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 15 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 24×7 – 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 (which was purchased by Immedient, which was purchased by BT) 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 venture-funded startup 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 and a new corporate headquarters. 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 and disbanded.
From 2001-2009 I worked for Retail Decisions, an international company that specializes in payment card, fuel card, and card fraud prevention services. As the Head of Global Security and Infrastructure my duties included 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. ReD processes card-not-present transactions for companies like Wal-Mart, Macy’s, Sears, Tesco, Shell, T-Mobile, Travelocity, and Register.com.
On July 1st 2009 I started a new position as the Vice President of Information Security with EVO Merchant Services. EVO is the largest privately-held credit card processor and the fifth largest non-bank aquirer in the US, processing credit card transactions for nearly 200,000 small to medium-sized businesses.
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All of my jobs in the last 15 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 24×7 – 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 (which was purchased by Immedient, which was purchased by BT) 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 venture-funded startup 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 and a new corporate headquarters. 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 and disbanded.
From 2001-2009 I worked for Retail Decisions, an international company that specializes in payment card, fuel card, and card fraud prevention services. As the Head of Global Security and Infrastructure my duties included 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. ReD processes card-not-present transactions for companies like Wal-Mart, Macy’s, Sears, Tesco, Shell, T-Mobile, Travelocity, and Register.com.
On July 1st 2009 I started a new position as the Vice President of Information Security with EVO Merchant Services. EVO is the largest privately-held credit card processor and the fifth largest non-bank aquirer in the US, processing credit card transactions for nearly 200,000 small to medium-sized businesses.
You can find me on LinkedIn here.
Just found out that I’m (briefly) quoted in a Sun Case Study.