J. David Christensen, CISSP
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2021 : Present
PlanSource
Vice President I Chief Information Security Officer
For two fast-paced years, I built strategies, securing current and future system migrations into the cloud, enhancing enterprise and cloud security architecture, engineering and operation maturity, supporting rapid global growth. I also built, led, and coached 50 FTE/contractors in Security Risk mitigation, business enablement and problem resolution. I managed a $20M budget, with divisions in Australia, UK, Brazil, and Germany. I also identified critical business needs, addressing Information Security cost optimization and long-term scalability. I rearchitected SIEM, vastly improving performance, scalability, and reducing costs by $600k. In addition, I negotiated a consumption model for cloud-based server workload protection, saving $240k/year. Notably, I spearheaded early adoption of Zero-Trust and SASE capabilities ahead of the pandemic. Furthermore, I established a vision to incorporate multiple sources of vulnerability data to create a comprehensive and holistic view of risk across different security domains, further improving effectiveness of the program. Last but not least, I supported four M&A initiatives, providing security risk assessments with corresponding mitigations in support of onboarding the new organizations and employees.
2019 : 2021
WEX
Director of Global Information Security Engineering and Operations
In charge of IT, security, enterprise, and software of the service platform. I managed the structure, security controls, programs, and posture deployments. I also managed a team and $10M budget. In addition, I built the entire IT, DevOps, and security organization, growing from 30 to 304 people and from a 1-page document to a compliant security organization, supporting revenue growth 35% year over year. I enabled significant environmental growth with vastly improved scalability, supporting 80% YoY new business growth. Remarkably, I planned and delivered a 6-month, $2M initiative migrating legacy AWS EC2 to VPC. I also leveraged new environment controls, created policies, and introduced an end-to-end ticketing system to drive greenfield SOC 2 compliance initiative with further hardening of policies to support strict NIST 800 Series / FISMA / HIPAA physical / logical compliance requirements. Lastly, I rearchitected environment security to address evolving NIST requirements.
2014 : 2019
Origami Risk LLC
Director of Information Technology I Chief Information Security Officer
About
➥ I am a highly accomplished best-in-breed leader in Chief Information Security Officer / Chief Information Officer driving strategy and exceeding goals for business revenue acceleration. I am a highly experienced and driven leader with a background of identifying emerging challenges and executing strategies that powerfully drive key results while building meaningful relationships. I have a demonstrated history of excelling, redefining, and reenergizing relationships. I have deep management and growth turnaround experience, with keen skills and instincts in a highly competitive marketplace.
➥ My strengths are varied, and I have unique skills in seeing the possible and executing for growth and excellence. I am a collaborative, people-focused leader who develops team members’ highest potential in innovation, communication and execution, leading to vibrant, optimized career paths. In addition, I have a natural ability to forge productive relationships and create long lasting strategic partnerships. I also thrive in high visibility roles, multitasking, maximizing engagement with senior stakeholders and influencing the overall business.
➥I am also a developer of powerful partnerships and collaborations, establishing expectations, communicating vision and escalating performance to maximize effectiveness. Additionally, I am a transformational leader coaching and educating through change and challenges while providing scalable business and solutions to advance in the latest techniques and best practices. I lead through example and inspire through my passion.
EARLY CAREER: VAPORSTREAM • Director of Network Operations, CELLTRAK TECHNOLOGIES, Manager Global Network Operations, MFLUENT LLC, NOVARRA INC., US CELLULAR • SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER