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Murray , Ut, Us

Spearheaded the development and implementation of a multi-year Identity and Access Management (IAM) vision and framework, ensuring alignment with both cybersecurity and business goals.Implemented Identity Governance tools automating access governance for over 1,000 apps, streamlining onboarding, access certification, and ensuring financial reporting compliance (SOX).Lead integration of merger and acquisition of healthcare organizations, consolidating IAM systems for integrating 20,000+ new caregivers in 45 days, ensuring seamless day one onboarding of new caregivers into enterprise applications.Enhanced system security by deploying enterprise-wide single sign-on and MFA technology, reducing password entries by over 50% and improving employee satisfaction, productivity, and system security.Developed and executed a security strategy reducing high-risk privileged accounts by 80%, mitigating ransomware threats and ensuring Cyber insurance compliance.

Murray , Ut, Us

Responsible for the review of technology initiatives to ensure they meet required security regulations and protect health information. * Coordinated security concerns and resources for the Data Center Migration team that moved servers to a new data center. * Participated as a member of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) team including making security recommendation to ensure that security best practices were followed. * Acted as the project manager for a project that reviewed and selected a project and strategy for using employee badges to login into medical clinical systems as ongoing initiative to improve medical care and lower cost. • Reviewed emerging technology initiative to ensure they meet stringent medical record regulations and protected healthcare information

Taylorsville, Utah, Us

Responsible for the development and oversight of information security management methodologies, strategies, policies, security goals and metrics. * Chaired the committee responsible for ensuring the State of Utah was compliant with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) security requirements. * Developed a method to assess the PCI compliance of agencies and track their progress toward compliance. * Researched and implemented laptop encryption to protect to loss of state information and negotiated a contract to help save the State $60,000. * Implemented intrusion detection systems that improved the state's ability to detect and respond to possible malicious network activity. The new system not only improved services but reduced cost by $40,000 annually.* Set strategic security priorities and developed business cases and budgets to implement those strategies.* Identified, analyzed and communicated security risks and vulnerabilities to the different divisions to ensure that the state was compliant with relevant state and federal legislative, contractual, and regulatory requirements.

Directed and coordinated the technical operations for the entire company. Managed multiple data centers and supervised the operational, PKI and support staff.

Directed and coordinated the Computer Information Services for the department. Managed multiple teams with responsibility for the development, implementation, and operation of functional systems.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Bs, Computer Information Systems

Bachelor Of Computer Information Systems, Computer Informatoin Systems