
University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX
Completed the bachelor's degree in Business Administration, major in Finance.
A techie, finance geek, and marketing guru. More than 17 years of senior leadership experience in cybersecurity, infrastructure, data centers, SCADA, DevOps, and IT service management.
Managing and providing technical leadership for the global information security operations team and 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC). Executing global security projects and day to day management of security services including access, endpoint security, vulnerabilities, email and web security, incident response, SIEM, and user awareness and education.
Managed and implemented Design Thinking, Agile, LEAN, ITSM, DevOps, and DevSecOps methodologies across multiple IT and business departments. Contributed to strategic IT decisions, provided advice to the CIO office, IT architecture, engineering, and operations department heads.
Managed IT infrastructure department with responsibilities for the global data centers, virtualization, private cloud, computing and storage infrastructure, and SCADA automation systems. Engineered, deployed, and managed infrastructure to various business units. Used Agile and DevOps philosophy to optimized project delivery and task completion. Lead the team to upgrade and rebuild several large data centers in the US and virtualized more than 90% of the entire compute infrastructure.
Provided technical leadership in large-scale design, update, deployment, and operations of Fortune 500 global SCADA automation infrastructure. Lead and facilitated a team to architect and design an in-house build converged infrastructure to host SCADA automation systems for more than 40 locations. Virtualized 100% the entire SCADA infrastructure using the VMware technologies and converged compute and storage platform.
Managing the IT operations for the Occidental Petroleum UAE based business development office. Providing technical support for multiple offices in Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, and Italy.
Development and implementation of IT strategic initiatives, technology road maps, architectures. Project management assistance for large corporate-wide deployments.
Design, implementation and oversight of information security solutions for Occidental Petroleum.
Designed and implemented network infrastructure, firewalls, network security and monitoring systems.
Completed the bachelor's degree in Business Administration, major in Finance.
Completed four semesters at The University of Tulsa specializing in Business Management and Management Information Systems. Left to pursue a full-time employment in information technology.
Completed 2 semesters of courses in Business Management in Moscow, Russia before transferring to The University of Tulsa in Tulsa, OK.
Email: mikhail.krylov@gmail.com