Joined the Disney Entertainment division to build on the success of the previous program in the newly formed division. Responsible for driving secure solutions to support technology for Disney+ and Hulu and for the entertainment studios including ESPN, ABC, National Geographic, Disney Channel, FX, TV Animations and Freeform, both domestically and internationally. After the acquisition of 20th Century Fox, took on the role to lead secure integration of the acquired business. Scaling the security program with a shift left methodology working hand in hand with the development and engineering teams to adopt secure practices early in the development lifecycle. Deploying methodologies that have tripled application security coverage across static, dynamic and penetration testing. Driving a risk-based program, setting strategy to remove and mitigate risks whilst still enabling the business to deliver rapidly and bring first to market functionality. Delivering automation to ensure all programs scale, reducing the need for headcount growth. Responding to information security and content leak incidents, ensuring C-level executives understand the impacts and repercussions, delivering solutions to ensure issues don’t re-occur. Additionally maintaining compliance for SOX, PCI, GDPR and CCPA.

Hired to build and maintain a practical and effective cybersecurity program, founded on common sense and practical solutions. Built a team of inquisitive technology professional who ensured secure delivery of our applications and systems, thinking like hackers but remaining cognitive to business stability and operations. Building automation into everything, ensuring continuous oversight. Driving basic security principles, understanding what is owned, understanding what’s normal and alerting on anomalies, the security team focused on the right issues, quickly and efficiently. Ensuring the business can innovate rapidly with security built in has made the team industry leaders. In this role the team were responsible for all Disney tentpole websites, interactive media, E-Commerce, Disney physical stores and licensing products.

Leader for the Enterprise Information Security Operations, Engineering, Incident Response and Security Architecture teams. In this role I have created high performing teams that enable the business to achieve their goals while still being secure. Through education and a practical approach to implementing security controls the enterprise information security team has now become a business accelerator rather than a blocker.Led and managed multiple teams for the Enterprise Information Security team, including Operations and Engineering; Incident Response; and Security Design Consulting teams.Directed the Enterprise Information Security strategy for all brands across Expedia Inc., including the Expedia, Hotels, EAN, and Egencia brands.Responsible for the enterprise wide software security program across the multiple development teams, providing risk ranked static and dynamic application security testing.Led the Enterprise Information Security Risk Assessment program, which provided a risk-based approach to vulnerability and remediation management.Maintained an operational focused security systems including Firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems, Advanced Malware Detection system, Web Content Filtering, Email Security devices, Data Loss Prevention and Anti-virus.Re-defined the Penetration Test methodology and directed the Penetration Testing across all Expedia brands and infrastructure.Ensured that all relevant security alerts are appropriately triaged and responded to.Directed and supervised all Incident Response efforts ensuring appropriate forensics and chain of custody have been followed and providing Executive level communications.Oversaw the Vulnerability Management program ensuring all vulnerabilities are discovered, risk ranked and remediated appropriately.

Designed and implemented innovative cross platform architectural solutions that was effective enough to ensure that Travelport became the industry leader in the next generation of Global Distribution Systems (GDS).Worked across multiple product and business teams to ensure all business goals were clearly defined, and that all systems were designed to meet their goals.Designed and integrated the Travelport Airline Ancillary Services program, working with the airline partners to ensure the system was flexible enough to meet everyone’s needs.Implement secure solutions that protect the traveler’s personal and financial information.Work with IATA (International Air Transport Association) to define and refine the solution to meet new industry regulations.Led the formation of a team to help bring the multiple sites and companies together to work and act as one. Implemented a solution that allowed Travelport to be the first GDS to sell Southwest Airlines flights.Drove down costs by architecting and implementing a solution that ran on a more cost effective platforms rather than pushing all new applications to the mainframe.Designed API’s and efficient communication solutions to expose mainframe data to web applications.Successfully led the Travelport initiative to retire paper airline tickets prior to an industry-mandated deadline.Designed and delivered the Homeland Security information feeds to identify travelers on the “no-fly” list.