David W Leech Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Engaged as a Qualified Individual/CISO to create and manage our clients Information Security Plans and Cyber Risk Management Programs to reduce risk, achieve compliance and remove friction.

Providing vCISO services to a range of international and local clients.

London, England, Gb

Providing advisory and delivery services spanning security architecture, principles, compliance (HIPAA, CCPA, NYDFS, FDIC/FFIEC, FedRamp, SOC), control design, privacy, cultural change, risk management, maturity assessments, roadmaps, information security management plans and leadership services. Supporting CTO, CEO, and CISOs executing digital transformational initiatives leveraging public (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and hybrid platforms. Experience includes:• Performing a maturity assessment and subsequently created a go forward roadmap.• Creating a Master Control Matrix and defining required capabilities and patterns for development work efforts.• Developing and deployed a beyond the corporation enterprise compute solution leveraging SASE and Zero Trust principles.• Securing an innovative health insurance plan administration platform delivering direct provider payments.• Implementing an integrated SDLC processes using threat modeling and tooling to deliver DevSecOps, everything as code, compliance as code, integrated security testing and immutability.• Protecting a new credit card management platform to manage virtual card fulfilment and run operations.Clients span the financial, insurance, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors. At VC we focus on digital transformation, we make good business brilliant...in a unique way.

Maidenhead, Berkshire, Gb

General Manager of the US services division of Logicalis setting product and service strategy, directing service/product development, and driving service delivery excellence to grow revenue, across a broad array of outsourced and technical services. We have the ability to consult, assess, design, build and operate services to drive business lead digital transformation (DX) across a wide swath of technologies including, Information Security, DevOps, IaaS, Public and hybrid Cloud, IT Service Management (Service Now), Networking (LAN/WAN), Collaboration, End user support/Service Desk, Application and Infrastructure support both locally and globally. Please do reach out to me if you have an opportunity that I can assist with, including audit, compliance and GDPR preparation.

London, Uk, Gb

Delivered global, cost effective and high quality secure IT services supporting revenue generating Web based products.• Security Standards – created a standard Merger and Acquisition assessment framework to reduce integration time from 3 months to 2 weeks. While maintaining confidential, integrity and availability of the core systems.• Risk Management – Established a process to identify threats to security, operational and cost effectiveness. • Organizational Change - Designed and implemented a new global cloud (AWS) ready end-to-end delivery model based on agile, DevOps principles, aligning infrastructure, operations and development teams with web based product portfolios. Thereby improving the governance, accountability, time to market, transparency, efficiency, standardization and product performance.• Cost control – Vendor management and organizational change actions including the establishment of a captive offshore delivery center delivered 18% annualized savings, contributing to the overall 1% growth in profit.• Continual Service Improvement – Developed a service culture program and empowered staff. Resulted in a 16 point improvement in customer satisfaction and a 45% improvement in mean time to recover.• Service Catalog – Established a portfolio of service definitions and pricing to enhance cost transparency, standardization and automation of services. Reversed an 8 year trend of budget and usage growth.

Dublin 2, Ie

Provided program and operational management across the outsourcing and consulting arms of Accenture, with work in Europe, Asia and North America: • IT Security - Developed a security control framework of policies and standards based on COBIT, NIST and SANS 20 Critical Security Controls. The remediation plan required the deployment of IT automation, asset management, boundary security, log-management, intruder detection, identity and vulnerability scanning systems, with corresponding processes. Enabling a 20% revenue growth in regulated sectors. • Lead the N. America infrastructure, project and delivery division of 200+ technology professionals, supporting 60 clients with a $M110 budget.• Used operational excellence, continuous improvement and balanced score card techniques to improve service levels by over 20% during a 12 month period.• Solution Architecture - Lead solution, scope, contract and delivery discussions with the CIO and his team at a UK FTSE 100 company. Resulted in a 140 person $M156 deal providing security, service management, end user, application and infrastructure services.

Dublin 2, Ie

Responsible for the creation and sale of infrastructure outsourcing deals including people, process, and technology. Majoring on business and technological transformation programs from inception through to contract signature. Work included deals up to 300 FTE or equivalent spanning all elements of onshore, offshore remote and onsite managed services and service management components.

Dublin 2, Ie

Management of 24*7 mission critical operations including: Data Centre facilities, job scheduling, system and server monitoring, and build teams. Supporting the estate consisting of 1900 servers, 600 site estate in a mixed Mainframe, Unix and Win 2K environment including IBM Z990, Sun 15K, HP Proliant servers. Scheduling delivered 80,000 tasks a day through JobTrack and Ctrl M. Services delivered using ITIL compliant processes including robust change environment

Gb

• Leadership - Motivation, staff development, performance management of large often geographically dispersed teams. Lead 160 staff implementing and operating IT and network services. • IT Security – Managed the Ministry of Defence’s IT Security capability, budget and procurement for all 3 services (Army, Navy and Air Force). • Custom application development for signal extraction and exploitation using iterative vice waterfall development• Programme Management - Managed the installation of $M370 of capital equipment at 56 sites in 9 countries in 4 months. Customer focus and user priorities drove “just-in-time” approach. • Created regulatory road map for Iraq leading to the establishment of Iraq’s first mobile phone service.

Masters, Information Systems And Telecoms

Ba, Social Studies - Economics

Beng(Hons), Electrical Electronic/ Comms Eng