Senior Director, It
CurrentAs a Senior IT Director for Optum, a division of United Health Group, I am focused on compliance and infrastructure maintenance services. I manage a large team of onshore and offshore employees in executing on multimillion-dollar projects related to vulnerability management and remediation at the infrastructure level. In addition to establishing policies for system security and corporate baseline settings for optimal server security, I also ensure regulatory security compliance by participating in ICFR, PCI, and Tricare audits and develop and maintain operational SLAs. As a NAC’d certified professional, I am qualified to work with federal contracts. Achievements in this role include:✦ Reducing remediation time by 83%✦ Playing a key role in enterprise-wide efforts to revise our vulnerability remediation and management standards✦ Maintaining enterprise vulnerability numbers below contracted standards✦ Driving the Distributed Server Compliance team in coordinating server security updates and application maintenance deployments to more than 90,000 UNIX/Windows and VMware hosts.✦ Establishing corporate policies that adhered to NIST STIGs and DISA STIGs (National Institute of Standards and Technology Security Technical Information Guides and Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Information Guides).✦ Participating in more than 100 M&A migrations – ensuring company baselines and security architecture were enforced as assets were moved into the UHG framework.