Managing Director, leading Accenture’s Financial Services Security business in North America. Oversaw service delivery across all Security domains to Banks, Insurance, and Capital Markets clients.

Responsible for all aspects of the Information Security program for Farmers Insurance Group, a Fortune 150 sized organization, including Farmers Insurance Exchanges, Farmers Management Company, Foremost, Bristol West, 21st Century, Farmers Life Company, and Farmers Financial Services. Developed and executed a three-year strategy & roadmap that delivered the following notable accomplishments: • Identity Modernization program, including: o Directory consolidation & upgrade projects – Legacy LDAP to Okta UD; Legacy AD Upgrade o Legacy SSO replacement - On-Prem Siteminder w/ Okta Cloudo Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) deployed to all Employees, Contractors, Agents, and Customers• Cyber Security program, including:o Vulnerability Management (Qualys, ServiceNow) o Application Security (WAF, DDoS Protection, Static & Dynamic code scanning, Penetration Testing)o Monitoring & Response (Splunk / Tanium)o Email Security (Proofpoint, SPF)o Insider Threat• GRC program, including:o Policy development and lifecycle managemento Refresh Security Control Framework o Development and deployment of “Risk Based” approach to security strategy o Refresh of Third Party Security Risk Assessment process, based on a consistent scoring systemo Asset Inventory / CMDB, Application Inventory, & Data Inventory o Updated Data Classification system• Network Security program, based on the Palo Alto ecosystem (Panorama, Wildfire, GlobalProtect, Traps, and Aperture CASB)• Secure Cloud infrastructure adoption program, deployed on AWS and Heroku• Compliance programs including PCI-DSS, NY DFS Cyber Security regulation, the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law, and other emerging state-level regulations.• Quarterly reporting to the various Boards of Directors and Audit Committees• Periodic advisor to the Board of Directors of the member-owned, and independently operated Farmers Federal Credit Union

Responsibilities include or use the following in varying capacities:- Policy Management (ISO 27001 / 27002, AICPA Generally Accepted Privacy Principles)- Identity Management (Okta, LDAP / Active Directory, AWS IAM)- Vulnerability Management (Qualys, Nessus)- Network Security (Cisco, Palo Alto FWs, Arbor Networks, Akamai / Prolexic)- API Security (Mashery, oAuth, Governance (API Board & setting standards))- Application Security (Authentication, Encryption standards, Code & Database Reviews)- Infrastructure Reviews (Chef recipes, Apache Cloudstack) - Monitoring & SIEM (Splunk, Zenoss, Gomez, AppDynamics, AWS CloudTrail)Responsible for developing security standards for a full transition from a traditional data center to Amazon Web Services.Use a variety of open source tools (Python, Flask, Django, Ruby, Chef, Vagrant, Ansible) to develop and automate security processes.

Led consulting engagements and teams in the Health Care & Technology sectors, with a focus on Security Program Management.- Acted as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for a global mining and exploration company with over 10,000 employees.- Led a team that assisted a national Health Insurer with enhancements to Privacy program in accordance with HIPAA Privacy & Security standards.- Led a subset of a project that helped a global chip manufacturer identify, inventory, and protect Intellectual Property (IP) that was previously exposed in countries known for IP theft.- Participated in a project to help ICANN roll out the new top level domain program, including technical security review of potential applicants. Required a detailed understanding of how registrars and registries operate.- Assisted with development of a new service offering for protection of Intellectual Property (IP), utilizing machine learning algorithms to discover and inventory IP.

Held a variety of roles in the Information Security and IT Governance areas, with a focus on HIPAA Security.