Entrusted to lead all aspects of the MLS enterprise information security strategy. Manage and develop strategies that protect the physical and digital information assets, applications and product portfolios, along with league and club infrastructure and computing environments. Collaborate with other leaders in the organization, including Club Performance, Engineering, Data Platforms, Legal and Finance to define standards, governance and the overall Information security and risk management posture for the growing and expanding enterprise.

Teaching two courses starting in the fall of 2024 for the Enterprise Risk Management Program in the School of Professional Studies: "Strategic Communications for Risk Management" and "Information Technology Risk Management" and honored to have been offered the position in this excellent program of study.

Building an innovative practice of vCISOs to deliver “Governance-as-a-Service” to small and medium enterprises through a service offering of risk assessments, table top exercises, security awareness training and compliance advisory services.Working with MSPs and MSSPs to help them offer advanced cybersecurity capabilities to their clients as well as focusing on the financial services sector, healthcare sector and maritime critical infrastructure asset owners to raise their resilience.

Guide and assist clients in the development, implementation and maintenance of policies, standards,procedures and tools to achieve best practices in information security controls that demonstrate compliance with legal, regulatory and business requirements and objectives.Execute assessments for ISO27001, NIST 800-171, CIS Top Controls and other frameworks/certifications to identify and create a roadmap of work for security programs and capabilities that enable clients to satisfy due diligence across business operations in Canada as well as globally as their aspirations define.

Serving on the technical advisory board and working to promote stronger cloud-native security by focusing on API discovery, testing and protection.

After an incredible two years of program building, documentation, team building, thought leadership and establishment of process controls to secure the operations and applications for SecurityScorecard I'm stepping down as CISO and transitioning to an advisory role. My work will continue to promote the importance of security ratings in general and the unmatched talents and insights of SecurityScorecard in particular. We are extremely fortunate to find ourselves supporting and advancing a mission-based enterprise that serves to protect and defend our society, economy and identities. Joining the World Economic Forum and advancing the state of governance of cybersecurity was a distinct honor for being recognized as a technology pioneer and I'm exceedingly satisfied to be handing over the reins as I begin my next chapter. You cannot overestimate the potential of a team well-aligned and a purpose well-defined.

Developed modern security program with SOC2 Type2 controls and rigor to protect corporate systems to grow and extend the security ratings SaaS platform for customers, executives and their boards of directors.Entrusted with managing IT department in addition to security team to form a consolidated top-performing team that enjoyed career growth cross-training opportunities, mentoring responsibilities and upskilling.Advanced the credibility of this unicorn-class startup by delivering thought leadership on security ratings, systemic risk and emerging trends in cybersecurity presenting at Black Hat, SANS, Gartner, FS-ISAC and international security conferences contributing to a successful Series E raise of $180 million.

Participating in four working groups with the World Economic Forum ensuring the adoption of cyber-resilience principles by boards of directors using modern tools, frameworks and benchmarks for the effective governance and mitigation of risk. Most recently participating in the quantum computing working group discussing the future of finance and impacts on security, trust and privacy.

Excited to be teaching cybersecurity to graduate students as part of NYU's Tandon School of Engineering award-winning program in the Computer Science and Engineering Department. Top-five cybersecurity master's programs in the nation by many measures. Created a new course being offered in the fall of 2021 for the Department of Technology Management & Innovation supporting the management track in the overall cybersecurity master's program.Most recently I was asked by NYU to create an elective for the 9-month CISO program which is entitled "Threat Intelligence and Cybersecurity Analytics" (TICA) along with lead faculty Jim Routh, Ed Amoroso and Sanjay Macwan.For Everyone:https://em.online.engineering.nyu.edu/threat-intelligenceFor NYU users:https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/cs-gy-6803-wilkes/https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/mg-gy-8213-wilkes/

Our mission is to preserve, promote and present jazz by inspiring knowledge, appreciation and the celebration of jazz locally, nationally and internationally. Serving as the chair of the Development Committee for the museum.

Head of security and IT teams for an innovative healthcare startup building a mobile coaching application for diabetes prevention, weight management complement to GLP-1 and hypertension programs. Lark’s mission is to create compassionate technology that empowers people everywhere to live healthier lives.Upgraded critical security tools to best-in-class vendor solutions and executed trusted compliance audits for SOC2, HIPAA/HITRUST for health plan partners, employers, channel sales and major healthcare industry providers.

As the first-ever security officer, efficiently introduced tools and processes for IAM, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Security Awareness Training, Endpoint Protection, BCP/DR, Asset Management, Insider Threat Program, Compliance and Governance and Supply Chain Risk.Maintained trusted business and client relationships, liaising with external IT vendors, security experts and advisors to ensure continuous service availability for $1.2 billion revenue, 800,000 member organization.

As head of devops, enterprise architecture, and infosec supporting hybrid platforms for Marvel Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company, partnered across the various lines of businesses and third parties to deliver scalable, stable and secure solutions deployed on-prem and in the cloud.Introduced comprehensive application security program for mobile and web development with a "shift left" approach for automated code analysis, pen testing and vulnerability remediation. Addressed security standards, peer code review, training and SDLC guidelines with zero impact on development velocity.Dramatically improved API, mobile application and website performance and simultaneously reduced risk to customer data by migrating to a new data center, decommissioning the legacy content management system and introducing global content caching design with DDoS protections and WAF capabilities.

Authored and implemented cloud roadmap with AWS and Azure components for appropriate workloads given the firm’s requirements for privacy and security. Identified early adopters within the business to develop orchestrated deployments of multi-server blueprints for research, reporting and core services (document sharing, rights management, identity management and authorization services).Responsible for balancing projects and run-the-business workloads, introducing new and decommissioning legacy technology where appropriate. Building automation and process controls to support the continued growth of the firm with a focus on security, scalability and fault tolerance delivering 80% year-on-year revenue growth for $185 billion AUM business.

IT leader managing transformation of the operations and infrastructure of the exchange. Inspiring a global team that delivered the infrastructure that hundreds of applications and services rely on which comprise the trading and clearing systems hosted on over 10,000 servers.Reduced security friction and deployment delays by 30% for over 2,500 employees and developers by partnering with the GIS Team during the first 6 months introducing self-service capabilities.Responsible for ensuring the stability and security of platforms and services for the world’s largest operator of exchanges and clearing houses for financial derivatives. With total traded contracts valued at more than $1 quadrillion in 2014, the complexity and criticality of these systems is of significant global financial import.

Technical migration architect for release of NL energy industry’s New Market Model. Energy Data Services Nederland (EDSN.NL) is charged by the energy market grid operators to centralize the registry of over 16 million gas and electricity customers and expand market participation to over 100 additional suppliers. Responsible for ensuring quality controls and oversight of infrastructure for platform availability, scalability and intelligent design.Senior project manager and migration architect for RWE Supply and Trading in moving core Windows and Linux data center infrastructure from NL to DE. Successfully planned and executed migration of complex application landscape using P2V and V2V techniques to allow consolidation of infrastructure and storage.Manager and technical lead on €25M project for Rabobank International to design and build a world-class infrastructure for trading floor in Utrecht, Netherlands. Created a technology blueprint to be re-used globally for Rabobank trade floors in London, New York, Hong Kong and Sydney. Authored Rabobank’s first global trading technology vision document for data centers and trade floor operations.

Coordinated the work of 60+ engineers to provide 100% uptime using fault-tolerant and redundant hardware and software techniques. Managed a team of highly-talented engineers set on exceeding customer expectations resulting in Schuberg Philis receiving the highest customer satisfaction score by Giarte Outsourcing Performance Survey for five consecutive years.Launched forward-looking €30M energy trading and risk management platform for Dutch energy company Nuon. Directly responsible for leading the construction of EMS (Energy Management System) infrastructure that controls power generation across 14 Nuon power plants.Led team of 14 engineers and project managers that created world’s first bank MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator). Designed architecture of back-office call rating systems, post- and pre-paid websites, and secure mobile banking systems. Mentored engineers on-boarding process during 3 year, €12M project.Managed e-commerce, e-marketing and mission critical IT infrastructure for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines enabling them move from 10% online sales to 90% online sales. Implemented Akamai global caching services to solve problems with site latency and performance for the Asia-Pacific region.

Established Eclectiq Technologies for offering a range of technical consulting services including security auditing, infrastructure design, analytics and operations support.As senior IT architect, created network design and infrastructure for €16M European Wireless Lottery gaming platform for Dutch state lottery. Mixed environment built around an application framework integrating SMS services of Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, KPN and O2.Delivered a technical security audit and remediation report on the Euro printing facilities of Royal Johan Enschedé allowing them to successfully renew their European Central Bank accreditation.Managed multi-year analytics services contract for nVidia Corporation that provided comprehensive web site analytics and hosting of proprietary traffic analysis tools. Developed custom data analysis tools to provide insights from over 17 million unique visits per month into customer behavior and marketing ROI and KPIs.Executed workshops for Western Union tailored to integrating web analytics with back-end CRM and transaction databases. Workshops dramatically decreased web site errors and call center tickets by 80% as well as introduced mechanisms for Western Union to identify and reduce fraud.

Worked closely with sales, project engineering and quality assurance teams to remain closely aligned on deliverables and deadlines. Collaborated with New York, London and Sao Paulo offices to share best practices and deliver highly available customer infrastructures tailored to their requirements.Pitched and delivered award-winning websites for Macy’s, Starbucks, Virgin Mobile USA, Home Depot, Nike, Kinkos, McDonalds, Levis, Harley-Davidson and other early web brands using agile development methodology.

Managed analytics team responsible for the every-growing data from top ad-supported websites such as Yahoo!, Microsoft, Netscape, Dell, Intel, AT&T, CNN, Geocities, The Wall Street Journal and hundreds of others.Developed web measurement and analysis tools for the top 1% of Internet web sites.

Incorporated as a worker-owned collective in California as an alternative model for structuring technology consulting to avoid worker-owner conflict by making each worker an owner.Created back-end systems integration with web-based logistics and container tracking services for international shipping company American President Lines.Performed extensive QA testing for Liberate Technology's NC (Network Computer) platform.

US Department of Education think tank for the far western region: California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. Provided technical and administrative services for educational technology projects serving federal, state and local K-12 public schools. Responsibilities included preparing reports and proposals for over $1.2 million in projects and grants, and evaluations of model technology schools. Innovatively disseminated information via gopher server (pre-web) on Mac IIci.