Fernando Lopez
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2018 : Present
FTI Consulting
Senior Enterprise Systems Architect, Cybersecurity
Provides vision and leadership in the development and support of corporate wide Information Security initiatives and programs; ensures that information assets are adequately protected; directs the planning and implementation of enterprise IT security operation systems and directs active operations of the Security Operation Center to monitor, detect and provide rapid reaction to alerts and anomalies generated by heterogeneous, but fully integrated, security tools.
2014 : 2018
Ciena
Director, Cybersecurity
Manages and motivates a team of highly technical staff focused on infrastructure, network, security and support with a focus on providing outstanding service, responsiveness and communications. Manages staff, including identifying position duties, scheduling, training, professional development, performance reviews.
Oversees all aspects of network and application security including equipment, access control, patching, annual security audits and policies. Coordinates and manages major projects.
Developed the Vision, Strategy, and Execution model for the delivery of an In-House Security Operation Center.
Oversees personnel and activities that support the Monitoring, Incident Response, Evaluation and Verification, and Penetration Testing functions.
2009 : 2014
Ciena Corporation
Senior Manager, IT Security
Lead evolution, enforcement, and maintenance of policies, procedures, and processes to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
Collaborate with application development and infrastructure teams to ensure approach, architecture and execution adheres to information security policy.
2004 : 2009
Ciena
Manager, IT Security
Provide technical expertise in cybersecurity engineering as it relates to design, deployment, integration, testing and implementation on/for Ciena systems.
Advises senior management by identifying critical security issues; recommending risk-reduction solutions.
1999 : 2004
Ciena
Lead, IT Security
About
An accomplished IT leader with over 20 years of progressive experience, building teams and managing IT security within a complex Research and Developing engineering working environments. An understanding, innovative individual who multi-tasks and has an excellent sense of teamwork to get results by instilling commitment, trust, fairness, and loyalty. Strengths include solid communication and problem-solving skills and adapting to change. Passionate and a champion of secure cloud computing.
• Provided cybersecurity and infrastructure/network security strategy, architecture, and design concepts and guidance to the business and IT.
• Developed a security reference architecture and implemented a hybrid cloud delivery, while continuously keeping abreast of cloud solutions offerings and recommended adoptions into the enterprise for PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS solutions.
• Provided leadership and creativity in development and implementation of secure use of a IaaS private cloud services based on OpenStack, and IaaS public cloud services from Amazon AWS and Azure.
• Created an IT security technical reference architecture and documented current state security capabilities, current state gaps and future state roadmap aligned with IT and business strategies.
• Experience with enterprise architecture and working as part of a cross-functional team to implement solutions.
• Directed the operations of the Global Threat Management teams in real-time monitoring and rapid reaction to alerts and anomalies generated by our global security defenses
• Managed a team of highly skilled professionals which successfully developed, deployed and maintained the IT security infrastructure and managed the entire life cycle.
• Great strategic vision of IT Security role and the business; and excellent tactical skills to deliver on the vision.
• Great motivation and desire to contribute to the continued growth and success of any organization.
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