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Provide cyber security vision, strategy, and CISO advisory services to healthcare organizations. Prioritize risks and risk reduction efforts, develop a cyber-strategy to implement emerging technologies to protect clients' data. Oversee strategic planning, security governance, security policy development, security awareness content and training, incident response strategy, and vulnerability and threat management.

Chico, California Area

• Direct oversite of EPIC and Infor implementation, transforming the organization from siloed systems to an integrated health system.• Developed a 5-year strategic plan for continual improvement in IT service delivery, technology adoption and innovation, and process improvement.• Served as head of information security. Championed cyber security governance, strategy, and achieved significant improvements in risk posture with the HIPAA Security Rule.• Negotiated vendor contracts to balance onsite cybersecurity response with advanced capabilities through managed service agreements.• Oversaw threat and vulnerability management, incident response, cyber insurance readiness, and risk assessment readiness.• Implemented security strategies, resulting in increased ability to withstand cyberattacks, as assessed by third party vendors.• Partnered with Epic, human resources, and recruiting; led initiative to implement role based least privilege access across the organization.• Produced executive roadmaps for continual improvement in teams, technology, and processes.• Developed cyber risk scorecard to convey actual and residual status of business risk to promote strategic business decisions based on risk.• Collaborated with privacy officer, human resources, and recruiting to implement a multi-faceted organizational wide information security awareness program.• Worked with Biomed to establish a comprehensive medical device information security program based on risk. • Set priorities, developed, and implemented policy, enterprise architecture, and strategic planning for development and implementation of a successful IT strategy and planning program.• Developed and managed staff, performed coaching, attracted senior and line staff talent, and offered career planning and educational opportunities to staff.

• Architect for multi-national conglomerate focused on data center consolidation and implementing industry standard information security best practices.• Led multi-national team focused on improvement of IT service delivery and the software development lifecycle.• Led effort to oversee and implement new corporate security policies, including complex password management policies that were first of its kind at the time.• Identified and leveraged technology solutions to support business processes, evaluated new technologies, and articulated value to executive leadership. • Reshaped the technical landscape at Honda consolidating 100s of standalone servers to 10 physical servers upgrading them to state of the art PowerVM technologies.• Researched and wrote the AIX Reference Architecture document for Honda North America. This design authority set the standard for all AIX hardware and software installs.• Led initiatives for new deployments of innovative technology such as Pure Application.

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Management Information Systems

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Master Of Business Administration