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Ruben Marquez
Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering and Operations at Skechers
Manhattan Beach, CA, United States
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Experience:
Provide global cybersecurity engineering and operations leadership in support of Skechers USA. Responsible for the team’s building, maintaining, and ultimately use of the systems and tools that help protect our organization and enable effective incident detection and response. Apply continuous improvement practices aimed towards maturing both cybersecurity operations and incident response. Enable our team to perform at an exceedingly high level with the ability to pivot with attackers and associated business risks. Provide and obtain mentorship at every level. Maintain an open communication policy and build relationships with leadership, business, and technology base. Research, develop, and deploy focused cybersecurity strategies that will positively impact the business and overall cybersecurity team. Excel in the formation of actionable thoughts and ideas with peers and management in the cybersecurity leadership group.
2022 : Present
Skechers
Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering and Operations
2020 : 2022
Skechers
Manager, Security Engineering and Operations
- Lead and mentor a high performing information security project management team focused on the deployment of global and high visibility projects.
- Coordinate the combined efforts of cross functional vendors, Live Nation, and Ticketmaster resources, as well as internal information security resources to ensure the completion of both regional and global projects.
- Conduct risk assessments with the Third Party Vendor team and contribute to the overall Information Security vulnerability risk management process creation.
- Provide leadership and project stakeholders with ongoing and open communication regarding the health, status, and rate of completion for our projects.
- Manage all information security contracts including purchases, NDA’s, MNDA’s, MSSP’s, and SOW’s. Created the contract management process utilizing ProcessUnity enabling storage, tracking, alerting, and general search of all contracts.
- Lead proof of concept efforts to determine a security tool’s ability to deploy, act, and perform with our complex hybrid IT environment.
- Create annual budget requisitions based on risk, roadmap, business needs, and evolving security threats.
Programs and accomplishments
- Established the process and data gathering and formalized in documentation and ticketing using Atlassian’s Jira and Confluence.
- Successfully obtained ~$150K in refunds and credits from vendors through in process contract reviews.
- Developed and applied project management structure to increase visibility, organization, and throughput of scoped efforts throughout the information security organization.
- Completed the launch and operational standup of new and/or replaced existing information security tools including Splunk, Qualys, Vectra AI, Forcepoint, Tenable, Data Fabric, Tier 1&2 SOC, Cofense, and Centrify.
2014 : 2020
Live Nation Entertainment
Manager, Information Security Architecture & Technology Projects
• Actively manage program budgets, resource management, and coordination of engineering, purchasing, production, and contract activities between client and company personnel
• Monitor program completion from initiation through delivery to meet revenue and cost projections, and contractual requirements
• Key participant in resource selection, development, and evaluation of engineers, technicians, and production line to ensure the profitable operation of the business unit
• Manage, maintain, and grow client relationships, ensuring customer satisfaction
• Create and present monthly program status and new business development opportunities to vice presidents, finance, engineering, and business development directors, DoD personnel, customers, and subcontractors
• Lead program teams across multiple business units and departments to meet program goals
• Participate and provide input for the development of one, three, and five year sales and R & D forecasts and budgets to management
• Generate weekly and monthly actual sales, rolling sales forecasts and present along with bookings and bookings forecast to business unit VP, general manager, controller, and peers
• Generate risk and opportunity program assessments using input from team members to create risk mitigation protocols and opportunity capture road maps
• Played an active role in the negotiation and capture of new contracts resulting in an organic year over year growth
2009 : 2014
Teledyne Reynolds, A Teledyne Technologies Co.
Program Manager
• Track, drive, and complete multiple inter-dependent projects used in military Thermal Weapon Sites, Helmet Mounted Displays, and various medical apparatuses
• Optimize program plan and schedule for contractual success
• Prepare Statement of Work definition and prepare proposals to meet customer requirements
• Balance internal issues and conflicting priorities for members of cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products to clients
• Generate rolling forecast reports to the General Manager, Controller, and various directors
2004 : 2009
Teledyne Microelectronics, A Teledyne Technologies Co.
Program Manager
2022 : Present
Skechers
Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering and Operations
2020 : 2022
Skechers
Manager, Security Engineering and Operations
- Lead and mentor a high performing information security project management team focused on the deployment of global and high visibility projects.
- Coordinate the combined efforts of cross functional vendors, Live Nation, and Ticketmaster resources, as well as internal information security resources to ensure the completion of both regional and global projects.
- Conduct risk assessments with the Third Party Vendor team and contribute to the overall Information Security vulnerability risk management process creation.
- Provide leadership and project stakeholders with ongoing and open communication regarding the health, status, and rate of completion for our projects.
- Manage all information security contracts including purchases, NDA’s, MNDA’s, MSSP’s, and SOW’s. Created the contract management process utilizing ProcessUnity enabling storage, tracking, alerting, and general search of all contracts.
- Lead proof of concept efforts to determine a security tool’s ability to deploy, act, and perform with our complex hybrid IT environment.
- Create annual budget requisitions based on risk, roadmap, business needs, and evolving security threats.
Programs and accomplishments
- Established the process and data gathering and formalized in documentation and ticketing using Atlassian’s Jira and Confluence.
- Successfully obtained ~$150K in refunds and credits from vendors through in process contract reviews.
- Developed and applied project management structure to increase visibility, organization, and throughput of scoped efforts throughout the information security organization.
- Completed the launch and operational standup of new and/or replaced existing information security tools including Splunk, Qualys, Vectra AI, Forcepoint, Tenable, Data Fabric, Tier 1&2 SOC, Cofense, and Centrify.
2014 : 2020
Live Nation Entertainment
Manager, Information Security Architecture & Technology Projects
• Actively manage program budgets, resource management, and coordination of engineering, purchasing, production, and contract activities between client and company personnel
• Monitor program completion from initiation through delivery to meet revenue and cost projections, and contractual requirements
• Key participant in resource selection, development, and evaluation of engineers, technicians, and production line to ensure the profitable operation of the business unit
• Manage, maintain, and grow client relationships, ensuring customer satisfaction
• Create and present monthly program status and new business development opportunities to vice presidents, finance, engineering, and business development directors, DoD personnel, customers, and subcontractors
• Lead program teams across multiple business units and departments to meet program goals
• Participate and provide input for the development of one, three, and five year sales and R & D forecasts and budgets to management
• Generate weekly and monthly actual sales, rolling sales forecasts and present along with bookings and bookings forecast to business unit VP, general manager, controller, and peers
• Generate risk and opportunity program assessments using input from team members to create risk mitigation protocols and opportunity capture road maps
• Played an active role in the negotiation and capture of new contracts resulting in an organic year over year growth
2009 : 2014
Teledyne Reynolds, A Teledyne Technologies Co.
Program Manager
• Track, drive, and complete multiple inter-dependent projects used in military Thermal Weapon Sites, Helmet Mounted Displays, and various medical apparatuses
• Optimize program plan and schedule for contractual success
• Prepare Statement of Work definition and prepare proposals to meet customer requirements
• Balance internal issues and conflicting priorities for members of cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products to clients
• Generate rolling forecast reports to the General Manager, Controller, and various directors
2004 : 2009
Teledyne Microelectronics, A Teledyne Technologies Co.
Program Manager
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Skechers
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