Tony Cusato Email & Phone Number

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

The trusted advisor for cybersecurity concerns within the IBM CHQ, E&TS, US Federal, Legal, Global Sales & Marketing and Finance & Operation business units I support. I am part of the execution arm of the world-wide IBM Chief Information Security Office (CISO), and the CISO's own business unit, Enterprise & Technology Security. I partner with business unit’s leadership to reduce cybersecurity risk and align with CISO goals. Responsible for identifying and remediating risk within our businesses, managing any incidents, securing our data & cloud, and raising the Cybersecurity Awareness and culture of our IBM organization.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I provide leadership and project manage customer centric, integrated solutions for a global team delivering world-class security and compliance services for our IBM Product & Offering, and IBM Cloud Solution teams. I accomplish this by partnering closely with IBM executives in my Enterprise & Technology Security unit, as well as IBM Cloud business unit, and leveraging my vast knowledge of IT infrastructure, excellent human relationship building and strong planning skills, with a deep understanding of IBM's Security and Compliance SaaS offering.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Empowering global teams on changing mindsets, attitudes, corporate culture, and procedures as we improve the #CustomerExperience for our clients, transforming to the new Cognitive Support Platform powered by #IBMWatson and #Salesforce

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

As our world wide enterprise client's technical trusted advisor, I plan, architect, implement, validate, sustain and enable IBM Collaboration Solutions products in their datacenters, or on other cloud platforms. Applying the Agile methodology, I am also the Level 3 Technical Team Lead for the largest IBM Connections social collaboration software deployment world wide, the IBM CIO Office's implementation for IBMers. I am a certified Career Coach, Social Business Coach and OpenGroup IT Specialist Certification mentor.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Responsible building and delivering Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enablement to the IBM World Wide SOA Technical Sales Teams.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Drove global awareness of IBM Open Standards programs by managing the IBM internal Open Standards website, creating Open Standards enablement material for technical sellers and developers, and participating & supporting IBM at external Open Standards conferences.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Executive Assistant to Jim Stallings while first the General Manager of Linux & the General Manager of Strategic Growth Business, and then second as the Vice President of Intellectual Property and Standards. Responsibilities included a monthly Intellectual Property Licensing, Patents and Standards status reports to IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano. Technology advisor on Linux and Open Source software and solutions.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Supported enterprise level clients on boarding and testing their applications, in an IBM datacenter to prove sustainability in a highly scalable, virtualized eBusiness on demand environment. Team lead on Business Continuity deliverables, disaster recovery and performance benchmarking exercises.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

As the Domino WebMaster for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics in Japan, and the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia, I planned, architected, deployed, validated and sustained the public facing, disaster recovery and content building infrastructures related to all public interactive information exchanges on the Olympic sites. Both Olympic Web site officially run by IBM and having broken World Records in highest level ever recorded for an Internet event.(Highest traffic level recorded: 103,429 hits per minute) - Nagano in 1998(September 18, set a new world record for Web traffic recording 683 million hits) - Sydney in 2000

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Selected to a Technology Showcase team responsible for deploying and demonstrating the latest IBM technologies for clients the IBM CEO hosted. Events include the IBM Stockholder's Meetings, the ATP & PGA Tour & Grammy's web sites, the IBM CEO Client Hosting program at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and the 1996 US National Education Summit with President Bill Clinton, US governors, corporate leaders and education experts.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Created and delivered lecture and hands on lab enablement material on OS/2, Local and Wide Area Network technologies for IBM employees within North America.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Technical responsibilities supporting pilot program of first production Lotus Notes Server at IBM. Including a collaboration program of senior external IBM partners such as Intel CEO Andy Grove, Borland CEO Philippe Khan and Lotus CEO Jim Manzi.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for providing technical solutions in supporting IBM PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Printers, Networking equipment and IBM 390 Mainframe scheduled jobs for 1,200 employees in the IBM Internal Network division.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

At PS27 Ventures, we empower entrepreneurs to scale their breakthrough ideas. We accomplish this by providing venture capital and advisory services to motivated founders at the early stages of their business. The PS27 Rhea Fund is a 20 million dollar venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology companies. Rhea Fund is seeking to invest in early-stage solutions in SaaS, HealthTech, FinTech, Sustainability, and E-Commerce companies that can scale rapidly. Rhea Fund is also interested in founders who are women, veterans, and people of color.As the PS27 Ventures Technology & Security Advisor, I am responsible for understanding and validating our portfolio companies' technology and security strategies, as well as define the PS27 Ventures program's technologies. I also provide mentoring and coaching services to our portfolio companies, as well as other PS27 Ventures employees.

Durham, Nc, Us

As the Acting CIO, I was responsible deciding and implementing the information technology strategies, including computer, network and security systems required to operate and support the OpenInventionNetwork objectives and goals.

Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services

Business Administration And Management, General