Ryan Wakeham Email & Phone Number

Paramus, New Jersey, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Partner with clients to identify enterprise security test & vulnerability management needs and appropriate NetSPI solutions
• Provide guidance to account management teams relating to NetSPI services and products
• Influence and direct development of new services and solutions
• Oversee pricing and scoping methodology and tools
• Manage relationships with strategic NetSPI clients in order to align with enterprise security objectives and ensure successful delivery

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Led pentesting practice to better than 50% growth over 3 years (27% growth in 2015) and successful private equity investment initiative
• Influenced corporate strategy to keep core company focus on client needs and star services, including focusing of service lines to technical testing and assessment, resulting in outside investment in the organization
• Built and maintained relationships with key client leaders, including senior security managers and executives at top 10 US financial services companies, resulting in multi-year account stability and consistent growth
• Managed the continued development of services related to network and application pentesting, including leading edge attack simulation services
• Coached and mentored security consultants, pentesters, and junior managers and provided guidance on career development
• Ensured the delivery of quality and complete pentesting services by overseeing testing processes and tools in addition to overseeing the quality assurance review process

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Provided leadership and management to security assessment team
• Managed relationships with key clients and ensured quality delivery of services
• Devised and implemented efficient and repeatable processes for improving reporting related to project and resource management
• Took initiative to improve project scoping through the creation of guidelines and templates, as well as a process of continual analysis, to ensure accuracy and consistency
• Collaborated with clients to review and build security and risk management programs
• Identified gaps in controls and formulated recommendations while performing PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) advisory consulting and readiness assessments for large domestic and multi-national.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Performed diverse security advisory projects, including security management program assessment and reviews, security policy reviews, and compliance programs for financial services and healthcare clients
• Worked with clients in the highly-regulated nuclear power industry to define, implement, and assess administrative and technical cyber security controls

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Performed network and application security assessments, leveraging multiple automated tools and manual processes
• Contributed to the development of NetSPI’s back-end scanning and vulnerability correlation engine

Ms, Information Security

Ba, Computer Science