Business Executive Information Security

• An out-of-box thinker with visionary leadership strengths that has reported to the CFO's, CIO's and Legal Counsel with responsibility of managing up to 35 direct reports. A motivational leader known for clearly defining mission, objectives and goals, mentoring and growing staff and business stakeholders, which has ensured the consistent delivery of results that have met or exceed expectations. Received the highest corporate accolade The Chairman's Excellence Award while employed at Alliance Data Systems for superior problem-solving, project management, relationship building, and strategic planning.
• Budgeting and Forecasting Workshop, Seminar and Presentation Development
• Mentoring and succession development Security Conference Advisory Boards
• Business Continuity Continuous Process Improvement
• Governance, Risk and Compliance Corporate Transformation
• Strategy, Visions and Project Planning Leadership and Project Management
• Team Collaboration/Leadership Skills Vendor Management and Negotiations
• Corporate Committees Organizational Management

Professional Experience

Confidential

Sr. Director Information Security

Accomplishments

• Oversaw the investigation, remediation and development of the new strategy in regards to the organizations breach and operational management.
• Plan and improve decision-making, risk management, organization development and strategic alignment.
• Optimize crisis management, build leadership vision, improve best practices, benchmarking, forecasting and budgeting, having oversight in the design and implementation of IPS, vulnerability scanning, web security, SIEM /log management, DLP, application pen testing, and other perimeter protection.

Confidential

Information Security Manager

Accomplishments

• Implement and coordinate the security strategy to included endpoint protection, web and database security tools, IDS/IPS, Forensics and case management solution, and SIEM protection.
• Produce a threat management and security incident handling program for investigations and reporting of security incidents aligning with business needs and regulatory requirements to address compliance objectives.
• Maximized the adapted the processes and tools to safeguard PII and cardholder data to protect 39 of business revenue.

Confidential

Director, Information Security

Accomplishments

• Establish the security and compliance programs to meet PCI, GLBA and SOX compliance for in-house developed industry software valued at 70m .
• Evaluate the effectiveness of education and awareness programs and adjusts the program to meet the needs of workforce.
• Utilized sourcing of Managed Security Services to build and establish incident response plans for the organization.

Confidential

Chief Information Security Officer

Accomplishments

• Performed strategic and tactical planning defining and capturing metrics of customer focus programs and critical problem resolution processes which led to 40 customer satisfaction increase.
• Created partnerships with state and federal authorities requiring information and reports on security incidents to include local agencies, FBI Infragard , Secret Service North Texas Electronic Crimes law enforcement.
• Guided the planning and implementation of business process and technical controls - this resulted in a 41 reduction in data loss, compromise, or unauthorized access within the first year with estimated annual savings of 1M.

Confidential

Sr. Manager ITS Information Security and Compliance

Accomplishments

• Stimulate the insight and governance of security requirements for cloud/SaaS/IaaS deployment for customers and internal financial services solutions.
• Designed and governed the Security Management framework and lead SOX, FFEIC, PCI, SAS70 and Security compliance efforts to reduce business risk by more than 33 .
• Elevated productivity while reducing issues backlog by 80 and slashed remediation resolution turnaround to 99.3 by creating and implementing streamlined, standardized validation, review and escalation processes.

Confidential

Executive Management Advisor IT Security

• Securance Consulting, Robert Half Management Resources, Jefferson Wells International
• Accomplishments
• Facilitate a formal monitoring program over the client's information technology systems and implementations to help reduce cost of 15-20 .
• Improved the organizations audit pass rating from D to A by implementing GRC standards and practices to eliminate duplication in operational cost resulting in more than 750k in savings.
• Reduced departmental budget by 50 utilizing resources and planning while increasing optimization and decreasing cost of 1 million in compliance and audit.

Confidential

Director of IT and Security

Accomplishments

• Assembled the Security, Information Management and HIPAA Compliance teams while consolidating Network Management and Solutions Groups to align with the business resulting in a 10 decrease of operational costs.
• Consolidated and streamlined IT governance process and established departmental project management that reduced project costs by 50 through improved budget control and by prioritizing unjustified and unreported projects.
• Administered organizational structure and roles for Information Security, Information Management and Information Technology teams aligned with business unit plans. Created and managed a new organization Security Operations Center.