Paul Howard
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Cybersecurity
University of Maryland
2017 : 2022
Bachelor of Science - BS
Electrical Engineering
The Ohio State University
1989 : 1993
2022 : Present
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Senior Manager of Security Engineering, Cybersecurity & Technology Controls
Responsible for maintaining the Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) software and infrastructure on over 100 production, UAT and development servers. This included planning system patching and upgrades, gathering enhancement requests, creating the work requests (sprint stories / kanban cards) and tracking progress of the initiatives.
Key Accomplishments
• Reduced the amount of time to install / patch the DLP software by 98% through automation.
• Reduced incident extraction and replication time by 97%
• Increased data quality of reported DLP incidents to the SIEM tool.
• Implemented security policy to prevent unauthorized servers / processes from communicating with the email inspection servers.
• Planned and oversaw two version upgrades to the DLP software.
• Participated in policy reviews and provided tier 3 support for infrastructure and policy related issues.
• Identified and decommissioned unused infrastructure reducing the cost to run the platform by $700,000 / year.
2018 : 2022
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Senior Lead Security Engineer, Cybersecurity & Technology Controls
Responsible for determining the infrastructure requirements for various warehousing projects, procuring hardware and overseeing its deployment.
Key Accomplishments
• Identified and removed redundant processing resulting in a $2MM yearly reduction in the data ecosystem operating costs.
• Identified and removed unused storage resulting in a $1.6MM yearly reduction in the data ecosystem operating costs
2016 : 2017
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Vice President, Solutions Engineer, Consumer & Community Banking
Responsible for creation and implementation of processes to bring the performance testing team in compliance with corporate policies.
Key Accomplishments
• Implemented quality tollgate process allowing the team to meet compliance and auditing requirements
• Developed demand forecasting model allowing proper assignment of resources during release testing.
2016 : 2016
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Vice President, Performance Engineer, Consumer & Community Banking
Managed a global team providing 24x7 infrastructure support for an ecosystem offering database, web, reporting and analytics services to over 600 applications and over 10,000 global users. Built support teams in Manila, Philippines, Hyderabad, India and Singapore.
Key Accomplishments
• Reduced outages and disruptions by 82% and increased platform availability to over 99.94%.
• Increased SLA attainment on service tickets to over 98%
• Reduced the platform storage footprint by 60TB resulting in an annual savings of $1.5MM.
2010 : 2015
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Vice President, Database Administration Manager, Data Management & Analytics
Skills
Ansible, BI Publisher, Data Analysis, Data Loss Prevention, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), Infrastructure Management, Linux, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Application Express, Oracle Database, Oracle Database Administration, Oracle ERP Implementations, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Performance Testing, PL/SQL, Project Management, Project Planning, Python, Python (Programming Language), Shell Scripting, Solution Architecture, SQL, SQL Tuning, Sybase Adaptive Server, Team Management, Tomcat, Unix, Visual Basic, WebLogic, WebSphere, WebSphere MQ, Database Admin, Databases, Business Objects, Informatica, ERP, Project Portfolio, Project Portfolio Management, ETL, Database Administration, Disaster Recovery