Wesly Peteros
Norwalk,CA
Summary
Insightful Information Technology Manager with 15 years of IT leadership experience including oversight of infrastructure, application support and security services. Dedicated to customer satisfaction with focused delivery of technical solutions. Proven leader in directing operations, maintenance and support of complex systems. Develops creative business solutions, leveraging diverse methodologies and delivering engineering solutions for leading organizations. Highly adept in request for proposal development, technology needs assessments and staff training.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
Certification
Work History
IT Director
Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI Microfinance Inc.)
02.2022 - Current
- Lead a team of 36 IT professionals in delivering comprehensive IT services and support to a organization with 3,000+ employees and 304 branches.
- Develop and implement IT strategies aligned with business objectives, resulting in a 20% increase in operational efficiency.
- Oversee the management of network infrastructure, ensuring 99.9% uptime and robust cybersecurity measures.
- Implemented a company-wide cloud migration, reducing costs by 30% and improving scalability and accessibility.
- Manage an annual IT budget of $2 million, optimizing spending and ensuring cost-effective solutions.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to drive digital transformation initiatives and enhance business processes through technology.
- Implemented a client app that won international and local awards for tech innovation impacting the community.
- Wrote strategic business plans outlining need for departmental information technology resources.
- Implemented a Management Information System (MIS) through data engineering utilizing a data warehouse, which enabled data-driven decision-making at the operational level.
Infrastructure and Security Manager
Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.
11.2018 - 02.2022
- Lead organization through cloud adoption and establish best practices
- Maintain and enhance a modern, cost-effective, flexible, and secure IT environment (Cloud)
- Create a well-informed cloud strategy and managing the adaptation process
- Plans, coordinates, and implements security measures that meet industry standards to ensure that information systems regulate access to computer data, files, or databases, and prevents unauthorized modifications, destruction, or disclosure of information
- Manage information system security incidents by monitoring and auditing systems for abnormal activity, investigating and documenting security breaches and implementing of corrective measures
- Evaluate and recommend new information security technologies and countermeasures against threats to information or privacy, and developing security reports and dashboards
- Maintain a strong information security posture of the foundation by ensuring that security gap assessment and vulnerability assessments are conducted on a regular basis
- And prepare plans and programs to close information system security gaps.
Information Security Officer
Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.
01.2017 - 11.2018
- Evaluate and recommend network infrastructure and security frameworks
- Design and implement security frameworks and controls to effectively hardened the organizations information security
- Conducts security awareness sessions or lectures
- Secures network system by establishing and enforcing policies, defining, and monitoring access
- Monitor their organization’s networks for security breaches and investigate a violation when one occurs
- Recommend security enhancements to management or IT manager
- Help plan and carry out an organization’s way of handling security
- Participating in the design, implementation, and administration of security tools to reduce risk
- Conducting security reviews, risk analysis, and controls reviews in adherence to security policy.
- Monitored use of data files and regulated access to protect secure information.
- Performed risk analyses to identify appropriate security countermeasures.
Network Engineer
Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.
08.2014 - 01.2017
- Establishes networking environment by designing system configuration; directing system installation; defining, documenting, and enforcing system standards
- Maximizes network performance by monitoring performance; troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; perform network optimization
- Perform regular physical checks on network equipment and devices
- Perform network cabling or manage structured cabling projects and other network related projects
- Liaise with third party providers such as Telcos, and other technology providers to facilitate acquisition and delivery of services
- Perform users’ support on network related issues and concerns.
- Provided network support services for devices such as hubs, bridges, routers, and other hardware.
- Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco, and packet analysis.
Education
Master of Science in Industrial Technology (MSIT) - Graduate Studies (Thesis)
Cebu Technological University (CTU)
07.2024
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) - College
Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT)
01.2004
Skills
- IT risk management
- Software Development
- DevOps principles
- Data Analytics
- On-premise and cloud infrastructure management
- Service Management
- Disaster Recovery
- Department management
Certification
- Certified Ethical Hacker, EC-Council, 2020
- ITIL v4 Foundation, Axelos, 2021
- Cisco Certified Network Associate, Cisco, 2016
- Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft, 2021
- Certified Information System Security Officer (CISSO), Mile2, 2017
- Zscaler Certified Cloud Administrator
Accomplishments
- Developed an impactful client app system that won local and international awards, received a $130,000 grant from the ADB FIT program, and gained publicity from the Asian Business Review.
- Approved a $1.2 million USD budget by the board for information security projects, which increased information security maturity to Level 5 (Optimizing).
- Transformed information security from a perimeter-based security model to a de-perimeterized security model using the zero-trust philosophy.
- Modernized traditional application development to agile, implementing DevSecOps and transforming it into a software factory model.
- Implemented a 24/7 Security and Network Operation Center
- Implemented modern security frameworks, including ISO 27001:2022, CIS, NIST, PCI DSS, Data Privacy, and Zero Trust.
- Created IT and information security policies.
- Implemented a security awareness and training program that reduced the phishing rate by 95%
- Simplified branch IT support by implementing Azure Intune and Meraki SD-WAN, which aid in and automate large-scale enterprise device deployment and administration.
- Migrated the on-premise data center to Microsoft Azure in 2018 within 6 months with minimal downtime.
Info
+15627349891, 10977 Hayford St., Norwalk, CA, 90650, Wesly.peteros@gmail.com
Personal Information
Title: IT Director
References
- Ryan Belcina, Director of Information Technology, Facteus, Inc
- Stephene Labiaga, Senior Software Engineer, John Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Thomas Kocsis, CEO, RAFI Microfinance
Training
- LOGRHYTHM Administrator and Analyst Training, LogRhythm Dubai, Internet City, UAE, 10/28/18
- Certified Information Systems Security Officer Training, Worldtech Inc., 01/16/17
- CCNA Security Bootcamp, Rivan IT, 01/16/17
- CCNA Routing and Switching Bootcamp, Rivan IT, 03/18/16
- Certified Security Analyst (ECSA), Global Knowledge PH Inc., 12/08/14
- Ethical Hacking (CEH), NGT Global, 11/25/19
- Project Management Professional (PMP), SAS Management Inc., 02/18/19
- Azure 104 Training (Azure Administrator), MISNET Education Inc, 02/17/22, 06/06/22
- COBIT 5 Implementation, SAS Management Inc., 06/09/20, 06/09/20
- COBIT 5 Foundation, SAS Management Inc., 03/24/21, 03/17/21
- TOGAF 9.2 (Enterprise Architecture), SAS Management Inc., 12/05/22, 12/05/22
- ITIL V4 Foundation, SAS Management Inc., 01/04/17, 01/04/17
Quote
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
Seth Godin
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IT Director
Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI Microfinance Inc.)
02.2022 - Current
Infrastructure and Security Manager
Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.
11.2018 - 02.2022
Information Security Officer
Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.
01.2017 - 11.2018
Network Engineer
Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.
08.2014 - 01.2017
Master of Science in Industrial Technology (MSIT) - Graduate Studies (Thesis)
Cebu Technological University (CTU)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) - College
Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT)
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