Mark Stafford Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, Us

Continuing Leadership of the evolution of Level Blue's Network Security Product Portfolio. Responsibility for imagineering, ideation, architecture, execution and evangelizing of the same.Responsible for the end to end, cradle to grave, design, commercialization, delivery, operation and transformation of AT&Ts Network Portfolio Service Design. Directing all of those elements across cross functional, cross organisational, teams.This a senior thought leadership role with a renumeration/benefits package to match my expertise and experience.

Leading the evolution of AT&T Cybersecurity Network Security Product Portfolio. Responsibility for imagineering, ideation, architecture, execution and evangelizing of the same.Responsible for the end to end, cradle to grave, design, commercialization, delivery, operation and transformation of AT&Ts Network Portfolio Service Design. Directing all of those elements across cross functional, cross organisational, teams.This a senior thought leadership role with a renumeration/benefits package to match my expertise and experience.

Network Security Product Manager and Complex Cyber Security Deals Specialist who owned the full life cycle of device based products and services, from ideation through pre-sales to operations. Directly responsible for the sales, development and marketing of products that created $200m in annual revenue, with Full P&L responsibility.Overperformed targets by 132% in 2020, and 101% in 2021, despite the underlying poor economic, global crisis situation, and the market moving from device based services to cloud services.Network Security Product Manager for: - Premise and Edge Based Next Generation Firewalls - Partner System Integrator Cyber Security Solutions - Flexible Edge Security Solutions (Flexware) - Device Based security solutions at Layer 3Key Member of AT&T Cyber Security Risk Review board defining and mitigating risks in complex deals, utilizing business and deep technical knowledge and experience.Key Member of the Sales Qualification Team (Including process stakeholder), qualifying deals and opportunities for deliverability, risk, operations and service gaps.Also directing the shape the next generation of AT&T products for CyberSecurity, SDWAN, SASE and 5G.

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The EB1A Green Card ("Exceptional Individual") is only granted to those persons who were able to demonstrate extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics through sustained national or international acclaim.Only 3500 were approved in 2019 (my final approval year).

London, Gb

• Built a practice of Security Consultants for BT America’s expansion plans (Team of 12)• Partnered with Cisco, Palo Alto, Arrow, Checkpoint, Zscaler, Skybox, McAfee, Symantec, Fire-Eye and many more, to build joint go to market strategies• Worked, and consulted, street level to board level in several Global 500 companies• Built proprietary assessment methodology for security controls and security programs• Acted as an SME on the architecture of complex global Cyber solutions.• Acted as a vCISO on a part time basis for a major Fortune 500 client

London, Gb

• Principal Cyber Defense Architect of UK Joint Forces Cyber Defense solution• Principal Cyber Security Consultant for London 2012 Olympics• Principal Cyber Security Consultant on Protect BT (BTs global Cyber Defense capability)• Created The Story Based method for agile development practices within BT• Led Concept to Market Middleware (ESB) Appliance based solution (Team of 16)• Created a BPMN solution to improve BT wholesale billing solutions

• Acted a contractor to clients such as BT designing and coding major backend solutions• Technologies used included Visual Basic, Visual C++, Java, Oracle SQL, MS SQL and various middleware technologies

• Built a team of 8 people designing, developing and supporting call center software.• Role was hands on, and including sales support• Worked with Nortel Meridian switches at a control level

• Lead team of 5 that designed and administered the support services and systems for a major health program• Hands on “kitchen sink” role, everything from event support, through to database administration.• Program won a prestigious British Computer Society Award for the Read Codes which I was part of helping to achieve.

• Computer Aided Design software written in FORTRAN and latterly Ada• Lead a team of 5

Bsc, Computer Science

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