lllüm Advisors, Inc. was founded to serve organizations needing transparent, results-oriented, on-demand IT services and IT Leadership. Illum also provides virtual CIO, virtual CISO, Program and Project Management, and IT incident/crisis management for innovative organizations who cannot afford to simply throw money at IT and IT Security problems.

The Wisconsin STEM Roadmap Steering Committee is a coalition of representatives from K-12 school districts, the Wisconsin technical colleges, Department of Workforce Development, Department of Public Instruction, Kern Foundation, Wisconsin Technology Council, the University of Wisconsin System, and private sector businesses. The Steering Committee seeks to use a statewide grassroots approach to define a “Roadmap” to guide the future of STEM education in Wisconsin

Oversaw strategic increases in visibility, transparency and adoption of metrics. Responsible for information security for the $8.6 billion North American Division. Consolidated compliance and security functions, standardized and matured built the computer forensics and investigations practice, formalized the internal and external assessment process and merged several information security teams while he acted as provisional leader during the search for a new North American CISO and SVP of Security.

Promoted multiple times, including into Managing Consultant (2010) managing the development and launch of new business unit. Capabilities, client engagement and standardized delivery. Created career path framework for envisioning services team. * Engaged as technology management for major clients experiencing unplanned outages or Cyber Security Incidents.* Standardized delivery processes for working with key customer business contacts to identify business requirements, establish desired state, identify gap, architect roadmap with fiscal prioritization, and deliver. * Developed and managed delivery of security training; personally, taught CISSP curriculum. * Provisional IT Director – Large National Convenience Retailer (PCI) through incident and post incident transition.* Acting CIO – Privately held Healthcare organization with 600 employees located in the Midwestern US. * As Sr. Security Practice Director, Security (2010 – 2011), developed and delivered highly effective consultant training program and grew Security Practice from one consultant to a team of 10.

Provided business and technical leadership in the area enterprise IT architecture and security analysis with a specific focus on information security, identity and access management, application architecture, strategic vendor and product analysis, and LDAP Directory design and support. Served in an advisory capacity to department management for highly visibility initiatives. Appointed to serve as part of the Application Architects team responsible for project security oversight from design review to post implementation audit.Provided business and technical leadership in the area enterprise IT architecture and security analysis with a specific focus on information security, identity and access management, application architecture, strategic vendor and product analysis, and LDAP Directory design and support. Served in an advisory capacity to department management for highly visibility initiatives. Appointed to serve as part of the Application Architects team responsible for project security oversight from design review to post implementation audit.

Identity Management and Web Access Management Subject Matter Expert to 47 State Agencies. This role involved providing business and technical leadership in he area Identity Management, enterprise IT architecture and security analysis with a specific focus on information security, access management, application architecture, strategic vendor and product analysis, and enterprise (LDAP, AD etc) Directory design and support. Served in an advisory capacity to department management for highly visibility initiatives

Program Manager / Technical Lead for a 3000+ user NT multi-master domain rollout (part of a 125,000 user infrastructure); supporting the Engineering community.Daily liaison representing LM EIS Sector Director with LMAS VP of Engineering, LM CIO. Provided program management, leadership, technical leadership to the Lockheed Martin community located in connection with Air Force Plant #6 at Dobbins Air Force. * Managed Program reported on-time and on-budget status to both LMAS Engineering office of VP and LMEIS CIO. * Provided both technical and project management leadership to a team of 9 Systems Engineers. * Developed and implemented consistent development, test, implementation and V&V procedures. * Managed and system design, testing and application integration for secure engineering, and manufacturing. * Established, organized and chaired a bi-weekly Server Consolidation meeting for the LMAS Engineering organizational technical POC * Analyzed existing network infrastructure, and established network connectivity/bandwidth requirements; * Interviewed, evaluated, and responsible for hiring recommendations. * Developed, tracked, and maintained project plan and schedule and track progress. * Develop and maintained tools, scripts, utilities and procedures as necessary. * Researched, developed and published corporate standard for providing general office connectivity to Foreign National Personnel. * Implemented web-based network and network device monitoring and management, providing SLA auditing and reporting, event notification, alarm / trap disposition, and remote management, configuration, inventory, and application installation. This project resulted in a web site visible from within the corporate firewall that provided both current and historical system availability, fault identification, system failures, and ‘cradle to grave’ performance both numerically and graphically by functional organization.

Reported to VP of IT. Network Manager in North Carolina for the enterprise from a 5 building campus, involves several HP-UX systems and IBM 4381 running VSE, W95 PC's, & Laptops, WAN Links, redundant links to ISP's, Hand-held IR Terminals, large robotics based cutters (NFS), AS400, Intranet and Extranet Web Servers, and Novell and NT Servers.Network, WAN, Network and Systems Management and Architect reporting to the VP of Information Technology. * Annual cost savings estimated at $153,050.00* Reduced average tickets from 252/month to 161/month resulting in a 36% reduction in Trouble Tickets, representing an estimated annual cost savings of $ 26,200.00. * Increased usability of IT Service 674% * Designed and recommended using Web Server technology over traditional dial-in pool and Win View/Win Frame technology for Sales Force Automation purposes. Cost savings are estimated at $ 92,000.00 Initial + ongoing cost savings of $ 162,000.00 / yr. * Designed, developed and implemented a sales force report delivery application that eliminated an estimated 520-man hours / year while reducing the information delivery delay by 2.5+ days each week. * Size of User base increased 700% in 24 months, while quality of service and level of services provided has also increased while achieving a decrease in network support personnel. Initially the network was supported by 3 desktop technicians, 3 systems admins, and 2 consultants. In September of 1997, the entire support staff consisted of 1 desktop technician, 2 system admins (1 Novell, 1 Unix).* Completed network, connectivity and support plan for implementing and supporting via remote management methodologies a garment design facility located in New York, including workstation configuration and administration, in addition to server and router management.

BOEING was the prime contractor for NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, providing Computational Mission (Space Flight Mission) Services, all inter-center data and video networking, and all network management for the agency, as well as localized responsibilities to provide both laboratory and office automation technologies to the Space Flight Center community.Developed, obtained approval for and implemented the original design used for all WPS (Netware) File servers. Identified, performed Proof of Concept work and demonstrated the original technologies necessary in enabling the development of WPS 1.0 which allowed centralized administration of identities, credentials, profiles and passwords. This included centralized file storage, remote / touch less application install and upgrade ‘application push’, roaming profiles. This included project management, gathering requirements, identifying possible solutions, developing and executing test plans, evaluation and selection, installation, training and user support. System planning included developing the written plan including cable plant, router configurations, connectivity diagrams, system configurations, O & M support plans (Operations and Maintenance), and scheduling. Once approved by BOEING; I was then responsible for PDR, CDR, and implementation status to the NASA customer. Appointed by Systems Engineering Management to function in the capacity of Technical Lead, which included systems design review, group training, personnel technical development, interviewing candidates for technical positions, project management and NASA 5 yr plan development. Developed (Gather requirements, write applications), document and implement various network and system maintenance utilities in support of MSFC Organizations. Functioned as a focal point of contact between Distributed Systems and Applications, Engineering E-Mail and other organizations