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

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Unagentic AI Stagehand

Assisted with 

Scenery- Drapes
Projection- Placement of Projector
Building 16'+ Screen
Lighting- Building LED 
Breaking down and rebuilding "Cheese Bouroughs"
Audio - Laying and Securing Cables

Stagehand

INSPIRE

Load In Equipment 
Setup Equipment 
Strike Equipment 
Load Out Equipment 
Assist in Down Rigging 
Skulls
Carpentry/Scenic
L3 - Led Technician, Lightning Assist 
V3- Video Assist, Down Monitors
A3- Speakers
Breakout Technician

BCAUSEICAN INC

Technical Facilitator 

AVLancer™

Designs By Tatanka LLC

Managed Jamf, Intune and other MDM instances for 1000s of mobile devices, responsible for the implementation of deployment, monitoring, configuration of these devices.

Owner

Data Network and Telecommunications Engineering 
Amazon Web Services development

Resource Manager

Design various interactive courses using the principles of gamification, remote-learning, student engagement, and Blooms Taxonomy.

Experienced in the following LMS Platforms: Google Classroom, Canvas, Blackboard, Udemy, Moodle, and Teachable.

Instructional Designer

ERP International

▪ Designed, installed Physical and Cloud Networks with consultants.
▪ Created and maintained CMDB records and implemented Servicenow modules.
▪ Curated end user education for clients including VIP support for clients.
▪ Provisioning Orders for Onboarding/Offboarding of clients across a global government organization.
▪ Managed asset logistics within the Servicenow Platform.
▪ Created asset forecasts to increase predictability for department financial budgeting.
▪ Accounts Management- Vendor contracts, procurement management & audits, financial
reporting/analysis/forecasting.
▪ Producing weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly reports by taking physical accounts and software reports.
▪ Implemented Agile, Scrum and ITIL methodologies in project and portfolio management.
▪ Creating documentation for company policies, process improvements, and workplace efficacy.

ServiceNow IT Asset Manager

ERP International LLC,

Servicenow Administration 
Asset Lifecycle Management 
Leadership 
Reporting

Servicenow IT Asset Manager 

Community College Preparatory Academy

Routinely meet with various stakeholders – including Managers, Directors, and Executive Directors – to provide project status updates.
Develop, assist and promote out efforts of increasing and maintaining DC PCSB PMF standards.
Responsible for ensuring the success of these projects through the Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing process phases.

Effectively manage the coordination and communications of the various projects relating to scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, procurement, and stakeholders.

Select and develop instructional materials; plan and organize instruction to enhance student learning; create appropriate assignments to encourage student learning, the development of communication skills, and higher order thinking; and use available instructional technology, as appropriate. Use a variety of proven methods of engagement and assessment that facilitate student mastery of the content and provide students constructive, encouraging, and corrective feedback.Strive to increase teaching effectiveness through the application of appropriate teaching and learning strategies; evaluate student learning and modify instructional methods and strategies as appropriate to meet diverse student needs. Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that clearly communicate subject matter to the students.

CompTIA Facilitator

DC Board of Elections 

· Provide technical assistance and support at the Vote Centers on Election Day.
· Diagnose and resolve issues with the election equipment.
· Assist with setting up and closing down the election equipment before and after the election.
· Troubleshoot and resolve problems at the voting centers, including resolving election equipment problems, serving as technical support for poll workers and election officials.
· Assist with assigned polling place set-up

EV Precinct Tech

Summit Event Productions

LED Technician

IT Learning Facilitator and Systems Administrator

Skilled in delivering content, solutions and support to these that need it.

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