Michael Schomacker Jr Email & Phone Number

Concord, Nh, Us

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Develop and implement information security policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.Conduct regular risk assessments and collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate potential security risks.Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of security controls, making recommendations for improvements as needed.Coordinate and participate in the development of security awareness and training programs for employees.Perform regular audits of security processes and systems to ensure adherence to established policies and standards.Assist in the development and maintenance of the information security governance framework.Provide expertise and guidance on security-related projects, ensuring compliance with governance requirements.Support incident response activities and contribute to the continuous improvement of the incident response plan.

• Advised on security, technical, and business strategies for these projects.• Educated the NFT community on best practices for interacting with smart contracts, usage of hot and cold cryptocurrency wallets, and how to avoid phishing and scams.

• Advised on security, technical, and business strategies for these projects.• Created custom Python scripts for business operations while reducing cybersecurity threats to NFT projects.• Educated the NFT community on best practices for interacting with smart contracts, usage of hot and cold cryptocurrency wallets, and how to avoid phishing and scams.

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Managed the InfoSec Awareness training program, new hire InfoSec orientation, awareness training, role-based secure coding, and data loss prevention training.• Managed and operated successful bi-monthly phishing campaigns and retraining, which resulted in 20% year over year improvement in reducing phishing click rate and limiting repeat offenders to under 2% of the overall workforce.•Managed the InfoSec division’s SharePoint libraries, internal web page, and the InfoSec wiki page, to provide the most up-to-date information, tips, resources, and approved standards, policies, and procedures for consumption.• Served as the main point of contact (POC) for answering InfoSec related questions for the company; and POC for training and support for new Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) personnel—including management.• Coordinated and supported the creation, assessing, analysis and reporting of yearly incident response and crisis management tabletop exercises for the executive committee and department leads, while saving CSS $60,000 per year.• Supported the updating, review, and approval of all of InfoSec’s policies, standards, and procedures.• Requested, created, and collected data and evidence for security risk assessment, issue resolution, and for internal and external audits. Performed security risk assessments, privacy threshold analysis, and privacy impact assessments for over 300 corporate systems.• Coordinated across multiple business areas, the merging of two parallel onboarding processes for new software and services, with an estimated savings of 900 work hours per year and reduction in risk assessment control failure.• Managed the CorpSec security network: Reduced the original planned annual operations cost of a new cutting-edge cloud-based backup and recovery of CCTV video and server configuration files by 97% (from $63,000 to $2,000).• Championed multiple process improvements and enhanced both InfoSec’s GRC and CorpSec departments.

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Managed the InfoSec Awareness training program, new hire InfoSec orientation, awareness training, role-based secure coding, and data loss prevention training.• Managed and operated successful bi-monthly phishing campaigns and retraining, which resulted in 20% year over year improvement in reducing phishing click rate and limiting repeat offenders to under 2% of the overall workforce.•Managed the InfoSec division’s SharePoint libraries, internal web page, and the InfoSec wiki page, to provide the most up-to-date information, tips, resources, and approved standards, policies, and procedures for consumption.• Served as the main point of contact (POC) for answering InfoSec related questions for the company; and POC for training and support for new Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) personnel—including management.• Coordinated and supported the creation, assessing, analysis and reporting of yearly incident response and crisis management tabletop exercises for the executive committee and department leads, while saving CSS $60,000 per year.• Supported the updating, review, and approval of all of InfoSec’s policies, standards, and procedures.• Requested, created, and collected data and evidence for security risk assessment, issue resolution, and for internal and external audits. Performed security risk assessments, privacy threshold analysis, and privacy impact assessments for over 300 corporate systems.• Coordinated across multiple business areas, the merging of two parallel onboarding processes for new software and services, with an estimated savings of 900 work hours per year and reduction in risk assessment control failure.• Managed the CorpSec security network: Reduced the original planned annual operations cost of a new cutting-edge cloud-based backup and recovery of CCTV video and server configuration files by 97% (from $63,000 to $2,000).• Championed multiple process improvements and enhanced both InfoSec’s GRC and CorpSec departments.

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Managed the InfoSec Awareness training program, new hire InfoSec orientation, awareness training, role-based secure coding, and data loss prevention training.• Managed and operated successful bi-monthly phishing campaigns and retraining, which resulted in 20% year over year improvement in reducing phishing click rate and limiting repeat offenders to under 2% of the overall workforce.•Managed the InfoSec division’s SharePoint libraries, internal web page, and the InfoSec wiki page, to provide the most up-to-date information, tips, resources, and approved standards, policies, and procedures for consumption.• Served as the main point of contact (POC) for answering InfoSec related questions for the company; and POC for training and support for new Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) personnel—including management.• Coordinated and supported the creation, assessing, analysis and reporting of yearly incident response and crisis management tabletop exercises for the executive committee and department leads, while saving CSS $60,000 per year.• Supported the updating, review, and approval of all of InfoSec’s policies, standards, and procedures.• Requested, created, and collected data and evidence for security risk assessment, issue resolution, and for internal and external audits. Performed security risk assessments, privacy threshold analysis, and privacy impact assessments for over 300 corporate systems.• Coordinated across multiple business areas, the merging of two parallel onboarding processes for new software and services, with an estimated savings of 900 work hours per year and reduction in risk assessment control failure.• Managed the CorpSec security network: Reduced the original planned annual operations cost of a new cutting-edge cloud-based backup and recovery of CCTV video and server configuration files by 97% (from $63,000 to $2,000).• Championed multiple process improvements and enhanced both InfoSec’s GRC and CorpSec departments.

London, Gb

• Consulted in information security for CSS and as a service catalog analyst for Bank of America (BoA).• Advised the upgrade and expansion of the CSS CorpSec network, and the creation of metrics, programs, and controls to meet NIST SP 800-53 and SOC 2 Type II requirements.• Designed and implemented a configuration and change log for the BoA service catalog application team, to reduce the time to fix, the burden on the clients, and to promote accountability.• Performed extensive BoA catalog post release testing which reduced the bug correction time by over 80% (from 5-20 days down to 1 day), and in return avoided 500+ incident tickets and reduced workload for the service desk by over 1200 hours per year.• Analyzed BoA catalog metrics and customer feedback to develop enhancements for continual improvement.• Elicited requirements from BoA product managers for the representation and access management of their products, which reduced incorrect orders by over 1500 per month.

Carson City, Nv, Us

Advanced from Business Analyst Intern into all areas of KrowdFile.org's non-profit development; Marketing, Management, Research & Development, User Experience / User Interface, Quality Assurance Testing, and Web Development (HTML, JavaScript, CSS & PHP).Assist Public Beta release of the KrowdFile.org Website.Direct BizDev Marketing and End User Beta-Testing Research Project, to expedite the launching of KrowdFile's KrowdBuilt webapp tools to advance the Freelancing Market.Oversaw data gathering for a special marketing campaign that targeted media, bloggers, and industry representatives that would be interested in the KrowdFile productSupervise a team of 6 other researchers and report to the head project manager.Research and gather 100+ end users, promoters, and beta testers for user requirements elicitation.Prepare training documents, enhance data gathering techniques and data accuracy, create procedures of benefit to the project team, and explore various search methodologies for task efficiency.Coordinate with developers, designers and QA in improving the KrowdFile webapp. Help generate informative content for new users.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Fault traced (root cause analysis) and repaired issues on military vehicles.Advanced from beginner to experienced mechanic through fast learning ability.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Coordinated squad-size teams for daily operations, training, and combat convoys in Iraq.Trained hundreds of soldiers for combat deployment readiness in weapon systems, vehicle operations, and MTS communication system. Maintained levelheadedness in extreme environments and at crucial events.Integral team member in all military operations.Communicated the progress and status of my soldiers, to my superiors.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology

Certificate, Foundations Training For A Career In Business Analysis