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Jim S.
Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Compliance Officer
Midlothian, VA, United States
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Responsible for all aspects of the Information Security and Compliance programs at Verisma
2020 : Present
Verisma Systems
Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Compliance Officer
Founded consulting company to advise local businesses of all sizes on cyber security issues. Consulting services include risk assessments leveraging various standard frameworks (HIPAA, NIST, PCI, etc), enterprise risk management, penetration testing, and incident response.
2019 :
RVA Cyber, LLC
Founder, President
Bootstrapped enterprise security program by starting with a risk assessment, building a long-term roadmap, defining a security architecture, and then planning and implementing a program of projects, applying available funds using a risk-based approach and the CIS Top 20 as guides. Over the course of 4 years the program dramatically decreased company's security exposure while dramatically increasing its ability to detect and respond to attacks.
Built fully virtualized hyperconverged private cloud, with production and DR data centers in separate, secure, colocated facilities. Migrated production loads from 4 legacy data centers to the new infrastructure. Built DR capabilities leveraging a combination of Nutanix, VMware, and Veeam. Built detailed run books to reduce RTO from 3 days to 4 hours and RPO from 1 week to 24 hours, with RTO of 1 hour and RPO of 4 hours for the most critical systems. Responsible for migration of 1,500 employees from on-prem to cloud for e-mail and collaboration. Built red team labs using a combination of physical, virtual, and cloud technologies to enable network penetration testing and vulnerability scanning. Outsourced SOC and L1 Service Desk functions while tripling the size of the internal infrastructure team responsible for mission critical network, telephony, and data center operations.
2014 : 2019
Winebow
VP, Security, IT Operations, and IT Infrastructure
Prior to its merger with Winebow in 2014, responsible for overseeing all IT functions for the Vintner Group companies with locations from Delaware to Florida.
2013 : 2014
The Vintner Group
VP, CIO
Responsible for all custom software development, production operations, and PMO for Owens and Minor (www.owens-minor.com) a Fortune 500 medical supply distribution company. Led globally dispersed team of over 150 team members. P/L responsibility for annual budget of more $50mm, Execution responsibility for $8mm in capital projects annually.
2010 : 2013
Dell Services @ Owens and Minor
Account COO
2020 : Present
Verisma Systems
Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Compliance Officer
Founded consulting company to advise local businesses of all sizes on cyber security issues. Consulting services include risk assessments leveraging various standard frameworks (HIPAA, NIST, PCI, etc), enterprise risk management, penetration testing, and incident response.
2019 :
RVA Cyber, LLC
Founder, President
Bootstrapped enterprise security program by starting with a risk assessment, building a long-term roadmap, defining a security architecture, and then planning and implementing a program of projects, applying available funds using a risk-based approach and the CIS Top 20 as guides. Over the course of 4 years the program dramatically decreased company's security exposure while dramatically increasing its ability to detect and respond to attacks.
Built fully virtualized hyperconverged private cloud, with production and DR data centers in separate, secure, colocated facilities. Migrated production loads from 4 legacy data centers to the new infrastructure. Built DR capabilities leveraging a combination of Nutanix, VMware, and Veeam. Built detailed run books to reduce RTO from 3 days to 4 hours and RPO from 1 week to 24 hours, with RTO of 1 hour and RPO of 4 hours for the most critical systems. Responsible for migration of 1,500 employees from on-prem to cloud for e-mail and collaboration. Built red team labs using a combination of physical, virtual, and cloud technologies to enable network penetration testing and vulnerability scanning. Outsourced SOC and L1 Service Desk functions while tripling the size of the internal infrastructure team responsible for mission critical network, telephony, and data center operations.
2014 : 2019
Winebow
VP, Security, IT Operations, and IT Infrastructure
Prior to its merger with Winebow in 2014, responsible for overseeing all IT functions for the Vintner Group companies with locations from Delaware to Florida.
2013 : 2014
The Vintner Group
VP, CIO
Responsible for all custom software development, production operations, and PMO for Owens and Minor (www.owens-minor.com) a Fortune 500 medical supply distribution company. Led globally dispersed team of over 150 team members. P/L responsibility for annual budget of more $50mm, Execution responsibility for $8mm in capital projects annually.
2010 : 2013
Dell Services @ Owens and Minor
Account COO
Company:
Verisma Systems
About
Outcomes focused IT leader with 20+ years of experience in IT leadership roles encompassing all aspects of IT: Operations, Security, Infrastructure, App Dev, Data Warehousing/BI, Quality Assurance, Vendor Management, and Project/Portfolio Management. Experience managing annual OPEX and CAPEX budgets in excess of $50MM. Specialties include risk-based security assessments and implementations, Agile implementations, Build/Buy decision analysis, in/outsourcing decision analysis, and challenged team/project turnarounds.
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