Pete Zerger, Vciso, Cissp Email and Phone Number

• Leading the growth of the Lumagate team as providers of cutting edge, cloud-native software • Delivering cybersecurity strategy for the financial services, healthcare, and other regulated industries• Creating world-class security training resources used by learners in over 50 countries.• Providing AI governance and strategy guidance for organizations and security professionals

Serving as a fractional vCISO for a regional bank, providing leadership in cybersecurity strategy, while ensuring compliance with US federal banking regulations. Support GRC, audit response, incident response and disaster recovery strategies.

Contract development of e-learning content on a range of certification exam prep courses for Microsoft cybersecurity topics

Serving as an exam question author and subject matter expert for many certification exams offered by Microsoft, other software industry customers, and universities, focusing on cyber security and Microsoft cloud subject matter.

Development of various courses for Microsoft product teams, with topics including System Center, Microsoft Hybrid Cloud, Desktop Virtualization, and Security.

Working with Microsoft sales teams in the field to drive pre-sales presentations, proof of concept and strategy discussions with decision makers, focusing on the business and technical value of Microsoft cloud, identity and security, client and datacenter technologies.

18-time awardee of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award.

InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector. InfraGard is an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States. InfraGard Chapters are geographically linked with FBI Field Office territories.

Working across multiple teams, focusing on three prime directives:As a Program Manager, I was responsible for driving product ideas from concept to development, managing product direction with an Agile development team. As a technical evangelist, representing Cireson at Microsoft events around the world. Third, as an enabler of partners and community, I developed packaged IP to accelerate the efforts of our partners and customers.

Expanded the focus of my role as Managing Principal to the entire North American consulting services organization. Implemented a mentoring program to drive skills development across teams and drove development of reusable software assets to accelerate delivery and achieve greater customer successes. In the wake of fantastic results, advanced from the role of Managing Principal Consultant to Chief Technology Officer. Lead the Infront US consulting practice to 350% services growth over a 3 year period through focus and innovation in delivery of solutions based on Microsoft cloud, virtualization and management technologies. My efforts in 2011 - 2014 led the US organization to unprecedented growth and the companies first appearance in the INC 5,000 in 2015.

Lead engineer responsible for Thrifty.com infrastructure as well as enterprise projects such as Active Directory migration. Collaborated with development, networking, data, and infrastructure teams, as well as project management to achieve successful business outcomes. Recieved Employee of the Year award in my final year with the organization.