Global responsibility for IT Security Governance, Strategy, Policy, Compliance, Administration, Threat Management & Incident Response.►Implemented a security roadmap establishing basic elements of an enterprise security program.►Conducted detailed global security assessment using CIS’ Critical Security Controls.►Established second Security Roadmap driving an increase in the maturity of the security program by ensuring consistent effectiveness of security controls and appropriate risk mitigation.►Established a plan to simplify, standardize and automate user administration processes.►Established a Security Incident Response Plan.►Conducted tabletop exercise with key IT and executive stakeholders.►Improved the approach to the PCI audit process while driving responsibility and accountability for compliance related activities to appropriate parts of the IT organization.►Implemented Application Whitelisting 2-Factor Authentication.►Implimented Privileged Account Management solutions.►Made a tokenization program and end-to-end encryption reducing risk/burden of PCI compliance. ►Established formal Vulnerability Management and Data Governance program.►Established architecture for network segmentation implemented by company’s network team.►Implemented Security Service Provider contract for security monitoring and threat intelligence.►Active participation in the retail industry’s (RILA) Cybersecurity Leadership Committee.►Established a 3rd Party Governance process to ensure appropriate security and risk mitigation.

Responsible for IS Security across the Nissan Americas region in a predominantly outsourced environment. Managing a team that operates in a multi-cross-functional manner while leveraging direct relationships across IS, our Outsource Service Providers, our Regional Executive Management Team up to EVP-level and our Global counterparts.►Established highly secured IT environment for 500 Executives and high-risk / sensitive individuals.►Made an eDiscovery function, including technical implementation and establishing new processes.►Implemented SIEM tool (Arcsight) for monitoring of security events across the Nissan environment.►Established a formal SIRT that responds to significant security incidents or events.►Established an IT Forensic Investigations team for technical investigation of any Security incident.►Established an expanded program for Security policy and training awareness. ►Created a formal strategy for managing Audit Compliance (JSOX) program achieving an 88% improvement in overall annual JSOX results when compared with the previous 3 years.►Established and led a formal Security-focused contract review process with the primary objective to ensure the security of regulated (eg PII) or confidential company data through the negotiation of appropriate technical security provisions.

Responsible for RFP, contract negotiation, transition planning and implementation of Nissan's Network Voice/Data and Security services to a new outsource service provider.

Responsible for all aspects of network, voice and security infrastructure in a fully outsourced environment. Managing a team of 10 and our outsource service provider.

Leading the global roll-out of our new SAP instance including business process standardization. Responsible for overall program management of the implementation of Federal-Mogul's new global SAP R/3 instance and the phased migration of our legacy business systems across Europe.►Established program-level Change Management Board and process for central governance model.►Established fully redundant / resilient infrastructure for the new global instance from the ground up.►Established full international hot DR site with “near real-time” synchronization of transactions.►Established standard global and regional business processes while building core system.►Established local customizations of standard business processes.►Established SAP Program Incident Room and Helpdesk for direct routing and handling of post- implementation issues.►Established post-implementation metric reporting of key business transaction volumes.►Successfully implemented the largest European Distribution Center (400+ users) as part of the initial pilot with simultaneous implementation at 15 locations across 5 countries in Europe.►Full SOX and internal audit compliance of corporate data centers and all locations.►30% reduction in incidents: Managed critical incident reporting process for global infrastructure. Resulted in visibility to significant interruptions of service affecting critical business systems.►25% reduction in overall cost of ownership: Established voice / data cabling infrastructure standards across all locations in Asia Pacific. Resulted in increased availability of critical business systems.

Responsible for business liaison, Level-2 infrastructure support and driving infrastructure projects in Asia Pacific and South America regions. Also responsible for managing SOX compliance projects for the US, Asia Pacific and South America, including liaison to Internal Audit during scheduled audits.

Management of infrastructure projects across 260 sites globally.

Managing a team of 6 direct reports responsible for all aspects of IT support.

Managing a team of 4 direct reports responsible for all aspects of IT support across 8 locations across Europe.

Provided technical operations of our DEC VAX systems, WAN, LAN and PBX's. Providing support for 8,000+ end-users.