Kerry Kane, Mba, Cissp, Cism Email & Phone Number

Greater Phoenix Area

Advising clients on Information Security Governance and Regulatory issues, IT Risk Management and Compliance, and Enterprise Security Programs

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Manage the daily operations of the Business Information Security Office (BISO) which partners with Senior Leaders and their teams to securely operate more than 900 distributed applications across 30,000 servers.
• Oversee IT risk, information security, and compliance for all enterprise platforms, including Loyalty, Accounts Receivable, Salesforce, and Global Customer Serving.
• Manage a $1.7 Million operating budget and oversee a team of 60 employees across 3 Unit CIO teams. Directly supervise 5 Information Security Managers and Information Security Analysts.
• Provide leadership to Technology and Business teams for 20 domains and advise on methods to secure and protect their applications and customer data.
• Partner with 3 Unit CIO teams to understand the measurement of, and risk-reducing actions available for, 100+ Key Risk Indicators for IT and IS.
• Track progress of technology risk issues, meet weekly with Risk Champions from each area and advise and coach them on methods to reduce and manage risk effectively. Key Accomplishments

• Provided leadership to Engineering and Development for Access Management of all AXP Technologies, including customer and employee Single Sign-On.
• Developed and implemented new identity management services, including Mobile, Biometric, Step-Up Authentication, OAuth, VPN, Certificate Management, and Claims-Based Identity Services.
• Managed a $10+ Million operating budget and oversaw a team of 14 colleagues and 70+ contractors. Directly supervised 14 Engineers and Project Managers.
• Monitored security breaches and developed tools to reduce malicious attacks on American Express applications.
• Led authentication integrations, including securing new applications, federated identity solutions, and deliveries.
• Complied and revamped the Access Management strategy annually. Updated it with current needs for availability and new authentication features and secured funding to execute plans.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Completed 3-year platform strategies for Web Services and Messaging Utilities.
• Implemented a simple PKI certificate acquisition system with a 3rd party vendor, Cybertrust, which was acquired by Verizon, to increase security for application web service implementations.Key Accomplishments
• Delivered the 1st web services UDDI Registry at AXP, which housed 300+ entries, promoting re-use and security, and established web services & SOA standards, tools, and infrastructure in use by over 200 applications
• Developed and implemented a plan to improve employee engagement scores by an average of 14% in all measured dimensions. This included increases by 22% for “My Leader” and 28% for “Teamwork”.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Peoria, Arizona, United States

• Founded and managed a software consulting company that grew to peak revenues of $3+ Million and employed more than 35 consultants.
• Successfully negotiated contracts with local companies and provided consultants to companies such as Honeywell, Motorola, and American Express.
• Led Technical delivery teams responsible for development of various B2B and B2E, web-based systems to support both customer and helpdesk style functions for businesses.
• Developed and launched Online Wallet and Smartcard reader merchant form filling technology, Corporate Purchasing Card website, Small Business Services website, Quicken Financial management and modernized Customer.
• Operated the business from the ground up and completed all business tasks, including interviewing and hiring, bookkeeping and accounting, contract management, payroll, and tax filing.

Mba, Masters Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science; Math Minor

Computer Science and Math majors