• Leadership and Team Management: Led a team of 8 healthcare security architects and engineers in securing cloud architectures, researching new technology investments, and managing the full lifecycle of technology including CrowdStrike, AWS/Azure, Tenable, Check Point, and Zscaler Data Loss Prevention (DLP).• Financial and Contractual Acumen: Guided price negotiations, Master Service Agreement reviews and Approvals, Privacy Impact Assessments, Third Party Risk Assessments and Threat Assessments for new 6 new technology procurements; provided cybersecurity guidance and analysis throughout and providing redlines and vendor negotiations where company’s best interests required.• Change Management Leader: Directed cybersecurity change management in collaboration with global IT teams, advising on security risks, conducting threat modeling for emerging technologies, and driving secure adoption of AI solutions. Provided guidance on secure-by-design cloud architectures, ensuring best practices were integrated into AI and cloud infrastructure projects using Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).• Strategic Planning: Developed the company's 3-year Cybersecurity Strategy and annual operating plans through gap analysis of the current security posture, industry best practices research, consultation with vendors and advisors, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Negotiated and secured funding for new cybersecurity technology investments, programs, and personnel.• Generative AI Rollout: Spearheaded the secure and ethical rollout of Enterprise ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot for 35K users worldwide, developing cybersecurity requirements for Generative AI including Single Sign-On (SSO) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) integrations, and implementing additional security controls.

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• Customer Facing Technical Leadership: Led a team of 5 managers and 20 cybersecurity personnel across various cybersecurity functions providing monthly status updates to FAA customer, advising on security strategy, gaining buy-in for technology purchases, proposing new business, and providing subject matter expertise. • Proposal Development: Decomposed Request for Proposal requirements into strategy to win and technical solution, winning 8 out of 11 new FAA contract awards; resulting in $920M additional revenue for business.• Compliance and Security Framework: Implemented and maintained security controls in Cisco routers and switches, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.

• NIST Compliance: Managed NIST SP 800-53 cybersecurity compliance across 11 company-created products, handling Microsoft Project schedules for control implementation, cost and time estimates, and requirements decomposition to determine appropriate controls for different technologies.• Product Security: Implemented security controls for new technologies for government contracts ensuring Go-To-Market teams met compliance requirements, testing and quality timelines for assessment, and provided priority support to teams needing security marketing, customer advisement, or briefings for product launches.• Incident Response: Rewrote incident response plans merging content into a single universal plan, eliminating redundancies, enhancing collaboration across teams, and improving personnel training through standardized and recurring training sessions. Earned a Lean Six Sigma yellow belt.

• First CISO: Implemented the company’s first information security program, aligning with industry-leading standards including NIST SP 800-171 (based on NIST SP 800-53), PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR.• Regulatory Compliance: Engineered and executed the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) to meet Department of Defense mandates.• Public Speaking: Briefed businesses at Congressmen’s Small Business Consortium on CMMC compliance and best practices, earning recognition and speaking engagements at multiple companies with CEO-level audiences.

• Network Engineering: Researched, engineered, and designed Cisco firewalls, routers, switches, Dell servers, and storage solutions for turn-key data centers for the US Army. Secured contracts valued at $450 million and achieved 2 contract extensions.• Business Development: Discovered new opportunities where company’s past performance allowed for competition; developed technical proposal and strategy to win for 7 US Government Requests for Proposal; won 3 new contracts valued at over $550M and provided 3 years of additional orders for new growth.• Customer Support: Traveled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to support the maintenance and extension of the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) network, performing patching and providing additional network infrastructure.

• Network Administration: Progressed from network administration to senior engineering roles over 9 years, managing classified networks and deploying communications in high-risk areas.• Holistic Technologist: Expanded skills to include endpoint and helpdesk experience, managing deployable communications in Korea, and maintaining networks valued at over $100M in various global locations.