Chris Golden, PhD

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Skills

Analysis, Arabic, Business Strategy, C++, Change Management, Command, Computer Hardware, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Database Administration, Defense, DoD, Earned Value Management, Government, Government Contracting, HTML, Information Assurance, Integration, ITIL, ITIL Certified, Leadership, Management, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Military, Military Experience, Military Operations, National Security, Networking, Operational Planning, PMP, Process Improvement, Program Management, Project Management, Project Planning, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Russian, SDLC, Security, Security Clearance, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Systems Engineering, TCP/IP, Thougth Leadership, Training, Unix, Windows

About

A Strategically Innovative Leader offering Fortune 100 leadership. Expertise areas: Building Organizations from new, Forging new Relationships, Protecting Sensitive Data, Building Cybersecurity Ecosystems, and Coaching and Mentoring high functioning teams.



Strengths per the CliftonStrengths Assessment: Strategic–Achiever–Learner–Responsibility–Competition–Self Assurance–Analytical–Belief–Positivity



Education:

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, University of Miami



Certifications: CISSP, CISA, HCISPP, CTPRP, ITIL, and more.



C SUITE COLLABORATION: Routinely meets with senior leaders and stakeholders to increase awareness and understanding of the cyber threat. Introduced FAIR framework to Board discussions enabling a revolution in how the Board deliberates and decides cybersecurity risks to the company.



LEADERSHIP PRESENTATIONS: Carefully adapted presentation style to ensure complex, technical risks were understood by non-technical audiences. Quickly became the go to, honest brokers for technical risks to the company,



SECURITY STRATEGY PLANNING: Strategy owner for the Security program and builder of the security roadmap around Security Architecture, Third Party Security Assessment, Information Assurance, Identity Management, Data Privacy, Secure Application Development, Incident Response, Governance, Policy, Forensics, Security Program Maturity, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.



COMMUNICATION: Excellent verbal and written skills; able to build consensus among leadership, employees and customers. Authored monthly Security Newsletter and Awareness Training to inform and educate employees, consultants, and contractors of the latest information on security, security projects and security initiatives. Transformed training and awareness program from extrinsic motivation to intrinsic model.



THREAT MANAGEMENT AND RISK ASSESSMENT: Migrated annual risk management program to near-real time. Enabled over $2M in savings through identification of risks earlier when they are cheaper and easier to address.



INTER-DEPARTMENT COLLABORATION: Forged new relationships with Legal (provided lawyers budget for their cybersecurity training regime!), Compliance, Internal Audit, Privacy and multiple business lines.



SECURITY INCIDENT RESPONSE: Authored Incident Response plan and served as the primary incident manager on major security incidents. Proven calm and collected under high-stress crisis.



SECURITY AWARENESS AND TRAINING: Developed security awareness training and material for colleagues to be certified annually and trained monthly.