John Stark, Cissp Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Establish and maintain an agency wide Information Security Program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected to include HIPAA compliance. Responsible for identifying, evaluating and reporting on information security risks in a manner that meets compliance and regulatory requirements. Proactively work with business units to implement practices that define policies and standards for information security, as well as oversee all IT risk management activities.

Online

Faculty for University of Phoenix Online. I currently instruct business classes. Those classes are OI361 Innovation, Design, and Creativity for a Competitive Advantage and OI365 Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital. These classes cover many different domains of knowledge to include innovation, strategic management, and organizational behavior.

Online

Faculty for Rio Salado University Information Technology classes in their online learning environment. Prepare and maintain an asynchronous online classroom. Class currently facilitating is CIS240 - Local Area Network Planning and Design. Official Course Description - Analysis of the needs and requirements for a local area network (LAN). Emphasis on basic systems analysis and design for a local area network, selection of appropriate hardware and software components. Includes current and future issues, needs analysis, cost estimation, selection of connectivity and network components, and issues relating to access, security, and support.

Primary responsibilities include network security for a managed services environment. Analyze security alerts and bulletins for impact to enterprise-wide information technology systems and provide executive summaries on impact to customers. Recruited to manage and implement an enterprise-wide information security program. Design and implement security processes and procedures and perform cost benefit analysis on all recommended strategies. Collaborate with external auditors to conduct in-depth Sarbanes-Oxley compliance audits and penetration testing, presenting all results to senior management. Develop materials and facilitate awareness training for management and employees using web technologies. Analyze security alerts and bulletins for impact to enterprise-wide information technology systems and provide executive summaries on impact.

Primary responsibilities include network security for a managed services environment. Analyze security alerts and bulletins for impact to enterprise-wide information technology systems and provide executive summaries on impact to customers. Recruited to manage and implement an enterprise-wide information security program. Design and implement security processes and procedures and perform cost benefit analysis on all recommended strategies. Collaborate with external auditors to conduct in-depth Sarbanes-Oxley compliance audits and penetration testing, presenting all results to senior management. Develop materials and facilitate awareness training for management and employees using web technologies. Analyze security alerts and bulletins for impact to enterprise-wide information technology systems and provide executive summaries on impact.

Managed systems for development teams charged with performing new product quality assurance. Supervised release testing for new web applications; assisted in the approval for bug-free, fully functional web applications and solutions. During all phases of software development provided timely network security consultation.

Performed level II and III support functions in helping users with desktop and networking problems. Provided and consulted with departmental lawyers and management on information security compliance programs, assessment, and other information security issues. Provided project management skills for information technology Y2K desktop upgrade project.Key Contributions:Developed Department's information security policies, security model, and processes. Project management skills allowed a six million dollar plus WAN/LAN redesign project to be implemented on budget and in time. Authored network users guide that successfully assisted users migrating from a Banyan Vines network to a Windows NT 4.0.based network. This project included the installation of 17 servers, 60 switches, 6 routers and over 950 desktops at four locations.

Primary duties in US Army included finance and accounting support. Secondary duties included network, hardware and communications support. Integral member of a new finance system resign project for local finance unit and Army. Provided information security compliance documentation and conducted audits for Army finance group management based on Department of Defense standards and US army standards. Non-Commission Officer (NCO) that provided finance units weekly training goals, schedules and standards.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Organizational Managment - Information Technology, A

Research Areas : Information Security - Information Technology Governance.

Msis, Information Technology And Information Security, A

Master of Science with a specializing in Information Security

Bs, Information Technology

Information Technology

Aas, Data Processing

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