What I Do I am currently Senior Manager for the Network CyberSecurity Center Incident Response Team for Verizon Global Management Network Network Security.
School Days I want to Arizona State for undergrad as a business major with an emphasis on Finance. I quickly learned that Finance was not for me and switched to Computers. I have Microsoft System Certified Engineer, and various certifications from the disciplines that I maintain: Certified Cisco Network, Checkpoint, Juniper. I have taken courses for my graduate student Cybersecurity and management.
My Day At Work What I do Monitor, Detect , Analyze, Mitigate and Recover My Scope Management Networks (VGMN) and Critical Customer Networks (Legacy, iEN, 4G / 5G) What We See Our Scope Security Events Operational Events How We Do It Analyze, correlate and characterize notable events Implement, configure and maintain security tools Integrate external threat intel with internal security data Collaborate - NMC - Wireless tier 1 Coordinate - CISO Threat Management Center (TMC)
Proud Moments National Association of Professional Women Wyndham sponsored organizations: Women on the Way Verizon Sponsored organizations OOTW - out of the woods WAVE Woman of Verizon WOW Women of World, extended leadership program, completed January 2020 Participate thru Learning 2.0 -> Pathways, Degreed, Harvard Mentor courses (100+ hours is leadership course training thru Verizon Leadership Academy, Leadership Edge) Champion Program - volunteer opportunities 2020 - Social Responsibility Champion
Challenges Being a working mom. At one time I was a single mother of two girls at that time 9 and 12. Today they are both successful educated women.
My Family I am remarried, we are blended family with four kids, 3 girls 1 boy. My husband and I both work in Cybersecurity it is actually how we met. We have been in the computer engineering fields in some capacity for over 20 years. The girls 25, 22, 19 and the boy is 14. My girls are the older two and today they are both successful educated women. One graduated from University of Southern California with honors in Special Events and Planning. The other daughter is pursing a criminal justice degree graduating in May 2021. My step daughter is pursuing a degree in Psychology and is in her second year of college. My step son will be going into high school next year.
Want to be an Engineer? Anything is possible. I didn't believe when i was younger I would ever be an engineer sometimes you surprise yourself.
Hobbies I love to bake and cook and entertain. In my retirement, I want a house on the lake with lots of property so I can foster dogs. Currently I have two but would love more.