David Thornton Email & Phone Number

Linden, Va, Us

Falls Church, Virginia, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Responsible for developing and maturating strategic roadmaps and planning, organizational standards, and thought leadership to execute organizational technical strategy

San Jose, California, Us

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:★ Oversee the development and implementation of risk-driven information security technical strategy and standards to ensure alignment with organizational objectives, in partnership with various teams and business units. ★ Deliver leadership, guidance, training, and coaching to fellow enterprise and solution architects, while cultivating professional relationships across various business units. ★ Co-developed multiple security architecture frameworks and standards, including:• McAfee Malware Handling and Processing Reference Architecture to update the basis for operation and handling of Malware (McAfee’s core business).• Enterprise Architecture Methodology and Practice to re-structure Technology Services processes for systems delivery and system/capability lifecycle.• McAfee Secure Zoning Foundational Control Concepts and Principles to establish the foundation for secure use of cloud-native modern software building blocks.• McAfee Production Environments: Foundational Concepts and Requirements to implement baseline taxonomy and requirements of all production-class environments.

San Jose, California, Us

KEY ACHIEVEMENT:★ Developed and deployed enterprise security architecture methodology and procedures in addition to conducting solution security architecture design, review, and execution for application, system, and infrastructure environments.

KEY ACHIEVEMENT:★ Served as the enterprise security architect to McAfee, LLC, with responsibility for establishing global Security Operations Centers that provided internal security operations and incident response services to the company.

KEY ACHIEVEMENT:★ Provided consultancy services to a large financial organization on IT risk management program design/execution, large enterprise encryption solutions, and enterprise encryption key management, as part of a PCI DSS compliance effort.

Portland, Oregon, Us

KEY ACHIEVEMENT:★ Designed and implemented solution architectures, based on customer use cases and requirements for several enterprise-class organizations, including the development of solutions in small, medium, and enterprise-class organizations, for file integrity monitoring, configuration assessment, compliance, and logging.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:★ Conducted Breach Readiness assessments for clients to effectively assess the client’s ability to perform incident response, mitigation, and recovery, in response to modern advanced threats and malware.★ Established security intelligence-focused Security Operations Centers for various clients, including alignment with client business goals, business process changes, and technical architecture design, to assist clients, in managing advanced threats and malware.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:★ Implemented technical information security metrics to assess the technical security posture as an element of the information security architecture.★ Led a comprehensive technical security vulnerability examination and implemented a multi-year remediation plan, consisting of changes to operational practices/standards.★ Implemented an enterprise encryption solution for whole disk encryption and encrypted messaging, and an enterprise secure remote access solution within set budgetary and schedule limits, to support mobile computing as a component of business strategy.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:★ Instituted IT risk management strategy and organization alignment utilizing ISACA Risk IT, and created a solution security architecture and plan for a secure mobile computing solution, for a large city government organization.★ Delivered technical oversight and operational support to security operations staff to deploy a network intrusion detection system for a nationwide financial clearinghouse.★ Analyzed network security architecture and strategy to assist business continuity for a multi-regional financial institution and implemented a secure remote access solution for a national retailer, using custom bulk configuration routines.★ Developed substantial expertise in sales enablement and support, including instructing the sales staff of service offerings/ assessing and validating statements of work with sales staff and clients.

Ms, Information Assurance

Bachelor Of Science, Management Information Systems

Associate Of Applied Science, Instructor Of Technology And Military Science

Associate Of Applied Science, Information Systems Management