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Osseo, MN, US

Boise, Idaho, US

• Lead a team of senior information security resources in supporting 2,250+ retail stores, 22 distribution centers, and 19 manufacturing facilities in balancing business demands with information technology capabilities.
• Serve as leader to 3 senior cybersecurity resources
• Strategy development for operational technology risk management
• Develop and secure buy-in for divestiture's information-security strategy
• Operationalize global vulnerability and risk management
• PCI complilance posture management across verticals

Boise, Idaho, US

• Enable secure modernization and growth while maturing technology and security teams toward a more collaborative future. Specific results achieved:
• Clean IT asset transfer of a fully-functional manufacturing facility
• Secure delivery of new warehouse inventory management solution
• Increased network and identity security controls around distribution center automated systems
• Modified contract language to limit liability in various business agreements with 3rd party vendors
• Facilitated appropriate assumption of risk for business-justified actions (e.g. use of production data in non-prod environments, geo-fencing exceptions, credential rotation delay/disablement, etc.)

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Business Information Security Office (BISO) analyst, solutions architect, and information security consultant. Support, consult, and advise on risk, educate and enable business partners, and promote a secure culture.
• Deliver repeatable, compliant patterns for modern technologies
• Manage demands of 10+ security teams across 12 technology products
• Streamline interaction model across technology, business, and security teams
• Lead cross-functional teams toward delivery of enterprise key initiatives
• Manage prioritization of portfolio teams' security improvements

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Lead teams through creation and adoption of agile practices
• Deliver EMV security across payment architecture
• Threat modeling across payment architecture
• P2PE key management and documentation
• Analyze and manage cipher suites ensuring credit and debit cryptographic functionality
• Drive continuous PCI DSS compliance approach

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Capture, standardize, and institutionalize processes leveraged in the entire software life-cycle
• Assist in creation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach
• Drive resolution of risks and issues associated with numerous software packages
• Present and drive adoption of internal IT streamlining methodologies
• Create and manage execution of various reports for executive leadership
• Screen potential employee candidates

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Drafted answers, requests for production, interrogatories, court motions, settlement agreements, client letters, letters to opposing counsel, motion responses, and internal memoranda in litigating complex patent cases
• Researched legal standards and performed factual investigations to support legal contentions in various complex patent litigation cases
• Managed client relationships through communication of current status of legal issues
• Leveraged and enforced patent rights to advance our clients' business interests
• Obtained favorable settlement for client against a multinational corporation
• Led team of pre-production document reviewers to project completion ahead of schedule

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Drafted motion responses
• Researched legal standards and performed factual investigation to support our contentions
• Assisted in submission of motions
• Created, edited, and reviewed documents for multi-party patent litigation practice

• Organized, administered, and published video author interviews for inaugural edition
• Developed and designed reference materials for future Executive Editors
• Selected best intellectual property articles for publication

Saint Paul, Minnesota, US

• Managed submission of Amicus Curiae brief to United States Supreme Court
• Drafted CLE documentation, memoranda, treatise language, and a court motion
• Assisted in submission of Amicus Curiae briefs to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
• Managed research projects with minimal supervision

Saint Paul, Minnesota, US

• Managed multiple projects with minimal supervision
• Obtained trademark registration for a client
• Updated and presented an intellectual property overview to potential clinic clients, and subsequently answered their questions

Toronto, ON, CA

• Administered specialized Westlaw training
• Taught students proper scope, depth, and breadth of legal searches
• Promoted Westlaw as the preferred legal research database through activities and interaction with both students and professionals
• Assisted students with efficient use of the Westlaw legal database system

J.D.

B.S., Mechanical Engineering