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An IT Security visionary & industry leader, offering 28+ years of expertise in providing thought leadership and direction for Information Security/ IT/OT initiatives, driving innovation as market demands change and threats evolve. Subject Matter Expert - Risk Culture Builder, Championed building resilient organization, through effective direction of operational risk, corporate governance, risk management, ICS, OT, SAP and application level security, threat / vulnerability management. Project/Program Management Expert, provided mission, values and thought leadership in developing roadmap and implementation of information security technology projects. • Mastered protecting Operational Technology with next generation innovations, providing real-time monitoring and visibility, intrusion & malware detection/prevention, vulnerability/risk assessment and reporting. • Pioneering Security Innovation, owned architecture, engineering, solutions and capabilities development, deployment maintenance and support of information technology security controls. • Worked across the countries, regions and time zones. Experience spans beyond the borders of the USA, includes the Middle East, Asia, South America and Europe. CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS: • History of developing a world-class security program for: - protecting multinational publicly traded company headquartered in USA, through IT & OT security programs. - a multinational, multi-billion-dollar endowment university in the Middle East. - at HCA Healthcare – a fortune 100 company in Nashville, TN. • Security Champion, commanded multi-million dollar OT security projects to improve the security landscape, providing intelligence-driven IT security solutions for 25 plants in 4 countries. • Hand-selected for managing large-scale global ERP/SAP security implementation for Aramco. Designed, developed and implemented security controls to support end user functionality in SAP and BW. • Trusted Advisor (Infragard), sought by FBI and local Nashville companies on IT/OT security threats and risks. • Chaired 300 person OT conferences - cs4ca.com in Houston and Chicago. • Established a CISO OT knowledge sharing group- a unified repository of knowledge artifacts for Nashville, Tennessee business community. • Secured security accreditation for NASA systems at Marshall Space Flight Center supporting NASA Engineering and Mission Directorates. • Managed the NSA accreditation process of an IT security program at the Department of Defense intelligence site in Chicago, IL.