Passionate, driven senior executive with over 30 years of leadership and team building expertise in military, commercial, and university enterprises. Best suited for fast-paced integration and automation with SecDevOps, DevOps and GRC. Delivering results, with over 50,000 hours in IT cybersecurity and project leadership on 7 continents in project (waterfall, hybrid, agile) and program management. Focused on building relationships and maximizing connections in a diverse workforce, ensuring alignment of corporate and security strategies. An integration expert, listening to the customers and continuous process improvement are keys to delivering proactive solutions in IT security, infrastructure, ops, incident response, compliance, disaster recovery/business continuity, and the supply chain. Proven success managing schedule, cost and scope to stakeholder satisfaction over 20+ years to reduce risk and drive resilience in IT. Sample efforts include implementation of web filtering, data loss prevention (DLP), Wi-Fi intrusion protection (WIP), endpoint detection and response (EDR), antivirus protection (AV), Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), logging platforms with Security Event and Incident Management (SEIM) including User Behavioral Analytics (UBA). I also drove an infrastructure hardening project to update patching, OS versions, and eliminate End of Life vulnerabilities. Managed application rationalization. Implemented National Institute of Standards (NIST) Critical Infrastructure (CSF) as a company-wide IT standard. An established entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to identify high-value opportunities, demonstrating a mastery in assessing stakeholder requirements, providing positive engagements, leading cross-functional teams and implementing pioneering solutions. Driving short- and long-term strategic vision by motivating cross-functional teams on the core tasks, communicating expectations, accountability to metrics, standards and policy. Partnering with stakeholders, I work to build high performing teams to exceed goals through constant collaboration, value mapping, and problem solving built upon strategy, industry standards, performance knowledge sharing, and endless process improvement. The result: Reduced risk in IT and supply chain via controls & metrics, applying team skills, processes / technologies to delight customers. Utilizes CISA approach.
Listed skills include Military, Program Management, Security Clearance, Dod, and 29 others.
