Cybersecurity Consultant, AI Security Professional

• Founded and lead an 8-person team across sales, project management, and consulting, successfully managing and delivering over 50 projects in the EMEA region.
• Provide technical consulting and strategic advice focused on Thales, Splunk (SIEM), and Cisco solutions, driving client success and solution adoption.
• Lead recruitment, coaching, and development initiatives, including implementing a company-wide skill assessment process to align consultants' technical growth with business needs.
• Drive business growth through presentations and workshops showcasing company services and solutions, supporting pre-sales and client engagement activities.
• Balance responsibilities by dedicating 50% of time to technical consulting and the remainder to team leadership, mentoring, and business development.
• Principle lead on providing technical solutions to customers, and mapping them to satisfy NIST and ISO standards.
• Principle lead on adopting MITRE and OWASP frameworks into our web security services portfolio, as complementary value added on top of our Web Application Firewall solution offerings.

• Assisted the operations team with their global Imperva-based Database Activity Monitoring system, managing the operations transition from internal to a managed-services model.
• Performed technical audit and assessment of the dbDAM solution, enhancing standardization, review, and fine-tuning.
• Handled BAU ops tasks and incidents.
• Planned, documented, and implemented a major version upgrade of the overall Imperva DAM system.
• Worked with management on documentation for managed services transition, defining KOPs and verifying SOW delivery to ensure smooth transition without procedural gaps.

Key accomplishments:

• Successfully led the transition of operational tasks to a managed services model.
• Defined KOPs covering technical operational requirements and tasks for existing and new ops teams.
• Created major version upgrade plan for production environments; first implementation completed successfully.
• Drove technical integration of the Imperva dbDAM system with the newly deployed Splunk SIEM solution.

• Led the technical architecture and design of the Global DAM (Database Activity Monitoring) security system aimed at improving the security, auditing and compliance posture company-wide.
• Assisted the service design team with defining the business and management processes for the operation support model once the system transitioned into production.
• Designed and standardized the architecture model for Imperva DAM systems, aligning with business and security requirements to enable consistent deployment and scalability across implementations.
• Deployed the centralized multi-tenant DAM security systems to support data security and compliance needs of various local markets worldwide.
• Defined the Database Security Policy Baseline to standardize policies and manage incidents in the GSOC.
• Defined the Database Audit Policy Baseline as a guide for entities onboarding the DAM system to meet audit and compliance needs.
• Acted as an Imperva SME for a GDPR readiness project in Netherlands, assisting in data definition, scanning, classification and management of personal sensitive data.
• Conducted multiple training and workshops for various entities, increasing technical competency of operations and management teams.