* Defined the vision and strategic direction for the Service Desk, Infrastructure, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering, and Information Security functions, personally growing the team from one to more than 20 FTEs.* Conferred with the C-suite executive leadership team on the roadmap and strategic plan to migrate the enterprise from an MSP-focused to an in-house Service Desk and Infrastructure Services team which bolstered customer service metrics, throughput, and response time.* Led recruitment and team building for IT department, which grew from 1 to 20 full-time and contracted headcount to support rapid company growth from 40 to 400 employees in less than 2 years.* Spearheaded the successful S-1 process as a leading member of the IPO Governance and Steering Committee at BKV Corporation, preparing the company for future listing on NYSE with the BKV ticker.* Commanded the selection, customization, implementation, and team training of a modern enterprise data platform, saving the company $500K and subsequently adopted as a gold standard and featured in AWS case studies.* Recognized and commended by C-suite executives for directing the IT integration for three nine-figure acquisitions, including Devon Barnett ($570M + $260M contingent payments), XTO Barnett ($750M + $50M), & Temple 1 Power Plant ($425M).* Created "Project Data Smart" initiative to establish data governance and optimize data and workflows, highlighted by KPMG in WSJ marketing piece.* Founded the "Project Moneyball" initiative to bolster the effectiveness of dynamic corporate reports and trained 10% of workforce in SQL and 15% in Power BI and Spotfire.* Steered and navigated business and technical teams from end-of-life radio and cellular network to a new wireless field network, slashing costs by 50% (a $600K savings), improving reliability and uptime to 99.5% and decreasing deployment time from 8 hours to under one.

Founded, lead, and manage the risk-focused Information Security program at the KSE conglomerate, whose geographically diverse businesses include the Denver Nuggets (NBA), Colorado Avalanche (NHL), Colorado Rapids (MLS), Colorado Mammoth (NLL), eSports professional sports teams and venues, the Outdoor Channel, the World Fishing Network, the Altitude regional sports network (TV, streaming media, and radio), four vineyards and wine-making properties, four traditional radio stations, SkyCam/CableCam aerial camera service entities, and the Winnercomm content creation and processing company.Using industry compliance standards and a cybersecurity framework, fulfill the following responsibilities:• Information security oversight of the global KSE enterprise, including 1,500 employees across the U.S. and remote employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.• Compliance and regulatory program governance (PCI, GDPR, SCADA, etc.).• Governance and management of critical data, including EMR and ePHI of professional athletes.• Vendor and partner evaluation and third-party management.• Evaluation and selection of security toolsets, MSSPs, and vendor partners.• Operations of organizational security program, including cloud security (Office 365), auditing, vulnerability management, and monitoring.• Policy creation and enforcement.• Risk documentation creation and maintenance, including assessment, scoring, and evaluation.• Development and implementation of the Incident Response program.• Development of KPIs, budgets, and 1/3/5-year roadmaps for technology and processes.• Development of annual employee training and education.

Provided high-end, expert-level senior consulting services to C-suite executives, infrastructure directors, and other stakeholders in a myriad of industries, with a tactical emphasis on information security, compliance, and network architecture. Responsible for ongoing internal security operations as well as client projects, including planning, execution, management of engineers and other personnel, and delivery—often meeting or exceeding time-to-deliver and completing projects under budget. Worked directly with clients (without management supervision) to solve complex technical problems using technology, process, and high-level design tenets. Recruited, interviewed, mentored, and integrated new engineers. Identified and researched potential sales targets, engaged potential sales, conducted pre-sales engineering, meetings, and presentations, and closed sales.|Project duties encompassed a wide array of security skills and business practices, including but not limited to: • Network architecture and design• Defining and implementing infrastructure security tenets• InfoSec program development• DevOps program development• Full security audits• Vulnerability assessments• Risk assessments• Vendor selection• Business impact analyses• Business continuity and disaster recovery• Security incident response and mitigation• PCI gap analyses• PCI Report on Compliance (ROC) and Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs)• HIPAA/HITECH assessments• NIST 800-53 program development• ISO 27002 assessment and gap analyses• InfoSec standards compliance (e.g., SSAE 16 SOC 1 and SOC 2)

As part of the network implementation team, worked with numerous clients to resolve IT issues, including multiple-vendor remote access, dynamic WAN connectivity, and data center design and implementation. Assisted in the design and implementation of scalable and redundant enterprise networks in both large corporations and small businesses. Served as the point of contact for support, expansion, and troubleshooting issues.

As part of the Local Area Network team, was responsible for the connectivity of 2,000 physical and virtual servers, roughly a dozen buildings in the Des Moines metro area, and more than 15,000 local connections, wireless networks, load balancers, and optical equipment with an expected uptime of 99.9+%. Provided on-call support for a worldwide WAN. Troubleshot SONET, Frame Relay, MPLS, ISDN, S2S VPN, optical technologies, Riverbed WAN optimization devices, VMware, and Check Point firewalls. Became primary contact in department for job shadows and inter-company presentations on the network and offered services. Led recruitment and training of new engineers and interns.