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Principal, Virtual CISO

Dialog Direct is a marketing and customer engagement solution provider focused on helping brands connect and engage with customers to generate leads, increase sales and provide superior customer engagement solutions.

❑ Drive Market Objectives via Integrated Solutions ❑ Develop Disruptive Technology to Ensure IT Security ❑ Inspire Teams to Do More with Less Guided by the above core principles, I bring a unique mix of entrepreneurial, strategic, technical and security/risk expertise to an executive team. I've lead strategic initiatives to build, maintain and secure robust, enterprise technology platforms and guide smooth, well-communicating operations. I’ve developed the drive and confidence to spur market growth and manage change via identifying more efficient, cost competitive operating models, and I manage combined budgets >$20M. My strengths are to perform rapid situational assessments, initiate change and solve complex technical & organizational problems. Consistently built highly functional and highly engaged IT teams that had a clear, unified sense of purpose - continue to evolve synergistic, servant leader practices that attract and retain IT talent. I've consulted 20+ years’ in the Information Security, Risk & Business Continuity space to help large organizations in diverse industries solve their information security challenges. With the market objective of delivering new, disruptive strategies to defend against threats, I developed a patented set of software analysis tools: RazorThreat™, which still solves problems today. ❑ Strategic, Operational & Financial Planning ❑ IT Organization ❑ Skills Gap Analysis ❑ Team Development ❑ Process Development ❑ Reengineering ❑ Integrated Marketing ❑ Customer Engagement ❑ Ecommerce ❑ Acquisition, Mergers & Related Integration ❑ Data Analytics ❑ CRM ❑ Order Management ❑ Call Centers ❑ IT Infrastructure Design & Implementation ❑ Telecommunications ❑ Data Center ❑ Large-Scale Integration ❑ Software Development, Design & Testing ❑ Client and Vendor Contract Negotiations ❑ Vendor Relations ❑ IT Security, Risk & Business Continuity ❑ Policy & Program Development ❑ Governance & Compliance ❑ Digital Forensic Expert