o Set the multi-year direction and budget for Summit's Information Security, Data, Business Intelligence, and GIS teamso Facilitate an Information Security centric corporate culture by planning and performing regular training and exercises across the organization, which has resulted in a quantitative improvement in user awarenesso Cultivate the teams in my organization by mentoring employees at all levels, enabling and supporting managers, and through purposeful hiring focused not only on technical ability but, more importantly, fit with the current teams and corporate cultureo Oversee and set the direction for Summit’s infrastructure and data migration from on-premise to the Azure cloud and the development of Summit’s data warehouse and data lake, creating a secure, self-service data model for the business and reducing access time to data-driven reports by an average of over 10 dayso Research and recommend new data and security technologies and strategies to increase productivity through gains in efficiency and automation across the organizationo Ensure the data quality, integrity, and availability of the organization through a comprehensive program of data and infrastructure security, including the authoring and adoption of several IT-centric company policies and procedures and various software packages, the most recent being the implementation and rollout of an Endpoint Detection and Response solution to over 400 end-user devices

o Migrated AOG’s and Summit’s Enterprise Resource Planning suites to the cloud, ensuring that architecture and data (at rest and in transit) were as secure as possible following industry best practiceso Planned and directed the integration of many systems during the merger of Arkansas Oklahoma Gas and Summit Utilities, resulting in an on-time implementation of a new combined instance of Oracle EBS (from AOG’s EBS and Summit’s Cayenta GL)o Headed the data migration and supported the implementation of converting AOG’s legacy Customer Information System into a new, combined instance of more modern CISo Coordinated the development of all ETL processes between enterprise systems, in-house developed applications, and 3rd parties for operational, historical, and analytic reportingo Served as project manager for several large integration projects, including moving AOG and Summit to a combined XML file for 3rd party bill printing, vastly reducing billing errors and the costs associated with them

o Proved a business need for, and became, Summit’s first Database Administrator and Business Intelligence Analysto Earned the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification and became the de facto Information Security “expert”, offering consultation and advice to the IT Engineering and Development teams on Information Security best practiceso Reduced time and cost associated with manual data manipulation across the organization by designing and developing hundreds of business intelligence reports from disparate enterprise and custom sources

o Owned all new development projects, from creating Statements of Work through business signoffo Strategized with members of the business to develop application requirements, often requiring a deep understanding of business processes throughout the organizationo Established reasonable deadlines and deliverables, then ensured developers and business members met those deadlines resulting in successful projects

o Designed and developed new computer software (mostly C# .NET) and the databases (mySQL, SQL Server) to support themo Developed and deployed dynamic content on company website providing customers a personalized portal for the first timeo Created own deadlines for projects and worked toward those deadlines with minimum direct supervision