Don Dudley Email and Phone Number

Member of the Access Administration Audit Support Operations team within the Enterprise Information Security organization of Optum Technology, a business of UnitedHealth Group (UHG)Protection of sensitive data; perform entitlement review auditing to ensure compliance with standards; ensure revoked accounts are actually removed in a timely manner; ensure access as reported by the applications agree with the access according to the UHG identity and access management system; assess compliance of various entities with HITRUST (Health Information Trust Alliance) CSF (Common Security Framework)

Consult with individuals and small companies regarding various IT issues, especially relating to Information Security, e.g., improving infrastructure security posture and incident response and recovery

Key Information Security decision-maker for the company and the principal point of contact for all matters relating to Information Security, both internally and externally. Represented Staples' Security at meetings, conferences and presentations. Leadership role for various security functions including fraud prevention, incident response, application vulnerability assessment, and credit card tokenization and encryption technology development for a distributed, highly transactional environment.Managed the Global Security and Privacy team, consisting of 26 international employees, responsible for driving security initiatives, new project security assessments, forensic investigations, review of customer contractual security requirements, and PCI compliance:• Created Global Information Security Strategy• Created and delivered presentations for Information Protection Steering Committee meetings, the highest ranking body for this topic; the committee advised on various issues, especially broad corporate policies• Extensive involvement with various outside parties, including vendors, customers, government agencies, and industry bodies, such as consortia• Established and facilitated the adoption of numerous Global security Policies and evaluated compliance with them• Revamped global corporate Risk Assessment and Vendor Security Assessment processes• Significantly increased the number of PCI-DSS Compliant global entities; the data protection technology supported 25 global clients and sustained on average nearly one million transactions daily, twice that on peak days• Automated large-scale Vulnerability Management process, resulting in greatly improved security posture• Managed both internal and third-party penetration testing activities and steered remediation efforts• Significantly reduced risk associated with third party customer information sharing• Enhanced Information Protection Awareness considerably

Managed all aspects of Sun’s Government R&D Projects including discovering opportunities, driving proposals, negotiating contracts, managing engineering activity and collecting compensation upon completion• Partnered with various government agencies, allowing exposure to various Information Security technologies• The funding of over $100M generated from these projects allowed Sun to accelerate development and increase revenue from the entire customer base since the technologies were incorporated into Sun’s mainstream product line• Strengthened Sun's relationships with government agencies and industry experts• Awarded Government Security Clearance

Managed the HPF (High Performance Fortran) compiler group following 1996 Thinking Machines Corporation acquisition. Promoted to Director for entire High Performance Computing group within nine months. The HPC ClusterTools suite consisted of the Prism programming environment, including a debugger, performance analyzer and data visualizer, Parallel File System, Cluster Runtime Environment, Sun Scientific Subroutine Library, a Message Passing Interface library and the HPF compiler.• Grew organization from 34 to 55 people, producing the HPC ClusterTools software product• Obtained license for Digital Equipment Corporation’s Fortran technology• Developed licensing agreement and managed a strategic relationship with Platform Computing and collaborative research relationships with four third parties• Recommended acquisition and assisted in due diligence of Dakota Scientific Software in 1998

Managed Wabi development after acquisition of the Wabi Technology from Praxsys Technologies, Inc.; Wabi allowed Windows applications to to execute on UNIX machines.• Recruited 12 developers, bringing the group to over 20 engineers• Managed x86 CPU emulation, evolving to a dynamic binary translator, improving performance by integer multiples• Wabi's ability to execute several non-certified applications in support of certain key Sun sales situations instrumental in preserving or adding tens of thousands of Sun seats• Dramatically improved Wabi performance in low-memory configurations• Managerial scope expanded beyond Wabi to include WabiServer, SunPC and Merge and an organization of 70+ engineers.• Served as the primary technical contact for existing and new third party relationships

cross-reference for Language Processors, Inc., which became Liant Software after the acquisition of Ryan McFarland• Managed compiler and tools organization of over 40 people including Software Engineering, Technical Publications, Customer Support and Production/Operations• Instrumental in developing strategic alliances with Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard• Active participation in assimilation of three acquired companies• Company’s Technical Spokesperson

cross-reference for Language Processors, Inc., which became Liant Software after the acquisition of Ryan McFarland• Recruited 20 people, including replacement Director• Instrumental in developing strategic alliances with IBM, Data General, NCR, Sun, and True BASIC• Promoted from the position of Manager, Future and Commercial Products