Adjunct Faculty - Tarrant County College District (TCCD)
(2024-01)
Teaching
- Introduction to Computer Technology (CPMT-1403)
- Security Management Practices (ITSY-2341)
CTO - FoodBay
(2023-01 - 2025-12)
- Responsible for the infrastructure planning, designing, testing, and implementation.
- Ensure completeness and validation of all risk assessments.
- Guiding engineering team on secure code practices.
- Developing Go-To market strategy to improve customer acquisition and retention.
Senior Program Manager - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE)
(2020-01 - 2023-12)
- Product Adoption: Increased tamper protection adoption from ~2M to over 15M MAD in 6 months, and Attack Surface Reduction rules from ~7M to 48M MAD in 24 months.
- Product Design/Development: Used Design Thinking approach to conceptualize both articulated on unarticulated pain point of enterprise and consumer customers.
- Collaboration/Alignment: Collaborated with cross-geo teams to align with different stakeholders (ILDS, IDC, etc.) on JAD (joint application design session), resourcing, and budgeting
- Product Release: Launched a series of new products, defined and tracked OKRs and KPIs to measure program performance.
- Communication: Met with customers and presented bi-weekly scenario review (Azure DevOp Board) of all MDE leadership teams.
Member of Technical Team – Staff - Verizon Communication
(2017-01 - 2020-12)
Program/Product Management: Drove security program objectives, designed and developed processes, and managed implementation for Verizon Global Technology Services (290+ applications – WIN, Linux, & MacOS). Built and instituted a cyber risk management program with guidance from the executives. Spearheaded initiatives to save cost and automate provisioning of infrastructure (AWS) for 1000+ engineers.
Worked with Directors, application custodians, etc., to identified and decommissioned 70+ applications. Regularly communicated security policies, and programs, with internal and external stakeholders, and across functional teams (US and India).
- Enabled penetration testing for all iEN/1F applications at least once in a year.
- Found OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities in all iEN/1F applications using Burp Suites.
- Ensured all assigned POCs and managers are aware of exposed vulnerabilities.
- Partnered with Dev teams to ensure 100% fixation within Standard Operating Environment.
- Used detailed understanding of new vulnerabilities and emerging trends to produce threat models that allow Verizon GTS to understand specific groups of attackers in relation to the data and systems.
- Kept abreast of current attack vectors and surfaces in penetration testing space and use Confluence for documentation.
- Managed scanning of automation code repos in GitLab.
- Engaged Product Owners to fix any defects exposed.
- Ensured Fortify scan is done on a repo at least once in 3 months.
- Strived for 100% fixation of defects.
- Provided remediation for fixing vulnerabilities.
- Enabled security as a quality gate in CI/CD pipeline for monolithic apps and microservices.
- Used OneJira to track security defects in CI/CD pipeline.
- Collaborated with Dev team to fix defects within SLA.
- Created and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Groovy Script, Gitlab, Jenkins, etc.
- Improved, managed, and monitored performance on cloud infrastructure (AWS - EC2)
Software and Hardware Technician - Houston Community College (HCC)
(2015-01 - 2017-12)
- Manage milestones and timelines for IT Security Governance and Compliance efforts - cybersecurity regulations.
- Provided technical support for clients on software and hardware issues.
- Resolved all malware and virus infections in acoordance with standard procedures.
- Worked with ETS team to improve and align HCC standards with Texas Admin Code (TAC) 202.
Graduate Research Assistant - Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU)
(2016-01 - 2017-12)
- Designed, configured, and coordinated first undergraduate computer network security lab.
- Assisted research professors in the field of data security using KALI Linux applications.
- Researched vulnerabilities and exploitations in SCADA systems.
Teacher (K-12) - Hervards International School (Nigeria)
(2005-01 - 2013-12)
- Curriculum Development & Instruction: Created engaging, standards-aligned lessons, boosting student test scores by 15%.
- Classroom Management: Established an inclusive environment, reducing behavioral incidents by 20% through positive reinforcement.
- Technology Integration: Utilized digital tools to enhance hybrid learning, increasing student participation by 80%.
- Parent & Community Engagement: Fostered partnerships with families via newsletters, conferences, and volunteer initiatives.
- Professional Growth: Engaged in ongoing professional development in trauma-informed teaching and STEM/STEAM methodologies.
