Resumé of
Harold
Toomey
CISSP, CISA, CISM
8609 Herns Meadow Ln. |
W: (801) 492-1526 |
McKinney, TX 75071 |
M: (801) 830-9987 |
H: (972) 548-2262 |
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SUMMARY
Fluent in both business and technology. 10 years of product management preceded by 10 years of software engineering. Expertise in information security. Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Experience building enterprise, SMB and consumer software solutions. Have worked in the following industries: information security, computer networking, telephony/unified messaging, and aerospace industries. Highly organized and detail oriented.
| • Product Management | • System & Network Administration | • Product Marketing |
| • Software Development | • Tactical Execution | • Highly Organized |
| • Information Security Management | • Technical Instructor | • Detail Oriented |
| • Regulatory Compliance & Audit | • Technical Writing | • People Person |
| • Vulnerability Management | • Teaching / Mentoring | • Public Speaking |
| • Risk Analysis (IT GRC) | • Project Management | • Business Development |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| McAfee, Inc. – Plano, TX | 2006
- Present
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Managed several McAfee enterprise security product lines for network security, policy compliance and risk management. Researched and documented requirements for new security products and suites. Was the lead PM for Endeavor, Citadel Hercules and Preventsys acquisitions. Telecommuted for 2 years.
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Managed an advanced network malware detection solution, Network Threat
Response, including working with Dell to deliver McAfee branded hardware
appliances in record time.
• Integrated three acquired companies into McAfee: Endeavor Security, Citadel
Software, Preventsys.
• Led
the creation of McAfee Policy Auditor 5 on ePO 4. Achieved 113% of sales
goals in first year of sales.
• Managed
McAfee Policy Auditor and Remediation Manager product lines. Performed
both inbound and
outbound product management tasks. Worked
closely with engineering, product marketing, and sales. Wrote MRDs with
use cases and customer research.
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Created and led the PCI Center of Excellence initiative within McAfee.
• Hired and managed two technical product managers in Bangalore for competitive
analysis in the
risk and compliance space.
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Led and managed bi-weekly steering committee meetings with company
executives for the risk and
compliance business unit.
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Visited at least four (4) customers per quarter for inbound requirements
gathering.
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Planned and organized frequent customer councils (PACs) to discover and/or
validate requirements.
• Assisted with
product roadmaps, quarterly business unit reviews, annual reviews for my
direct
reports, product launches, SE and sales training.
| PrO Unlimited – American Fork, UT | 2005
- 2006
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Research Contractor
Contracted by Symantec to write white papers as well as conduct policy research (FISMA / NIST 800-53) for Symantec ESM.
| Symantec Corporation / AXENT Technologies – American Fork, UT | 2001
- 2005
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Sr. Product Manager
Managed Symantec’s flagship enterprise security policy compliance auditing solution, Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), with a team of 100+ developers and $50M+ in annual revenue. Managed the product team for all security content for applications, databases, Web servers, firewalls, and 50+ operating system platforms.
• Headed the inception,
development and maintenance of new security offerings for operating systems,
databases,
Web servers and firewalls with security
checks mapped to regulatory policies, contributing to a sustained double-digit
annual growth rate over 7 years.
• Delivered a near flawless six (6) year track record of shipping on-time
quarterly security
content via LiveUpdate as well as bi-weekly patch content and
rapid response updates.
• Led frequent Requirements checkpoints and Commit to Solution checkpoints
involving 150+ company-wide stakeholders.
• Maintained the 3-year product roadmap and business plan providing strategic
direction to development and senior management.
• Regularly interfaced with the security officers of dozens of Fortune
100 companies, learning “what keeps them up at night”, and addressing
their feedback with product enhancements and new solutions.
• Assisted in securing $17M of business in 2005 from a single financial
institution by developing new Check Point firewall, Sybase database and
other required security checks.
• Initiated development of Oracle database security checks enabling a large
government customer to pass a failed audit and generate $160K in business.
• Initiated development of best practice security policies covering regulations
and standards (SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, FISMA, NERC, ISO
17799, CIS Benchmarks, SANS
Top 20), increasing customer awareness and sales revenue.
• Played role of “customer” for an agile programming methodology (Extreme
Programming) over a 2½ year period, producing frequent deliverables
and learning best practices on development methodologies.
End-to-end product management and product marketing including product concept, product / market requirements documents, development project management, product launch (collateral, white papers, competitive reviews, pricing, SKUs, training, press and analyst tours), and lifecycle management. Responsible for Symantec’s enterprise policy compliance and vulnerability assessment product lines. Managed the product team for all security content, application / database / Web server security modules and platform support for Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), Symantec’s flagship policy compliance tool. Met with customers and developed product functional requirements.
Frequent presenter for Symantec at vender and security conferences, trade shows, and universities. Presentation topics include: Top 10 Security Threats; Blended Threats; Enterprise Security Management; Anatomy of an Internet Attack; Security Policies, Standards and Regulations; Vulnerability Management; Wireless 802.11x Security; Network Vulnerability Scanners; Securing your Mission-Critical eBusiness Applications (Databases, Web Servers, and Firewalls); and SOHO Security.
| AXENT Technologies – American Fork, UT | 1998
- 2001
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Technical Product Manager
Responsible for AXENT’s enterprise policy compliance and vulnerability assessment product lines. Interfaced with development, QA, marketing, sales, SEs, technical support, regional managers and upper management.
• Managed from cradle to grave, Symantec
NetRecon and Symantec
Vulnerability Assessment (network
and host-based vulnerability scanners), filling gaps in the product
portfolio and generating $3M revenue annually.
• Frequent presenter for Symantec at vender and security
conferences, trade
shows, and universities.
• Instituted, organized and hosted six (6) enterprise solution roundtables,
meeting with groups of select customers to gather product requirements
and use
cases.
• Conducted in-depth and personal competitive intelligence reconnaissance,
providing business-critical data enabling AXENT to outsmart their top competitors.
• Designed an externally-facing Web site to download NetRecon and issue
license keys, logging over 10,000 downloads over a two (2) year period.
• Headed product reviews with leading computer publications (eWEEK, CRN)
increasing product awareness.
| CallWare
Technologies, Inc. – |
1994
- 1998
|
VP of Engineering / Director of Development / Development Team Leader / Senior Software Engineer
Built and managed a team of 17 software engineers developing leading edge consumer-based computer telephony products, including Windows-based voicemail servers, and client applications for visual voicemail messaging.
• Developed the industry’s first
Windows-based client to display and manage voicemail messages similar to
email, providing both the telephone keypad and graphical UI with seamless
multimedia and PBX integration.
• Ported the NetWare-based voicemail server into a Windows-based server in
record time, delivering a better and easier to use solution which increased
sales by over 100% in the first year.
• Traveled all over the US and Europe integrating and demonstrating the CallWare
voicemail server with leading PBX vendor’s telephone switch systems bringing
in over $2M in new OEM business contracts.
• Lead engineer in developing core functionality of the CallWare voicemail
system, as well as implementing customer-requested capabilities, bringing
the project back on schedule after my arrival.
• Controlled the entire development process, from design specifications,
to development, testing, documentation, support and manufacturing for multiple
product releases.
Developed all products in the CallWare product line including: Windows-based and NetWare NLM voicemail servers, Windows client applications for visual voicemail messaging, unified messaging, call control, fax servers, NDS Snap-ins, and other CTI technologies. Enabled CallWare NLMs for Novell “YES – Tested and Approved”.
Supported the business development team as Director of EOM Engineering. Managed schedules, milestones, hired and built teams to fulfill contracts, visited potential OEM sites world-wide, and replied to technical RFPs. Worked the entire development process, from design specifications, to development, testing, documentation, support and manufacturing. Worked closely with leading telecom vendors such as: Alcatel, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, NEC, Tadiran, Telrad, IBM, Iwatsu, Fujitsu, Nortel, Mitel, Rhetorex, and Dialogic.
| Novell,
Inc. – |
1992
- 1994
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Development Manager / Software Engineer III
Managed the Novell NetWare NLM Development Team consisting of six (6) engineers. Responsible for hiring, reviews, promotions, and project management. Programmed using C/C++.
• Designed and coded the user
interface for Novell’s directory
services management tools., still in use today.
• Developed Novell’s upgrade and
migration products as well as core NetWare utilities
for NetWare 4.x using C/C++.
• Earned NetWare 4 CNA, CNE and ECNE (Master
CNE) certifications.
Internationalized NetWare utilities for double-byte character support. Wrote the In-Place Upgrade NLM shipped with NetWare 4.0 and 3.12. Intimately familiar with NetWare 2.x - 4.1x.
1989
- 1992
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Graphics Team Leader / Officer
Commissioned
Air Force officer (Captain).
Supervised eight (8) engineers and directed all graphics programming for
real-time flight simulations at Wright Lab’s Flight
Dynamics Laboratory.
• Programmed in C for UNIX workstations developing TCP/IP and UDP network
drivers as well as graphical simulation consoles used in real-time simulations.
• System Administrator for 14 Silicon
Graphics IRIX workstations
in a classified environment (SECRET clearance).
• Awarded the Air Force Commendation
Medal and Company Grade Officer of the Quarter.
Designed and implemented the lab's configuration management procedures. Taught six in-house short courses on UNIX, C, and X Windows. Extra duties as branch security briefing officer.
| Sinclair |
1992
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College Instructor
Part-time night school instructor teaching a C/C++ programming language course (CIS 233).
| Care-Free
Typing Service – |
1990
- 1992
|
Small Business Manager
Managed a successful in-home typesetting business. Directed advertising, purchasing, IT, training, and finances. Developed editing skills and an eye for detail. Typeset complex mathematical equations for master thesis papers.
| Forté Software
– |
1989
|
C Programmer
Wrote an MS-DOS program called ShorthandPlus which replaced abbreviations with full words increasing one's typing speed. Is memory resident (TSR). Also created a file analyzer program to read any file and produce a useful abbreviation list. Paid $2,300.00 and promised $10 per package sold up to $27,500.
| Self
Employed – |
1988
- 1989
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C Programmer
Coded 120+ numerical analysis programs in C to be used with the text Numerical Analysis by Burden and Faires. Purchased and used by BYU's Mathematics Dept. Typeset it into a 650 page book titled Numerical Analysis Algorithms in C (v4.1). Had it Copyrighted and sent it to PWS-KENT Publishing Company. Was marketed through Care-Free Software in Dayton, OH.
| Self
Employed – |
1986
- 1989
|
Math Tutor
Provided private tutoring to BYU students in all areas of mathematics, electrical and civil engineering. Also tutored a mathematics professor in the C programming language. $7 - $10/hr.
| BYU
Electrical Engineering Dept. – |
1987
- 1989
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Digital Teacher's Assistant
Assisted engineering students with design and debugging of digital logic and state machines, 8086 microprocessor interfacing, programming in assembly language and in UNIX on HP Integral and ICON Mini-computers. Specialized in helping with C programming. TA'ed for a VLSI course, paper graded for a Feedback class and graded laboratory assignments. $9.10/hr.
| Moon
Apartments, 670 N. 300 E. – |
1988
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Assistant Manager
Assisted with check-ins and check-out inspections. Responsible for 42 units when the managers where out of town. Mowed lawns, fixed sprinklers, repaired plumbing, and other maintenance work. Rent-free summer.
| BYU
Mathematics Dept. – |
1985
- 1987
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Mathematics Assistant
Tutored college students in the Math Lab in algebra, trigonometry, business calculus, differential, integral, and vector calculus. Leadership position as upper-level calculus specialist. $6.50/hr.
| Colony
Apartments, Robert Ream – |
1986
- 1987
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Handyman
Shampooed carpets, painting, landscaping, lawn mowing, repaired fences, installed door locks, and pool cleaning, and furniture assembly. $5.00/hr.
| Air
Force ROTC – Lackland
A.F.B., TX |
1986
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Pre-Professional Officer Training Camp
Four grueling weeks of extensive physical and mental training. Learned leadership and management techniques for business and officership.
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – South Africa & Zimbabwe | 1983
- 1985
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Voluntary Representative
Full time voluntary service as a missionary in Africa. Held various positions and supervised activities of eight other representatives. Developed extensive interpersonal relations, organizational, teaching, and time-management skills.
| Joseph
E. Toomey, Dentist – |
1979
- 1982
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Dental Laboratory Technician
Developed skills in making dentures, partials, gold crowns, bridges, and jewelry, from wax model carving to gold casting and polishing. Supervised the dental laboratory. $25.00/hr.
| Joseph
E. Toomey, Dentist – |
1980
- 1983
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Dental Assistant
Assisted with all routine dental procedures as well as with minor oral surgery. Certified in the state of California (Board of Dental Examiners) to operate x-ray equipment. Automated the dental office by designing and implementing computer programs to remind patients of their next check-up. $6.00/hr.
| Boy Scouts of America – Camp Kern, Lakeshore, CA | Summer
1982
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Craft and Program Center Director
Full time camp staff. Supervised merit badge counselors and equipment. Supervised the archery range. Taught weekly classes for eight (8) merit badges. Organized campfires. $50.00/wk.
| Burroughs
High School Food Service – |
1978
- 1982
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Cafeteria Worker
Cooking,
serving, food service window worker, cashiering. $4.00/hr.