Maryrita Steinhour's Professional Information

 

Last updated 09/13/2026.

        

 

Resume - pdf format

 

Summary

Senior Principal Software Engineer with extensive experience in security architecture, security certifications, and technical program management. Successfully led global teams to deliver secure products while achieving compliance with critical security certifications. Strong collaboration skills foster effective partnerships across product teams, driving enhancements to secure design and coding practices and certification processes.

Key competencies include:

  • Comprehensive knowledge of security certifications (Common Criteria, FIPS) and substantial experience in obtaining those certifications
  • Strong background in product security
  • Extensive experience in managing and shipping products across multiple releases, technologies, and delivery vehicles
  • Proven excellence in collaboration and negotiation across organizations and geographies
  • Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills
  • Excellent rapport with customers and partners
  • Recognized for team leadership as well as individual achievement

Career Highlights

  • Comprehensive knowledge of security certifications (Common Criteria, FIPS) and substantial experience in obtaining those certifications
    • Certified 20+ F5 BIG-IP products/releases at EAL4+ and using multiple Protection Profiles 
    • Achieved multiple F5 BIG-IP Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) component listings 
    • Validated 15+ F5 BIG-IP and F5OS products/releaes against FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 140-3 using multiple module definitions         
    • Certified Windows Hyper-V at Common Criteria EAL 4+
    • Certified IBM VM operating system at Orange Book "C" level and designed to meet "B" level
  • Strong background in product security
    • Seccurity Architect for F5 Platform Security Team, covering threat modeling, product code security, vulnerabilities, and SDLC
    • Windows Hyper-V Security Program Manager
    • IBM middleware and operating system security
  • Extensive experience in managing and shipping products across multiple releases, technologies, and delivery vehicles
    • F5 BIG-IP and F5OS releases 
    • Windows Hyper-V releases and after-release service
    • IBM middleware and z/VM operating system
  • Proven excellence in collaboration and negotiation across organizations and geographies
    • F5 global and cross-functional teams 
    • Windows product group partner teams  and customer and marketing representatives
    • IBM product groups for multiple operating systems and middleware projects, software and hardware groups, Global Services and field teams, and marketing
  • Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills
    • Company and customer trade show presentations and customer briefings
    • Executive presentations and briefings
    • Published external documentation
    • Internal design documents, specifications, and training material
  • Excellent rapport with customers and partners
    • Collaboration with multiple certification labs and certifying bodies 
    • Collaboration with Intel, AMD, Novell, and others
    • Repeat customer engagements
    • Customer award for sustained contributions to SHARE, an influential customer group - Knight of VM
  • Recognized for team leadership as well as individual achievement
    • IBM Division awards for leadership
   

Copyright Maryrita Steinhour, 2004, 2026.