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David wanted to expand his business skills and interests beyond the high technology sector to the broader business world which has always been tied to real estate for thousands of years. He combines his high tech leadership with his business insights to create a long term income portfolio.
David holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems
as well as an MBA in Management Information Systems
and is a longtime advocate of security application
and technology stemming back to his military service
when David first started his work in encryption,
protection and analysis of data with his five years’
active duty with the aviation electronic warfare
community of the United States Navy. After picking
up the first edition of Applied Cryptography from
the Naval Exchange in Naples Italy on his first
deployment return, his career focus became clear.
After his military service, he spent two years as a
Project Manager and Senior Architect with the
Microsoft Solution Provider/Partner community to
refresh his civilian skills and latest technologies
in the enterprise environment.
The bulk of
David’s engineering career began we he joined
Microsoft in 1998 where he made significant
technical and architectural contributions to
Microsoft products ranging from Windows 2000 all the
way through the Windows 8.1/Windows Server 2012 R2
cycles to advancing the enterprise firewall product
line in the Microsoft Israel Development Center as
the Product Unit Manager of the Forefront Threat
Management Gateway product team. His past two years
have been heavily focused on leading a
multi-discipline engineering team encompassing
cloud-based security analytics, detection,
infrastructure security, tooling, forensics,
anti-fraud and the Microsoft Security Response
Center.
From there, David joined and led the
growth and innovative build out of the public Cloud
Security Engineering organization at Google for
almost three years as a Director in the Google
Security and Privacy organization. Given the demand
and needs in the SaaS applications and services
marketplace, David then accepted the challenge in
this space to lead the Oracle SaaS Cloud Security
engineering and operations organization as a Senior
Vice President where is currently.
In his
free time, David is a a long distance runner, active
reader and loves world travelling as he maintains a
public blog on their adventures as he roams the
globe constantly at
https://davidcrosstravels.com/.
