From bringing the Federal Reserve bank online in the 90's, performing security consulting for BBN in LatAm, to managing the full technical security stack with Sutherland, I have 27 years of experience across government, financial, healthcare, and compliance regulated industry with a focus on accomplishing goals, mentoring personnel in information and applications security, and pushing the enterprise up the security maturity model. Offering:• 17 years’ experience in risk avoidance reducing the cyber security exposure of attack from ransomware and system compromise with direct experience preparing the enterprise to prevent and respond to the impact of a data breach. • 7 years’ experience in budget optimization for a 70,000-person company balancing existing IT solutions with security gaps to develop a strategic and/or tactical spend to reduce costs via documented vendor criteria / selection. This includes transitioning outsourced IT services internally, vendor replacement, and contract negotiation.• Extensive communication exposure with client InfoSec teams, compliance / audit responses, and perspective client representation.I direct 5 departments covering IAM, SOC, IR, engineering, EVM, third-party risk, fraud, and policy comprising some 43 staff, reporting directly to me. I also engage and lead the direction of the remaining infosec staff in compliance, and privacy for a 70,000 strong workforce through:• Technical leadership – directing the security transformation that enabled work from home during the pandemic addressing all of the endpoint controls needed to transform perimeter controls into a zero trust model. • Personal leadership – helping prioritize dept. goals to deliver projects, and coaching each manager to involve other departments / staff, to minimize project risks within IT, HR, legal, and service delivery. To listen, and to immediately understand.• Communication – to listen in meetings, grasp the personal and technical capabilities of each dept., client or third party to level-set expectations before an agenda goes off-course, and to resolve any potential conflict.