TechCompass

At TechCompass, we specialize in guiding businesses through the complexities of technology use, ensuring your digital operations are secure, effective, and perfectly aligned with your strategic growth objectives. Our expertise in cybersecurity and strategic technology investments helps you prioritize resources that strengthen your digital footprint and deliver substantial, long-term advantages.

Our approach demystifies cybersecurity, providing clear, impactful solutions that safeguard your operations and drive your business forward. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, TechCompass is your partner in navigating the digital landscape with confidence.

Our services include:

-Ransomware Readiness Assessment
-Cyber Due Diligence for M&As
-Incident Response Tabletop Exercise
-Attack Surface & Application Penetration Testing
-Security Research and Advisory
-Cyber Risk Assessment
-Security Program Transformation
-Cloud and Product Security
-Tools and Technology: Leverage the latest in security technology for robust protection.
-Virtual / Fractional CISO Leadership
-Compliance Readiness and Support
-CyberForce Flex Solutions

For a partnership that empowers your business with leading-edge security and strategic technology solutions, contact TechCompass today. Let us help you secure your digital future and achieve strategic growth. Check out our website for more information.

Founder

Global Payments Inc.

A Fortune 500® technology company with 24,000+ staff across 40 countries delivering commerce ecosystems worldwide through a unique, seamless infrastructure.

Practical experience leading complex digital transformations, cloud migration, modernization, integration and technology optimization, while delivering effective information security and risk management, across large, geographically and culturally diverse teams and organizations.

-  Technology Innovation: 6,000+ people and $1B annual budget
-  Vertical Markets: 20+ SaaS companies, 1,500+ people, $500M annual budget, $1B annual revenues 
-  Markets included; education, communities, restaurants, events & stadiums, retail, healthcare, gaming, and residential
-  Integration and optimization reduced costs, improved resilience, and produced reinvestment opportunities
-  Improved NPS by three points within six months
-  Increased service reliability to 99.9% in one year while significantly improving mean time to detection and recovery (MTTR and MTTD)
-  Led global initiative to standardize technology development capitalization rates >70% 
-  Developed business technology partner function with three directors delivering cross-functional leadership
-  Created Technology Center of Excellence (CoE) including KPIs to evaluate maturity and impact 
-  Deployed new software and integration strategies for users, developers and cloud services, as well as security, compliance, data governance, finance, and HR platforms
-  Delivered governance, modernization, cloud migration, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) due diligence, systems integration, information security, and operational resiliency

Vice President, Technology Innovation & Vertical Markets

-  International Tech Organization: 2,000+ people, 200 leaders, $55M budget, 5 continents, 50+ countries
-  Defined, developed, and executed global program including technology strategy, program and project management, and drove key initiatives
-  Delivered projects globally and created an international technology Center of Excellence
-  Increased technology service reliability, from 99% to 99.99% 
-  Increased NPS by two points
-  Managed risk, matured security posture, and operated global compliance
-  Enhanced collaboration, improved delivery, and reduced backlog with effective process optimization, and aligned product, business, and technology teams
-  Aligned technology strategy with corporate, product, and regional businesses across Asia Pacific, Australia, Canada, Europe, and LATAM 
-  Key initiatives: cloud migration (GCP), target architecture model (TAM), offshore and contractor resource model, an international center of excellence (CoE), payment strategy, cybersecurity, and compliance
-  Integrated offshore capabilities in India and China
-  Cultural integration using employee input and engagement to improve the overall experience, hiring, attrition, and onboarding
-  Standardized and increased offshore capitalization rates

Vice President, International Strategy & Transformation

-  Technology organization spanning 3,000 people, $500M budget 
-  50+ data centers or colocation facilities (colos) serving 500+ applications and products globally
-  Defined vision to modernize and execute digital transformation and cloud-first strategy spanning migration of traditional application architecture and development of new SaaS, IaaS, PaaS platforms
-  Developed cloud capabilities with 25 existing team members, five direct reports, and supplemental 30 contractors
-  Delivered multi-cloud services and technologies (“guard rails”): CI/CD, machine learning (ML), security & operational monitoring, cloud & data security, data lake, identity & access management (IAM), financial monitoring, infrastructure as code (IaC), and containers
-  Developed execution roadmap to support multi-cloud partnerships with Microsoft Azure and Google
-  Created and led cross-functional Agile and Scrum teams to rapidly migrate and deploy workloads
-  Partnered with Finance to develop CAPEX and OPEX for driving 50+ workload migrations and deployments including cloud-native data lake
- Led Google Cloud Partnership, five-year migration plan, and secured funding to exit 50+ data centers

Vice President, Cloud Delivery

-  Established and led the Global Security Office to engage business, regional and product teams, as well as corporate development 
-  Deployed global information security program including security standards and controls and corporate shared services integration
-  Designed and rolled out a security operations center and BISOs and ISOs to enhance engagement 
-  Leveraged a risk-based maturity model for standardizing security risk

Senior Director, Information Security Officer

Developed and led multiple, successful security programs to move the company’s security footing to a higher maturity level. Security projects and programs included: 

-  Threat and vulnerability management
-  Security engineering and architecture
-  Product and application security
-  Security advisory and consulting
-  Security risk management
-  Vendor & 3rd party risk management

Director Information Security

-  Expanded Global Security Operations Center (SOC) supporting secure operations 24/7/365 across multiple countries. 
-  Led company-wide Threat Management function including Threat Hunting and Incident Response.

Senior Manager Information Security

Created and expanded the Security Operations Center (SOC) and security controls, tools, processes, and standards required to achieve PCI compliance.

Senior Security Engineer

CentricsIT

Senior Engineer

Gamersmemory Inc.

Owner

Operational Security System

Security Engineer

I am a results-driven technology executive leading global innovation and complex modernization to optimize business-critical systems. 

Leveraging deep expertise and innovating to turn business strategy into reality, I lead teams to develop and deploy effective technologies to achieve excellent results for current objectives while building for the future.

Skills & Capabilities:
-  Information Technology Leadership
-  Team Building & Development
-  Client Relationships & Partnerships
-  Digital Transformation & Platform Strategy
-  Business Cases & Strategic Road-mapping
-  Innovation & Strategy
-  Leadership, Mentoring & Coaching 
-  Strategic Planning & Change Management
-  Process Modernization & Optimization
-  Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures

Technical Expertise:
-  Aligning Business Strategy & Technology Solutions
-  Enterprise Architecture & Technical Infrastructure
-  Scalable Solutions & Global Rollouts & Program Management
-  Systems Integration
-  Cloud Solutions, Migrations & Virtualization
-  Platform & Software Selection & Development
-  Go-To-Market Strategies

Information Security & Cybersecurity:
-  Cloud Security
-  Security Monitoring
-  Security Awareness
-  Threat & Vulnerability Management
-  Incident Response
-  Risk & Compliance
-  Security Information & Event Management (SIEM)
-  Data Governance & Data Protection
-  Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) – Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

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