Interim Regional CISO (USA) for a $22B Global Luxury Goods Retailer. Responsible to the US CIO and Global Chief Information Security Officer (EU Based) for all U.S. Security Governance and the execution of Global Cyber Security and Governance initiatives.
•Managed the selection and the acquisition of near real time IT Asset / Software Inventory System and CMDB that will support U.S. Infrastructure asset management and Operations.
•Directed the PCI DSS Assessment of the US Retail Division via a 3rd Party PCI Assessor. Developed and executed the remediation plan for all negative findings resulting in the issuance of an Attestation of Compliance for the Retail Card Processing Business
•Redirected the Security Program of a $90MM Appliance Retail chain to migrate infrastructure to the Cloud, implement EDR, and coordinated MSP management of all IT infrastructure and support.

Responsible to the Board and Executive Management Team for the development of Planet's Global Information Security Program, data governance and regulatory compliance under the ownership of Eurazio Private Equity.
•Facilitated the consolidation of disparate Security entities of three separate companies (Planet Payment (U.S.), Fintrax (Ireland) and 3C (Luxembourg) under a common Security Framework.
•Established a single Cyber Security Framework based upon NIST and the CIS Controls. Responsible as Audit Manager to ensure compliance to multi-country Regulatory Requirements for Data and IT Security Controls.
•Managed the Global Cyber Security Team consisting of security engineering resources located in 6 countries to provide 24x7 Information Security support and incident response for a Global Transaction Processing Business.
•Managed the PCI-DSS and SOC 1 Type 2 Certifications, HITRUST CFC, Regulatory Compliance for multiple business entities within the Planet Organization. Managerial

Responsible to the CIO for the development and implementation of Bank's Information Security Governance Program. The Program was designed based upon the NIST and CIS Cyber Security Frameworks to reduce information and Cyber risk to internal systems, hardware and applications as well as those of 3rd party vendors.
•Coordinated and executed internal vulnerability assessments using Tenable Nessus. Coordinated 3rd party Assessments and Penetration Testing. Direct the remediation of vulnerabilities on Software and hardware assets based upon the risk and threat landscape with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) presented to Senior Management and the Board of Directors on a monthly basis.
•Conducted Risk Assessments for IT Assets and Applications and directed the implementation of technologies to reduce Cyber Risk – implemented an endpoint security solution as a secondary security layer to guard against malware, ransomeware, and data exfiltration. Matrix reporting to the Chief Risk Officer.

Lead and directed a staff of 150+ information technology professionals including IT managers, programmers, system analysts, architects, database administrators, and project managers. Global Teams facilitated the deployment, and support of 80+ systems and applications within a multi-vendor, multi-technology application development environment. Successfully directed Agile Methodology within SDLC in the re-build of an e-Commerce Card-not-Present credit card authorization system within the FDC Data Center from beginning to end via the ground up build of an in-house and 3rd party vendor team (75 Accenture resources.
•As a member of a Product Development Steering Committee, reduced the cost of development and improved delivery timeframe of First Date E-Commerce authorization reporting system via influencing the strategic roadmap of the system proposal to conform to Customer User Requirements. Improving the time to market by a quarter year and assisted First Data in negating the competitive