Michael W. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Memphis, Tn, Us

Responsible for leading the information security program.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Member of Evanta's CISO Governing Body, an influential community of CISOs and senior security executives in the Chicago area.

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New York, Ny, Us

Direct cybersecurity department, overseeing operations, engineering, architecture, threat intelligence, and vulnerability management teams. Maintain in-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements and security frameworks relevant to StoneX business units. Develop strategic plans and optimize financial resources to achieve annual departmental budget goals. Collaborate with leaders from various technical teams to ensure timely delivery of critical security initiatives. Facilitate communication and collaboration among various departments. Manage coordination between legal and technical teams for litigation matters. Ensure that secure design and operational procedures are maintained for multiple high traffic SaaS trading platforms, including forex.com. • Increased NIST CSF maturity score. • Lead the growth and development of multiple large international security teams, focusing on successful recruitment, mentorship, career development and coordination between teams. • Pivoted the department from ‘firefighting’ to a structured risk-based approach: initiated a risk register, built a department roadmap, and implemented automation resulting in elimination of ticket backlog and a 50% reduction in mean time to respond.• Developed enhanced communication strategies to improve coordination across multiple disciplines, ensure on-time delivery of important security initiatives and enhance understanding of risk tolerance across leadership.• Reduced cyber-insurance premiums while increasing coverage. • Partnered with financial exchange leadership to expedite post-vendor breach recovery, enabling StoneX to resume trading faster that other leading finance firms.• Improved coordination between legal and technical teams to support litigation issues. • Created an operational review process to share metrics and KPIs between teams to enhance transparency and promote efficiency. • Served in the CISO capacity during leadership transitions.

Chicago, Il, Us

Managed security operations and incident response team, providing technical supervision and guidance to ensure professional growth. Designed, built, and oversaw the implementation of network and computer security solutions and initiatives. Worked with leadership to identify and prioritize areas of risk within the organization. Oversaw secure migration of select infrastructure to AWS, ensuring compliance needs were preserved and secure methodologies were followed. Architected and supervised the refactoring of key client-facing solutions to AWS ‘serverless’, following the ‘AWS Well Architected’ requirements. Regularly participated in cross functional management meetings to ensure the security department remained aligned with firm goals. Reported to the CISO and worked as his delegate on project initiatives. Served as product manager for security components in a wide range of systemwide applications across multiple development teams – ensuring migration to cloud native was performed securely. Handled the responsibilities of the CISO during a leadership transition. Implemented a vendor risk management program, onboarded a new MSSP with SIEM solution, and developed department budget.Key Achievements: • Hired and mentored an international team, improving performance and cross-functional capabilities• Contract negotiation resulting in significant cost savings• Prepared regular metrics and KPIs for executive management to demonstrate value• Participated on crisis management team to manage company response to COVID-19• Implemented full-stack security including Identity lifecycle, Identity governance, EDR, Data Loss Prevention, SIEM, SOAR, Application Allow listing, Threat-intel integrated DNS, patch and vulnerability management• Integrated security gates into the SDLC to prevent vulnerable code being checked into repositories• Created business continuity plan, disaster recovery plan and vendor risk management process

Chicago, Il, Us

Managed a team of engineers responsible for the overall technical design and maintenance of all infrastructure within the firm. Mentored team members to strengthen the capabilities of the department and provide enhanced support. Supervised security assessments of technical deployments. Managed escalation of tickets from the operations group and engaged with external vendors as needed. Lead technical member of the incident response team. Worked with other departments to provide technical and security services.

Chicago, Il, Us

First member of a newly formed Technical Architecture team in Chicago: responsible for recommending, architecting and implementing all enterprise systems. Developed and supported entire Windows Active Directory and messaging architecture. Migrated datacenter infrastructure to 100% virtualized and fully automated delivery of Windows and Linux workloads. Worked with legal counsel and executive management to develop security policy documents and perform risk assessments.

Chicago, Il, Us

Recruited and managed the European helpdesk. Mentored career starters into effective analysts. Extensive travel to Chicago for design and planning.

As co-founder and partner I developed custom point of sale software,built hardware solutions and supported local business IT needs.

Electronic Engineering

Physics, Electronics, Math