For the first ten years out of high school, I occasionally attended college and worked at things that interested me at the time. For much of that time, I was a radio personality/disk jockey on AM doing news, weather, sports, and hog reports just before Paul Harvey, and on FM playing smooth jazz or pop at a time when music was more important than talk. It was in an audio production and voiceover role at Brite Voice Systems where I discovered a love for computers, with the odd pairing of QNX and Macintosh. Around 1996, I finished my bachelor’s and continued my path in IT.

Roughly thirty years plus a Master’s degree later, with 22 of those in information security or audit, I had some interesting and instructive roles, at MCI (both before and after WorldCom), Rollins, Verint Systems, Global Payments, and the State of Georgia, which prepared me for sixteen (16) years leading the information security, cyber security, and information technology strategy and operations programs across multiple sectors: FinTech, business process outsourcing, non-profit charity, loss mitigation/foreclosure, commercial real estate, and retail industries in the commercial facilities, financial services, food and agriculture, healthcare and public health, and information technology critical infrastructure sectors.

My career has been developing teams, simplifying and automating processes, and building, restructuring, and running physical security (guns, guards, and gates), conventional information and cyber security programs, IT and enterprise risk, and domestic and international compliance and privacy operations.

Excellent technical and business acumen around Security Assurance, Analytics, Operations, Risk, Compliance, IT Governance, and Data Privacy, strong focus on aligning business and technology, driving the simultaneous goals of reducing business risk and driving the execution of business strategy.