Charles P

Lead security for a holding company's subsidiaries and high-profile industry events, owning security strategy and architecture aligned to PCI-DSS and SOC 2. Manage insider risk by building tooling that detects risky employee behavior and enforcing policy through DLP.

Write and edit cloud and cybersecurity content for an enterprise IT news publisher, and advise clients on cloud security roadmaps, risk mitigation, and infrastructure modernization.

Led a team of engineers responsible for deploying and securing 55,000 workstation environments across a Hyper-V hypervisor architecture. Designed and implemented security controls and directed security strategy spanning cloud networks, disaster recovery, data protection, and endpoint security.

Led full-lifecycle SIEM/SOAR implementations for enterprise customers, delivering on schedule and within budget. Onboarded customer log sources, engineered integrations, and configured threat detection rules and analytics dashboards.

Owned deployments for pre-sales demonstrations and post-sales customer implementations, leading each from setup through handoff. Troubleshot and resolved technical issues, including Google API integration problems, using Python, C++, and RESTful APIs.

Served as technical advisor for enterprise security customers, led cloud security implementations, and guided network design and Zero Trust deployments. Achieved deployment timelines cut 20%, 95% initial-setup satisfaction, and 93-96% quarterly renewal rate.

Supervised security operations and built governance frameworks and automated compliance workflows. Served as a Florida-licensed private investigator specializing in digital forensics, using forensic tools to acquire and preserve evidence.

Led the creation and growth of a nationwide field-service organization serving Dell and HP, managing a distributed workforce of about 1,000 technicians across the US and Canada. Directed recruiting, verification, and training, and designed and built ticketing systems.

Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Central Florida.