Lee C. Kirkpatrick - Ms, Cissp, Cism, Ccsp, Crisc, Cgeit Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

Toronto, On, Ca

Westlake, Texas, Us

★ Achieved multiple promotions within Charles Schwab & Co., taking on expanded responsibilities in information security. Serves as the Technology Risk Advisor for the Cloud Review Board (CRB), and Technology Review Board (TRB), strategic technology governance programs.★ Supports information security and technology risk mitigation, recently with respect to merger and acquisition transactions, working effectively with both business and technology stakeholders.★ Safeguarded the firm and its clients by mapping technical cloud controls to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800-53 Security and Privacy Controls, CIS Critical Security Controls, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.★ As a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, provides guidance to business and technology teams engaged in strategic design of cloud migrations and deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Salesforce) to meet forecasted demand resulting from organic growth and acquisitions.★ Recipient of the Key Contributor Award in 2021 for contributions to the firm’s success.☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲ABOUT CHARLES SCHWAB & CO. INC.Charles Schwab & Co. is a multinational financial services company and the 11th largest banking institution in the United States with over $7.1 trillion in client assets.

Westlake, Texas, Us

★ Promoted to lead risk management, cybersecurity and governance for all public and private cloud initiatives, with the authority to approve or deny specific project proposals based on levels of risk.★ Leveraged the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM), a cybersecurity control framework for cloud . . computing, to perform cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) risk assessments of business and technology initiatives, identifying threats and vulnerabilities, communicating security control gaps, possible mitigations, and remediations to key stakeholders, the CISO, and executive management.★ Instrumental in delivering the firm’s Cloud Risk Management Policy and building the cloud governance program, formalizing risk appetites and tolerances, and authored communications to accompany the information security program launch, socialized with executives, business stakeholders, technology partners across all levels of the firm for awareness, acceptance, and support.★ Overhauled the building security in maturity model (BSIMM) program for vendor secure software development life cycle (SSDLC) for over 300 outside vendor applications (SAST, DAST, SCA).★ Responsible for reviewing vendor applications to ensure compliance with information security standards (OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25). Negotiated contract terms with vendors.★ Recipient of the Key Contributor Award on multiple occasions from 2017-2020 for contributions to the firm’s success.

Westlake, Texas, Us

★ Promoted to an architectural and design role on the Banking Technology Operations team supporting the Schwab Bank line of business and its employees. Served as a security champion to the Security Findings Governance Board addressing threats and vulnerabilities, developed remediation plans, and resolved issues.★ Led systems design, engineering, implementation, and production support for environments, systems, applications, and services. Extensive vendor management as the business unit is highly integrated across multiple vendor platforms.★ Delivered multiple high-profile projects, including achieving PCI-DSS compliance for Schwab Bank, Cash Letter and ACH processing automation and optimization resulting in 35% cost savings, and database access management solution for sensitive banking databases.★ Directed and orchestrated project and risk management initiatives, building expertise in change management and release management, and migrated the development team from Waterfall to Agile project management methodology.★ Recognized with the Key Contributor Award on four occasions for contributions to the firm’s success; 2009-2011 & 2014.

Westlake, Texas, Us

★ Designed, engineered, implemented, and supported thousands of distributed servers in fast-paced data centers.★ Coordinated and coached cross-functional teams to provide design, engineering, implementation, and support services for enterprise projects.★ Key contributor to the "Y2K" project remediating applications, desktops, and servers across the enterprise.★ Recipient of the Excellence in Service Award on multiple occasions for contributions to the firm’s success.

Arvada, Co, Us

★ Maintained hundreds of Windows servers & thousands of Windows desktops across the southwest region.★ Lead team that improved the centralized desktop software deployment environment’s success rate from <50% to >97%.★ Designed and implemented the departmental website.

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★ Upgraded Exchange server, implemented Outlook Web Access, and migrated Exchange server to new organization.★ Designed and implemented Local Area Network upgrade project to replace old network hardware & cable infrastructure.★ Maintained and supported IIS 4.0 web server and proxy server to monitor internet, intranet and extranet access.★ Managed PC replacement project, replacing old workstations with new Dell workstations. ★ Administered, maintained, and repaired DHCP, WINS and remote access servers.★ Upgraded all users to Office 97 Professional, Outlook 98, and antivirus software.★ Network administration, maintenance, and end user support.

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★ Engineered a secure remote access solution for 700+ field technicians.★ Evaluated various laptop hardware models, built the platform image, and designed and implemented the migration process.★ Designed and implemented high availability solution with Windows NT cluster server and Compaq hardware.★ Installed, administered, and maintained Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 servers, including DHCP, WINS, DNS, Exchange 5.5, IIS web servers, SQL servers across a LAN/WAN in a multiple master domain model which supported 1000+ users.★ Developed a tape backup solution, and disaster recovery plans for the server environment. ★ Integrated Compaq Insight Manager and agents on all Compaq servers for centralized monitoring and administration.★ Extensive hardware and software evaluation, testing, installation, configuration & repair on desktops, laptops, and servers.★ Network design, engineering, installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

★ Installed and supported a Windows NT 3.51, 4.0 and Novell NetWare 4.x and 3.x environment.★ Successfully designed, tested and implemented a Novell Connect 2.1 remote access solution.★ Evaluated new hardware and software for ease of use and installation.★ Designed and configured all PC images.★ Help Desk Administrator – generated metrics on trouble tickets and support representatives. ★ Network administration, maintenance, and installation.

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity And Information Assurance

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cybersecurity And Information Assurance

Associate Of Arts - Aa