY22
• Learning Culture Award - Q1 FY21

Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 · 9 mos · Greater Boston

Jan 2019 – Oct 2019 · 9 mos

• Provide pre-sales engineering support for Account Managers nationwide including RFP responses, presentations and technical expertise for enterprise level security services.
• Design, present and demonstrate Information Security solutions throughout the sales cycle for data analytics tools “Splunk”.
• Analyze client's needs and scope solutions accordingly. Architect/design and plan in accordance with the prospects expectations.
• Regularly conducted presentations and high-level security evaluations regarding customers’ security posture with key stakeholders.
• Review and approve security policies, controls and cyber incident response planning
• Ensure that cyber security policies and procedures are communicated to all personnel and compliance enforced.
• Evaluate solutions, architectures and processes to assess risk
• Identify solutions to remediate risk

Nov 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Las Vegas, Nevada Area

• Led a team of 4 information security content security engineering
• Design and implement highly customized correlation rules, reports, regular expression parsers, trends, and dashboards in Splunk.
• Optimize efficiency and effectiveness of numerous log sources such as Blue Coat Proxy, Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, Microsoft Windows, Symantec Endpoint Protection, among others.
• Brief client security teams on kill chain coverage, threat landscape, coverage gaps and ways to address and fill those gaps
• Integration, creation and use of Splunk CIM compliant data models to normalize different log sources to be leveraged when developing advanced security content, dashboards and reports.
• Work hand in hand with client security teams to improve and optimize security programs and posture
• Analyzes customers' security posture and environment to determine gaps in detection coverage and address them with customized content plans
• Provide clients content through extensive documentation, weekly meetings, workshops, and ad-hoc problems and requests.
• Evaluate customers' security posture and environment to determine gaps in detection coverage
• Developed customized roadmaps to remediate gaps on detection coverage.
• Research indicators of compromise (IOCs) to develop alerting and visualization capabilities
• Provided regular weekly training to analysts, content developers, and engineers on Splunk
• Interview and gauge candidates technical and professional experience and knowledge through multiple interviews
• Provide incident response and engineering support to internal engineering and incident response teams regarding for Splunk.
• Regularly conducted presentations and high-level security evaluations regarding customers’ security posture with key stakeholders.
• Administered largest multi-tenant Splunk instance known currently in the U.S.

May 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Managed a team of 12 system engineers/technicians across 4 remote precincts
• Oversaw design and development of integrated business, engineering systems, and products to support the achievement of customers business goals
• LASO for Brevard County Sheriff's Office.
• Ensure the design and development of integrated business, engineering systems, and products to support the achievement of the customers business goals utilizing SCRUM methodology.
• Cyber risk and vulnerability evaluations of systems, networks, and infrastructures supporting critical infrastructure operations.
• Applying IT security principles, concepts, methods, standards and practices to develop a cybersecurity program.
• Developed a cybersecurity policy based on DHS cybersecurity evaluations (CRR. C-IST. EDM)
• Working with management to modify existing IT plans and policies to ensure business continuity is not affected.
• Provided cybersecurity awareness training for both public and private sector partners including local community college.
• Malware Analysis using manual and automated tools to identify key characteristics
• Deployment and management of Anti-virus, SIEM, and IDS software.
• Participated in the National Fusion Center Association’s Cyber Intelligence Network (CIN)

Feb 2013 – Jun 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Assignment to the regional Fusion Center studying and analyzing Hackers/Hacktivist use of social media through open source collection, interpreting various local, state, and federal incident reports, bulletins, and intelligence information.
• Develop and disseminate cyber intelligence bulletins identifying potential cyber threats, emergent technologies, open source tools, and possible best practices.
• Participated in several cyber security evaluations with DHS (CRR, C-IST, EDM)
• Assisted in the development of the CFIX Cyber Initiative comprised of DHS, USSS, and FBI to promote sharing of cybersecurity related information within the 9 counties in our area of operations.
• Participated in the National Fusion Center Association’s Cyber Intelligence Network (CIN)
• Participated in private sector outreach through INFRAGuard and Electronic Crime Task Force