ROBERT MUELLER JR

CAREER SUMMARY

Experienced Tech Lead with focus on product and passion for cybersecurity. Career has spanned technical product management, data analytics and visualization, database management, vulnerability management, secure cloud infrastructure management and deployment, and data governance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Security Product Manager: Okera

June 2022 - Present

Product Management:

  • Led “Voice of Customer” sessions with Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales Engineering to flesh out pain points, and transition business requirements to technical requirements.

  • Aligned high level strategic objectives (Quarterly Business Reviews) with user pain points to develop platform team roadmap, and prioritization of issues through epics and user stories.

  • Helped build truly Agile culture through leading and demonstrating best practices for story point estimation, definition of done, definition of ready.

  • Product Deliverables: focus on shifting left (secure container publishing), improving workflows for devs, supporting beta SaaS and automating Trial setup, road mapping future CICD (i.e gitops), and reducing customer success time to deploy.

  • Product Outcomes: Automated devboxes (reduce time for set up test environment by ½ day per developer per devbox), implemented Kubernetes for Continuous Integration to (reduce dev build time by 50%), and reduced AWS cost per month by $30k+

Product and Enterprise Security:

  • Created security short and long term cyber security roadmap, Business Impact Analysis, Risk Assessment, and Business Continuity Plans.

  • Administered secure systems through runbooks, documentation, and SAML integration for; OpenVPN, GSuite, GoDaddy, Slack, GitHub Enterprise, AWS (primary), GCP, and Azure.

  • Led and contributed to effort to acquire ISO 27001 attestation, including mock audit, GAP analysis, phased remediation, and tying policies to ISO/NIST controls (via Drata).

  • Owned vulnerability management and scanning (Snyk Container and GitHub Advanced Security), reducing mean-time-to-remediate from 110 days to 35 days, and drove DevSecOps culture.

  • Led efforts to improve cyber security technologies, such as identity authentication and authorization services, security automation and compliance.

Technical Program Manager: Corteva

Oct 2014 – June 2022

  • Managed cross-functional teams to deliver efficient and scalable web and mobile solutions that our customers want to use, with shared goals tightly aligned to organizational strategy.
  • Managed ESRI Enterprise platform; deployment, administration, and developed user training.
  • Proven skills in Agile development (consistently on time delivery and within budget), by building strong relationships with stakeholders, coordinating Scrum ceremonies and user stories, tracking risk/KPI’s in PowerBI, and managing customer relationships
  • Developed design documents, data governance strategy, wireframes, user guides, maintenance documents, project documentation, and release documents.
  • Led design and implementation of applications and architecture reviews with respect to application design, security and data governance.
  • Developed Postgres database data models (python - Django), GitLab CI pipelines (AWS) app and infrastructure deployment, and data engineering pipelines (gdal).

Geospatial Data Manager: Indiana State Land Office

Nov 2010 – Oct 2014

  • Provided technical leadership in advancing core data management and best practices, geospatial data solutions, and administration of enterprise GIS desktop/server environment(s).
  • Designed and maintained transactional databases and managed data access layer (ArcGIS Server).
  • Created front end web applications using ESRI’s Flex, JavaScript, jQuery/dojo.
  • Designed custom desktop solutions using Python/.Net, as well as custom desktop geoprocessing scripts to automate routine tasks.

GIS Data Analyst/ Developer: Midwest Biodiversity

May 2007 – Nov 2010

  • Performed spatial and multivariate statistical analysis on large datasets, co-authored EPA (contracted) publications and peer reviewed journals.
  • Created front end web applications, utilizing the ESRI JavaScript and Google Maps API, custom desktop geoprocessing scripts to automate routine tasks.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

2005-2007
MS, Biology; Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana)
2003-2005
MS, Resource Analysis (GIS); St Mary’s University of MN (Winona, MN)

Certificed ScrumMaster (654379; issues 2017)

CompTIA Security+ (COMP001022014550; issued 2022)

Knowledgeable on NIST Cybersecurity Framework and how the Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover categories comprise and facilitate an information security program.

COMPUTER LANGUAGES AND TOOLS

  • Backend: Python/R, Django, SQL Server/PostgreSQL, Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, AWS API Gateway, Github/Gitlab CI pipelines, and AWS infrastructure as code (IaC), DevSecOps
  • Frontend: Javascript, React, jQuery, Dojo
  • Windows/Linux: Windows Subsystem for Linux, Bash, Powershell
  • Virtualization: VirtualBox, Docker, AWS EC2
  • Program/Product: Monday.com, Jira, Confluence, MS Visio/Lucid, Mural, Balsamiq, PowerBI
  • Security tools: BurpSuite, Imperva (WAF), Kali
  • Cloud: AWS, Azure

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

My Cool Side Project:

Home lab set up for networking practice and threat lab:

  • Set up with PFsense router and Security Onion for IDS/IPS with ELK dashboard, DMZ with web server, network/virtual Switches, Cloudflare DNS, Cloudflare Zero Trust, and Nessus for vulnerability scans. Kali/Burp for pentesting. Includes: vlans, honeypots and active defense, ldap (JumpCloud), virtualization/containerization (Proxmox).

3d Printing

  • This has become a really fun project the bring out the “maker” side of me, plus I get to integrate IOT sensors and devices to improve quality, monitoring, etc.