Omar D.
Details
Business Administration and Management, General
APEC University
2012 : 2014
Systems Engineer
Information & Technology
Universidad Catolica Santo Domingo
2001 : 2005
General Bachelor
Information Technology
Don Bosco School
1995 : 1999
-Manage enterprise cybersecurity operations technology needs, stakeholder relationships, and capability maturity.
-Collaborate with others to drive enterprise-wide adoption of cybersecurity capabilities under their leadership. Evaluates and prioritizes strategic opportunities to enable technology organization to deliver on business priorities. Proactively championing new opportunities for automation, innovation, and technical excellence within the cybersecurity organization, bringing thought leadership and deep technical expertise to drive adoption.
-Sucessfully implemented the Cyberfusion center framework to proactively identify possible threats, security gaps and vulnerabilities in the OneAmerica landscape.
-Provides leadership to a team of internal associates and third-party personnel, providing direction, motivation, and strategic oversight.
-Provide leadership and oversight for the activity within :
*24/7 Secuerity Operations Center (SOC),
*Incident Response Team / Forensics
*Threat Intelligence Team
*Risk-based Vulnerability Management
*Continuous Assessment (Continuous Red Team)
*Attack Surface Reduction
*Threat Defense Operations
-Manage executive relationships to maintain strategic direction and pipeline of work, holding full accountability for success of designated function or department.
-Drive performance against measurable functional, operational, and strategic priorities. Prioritizing work based on stakeholder needs and objectives and ensures the deployment of people, process, and technology resources is aligned to Cybersecurity strategy.
-Lead oversight of timeliness and quality of vendor services and deliverables. Works in partnership with IT VMO to support Business Review meetings, reviewing performance, quality and continuous improvement of service delivery.
2022 : Present
OneAmerica
Director of Cybersecurity Operations
- Strategize, create & lead the Cyber Fusion Center which includes 24x7 SOC and CIRT functions by providing operational and strategic direction to leadership on the threat landscape while organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources in a matrix structure, across time zone and national boundaries in time of Cyber crisis.
- Responsible for enterprise-wide vulnerability and malicious code management programs, desktop and mobile endpoint protection, including working to develop and mature capabilities to support these areas.
- Ensure timely reporting of metrics, security control gaps, vulnerabilities to leadership by providing quantitative insight into security posture, including maintaining and responding to changes in operational indicators and metrics.
- Create and oversee penetration testing and vulnerability management efforts. This includes threat hunting and emulation (red team/purple team) efforts designed to detect and repair vulnerabilities across the enterprise network, determining where the architecture lacks sufficient security controls that could be exploited by an adversary.
- Lead the creation of playbooks to ensure effective response during a significant event.
- Lead the development and execution of regular crisis management exercises to include full simulations and table tops across Chemours business lines to drive continuous improvement, awareness and education.
- Serve as a key resource for anomaly detection in protecting our Operational Technologies (OT)/ICS manufacturing assets, information assets and technology assets.
- Lead the Threat Intelligence function to drive the Cyber Fusion Center initiatives and support business strategy.
2021 : 2022
The Chemours Company
Global Head of Cybersecurity Operations
Provide guidance and establish support mechanisms to all AES Strategic Business Units (SBU's) in regards of Cybersecurity operational requirements, translating business requirements into Cybersecurity processes and systems. Responsible for leadership and operational/tactical recommendations to several multidisciplinary teams including analyst, engineers and team leaders, within AES Global Cybersecurity practices ecosystem (Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence, Vendor Risk Assesment, MSSP, IRT) stablishing effective policies and appropriate collaborations among them.
2019 : 2021
The AES Corporation
Global Manager - Cyber Defense Tools and Threat Intelligence
Direct support to all AES Strategic Business Units (SBU's) related to Cyber-security requirements along with regulatory requirements within individual SBU's. Responsible for the collection and analysis of multiple open source and subscription data points to create intelligence that focuses on strategic adversarial activities. The position also focuses on collecting, cataloging and analysing Security Operation Center data point as well as tools, techniques and procedures used by adversaries.
Conducts all source-analysis and targeting to identify, monitor, assess and counter the Threat posed by Cyber- adversaries against AES Information Systems, critical infrastructure and Cyber-related interest. Provide tactical analysis and advice for operations, produce short-term and long-term written assessmentsand will brief management.
2017 : 2019
The AES Corporation
Global Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
Interim - Managing and overseeing the local business Cybersecurity Program as a defined component of our global program, helping to standardize and improve cybersecurity across AES. Responsibilities as follow :
Establish, maintain, and evolve the local cybersecurity program in alignment with the global program.-Manage cybersecurity funding and expenditures within the AES budget cycle, processes, and timeframes. -Ensure local policies are maintained and kept in alignment with global cybersecurity requirements and provide support to global governance and compliance activities. -Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners including but not limited to local business leadership, CIOs, Plant Managers, Global Cybersecurity Operations, Global CISO organization, functional department leads, and appropriate local, regional, and national government regulators.- Conduct cybersecurity risk assessments of local data, systems, and assets as required. -Report and educate on cybersecurity risk and cybersecurity metrics regularly to leadership - Actively develop and execute a local cybersecurity awareness program to educate local personnel by leveraging global communications and local training resources -Lead OT resources to adopt cybersecurity guidelines within SCADA environments, including supporting operational maintenance and troubleshooting of supported cybersecurity assets -Provide insight to local leadership supporting governance and compliance activities according to global security policy, standards, procedures and guidelines -Provide support to Internal Audit reviews and corresponding management actions of local cybersecurity program -Coordinate with IT and OT personnel regarding the maintenance of accurate and detailed asset management inventories -Support incident response, investigation, and business continuity planning and exercises independently and in coordination with the global cybersecurity team
2018 : 2019
The AES Corporation
Acting USA Cyber Security Program Manager
Skills
Active Directory, ANOMALI ThreatStream TIP, CCNA, Cisco Technologies, Contract Negotiation, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Cyber Defense, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Incident Management, Cybersecurity Incident Response, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Data Center, EMC2, Emotional Intelligence, Information Security, Information Technology, Infrastructure, Internal Audit, ITIL, ITIL v3 Foundations Certified, IT Management, IT Operations, IT Service Management, Management, MCITP, MCTS, Microsoft Certified Technology, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Servers, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Technologies, Network Administration, Networking, Process Improvement, Project Management, Recorded Future TIP, SAFESTART Program, Security, Servers, System Administration, System Deployment, Team Leadership, Team Management, Threat & Vulnerability Management, Threat Management, VMware ESX, VMware Infrastructure, Windows Server, Blackberry, Apple, HP Server Hardware, Android, iPhone Support, DHCP, ITIL v3 Foundations, Microsoft Certified
About
I’m a System Engineer with 16+ years of working experience in the Critical Infrastructure Sector (Energy, Chemical & Financial Industries). Having a successful background in the IT & Cyber Security fields, People Management, Project Management and contract negotiation in order to secure assets, minimize cost and achieve the optimization of the organization landscape . I consider myself as People/Results oriented person.
Through the years, I had the opportunity to work in a large and complex Power Generation and Distribution Company. I play an integral role in providing excellent day-to-day Cyber-security and IT Infrastructure leadership and guidance to a group of high level professionals engineers located in different countries, as well as implementing relevant projects impacting the organization strategy and goals.
I have served as IT field Support engineer, System Administrator, IT Infrastructure Analyst (Networking), IT Infrastructure Analyst (Hosting and Servers) later as IT Infrastructure Manager at AES Dominicana attending the Dominican Republic business. Since 2013, I've served as Regional Manager for different IT and Cybersecurity areas of AES MCA&C SBU which includes AES Panama, AES El Salvador, AES Dominicana, AES Mexico and AES Puerto Rico businesses. Since 2017, serving as the Global Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst and recently, since November 2018, acting as the Global Cyber Operations Manager (concluded in February 2019) and USA Cyber-Security Program Manager for The AES Corporation.
More recently appointed as the Global Head of Cybersecurity Operations for The Chemours Company, overseeing a very dynamic and global team of professionals.
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