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Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Led a global cybersecurity team, focusing on executive business leadership partnerships, security solution architecture, business strategy alignment, securing mergers & acquisitions, and critical infrastructure cyber risk mitigation.Improved business alignment with a formal BISO program utilizing leadership collaboration and consulting sessions driven by an executive risk dashboard to prioritize security risk treatment, budget allocation, and security culture transformation. Managed the information security merger & acquisition team to ensure the secure integration of company technology solutions. Solved complex business and security problems with a team of architects and engineers partnering with technology delivery teams. Developed a routine cybersecurity risk assessment and treatment engagement practice across the enterprise. Established a Trusted Advisor career development curriculum to enhance collaboration between security and business teams. Collaboratively partnered with technical and business teams to security integrate global company acquisitions.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Managed the cybersecurity governance and compliance functions, risk mitigation, cybersecurity-wide budget, procurement, and workforce planning.Established annual NIST CSF assessment and remediation practices, leading to a top-quartile rating for the enterprise cybersecurity functions. Facilitated a practice for responding to customer RFP/RFI security questionnaires and participated in supplier and customer contract reviews and negotiations. Established and improved an award-winning cybersecurity awareness training program. Automated PCI DSS compliance assessment process, reducing audit completion and reporting from months to weeks. Developed security incident and business continuity tabletop exercise practices, including annual executive exercises. Improved security audit practices and enhanced ISO 27001 compliance practices through continuous audit improvement.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Oversaw managed security service (MSSP) operations, SOC and incident response practice, and enforced vendor compliance.Established HP, Inc.'s cybersecurity practice during the historic split from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Set up the security vendor management practice. Developed an enterprise vulnerability management dashboard to monitor and improve IT vulnerability remediation. Formalized recurring Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) contract compliance benchmarks and SLAs, enabling renegotiation to favorable contract renewal terms.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Led cybersecurity transformation programs for HP Software, including several acquisitions and the separation of HP, Inc. from the Hewlett-Packard Company.Successfully planned and executed security for multiple acquisitions and divestitures. Ensured successful security integration of existing processes. Established formal metrics and practices for business and technical leadership teams. Adopted a skills development program for the Information Security Officer team.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Stepped into Information Security service delivery management, working across several technology sectors, consistently meeting cost and security service level targets for multiple Fortune 100 customers.Provided technology transformation leadership, information security strategy, business engagement, solution architecture, staffing and capacity planning, and vendor selection to meet desired business needs. Responsible for audit attestation of physical security and environmental controls (ISAE/SSAE, ISO 27001, SOX, PCI, FDA, and HIPAA) for HP's customer-facing enterprise data centers.Utilized security capabilities, including RSA Archer, Symantec ESM, TripWire, enVision, and many security operations tools to deliver cybersecurity and technology services to financial services organizations (Key Bank, KPMG, and Coast Capital Savings Credit Union), consumer businesses (Nike, Coca-Cola, and Clorox), healthcare and life sciences entities (Kaiser Permanente and Pfizer), public education, and the U.S. government sectors.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Delivered comprehensive information and cyber security leadership to HP's corporate functions (Finance, Legal, HR, Real Estate, and others), providing information security strategy, governance, privacy, proactive risk management, security and compliance monitoring, application security, audit and compliance, data center security and operations, security awareness training, and incident management.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Managed IT services and operations resources for global projects and infrastructure solutions delivery, including servers, storage, middleware, SAP R/3 enterprise solutions, SAP data archiving, and other technologies, resulting in significant cost savings, improved infrastructure capacity planning, and overall customer satisfaction.

Fort Collins, Co, Us

While with the school district I was able to to actively lead the database environment architecture and deploy the first Oracle database implementation. This design and deployment led to steady state database administration and further project management work to deploy the first district-wide ERP application.IT operations tasks included: Oracle database and system administration, performance tuning, web server administration, threat monitoring and prevention, backup and recovery, UX mail administration, and server maintenance.

Managed multiple life science and financial solutions development projects through all phases of the system development lifecycle resulting in improved business operations and improved customer sales.While with COSS I designed and deployed multiple solutions utilizing MS Access, SQL Server, and Visual Basic.

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Designed, developed, and programmed multimedia tutorial application and grade tracking databaseAssisted in the administration of a 150-PC lab, associated UX servers, and local area network

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Mba, Technology Leadership

Bs Ba, Computer Information Systems