Jon Townend
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Information Technology
W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University
2007 : 2008
BA Computing in Business
Information Technology
University of Huddersfield
1995 : 1999
• Built team from scratch in 2021, onboarding new employees and extended team members.
• Defined strategy and direction through Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
• Produced content that was then used in Board of Directors updates.
• Established Continuous Red Teaming technique to hunt for the unknown.
• Facilitated planned projects with business units for specific application and system pentesting.
• Secrets hunting and remediation (e.g. public Github, internal sourcecode repos, etc)
• Managed vendor contracts and relationship management with pentest vendors
• Owned budget for the team.
• Dotted line to Intel CISO.
2021 : Present
Intel Corporation
Information Security Red Team Manager / Product Owner
Led a team of security developers and engineers to build and leverage systems focused around massive datasets to infer actionable information to drive down system vulnerabilities at Intel.
• Used Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to establish and track features and user stories for the team, using a 2 week sprint cadence.
• Leveraged Splunk for deep data analysis and dataset correlation to infer actionable data for remediation and enforcement actions.
• Designed architecture and drove approval through technical governing bodies.
• Developed API integrations to extract from vulnerability scanning systems.
• Designed and developed Kafka consumers and producers for vulnerability and asset systems.
• Correlating data together from vulnerability scanners, patch management systems, HR systems, asset systems, and policy exceptions, in complex data model
• Designed React.js UI with Sails.js backend to present actionable data to every Intel worker.
• New systems directly contributed to the massive reduction in vulnerabilities across the corporation, especially in the most sensitive environments such as the DMZ.
2020 : 2021
Intel Corporation
Product/Project Manager - Vulnerability Management
Expanded into another people management role, leading a globally distributed team across the US West coast, and Israel. The team is responsible for designing and implementing real time device authentication techniques and dynamic network access controls across the global enterprise network. Also responsible for evolving Multi Factor Authentication across the internal and external user base, and Single Sign On capabilities.
• Assisting project manager with strategy and planning.
• People management responsibilities across diverse demographics, geographies and cultures.
• Direct, careful, handling and resolution of people conflicts within and between teams, partnering with with Corporate Security and HR.
• Direct technical mentoring and delegation for the junior members of the team.
2018 : 2020
Intel Corporation
Information Security Manager
Led in the planning for several interconnected global project teams across the entire Enterprise, with teams located in the US, Israel, and Asia in the design and implementation of cyber security initiatives in the areas of :
• Vulnerability scanning project team formed to establish enterprise-wide vulnerability scanning.
• Established enterprise scale data correlation and analysis in the domain, in order to drive business direction, remediation, patching, and enforcement.
• Planning and execution to implement 802.1x across all wired network ports across the corporation, by replacing and enabling 20k+ network switches, and integrating with the RADIUS solution, setting the stage for further posture based Change of Access (COA) controls.
• Responsible for multi-million dollar budgets resource allocations, product selections, and team strategies.
2016 : 2018
Intel Corporation
Information Security Program Manager
• Managed cross functional multi-geo teams in the development and support of mission critical applications for technology and process development factory, for planning lot routing in the factory, reducing the number of unscheduled holds.
• Introduced Scrum to 30+ person organization, established and coached several Scrum teams, and implemented TFS planning tools to manage requirements and day to day capacity and workload, which dramatically increased morale, improved software estimates and quality, and increased frequency of releases.
• Operated as Technical lead and Scrum master for 11 person development team, building WPF Prism, WCF, and ASP.NET applications, together with large, complex ETL engine with ~25 data sources and several subsequent consuming applications.
• Developed 5+ year reference architecture for business domain, and assisted management in the development of corresponding 5 year roadmaps for application architectures, infrastructure evolution, and resource forecasts.
• Managed manufacturing mission critical application throughout entire software lifecycle, offering technical coaching to junior developers, guiding the design of the system, managing customers and stakeholders, and contributing to the development of critical functionality
2013 : 2016
Intel Corporation
Software Engineering Manager
Skills
.NET, .NET Framework, Agile Methodologies, Application Architecture, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Budgeting, C#, Cybersecurity, Database Design, Enterprise Architecture, Ethical Hacking, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Information Security, Integration, ITIL, IT Service Management, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL Server, Middleware, MVC, Networking, Network Security, Oracle, Penetration Testing, People Management, PL/SQL, Project Management, Requirements Analysis, REST, Scrum, Service-Now, Silverlight, SOA, Software Development, Software Engineering, Software Project Management, Splunk, SQL, Tenable.io, Tenable.sc, UML, Visual Studio, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanning, WCF, Web Development, Web Services, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), WPF
About
I have held leadership roles as a program manager and functional manager in various Infosec, operations, architecture, and development teams across Information Security, Manufacturing, and IT. However, I spent the first half of my career in deeper technical roles. I find my natural fit is at the intersection between technical functions, senior management, and stakeholders, translating between engineering topics and business objectives. This has made me a strong advocate for the engineering teams under me and a competent communicator in business and strategic conversations. It is evident in my most recent role, where I was promoted to run and manage the Infosec Red Team at Intel, with a dotted line reporting structure into Intel's CISO.
Over the years, I have successfully led a wide variety of projects and teams, ranging from smaller focused red team operations and pentest engagements to implementing Infosec defensive capabilities and overseeing enterprise-wide global IT network and application development projects. Geographically, my career has taken me from Swindon, England, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, and since 2002, I have been based in Chandler, Arizona, and Folsom/Sacramento, California (current).
My professional skills and experience timeline started after college, working in application and database development, and matured through application architecture, and finally to project and people management. I have gained valuable business domain experience in Sales and Marketing IT, Logistics, Finance IT, IT operations, Manufacturing automation, and corporate Information Security.
Additionally, I had the privilege of teaching as an adjunct faculty for a semester at Arizona State University as part of a Master of Science program in Information Management.
I have strong communication and interpersonal skills, project and people management skills, all backed by an underlying passion and skills in technology.
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