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Castle Rock, CO, US

Denver, CO, US

Oversee various aspects of risk, operations, technology, and finances within the Archdiocese.

• Opterre Advisors provided senior management talent to fill leadership vacancies or steer businesses through "inflection points" (such as new project launches, crisis management, or leadership vacancies). We are.
• Created the initial information security department consisting of the following functions: policy and governance, risk management, security operations, dev-sec-ops, threat intelligence, and secure architectures.
• Established a governance program that integrated business into security risk decision-making, policy-making, and project priority-setting.
• Put zero-trust security principles into action in all operational areas that could be attacked online, making sure that controls, measures, and activities are in line with NIST-800-207 recommendations as well as.
• Selected and integrated a managed secure operation center (SOC) service provider, enabling 24x7 monitoring of cloud environments, networks, and endpoints at a quarter of the cost of internal operations.
• Reduced the enterprise attack surface by modernizing the technical architecture and migrating key capabilities to Azure for increased management, oversight, and scalability, resulting in a first-year savings of more.

Teaneck, New Jersey, US

• Responsible to consult and audit new client projects for compliance with PCI-DSS, HITECH, and/or SOC 2 frameworks, as well as be able to reduce risk exposure to cyber threats. Annual budget exceeded $10 million.Sample.
• Established cross-functional security governance committees with clients to coordinate and communicate on-going risk tolerance against business requirements, as well as advise leadership on PCI, HITRUST, SOC 2, and.
• Developed and oversaw internal audit teams to ensure newly formed international outsourcing programs met the security requirements of PCI-DSS, HITRUST, and ISO 27001.
• Coordinated the implementation of new Azure security measures to thwart fraud and malware, warn users of dubious communications, and identify possible data loss (DLP) incidents.

Plano, Texas, US

• Directed onshore and nearshore teams that serviced some of the country's major health networks, securing over 20 million patient records for over 10,000 physicians at six of the largest healthcare facilities. Sample.
• Created a multi-tenant "center of excellence" to revamp the operational effectiveness of application support as well as forming joint-governance teams with clients. Identified and reduced redundancy in staff, licenses.
• Revamped application security, emphasizing use of the OWASP top 10 and STRIDE categorizations to reduce risks and improve controls within configurations, APIs, access, integrity, data privacy, networking, forensics.
• Implemented a continuous vulnerability management program, improving application resilience as well as increasing SOC responsiveness to threats by 55%.

Oakland, California, US

• Developed the "center of excellence" model to address siloed services in IT performance, disaster recovery, and information security for a multibillion-dollar clinical record deployment program. This concept was so.
• Through DAST and SAST testing, identified over 1100 defects and assisted with vendor remediation of security vulnerabilities, data leakage, and performance degradations of the application design. Reducing costs $10.
• Revamped security team structure embedding specialists within clinical teams—improving sensitivity to business needs as well as increasing business awareness of threats and improving secure practices by 10x.
• Pioneered application and event logging for early-warning fraud detection, HITRUST audits, SOX attestations, and root cause analysis of system failures.

Provided account management and program management concerning the development of the "non-functional" (i.e., IT Security, Performance, and Disaster Recovery) service team in the form of a "Center of Excellence" for Kaiser Permanente. Sold approximately $9M in additional business to Kaiser Permanente, and employing over 30 people.

Louisville, CO, US

Originally called "Centrimed" and later rebranded "Global Healthcare Exchange," created the initial Professional Services, Customer Relations, and Training departments. On-boarding over 100 health systems and over 10 healthcare manufacturers in to the exchange in less than 6 months, contributing over $800,000 in billable earnings.

London, GB

Managed and developed an eHealth practice that supported medical clients with digital technology solutions. Two major accomplishments were to advise and guide the creation of two business-to-business healthcare exchanges: one called "ConnectedHealth.net" and the other called "Centrimed.com" which the latter became the Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX.com).

Masters, International Business

Bsba, Management Information Science

Certifications:, Pmp, Lean 6 Sigma, Itil