EXECUTIVE PROFILE

• Confidential is a Global Leader in Information Technology, Security & Privacy. He has a consistent and proven record of innovative solutions, driving change, execution, process improvement, and business growth. He does this by building global teams into the most innovative forefronts of today’s modern challenges as a core competency while delivering ROI - aligned strategies for public and private Corporations.
• As a C-Suite leader Confidential leads mission-critical, multimillion-dollar projects, secure in the fact that, as a diligent expert, he will develop complex strategies that shield against exponentially sophisticated threats in today’s cyber world, amidst changing industry, government, and privacy regulations with rapid growth of in-the-cloud, mobile and remote business environments. He is a proven, capable driving force of corporate transformation and business value.
• With a career spanning many industry and technology verticals, Confidential has developed his technical understanding in the trenches at Cisco Systems, VMware, Confidential, NorthStar, and various government organizations over 25 years, working side-by-side with exceedingly technical professionals. He quickly emerged as a trend-setting leader and began to steer his reputation as an objective decision-maker, carving a fast-track career towards executive leadership. His career background illustrates fast growth from a Senior Systems IT Administrator at Cisco Systems to a Director of Information Security at Confidential to holding various C-level roles. Confidential has managed budgets above 55M/year and led global departments of over 100 professionals.
• As a leader, Confidential is revered as a mentor and valued for his prowess in identifying potential talent and building critical teams. He has cultivated these talented individuals and catapulted careers while developing accomplished leaders who have made a positive business impact through modeling Confidential ’s exemplary leadership and professionalism.
• Confidential has been exposed to diverse cultures through extensive global travels and remote team leadership. He demonstrates refined, culturally intelligent skills and quickly cements solid relationships with international leaders as a core value.
• Confidential engages through a contagious passion for Information Technology, Security, and Privacy as a public speaker, converting the most stubborn skeptics into advocates. Among his public speaking engagements, he has presented at Cisco Live, VMworld, and other regional security conferences.
• In Confidential ’s most recent experiences, he has lead Merger & Acquisition Security services for a large multinational fortune 300 company, and while at Confidential, he served as the Information Security Officer for the End User Computing and FedRAMP programs responsible for leading all associated information security programs for Government Education and Healthcare (GEH). Additionally, he has served many other organizations as a Chief Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer.
• Confidential ’s most admirable personal traits interlace integrity, hard work, resiliency, quality, and mutual respect into everything he does. At the cornerstone of what drives Confidential to exceed is the belief that failures are learning experiences shaped into successes. He exudes these high virtues in his communications with everyone he meets: from front-line and direct reports to customers, board members, and C-Suite leaders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Strategic Planning and Management | C-Suite |Executive Collaboration & Leadership | Mergers and Acquisitions| Product Strategy | Government Requirements | System Integration/Design | IT & Security Operations and Strategy | Client & Customer Engagement | Government, Education & Healthcare Solutions | Cloud-based Networks |IaaS, PaaS, SaaS | Budget Management | Professional Services | Governance, Risk and Compliance | Security Audits | Process Reengineering | Vendor Management | Vulnerability Management |Audit Management: SOC I, SOCII, HIPAA, PCI, ISO, CSA, FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST, CJIS, DFARS, OWASP | Security Architecture and Engineering | Product Development & Dev Ops/DevSecOps| Policy and Procedures

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Global Leader Mergers

Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight and leadership for all Information Security Due Diligence activity for Confidential evaluations of target organization’s security capability maturity, evaluating incremental risk as part of the M&A lifecycle
• Functional leader for executive and C-level leaders from target companies, Corporate Development teams, Confidential Information Technology teams, and Privacy and Compliance teams daily to coordinate and execute acquisition diligence
• Serve as a liaison between Corporate Development teams and Corporate Security Management facilitating assessments of target companies’ security programs, security architectures, and overall security posture as they relate to Confidential Standards, relevant regulatory and legal requirements, industry standards, and client obligations
• Responsible for creating reports which include plans and budget to transform and integrate a target company’s people, processes, and technology sets to meet all relevant requirements
• Oversight over post-close Corporate Security Governance, Risk and Compliance initiatives related to integrations strategies and initiatives
• Provide oversite to cross-functional workstream initiatives in collaboration with IT and technical services
• Create and drive strategic partnerships with Business Units and Corporate Development for Risk-based ROI value propositions and go to market strategies
• Assist the organization in the realization of revenue enablement above 750M
• Provide Technical and Corporate Security leadership internally and to the newly acquired entities.
• Develop policy and procedural documentation and strategies to realize Technical and Organizational Measures for functional and regulated Security program alignments.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Privately held security and privacy consulting organization

Responsibilities:

• Provide Fractional C-level services in the areas of CIO, CTO CISO as a service to agument executive staff services for multiple organizations across a diverse array of business verticals, meeting the most complex business and technical challenges
• Develop an organization’s information security programs measured against HIPAA, FedRAMP, CMMC, ISO27001 and SOC II standards consistently with audit and regulatory standards and other Company-specific evaluation criteria and government standards
• Advisory, consulting, and evaluation services for IT, information security, cybersecurity, data protection, data privacy, and compliance
• Provide cutting edge reputational threat and vulnerability analysis to protect the organization’s risk programs
• Assist in pursuance of capability, maturity, reliability, contingency, and technical, & operation improvement for IT/security programs and customer enablement
• Provide staff augmentation strategy to deliver enterprise security operations, compliance, and continuous monitoring, cloud hosting, IT, and Infrastructure operations.
• Determine, identify, and communicate points of risk, failure, and security issues to company management in a timely fashion
• Provide a risk-based strategy and oversight to reduce operational threats and promote integrated security practices that enhance all aspects of the business.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Identify and broker core information security capabilities from IT Security into mobile service and solution portfolios.
• Ensure security considerations are included in software development lifecycle processes across product lines and services.
• Set appropriate success metrics and consistently drive execution across a highly diverse team.
• Direct the investigation and troubleshooting of security issues to determine the root cause and appropriate response.