Colin Lernihan

• Owned vision and roadmap for Spotter, functionality for searching and visualizing large amounts of security data
• Documented user stories, specifications and product features to communicate across teams and oversee efforts from ideation to delivery
• Lead cross-functional groups to deliver on companies mission of enabling organizations and governments to detect, respond, and neutralize cyber threats in an ever evolving threat landscape
• Work with customers, customer success/support and sales organization to understand customers needs and translate into actionable roadmap milestones that excites users.
• Product lead on Snowflake Bring your Own Data Lake partnership
• Oversaw transition of engineering team to an agile approach

• Liaised with clients to develop deep understanding of business needs and current market landscape.
• Lead cross-functional groups to deliver on the companies mission of enabling organizations and governments to detect, respond, and neutralize cyber threats in an ever evolving threat landscape
• Lead the ideation, research, design, development and launch of user-centric security products
• Developed roadmap for the search and indexing components of the platform
• Develop the product roadmap and build consensus on prioritization
• Established the vision and roadmap for the analyst search experiences and workflows.
• Defines the next generations data storage strategy and user experience to enable reliable and low cost storage for the large amounts of data our platform processes.
• Leads the ideation, vision and roadmap on data security as well as compliance needs driven from data privacy laws such as GDPR, HIPPA, CCPA etc.
• Founding member of the product advisory consul, working with a select group of customers to preview UX designs, discuss vision/roadmap and elicit feedback on products and capabilities currently under development.
• Developed product documentation to communicate and align key components of upcoming features and products to internal teams.

• Responsible for coaching/leading the IT Security team and the IT Operations teams in a Kanban manner.
• Drove the team transition from a waterfall mindset to an Agile one.
• Operationalized the teams processes and procedures with an eye towards automation whereapplicable.
• Drafted the teams strategic roadmaps, with input from key stakeholders and worked with the teams to accomplish each of those milestones and goals.
• Oversaw the implementation of the companies Azure API Gateway.
• Stood up a vulnerability management program for reviewing and prioritizing remediation of vulnerabilities.
• Setup a formal threat hunting process and pushed the program into a more proactive stance rather than a reactive one.
• Drove the development of the application security program to monitor application security vulnerabilities as they are being introduced into dev and QA as well as educate developers on best practices.

Scrum Master Duties:

• Responsible for coaching a middleware/micro services team of 8 software engineers and 1 dedicated automation testing resource to work in an agile manner in 1 week iterations while embracing a paired programming approach.
• Helped the team transition from a waterfall mindset to an Agile one.
• Leads the team across two locations in the agile ceremonies of sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review and retrospective.
• Improved the teams velocity 100% in the first 3 months on the job.
• Assists the team in coming up with team goals and help them drive to these goals
• Protects the sprint team from outside distractions, impediments and interruptions

Product Owner Duties:

• Translate business requirements into software requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and development tasks
• Represents the team at story mapping, feature discussions and writes stories for incoming projects that impact the 25+ services (WebMethods and Java) that are owned by myself and the team.
• Manages the teams backlog and oversees the teams delivery efforts while delivering multiple projects and across multiple services at a time.
• Works with architecture, security and systems analysts when designing new middleware/micro services and APIs.
• Interfaces with the business on questions regarding the services that are under my ownership.

• Coordinated with data consumers to understand their needs and transformed those needs into actionable requirements that impact the way the security master serves up data.
• Played a key role in implementing the data infrastructure for the firm to start offering futures and options on futures
• Acting SME on security master data, helping new consumers understand each data elements attributes, limitations and usage.
• Completed ad hoc data analysis utilizing extensive SQL knowledge to put together coverage reports, research data issues and provide data driven recommendations
• Laid out the data requirements to allow the firm to commence trading futures and options on futures.
• Provide technical impact analysis on upcoming vendor feed changes
• Acted as SME in support of the Golden Source Security Master Vendor Application
• Pricing and reference data vendor relationship representative for Security Master Data Management Team.
• Utilize Postman to pull data from our security master via API for testing and data validation purposes

Product Owner Duties

• Translate business requirements into software requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and development tasks
• Work with scrum master to assist in managing the process
• Coordinate with the business stakeholders to prioritize the backlog
• Meet with business stakeholders to understand their needs and strategic vision
• Work with developers and QA on grooming new stories and conveying the strategic vision for the functionality
• Provided functional and data analysis to the business stakeholders on existing functionality.
• Setup up all new stories within VersionOne and groomed these with the tech lead, development team and testing team to ensure a complete understanding throughout the team.
• Directly influenced design decisions of the systems functionality to ensure it aligned with the business intent of our customer.
• Trained new users on the systems functionality.
• Agile champion on the team – played key role in transitioning team from waterfall to agile

System Integrator Duties

• Coordinated with DDE, DBA and source systems on new data feeds for feed design, DB requests and DDE requirements.
• Provided QA testing support and test case design– regression and individual stories/enhancements.
• Provided root cause analysis for bugs and issues within the production environment.
• Developed prototype of a SalesForce workflow component for our system.

• Managed communications and relations between the Application Security team and the rest of the company.
• Served as the Archer reporting platform Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Operated as the Veracode platform owner and managed the vendor relationship.
• Administrated the company Application Security training and education program.
• Ran the Veracode (SaaS) static scanning program for development teams.
• Developed new reporting capabilities utilizing Archer and Excel to provide deep analysis of the threat landscape.
• Managed requirements gathering for all new enhancements of the Archer module.
• Maintained data sync processes between Archer and upstream/downstream systems.
• Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities.