Mike Boutwell

Giving Practical guidance to help aspiring cyber professionals start a lucrative career in cybersecurity.

➤ Serving in the capacity of a CISO to deliver key security related business strategy
➤ Presented security management reports to C-Level and auditors to address findings and close gaps. 
➤ Defined security requirements for customer systems and implemented security policies and SOPs.
➤ Developed company wide security requirements and selected third party tools aligned to needs.
➤ Led hackathons creating opportunities for software development teams to collaborate on projects. 
➤ Networked and stakeholder management to secure new business opportunities and win contracts.

Key Achievements
➤ Secured work with public and private financial service companies with 1000+ staff across UK and Europe. 
➤ Consistently achieved and maintained technology compliance rates of over 95% in diverse enterprises.
➤ Oversaw security and risk assessment for a national clearing house managing assets valued at $27 trillion.

Senior Information Security Consultant

Euroclear

➤ Overseeing critical initiatives to assure delivery is in line with risk tolerance
➤ Conducting risk assessments for critical business applications and processes
➤ Collaborating with executive stakeholders to apply risk management strategy
➤ Development and management of board level KRIs

Senior Information Security Risk Manager 

➤ Conduct risk assessments for critical financial applications and documents weaknesses for review.
➤ Design and develop security requirements based on the outcome of business impact assessments. 
➤ Work in collaboration with the CISO to build and create security requirements in line with NIST CSF.
➤ Assess third party risk in business and cloud applications and make best practice recommendations.

Key Achievements
➤ Lead for cyber risk assessments on bots and artificial intelligence
➤ Risk assessment of a critical financial application vital to capital markets processing $1Q annually.
➤ Identification of critical risks resulting in RFP to seek a new vendor to remediate open vulnerabilities.

Principal Information Security Consultant - CISO IT Risk

Takeda

➤ Digital transformation project lead in the setup of a US client’s Innovation Capability Centre in Slovakia.
➤ Defined the baseline security standards, security standard toolsets, and phased out unnecessary tools.
➤ Developed supporting SOP and policy documentation and standards and secured approval for rollout.
➤ Established endpoint protection team, a SIEM/SOAR capability, and vulnerability management program. 

Key Achievements
➤ Led global security standard for on-prem and cloud security deployments for digital transformation.
➤ Designed and implemented an executive dashboard to provide a data-driven security program.
➤ Improved executive decision making by enabling access to critical real time data and information. 
➤ Facilitated introductions for executives with Slovakian contacts helping growth from 30 to 300 staff. 
➤ Recruited and trained endpoint protection team overseeing 60,000 workstations and 120,000 servers.

Endpoint Security Team Lead

AT&T

➤	Led the security and IT strategy for the WPP Plc. account agile team, architects, and 30 engineers.
➤	Managed all client services to deliver secure architectures across EMEA, US, and APAC regions. 
➤	Worked in collaboration with the client CIO to implement technical solutions to drive cost reduction. 
➤	Technical SME conducting security analytics, control assessments, vulnerability, and risk assessments. 
➤	Mentored network team and architects to drive professional development and delivery to meet KPIs.

Key Achievements
➤	Transitioned WPP Plc. to enable a work from home setup in response to Covid from scratch.
➤	Created standardised workflows to deliver fast but consistent results for high priority projects.
➤	Appointed as Global Agile Team lead delivering a backlog of work and greatly reducing costs.

Senior Information Security Architect - Global Agile Program Lead

➤ Lead for the Citizens Financial Group account and the technology lead for the network engineers.
➤ Risk assessment and audit to identify all in scope assets and assessed existing configuration and gaps.
➤ Audited accounts to assess security posture, conducted risk assessments, and proposed improvements.
➤ Designed complex secure architectures in campus, WAN, data centres, SDN, and wireless environments.
➤ Produced documentation for RFP, RFI, and proposals, and architectural lead for projects over $100M.
➤ Developed security reference architectures aligned to business strategy and PCI-DSS requirements.

Key Achievements
➤ Achieved PCI-DSS compliance in a complex banking environment reducing enterprise IT risk by 68%.
➤ Responded to an RFP for Dow Chemicals architecting a secure solution resulting in a $100M contract. 
➤ Resolved instability issues which led to outages on 1200 ATMs and implemented enhanced logging.

Senior Network Security Architect - Lead for Citizens Financial Group

First Data Corporation

➤ Secured card and payment systems and networks in compliance with PCI-DSS on two continents.
➤ Strategic lead for disaster recovery planning, testing, and regulatory compliance for payment hubs.
➤ Compliance management including pre-testing, fault finding, resolutions, and regulator liaison. 
➤ Implementation and technical solutions for switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, and load balancers.

Key Achievements
➤ Lead for 20 EMEA core credit card processing hubs exclusively managing London and South Africa. 
➤ Designed secure data centre and colocation architectures for multiple EMEA countries hubs.  
➤ Developed and rolled out cybersecurity policies and SOPs across EMEA to protect financial data.

Senior Network Security Engineer

T-Systems International GmbH

➤ Supervised the team and implemented security policies in a multi-vendor firewall environment.
➤ Network design SME providing input and advice on a wide range of critical business services.
➤ Deployed secure applications through engineering load balancing services for business continuity.
➤ Conducted risk assessments and made recommendations on best practice technology solutions. 

Key Achievements
➤ Project managed the deployment of the first 4G network in Europe for T-Systems International.
➤ Migration of a large-scale payment service to a greenfield ultra-low latency environment.
➤ Implemented network-based services for EverythingEverywhere’s search oriented architecture suite.

Network Security Engineer

Two words sum up my mission in information security: trust and expertise. With 15 years of security and 10 years of risk management experience under my belt, I've been fortunate enough to work with leading organizations like Cisco, AT&T, IBM, Kyndryl, First Data, and Euroclear.

My portfolio:

→ I help financial services firms secure their business and improve performance metrics with ISO 27001
→ Assessing AI risks in large complex environments and providing solutions to use AI in a risk-aware manner
→ I train teams and organizations on ISO 27001 implementation and auditing. 
→ Speaks to more than 30,000 people annually
→ Coaches and helps young professionals start and enhance their cybersecurity careers

My results:

→ Secured assets worth over $1 quadrillion
→ Delivered projects worth over $100M
→ Recently completed a major project with a world-renown vendor addressing cloud security risks
→ Consistently achieved security compliance rates of over 95% in diverse enterprises
→ Advised on the development of an innovative CNAPP security solution with a major vendor
→ Author of the Ransomware Handbook and Profit-Driven Cybersecurity

→ Contact: https://www.mikeboutwell.com/contact
→ X: @mikeboutwell4

HabiHub

We empower real estate agencies that want to sell new-build properties globally without needing relocation, offices, or staff.

Our platform gives them instant access to a vast network of international new-build developments, ready to plug directly into their CRM or website.

Agencies only have to focus on clients.

We handle the rest, from legal compliance to airport pickups, discovery tours, and closing deals on the ground.

Director of Marketing And Business Development

REMÁNDOLA

Helping Tech companies in scheduling more meetings.

Download the FREE Framework from my website https://remandola.com

Growth Consultant

Xseed Solutions

We hire and manage your IT team so you can focus on your Product Roadmap.
SPEED - We are fast and nimble. We will show you pre-vetted candidates in less than 10 days.
QUALITY - We will get you experts in their trade that match your culture and values to ensure the best collaboration.
LOW RISK - Scale up and down with no risk, with very clear and simple processes for notification, at your required pace.
PERSONAL TOUCH - Weekly check-ins with the CEO, to ensure performance is up to your expectations.

Head of Growth

ListingOK

Revenue Management for Airbnb and Booking Hosts.

We maximize your Short-Term Rental revenue.

Why waste valuable resources on an in-house revenue manager when you can partner with us and achieve better results at a fraction of the cost?

Our team of experts will actively monitor all of your properties, ensuring maximum revenue potential from day one.

With our market control and tailored strategies, we´ll set your property's perfect price and availability.

saleshackers.es

B2B Marketing, Sales y Customer Success.
Diseñamos tu estrategia, entrenamos a tu equipo y te generamos reuniones para ahorrarte cientos de horas de prueba y error

Customer Success Manager

Sabira Ventures S.L.

Llegar a casa y ponerse el pijama está bien, pero llamar a los amigos para abrir un vino y sacar un plato de LOLO es pasarse el juego de la vida. 
Es cierto, está buenísimo, pero no es solo su sabor: son las cosas que pasan cuando está delante.

Growth Manager

ZeroQ

Hoy los clientes exigen que la Atención sea IMPECABLE, pero las empresas no tienen las herramientas ni los Datos para hacerlo realidad.

Por eso en ZeroQ creamos un software gestor de atención que les permite contar con los datos (en tiempo real) para que puedan tomar las decisiones correctas sin demoras.

Con esto garantizamos entregar la experiencia que los clientes quieren mientras se cuidan los intereses específicos del negocio.

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Growth Marketer

GrowthHackingCourse

Sales Development

DomIoT

Home Automation and Security E-commerce.

Domiot specializes in WIFI, self-installing products. You buy your Smart Kit, install it, and take care of your own home. You can forget about fixed costs for good.

CoFounder

DIRECTV Latin America

- Procurement responsible for Field Operations in Uruguay.
- Generate savings and efficiencies through regional strategic agreements.
- Respond to requests and proactively give advice and solutions to issues and problems whenever detected.

Comprador estratégico

We find, recruit, and manage the right talent for your needs.  

We keep it simple.

We are technology-agnostic. You choose the roles and the stack, and we'll help you build the perfect squad.

DM me to share your job description, and we will show you the candidates as soon as next week.

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