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Gary Stoner
MS CyberSecurity / SSCP / CySA+ / Project+ /Security+ / C|EH / Risk & PCI Governance
Georgetown, TX, United States
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Education:
Master of Science - MS
Cybersecurity Information Assurance
Western Governors University
2022 : 2022
BS Cyber Security and Information Assurance
Cyber Security
Western Governors University
2019 : 2021
Scrum Certification Prep + Scrum Master & Agile Scrum Training
Udemy Academy
2018 :
Agile Crash Course : Agile Project Management; Agile
Udemy Academy
2017 :
Effective Communications and Human Relations
Dale Carnegie
1998 : 1998
Cybersecurity Information Assurance
Western Governors University
2022 : 2022
BS Cyber Security and Information Assurance
Cyber Security
Western Governors University
2019 : 2021
Scrum Certification Prep + Scrum Master & Agile Scrum Training
Udemy Academy
2018 :
Agile Crash Course : Agile Project Management; Agile
Udemy Academy
2017 :
Effective Communications and Human Relations
Dale Carnegie
1998 : 1998
Experience:
Performed Risk Analysis / Security Assessment on new products/projects being deployed across IGT
Managed both eCommerce and Card-Present platforms regarding PCI DSS compliance programs.
• Continual oversight of adherence to PCI-DSS standards are maintained across all departments. Define and develop working relation matrix between members of the information technology, architects, DevOps, business units, Cyber and SOC teams, risk and privacy engineers, and end user departments to define and deploy appropriate technical and procedural controls to support this objective.
• Collect and provide assessments and guidance on external and internal security scanning reports using Nessus and Tenable.io.
Assessed, updated and at times created new ISMS policies, standards, and applied guidance documents to ensure IGT continuous security posture for ISO27001, SOC, SOX and PCI compliance.
Member of the Cloud Center of Excellence advisory team for Information Security oversight and assessments.
Cross-functional work with Internal Audit and Internal Controls department regarding outstanding audits and compliance activities across all IGT verticals.
2018 : Present
IGT
Principal Information Security Engineer - RIsk & PCI
Built the support model and allocations model for IGT’s first production private cloud environment from the ground up.
Managed the day-to-day operations of IGT’s Private Cloud Shared Services platform consisting of a team of Tier1 & Tier2 staff monitoring, operating, and processing of web-based services for IGT’s Lottery customers.
Directed a team that developed new system, application, and network monitoring tools as well as processing and file delivery automation to keep headcount low.
• Awarded GTECH’s Business Excellence Gold award in 2012 for the Operations project work of getting the first US. Lottery Internet wagering off the ground
• Gary’s team was part of the overall 2012 GTECH’s highest award, the President award for the successful launch of the first US. Lottery Internet wagering.
• Operations Project Lead for the first US Lottery (Georgia) to provide full iLottery products including traditional draw-based games, iKeno and eInstant games at various price points in 2015.
• Worked with Information Security to have the first production based environment to be certified for ISO27001 : 2013 and since re-certified under ISO27001 : 2015
• Operations project manager for the 2016 iLottery launch in KY, bringing the total of US-based lotteries selling tickets via the internet up to four.
2010 : 2018
IGT
Senior Manager Hosted Services
Managing yearly budgetary goals including payroll, consumables, and environmental maintenance expenses.
Managed the day-to-day operation of the Control Room and its interaction with the Lottery and vendors.
Managed QA staff and all software projects that included working with international support staff.
Oversaw business continuity and disaster recovery of datacenter and systems during emergencies like hurricanes, environmental failures, fires, and Telco outages.
Developed a mindset revolving around change control and audit complaisance in all phases of operations.
• Awarded GTECH’s Business Excellence Gold award in September 2007 for excellent audit results.
• Awarded GTECH’s highest award, the Business Excellence President award in Jan 2008 for the successful software launches of the first two online games in nearly 8 years, excellent audit results, leading the ITVM pilot program and superb customer service provided to the Lottery while being short staffed for nearly a year.
• Managed a backup data center move from Baton Rouge to Austin that ultimately was completed in just 16 hours from tear down to 100% restoral of Triplex operational capacity.
• Awarded GTECH’s Business Excellence Gold award in July 2010 for a flawless conversion of systems to a new Vendor for the Louisiana Lottery.
2006 : 2010
IGT
Operations Manager
Performed BA duties working with Lottery end users, MIS department, and QA staff to scope and define requirement specifications for software projects.
Managed all project deliverables, timelines, test plan creations, and implementation procedures for all software projects.
Managed host systems and instant systems databases for continued uptime and performance tuning.
Created ad-hoc reports from Sybase SQL databases for Lottery & GTECH sales and marketing units.
On-call for all system incidents to determine correct remediation methods and ensure incident escalations occurred.
Developed monthly security audit processes for continual compliance in yearly SOC audits.
• Awarded GTECH’s Business Excellence Gold award in March 2004 recognizing my work and effort put into a software project consisting of 70+ change requests by the Lottery.
• Awarded GTECH’s Business Excellence Gold award in October 2005 recognizing my work and effort in the recovery efforts after Katrina/Rita in terms of site support, Telco management, and financial loss reporting for the company.
• Managed an alternate Telco billing method during the recovery period of Katrina/Rita saving the company over $500,000.
2003 : 2006
IGT
System Administrator, QA Lead, DBA
Managed upgrade from Windows 3.1 to Windows 2000 / XP rollouts of 50+ workstations and laptops.
Onsite manager of DNS/DHCP backup domain servers, File & Print servers with IIS functionality.
Project lead on retailer WAN and local business LANs migration to a new backup data center in 2002.
Worked with Telco vendor to redesign the WAN network between offices to increase redundancy and limit company exposure to outages and natural disasters
• Recognized by the Account manager and Project manager in the 2002 system conversion as being critical in assuring all Telco and LAN/WAN portions were completed on or ahead of schedule and without incidents.
2001 : 2003
IGT
Lan Wan Manager
Managed both eCommerce and Card-Present platforms regarding PCI DSS compliance programs.
• Continual oversight of adherence to PCI-DSS standards are maintained across all departments. Define and develop working relation matrix between members of the information technology, architects, DevOps, business units, Cyber and SOC teams, risk and privacy engineers, and end user departments to define and deploy appropriate technical and procedural controls to support this objective.
• Collect and provide assessments and guidance on external and internal security scanning reports using Nessus and Tenable.io.
Assessed, updated and at times created new ISMS policies, standards, and applied guidance documents to ensure IGT continuous security posture for ISO27001, SOC, SOX and PCI compliance.
Member of the Cloud Center of Excellence advisory team for Information Security oversight and assessments.
Cross-functional work with Internal Audit and Internal Controls department regarding outstanding audits and compliance activities across all IGT verticals.
2018 : Present
IGT
Principal Information Security Engineer - RIsk & PCI
Built the support model and allocations model for IGT’s first production private cloud environment from the ground up.
Managed the day-to-day operations of IGT’s Private Cloud Shared Services platform consisting of a team of Tier1 & Tier2 staff monitoring, operating, and processing of web-based services for IGT’s Lottery customers.
Directed a team that developed new system, application, and network monitoring tools as well as processing and file delivery automation to keep headcount low.
• Awarded GTECH’s Business Excellence Gold award in 2012 for the Operations project work of getting the first US. Lottery Internet wagering off the ground
• Gary’s team was part of the overall 2012 GTECH’s highest award, the President award for the successful launch of the first US. Lottery Internet wagering.
• Operations Project Lead for the first US Lottery (Georgia) to provide full iLottery products including traditional draw-based games, iKeno and eInstant games at various price points in 2015.
• Worked with Information Security to have the first production based environment to be certified for ISO27001 : 2013 and since re-certified under ISO27001 : 2015
• Operations project manager for the 2016 iLottery launch in KY, bringing the total of US-based lotteries selling tickets via the internet up to four.
2010 : 2018
IGT
Senior Manager Hosted Services
Managing yearly budgetary goals including payroll, consumables, and environmental maintenance expenses.
Managed the day-to-day operation of the Control Room and its interaction with the Lottery and vendors.
Managed QA staff and all software projects that included working with international support staff.
Oversaw business continuity and disaster recovery of datacenter and systems during emergencies like hurricanes, environmental failures, fires, and Telco outages.
Developed a mindset revolving around change control and audit complaisance in all phases of operations.
• Awarded GTECH’s Business Excellence Gold award in September 2007 for excellent audit results.
• Awarded GTECH’s highest award, the Business Excellence President award in Jan 2008 for the successful software launches of the first two online games in nearly 8 years, excellent audit results, leading the ITVM pilot program and superb customer service provided to the Lottery while being short staffed for nearly a year.
• Managed a backup data center move from Baton Rouge to Austin that ultimately was completed in just 16 hours from tear down to 100% restoral of Triplex operational capacity.
• Awarded GTECH’s Business Excellence Gold award in July 2010 for a flawless conversion of systems to a new Vendor for the Louisiana Lottery.
2006 : 2010
IGT
Operations Manager
Performed BA duties working with Lottery end users, MIS department, and QA staff to scope and define requirement specifications for software projects.
Managed all project deliverables, timelines, test plan creations, and implementation procedures for all software projects.
Managed host systems and instant systems databases for continued uptime and performance tuning.
Created ad-hoc reports from Sybase SQL databases for Lottery & GTECH sales and marketing units.
On-call for all system incidents to determine correct remediation methods and ensure incident escalations occurred.
Developed monthly security audit processes for continual compliance in yearly SOC audits.
• Awarded GTECH’s Business Excellence Gold award in March 2004 recognizing my work and effort put into a software project consisting of 70+ change requests by the Lottery.
• Awarded GTECH’s Business Excellence Gold award in October 2005 recognizing my work and effort in the recovery efforts after Katrina/Rita in terms of site support, Telco management, and financial loss reporting for the company.
• Managed an alternate Telco billing method during the recovery period of Katrina/Rita saving the company over $500,000.
2003 : 2006
IGT
System Administrator, QA Lead, DBA
Managed upgrade from Windows 3.1 to Windows 2000 / XP rollouts of 50+ workstations and laptops.
Onsite manager of DNS/DHCP backup domain servers, File & Print servers with IIS functionality.
Project lead on retailer WAN and local business LANs migration to a new backup data center in 2002.
Worked with Telco vendor to redesign the WAN network between offices to increase redundancy and limit company exposure to outages and natural disasters
• Recognized by the Account manager and Project manager in the 2002 system conversion as being critical in assuring all Telco and LAN/WAN portions were completed on or ahead of schedule and without incidents.
2001 : 2003
IGT
Lan Wan Manager
Company:
IGT
Years of Experience:
35
Skills
Business Continuity, Cybersecurity, Databases, Data Center, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Hardware, Incident Management, Information Assurance, Information Security, Integration, ITIL, IT Management, IT Operations, IT Security Policies, IT Service Management, LAN-WAN, Linux, Management, Networking, Network Security, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Project Management, Quality Assurance, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Security, Servers, Shell Scripting, Software Documentation, Software Project Management, SQL, Switches, System Administration, System Monitoring, System Testing, TCP/IP, Telecommunications, Troubleshooting, User Acceptance Testing, Vendor Management, Visio, VMware, VMware vSphere, WAN, Windows Server
About
After 22 years in Datacenter IT operations, with the last 10 of those helping build from the ground up new Interactive web site vertical models for Lotteries, I’ve taken my extensive experience and moved over to the Information Security side of the business. My vast experience in Operations Management, Quality Assurance, SDLC, Systems Administration, LAN/WAN networking, Audit compliance, and PCI DSS experience provides me a rare ability to view Information Security from the full end-user experience and help develop and deliver projects and services to market and ensuring uptime will be maintained effectively, efficiently and of course securely
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