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Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer

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An accomplished, well-rounded technology and information security program management leader with over 24 years of progressive experience building business partnerships and managing secure IT operations in the private and public sectors. My career has been spent managing the protection of physical and logical information. It’s not “Information Security” alone, as I do more than just secure information. I protect it at all stages of its lifecycle allowing for its availability, ensuring its confidentiality and integrity, and assuring its secure destruction. I also have experience managing industry (PCI/PA, SSAE 16) and regulatory (GLB, HIPAA/HITECH, OCC/FFIEC, FERC/NERC (CIP), FISMA, FIPS, IRS Pub) compliance programs. Strong leader with education and experience managing people, processes, and technology: - Information security - Physical security - IT risk management - Regulatory and industry compliance programs - Physical and logical controls audit - Third-party supplier risk and operations management - Secure Development Program development and management - Contract negotiation - Policy development - Business Leader with experience and training in leadership, service delivery and team building - Technology Leader with experience bridging the Business and IT worlds - Information Security Leader with a history that includes Risk and Security Management, Technology Compliance Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Educated Leader - BS in Computer Information Systems (CIS), MS in Information Assurance (IA)