Accomplished information security leader with extensive experience establishing and managing best practice approaches to optimization of company-wide IT environments. Offer success building and cultivating high performing cross-functional teams. Ensure delivery of innovative technical architecture by researching, monitoring, analyzing, and responding to strategies, solutions, platforms, and related trends.Excel in driving globally applied cyber security best practices, with success that includes building successful cyber program from the ground up for health system recognized amongst the nation’s largest. Partner with engineering and technical leads to prioritize roadmaps and estimate realistic delivery timelines. Clearly translate strategic requirements into technical action plans, with clarity of communications with company leaders to gain buy-in.Select Career Highlights:Director of Information Security | UiPathReduced cloud logging/SIEM costs by $2.4 million per year by moving high volume high velocity logs into Azure Data Explorer vs. Azure Log Analytics and Microsoft Sentinel.Spearheaded several critical aspects of Security Plan (SSP) for response and audit as part of FedRAMP Authorization to Operate (ATO) project expected to generate millions in sales over 5 years. Created incident response plan (IRP) for FedRAMP Moderate and commercial/corporate systems. Built IRP for UiPath and specific IRP for FedRAMP sponsor. Ran table-top exercise with FedRAMP sponsor and expanded capabilities to meet FedRAMP PMO requirements for ATO.Director, Cyber Defense | OhioHealthIncreased vulnerability remediation effectiveness and speed to 96% and patching success by 8% in only 30 days, with critical and high vulnerabilities remediated in 30 days. Transitioned team to use of Tenable (Tenable.io) and ServiceNow, providing transparent insight to business stakeholders on vulnerable posture and relative remediation efforts.Deployed automation platform that addressed high event volume, reducing email inbox event backlog from 10,000 to 0. Avoided $18 million expense and reduced meantime to remediation (MTTR) by over 70% (from 10 hours to under 3 hours).Manager, Vulnerability Management and Offensive Security | Cardinal HealthTook initiative to drive effort to provide clear understanding and visibility into Cardinal Health’s legacy operating system deployment following “WannaCry” ransomware attack event.
Listed skills include Leadership, It Strategy, Firewalls, Team Building, and 40 others.