Monica Lopez Email Address

Senior Enterprise Systems Architect, Cybersecurity

Network Solutions for Optical Transport and Switching, Carrier Ethernet, Data and Broadband Networks

An accomplished IT leader with over 20 years of progressive experience, building teams and managing IT security within a complex Research and Developing engineering working environments. An understanding, innovative individual who multi-tasks and has an excellent sense of teamwork to get results by instilling commitment, trust, fairness, and loyalty. Strengths include solid communication and problem-solving skills and adapting to change. Passionate and a champion of secure cloud computing. •Provided cybersecurity and infrastructure/network security strategy, architecture, and design concepts and guidance to the business and IT. •Developed a security reference architecture and implemented a hybrid cloud delivery, while continuously keeping abreast of cloud solutions offerings and recommended adoptions into the enterprise for PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS solutions. •Provided leadership and creativity in development and implementation of secure use of a IaaS private cloud services based on OpenStack, and IaaS public cloud services from Amazon AWS and Azure. •Created an IT security technical reference architecture and documented current state security capabilities, current state gaps and future state roadmap aligned with IT and business strategies. •Experience with enterprise architecture and working as part of a cross-functional team to implement solutions. •Directed the operations of the Global Threat Management teams in real-time monitoring and rapid reaction to alerts and anomalies generated by our global security defenses •Managed a team of highly skilled professionals which successfully developed, deployed and maintained the IT security infrastructure and managed the entire life cycle. •Great strategic vision of IT Security role and the business; and excellent tactical skills to deliver on the vision. •Great motivation and desire to contribute to the continued growth and success of any organization.