Brian Hicks Email & Phone Number

• Program / portfolio metrics – Created program and portfolio level metrics with Smartsheet and Power BI for client, account team & senior leadership, pulling from multiple sources to single dashboard. Managed combined.
• Program / portfolio planning - collaborating with other company program managers to create standards for program and portfolio operations.
• Program leadership - review project level activities with assigned project managers to rollup RAID items, project progress and budgets to client and company leadership. Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring.

• PMO creation – Built initial company PMO to manage Cyber Security projects across multiple clients/industries. Created policies and baseline templates for use by all project managers to create consistency. Utilized.
• PMO leadership – lead a team of junior and senior project managers. Reviewed project metrics, progress and RAID items for leadership rollup.
• Managed partner channels – Worked with multiple hardware (Ingram Micro) and software partners (Crayon and CloudIQ) on procurement and invoicing to streamline customer engagements.
• Program Management – Created program management offering to clients as they expanded services offerings within the company. This allowed for efficiencies with fewer meetings and concise reporting.
• Successfully led pharmaceutical client divestiture that focused on transitioning security tools to Microsoft Cloud Security / Azure while assisting with creation of security awareness program.
• Led security program at global Fortune 100 company with over $1m internal revenue utilizing dozens of resources (internal and client) that implemented threat hunting activities, regular reporting and remediation.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• Project Leadership - Led a team of 12 developers and engineers through daily task assignments via Agile Scrum. Provided periodic performance evaluations and worked with people managers to provide feedback for.
• Vendor management – Worked with multiple vendors on projects to achieve project / program objectives. Synced vendor and team availability for maximum effectiveness during in-person sessions.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

• Program management – Hired to help manage Cyber Security program with over 10 active projects. Helped IT staff and security team align on overlapping requirements to maximize people availability. Projects included data.
• PMO – Helped IT leadership form the base for a companywide PMO. Used previous PMO experience to help create metrics and standardization of processes. Worked with development and engineering team leaders to implement.
• Process improvements – revamped entire project process for IT projects from intake to closure. Leveraged working relationships with engineers, developers and leadership to streamline and provide ease of use for.
• Software implementation – took over project mid-way through implementation to change petroleum software from home grown to off the shelf software. Completed implementation within schedule and budget. Multi-year project.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• Program management – Oversaw Cyber Security SIEM product transformation program valued at $10m from enVision to ArcSight after HP acquisition of ArcSight. Worked with dozens of global clients and internal teams to move.
• Project management – managed anti-virus projects for clients with over 30000 endpoints. Successfully completed migration of Symantec to McAfee within schedule and budget for global food manufacturing client.
• Remote access – managed multiple national and international clients remote access system. Successfully deployed tokens to over 20000 users. Worked with clients and account teams to manage usage of ISP allocation.
• Process improvements – worked with leadership teams to help re-design workflow of multiple client intake processes. This allowed team members to manage higher capacity of new clients.
• Government clearance – worked with US government agencies on secret level projects for Department of Defense and other government contractors.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration

Mba, Ebusiness