Stephen Podobinski Email & Phone Number

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 and security best practices. • 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• Resolve decade-long issues with vendor access to technology• Manage senior-leader relationships across business and technology teams• Orchestrate and help operationalize intelligent AI practices

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.)• Suggested, advocated, and saw material shift in PCI compliance program strategy resulting in defensible compliance adherence • Successfully changed leadership culture across infrastructure and application teams to view information security maintenance as part of doing business• Develop and institutionalize threat modeling as a practice toward delivering recommendations to decision makers on how to best prioritize controls investments to materially improve the enterprise's information security posture

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 through targeted engagement. • 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• Influence leadership to focus on high-priority, high-impact security initiatives

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• Develop documentation showing due diligence • Draft contract language to ensure PCI DSS compliance

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• Execute onboarding activities to efficiently ramp-up new hires• Draft clauses for various software contracts

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