Bryan is a senior level executive with years of diversified experience in IT and cybersecurity with Fortune 500 and federal customers. His delivery and management experience with large client environments include: security infrastructure design, network architecture design, systems integration, managing very large teams and multi-million-dollar budgets, service management, and sales. He has direct resource management experience with local & global (international/off-shore) security and infrastructure resources. Bryan is also a seasoned public speaker. He has delivered speeches around the world on network and security topics, such as “Cyber Security Today”, “Drivers to an IT Audit” and “Compliance Before the Audit”. Bryan has extensive international work experience in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America and Canada. Bryan is currently a Director in Information Security at one of the “Big 4” consulting firms leading programs for the firm’s Fortune 100 clients, spanning multiple verticals.
· CISO for a multi-billion dollar, and one of the fastest growing, mortgage companies in the United States
· Interim Vice President/US CISO of the Security Center of Excellence Team for one of Fortune’s top 10 Oil and Gas Super-majors
· Interim CISO for a medical technology company, driving security design and implementation to a newly divested company
· Interim security lead for life sciences company, following an assessment, driving overall cyber transformation with $5M budget
· Developed Security Architecture service offering for Big 4 consulting firm, delivering over $2M in services year one
· Advisor to the CIO of Fortune’s top 25 software, hardware and Internet-based services company
· Provided thought leadership in cyber security to CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and CFOs for Fortune 100 companies
· Assisting clients with large security transformation engagements to improve security maturity and protection of the enterprise
· Assisted in continuous cost cutting exercises for clients to save millions of dollars in security budgets
· Managed multiple teams with over 100 employees in high stress environments and war zones
· Provided management oversight for teams with budgets of $250K - $200M+
· Written and published network and security policies and standards for commercial clients and federal government agencies
· Authored standard operating procedures (SOP)/policies for all Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) owned IP network services
· Awarded the Bronze Star for efforts in support of the setup and support of the security, network and voice systems management during Operation Iraqi Freedom
· Authored inter-connectivity requirements for all military forces (Army, Navy, Airforce & Marines) during Operation Iraqi Freedom (Operations Order, Annex K)
· Managed Security Operations Center (SOC) for 16 Multi-National Corps-Iraq WAN sites, supporting over 160,000 users, each supported three separate networks (secure, non-secure and coalition)
· Designed and implemented new network and security infrastructure for US embassies in Djibouti and Bahrain
Mortgage Management Solutions (AmeriSave Businesses)
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
April 2021 to February 2023
CompliancePoint
Director of Cybersecurity
November 2020 to March 2021
McKesson
Director of Compliance
August 2019 to November 2020
KPMG LLP
Director, Cybersecurity Consulting
February 2012 to August 2019
ForeScout Technologies
Global Director of Systems Engineering
July 2007 to November 2011
Optimus Solutions
Senior Infrastructure and Security Consultant
January 2006 to July 2007
Frontier Systems Integrators
Senior Network and Security Consultant
August 2004 to August 2005
Verizon Federal Network Systems
Senior Network Consultant/Site Lead for IP Services
August 2003 to August 2004
US Army
Major/Data Network Officer
1997 to 2005
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Augusta State University, Augusta, GA, 1995–1997
Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, 1993–1995
Campbell University, Fort Bragg, NC, 1991–1993
Military Education
Certifications: Full list upon request
· FEI Regional Security Meeting, “The Cyber Attack, Your Next”, Presenter, AL, June 2016
· FEI Regional Security Meeting, “Why Pay for Cyber Security?”, Presenter, AL, May 2015
· FEI Regional Security Meeting, “Cyber Security”, Presenter, AL, October 2014
· ISSA Security Conference, “What’s Connecting to Your Network”, Presenter, Atlanta, GA, September 2011
· ISSA Security Conference, “What’s Connecting to Your Network”, Presenter, Boca Raton, FL, August 2011
· ISSA Security Conference, “Compliance Before the Audit”, Presenter, Atlanta, GA, November 2009
· ISSA Security Conference, “Compliance Before the Audit”, Presenter, Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 2009
· RSA Security Conference, “NAC Rescue Stories”, Presenter, San Francisco, CA, March 2009
· Secure World Conference, “Network Access Control”, Panel Member, Atlanta, GA, September 2008
· ISSA Security Conference, “Network Access Control- Best Practice in Network Security”, Presenter, Denver, CO, June 2008
· ISSA Security Conference, “NAC In the Marketplace”, Panel Member, Fort Lauderdale, FL, July 2008
· ISSA Security Conference, “NAC at Work”, Presenter, San Diego, CA, March 2008
RSA Security Conference, “NAC at Work”, Presenter, San Francisco, CA March 2008
· Contributing Writer, Network Computing Magazine, Lee Badman, October 2010
· Network World Magazine, Joel Schneider, January 2010, Network World’s NAC Product Review
· Gartner, Lawrence Orans, January 2010, Gartner NAC Magic Quadrant
· Secure Computing Magazine, September 2009, “Group Test: NAC”
· Frost & Sullivans, Robery Ayoub, May 2009, NAC Industry Review
· Gartner, Lawrence Orans, February 2009, Gartner NAC Magic Quadrant
· Cisco Firewall Implementation of active-active solution, Key contributor to Cisco documented solution, 2005
· Standard operating procedures (SOP) for Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) owned IP network services, 2004
· “Annex K (Data Interoperability between Forces), Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operations Order”, 2003
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