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Jessica Sanford, Ph.D
Engineering Director, Business Information Security Officer (BISO)
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Experience:
- Involved in 50+ ventures across all practice areas, including highly regulated healthcare space
- Incorporate practical regulatory considerations into software product validation and build
- Led cloud platform and release teams for FDA regulated Software-as-Medical-Device (SaMD) products
- Built and deployed first enterprise wide information security program and center of excellence
- Communicate information security posture to key stakeholders and sr. leadership
- Owner of enterprise risk management activities
2017 : Present
BCG X
Engineering Director & Information Security Officer
Jessica served as the Deputy Program Manager (PM) of the Booz Allen’s Regulated Cloud service offering, overseeing the day-to-day operations of cybersecurity and compliance related projects. From assessment perspective, she has extensive experience in leading teams of inspectors to conduct security assessments for Information Technology enterprises and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), consist of network, web application, and database vulnerability assessments, manual tests and NIST 800-53-based control verification. She is familiar with different compliance standards including FedRAMP, FISMA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, etc.
In addition to managing security assessments, Jessica also serves as the Lead Cybersecurity Architect on a number of multiple million-dollar cloud migration projects for a number of Fortune 500 and major multinational mass media firms. Jessica was responsible for the development of enterprise-level information assurance strategy, risk-based implementation roadmap, and compliance certification and authorization packages.
Jessica led many proposals on cloud migration strategy and secure cloud practices because of her understanding of the unique set of challenges involved in managing data, securing data, platform and infrastructure design in multi-tenant environments. Her technical expertise include cloud service architecture modeling, existing applicable cloud service standards (e.g. NGOSS’s eTOM and SID, SNIA, OGF.org) and how they relate to and can be applied to cloud computing.
She is the lead author of the book Localization in Wireless Networks : Foundations and Applications published by Springer in June 2014, and a co-author of the book “Transforming Enterprise Cloud Services” published by Springer in Dec 2010 (under revision for new edition).
2008 : 2017
Booz Allen Hamilton
Senior Lead Technologist
Duties include anchoring, writing and editing daily news; field reporting; hosting guest interviews.
2006 : 2008
Phoenix Satellite Television (US) Inc.
Evening News Anchor
Prior to joining Booz Allen, Jessica’s main focus was Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks (WASNs) at UCLA. WASNs are embedded systems consisting of a large number of nodes, each equipped with a certain amount of computation, communication, storage, sensing, and often actuation resources. Because of their potentially diversified applications, WASNs also possess a set of application-specific, technically-demanding, and unique challenges. An example of the challenges is location discovery, where nodes use ranging hardware to determine their absolute or relative coordinates. Jessica’s research and software development provided an efficient and effective bridge between the physical and the computational environments and addressed the problem of acoustic, signal range-based location discovery in theoretical, modeling, optimization, and computational aspects.
2003 : 2008
University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Graduate Researcher
- Incorporate practical regulatory considerations into software product validation and build
- Led cloud platform and release teams for FDA regulated Software-as-Medical-Device (SaMD) products
- Built and deployed first enterprise wide information security program and center of excellence
- Communicate information security posture to key stakeholders and sr. leadership
- Owner of enterprise risk management activities
2017 : Present
BCG X
Engineering Director & Information Security Officer
Jessica served as the Deputy Program Manager (PM) of the Booz Allen’s Regulated Cloud service offering, overseeing the day-to-day operations of cybersecurity and compliance related projects. From assessment perspective, she has extensive experience in leading teams of inspectors to conduct security assessments for Information Technology enterprises and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), consist of network, web application, and database vulnerability assessments, manual tests and NIST 800-53-based control verification. She is familiar with different compliance standards including FedRAMP, FISMA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, etc.
In addition to managing security assessments, Jessica also serves as the Lead Cybersecurity Architect on a number of multiple million-dollar cloud migration projects for a number of Fortune 500 and major multinational mass media firms. Jessica was responsible for the development of enterprise-level information assurance strategy, risk-based implementation roadmap, and compliance certification and authorization packages.
Jessica led many proposals on cloud migration strategy and secure cloud practices because of her understanding of the unique set of challenges involved in managing data, securing data, platform and infrastructure design in multi-tenant environments. Her technical expertise include cloud service architecture modeling, existing applicable cloud service standards (e.g. NGOSS’s eTOM and SID, SNIA, OGF.org) and how they relate to and can be applied to cloud computing.
She is the lead author of the book Localization in Wireless Networks : Foundations and Applications published by Springer in June 2014, and a co-author of the book “Transforming Enterprise Cloud Services” published by Springer in Dec 2010 (under revision for new edition).
2008 : 2017
Booz Allen Hamilton
Senior Lead Technologist
Duties include anchoring, writing and editing daily news; field reporting; hosting guest interviews.
2006 : 2008
Phoenix Satellite Television (US) Inc.
Evening News Anchor
Prior to joining Booz Allen, Jessica’s main focus was Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks (WASNs) at UCLA. WASNs are embedded systems consisting of a large number of nodes, each equipped with a certain amount of computation, communication, storage, sensing, and often actuation resources. Because of their potentially diversified applications, WASNs also possess a set of application-specific, technically-demanding, and unique challenges. An example of the challenges is location discovery, where nodes use ranging hardware to determine their absolute or relative coordinates. Jessica’s research and software development provided an efficient and effective bridge between the physical and the computational environments and addressed the problem of acoustic, signal range-based location discovery in theoretical, modeling, optimization, and computational aspects.
2003 : 2008
University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Graduate Researcher
Company:
BCG X
About
Bring technology, lean product build and regulatory compliance together in the healthcare space.
Experienced engineering director with a demonstrated history of working in a diverse portfolio of environments and regulated industries. Well-versed in agile development and DevOps in software-as-medical-device (SaMD). Strong information technology professional skilled in cloud computing, digital transformation, enterprise data governance, information security and risk management.
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