Program Manager Security

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Monroe, WA *****

Phone 206-***-****

E-mail *******@*******.***

Thomas Layson

Summary

Senior Technical Program Manager with a very strong technical background and many years of experience delivering world class software. Consistently recognized for my collaboration and problem-solving skills. Strong background in Privacy and Security issues including GDPR and CCPA.

Professional experience

Senior Technical Program Manager, Privacy and Security

Moz Inc, Seattle WA. July 2017-Present

Developed Privacy and Security Program and Policies for all of Moz, including compliance with all GDPR requirements. Worked with Engineering, Legal, Business and Marketing teams to develop new products and APIs. Designed, created and delivered employee training courses in Privacy & Security and Project Management. Led multiple projects across all disciplines that required in depth cross-team collaboration.

In addition to my TPM duties, I was certified in change management and helped lead Moz through some major changes as the company grew. We standardized tools and provided training as we merge with a company we recently acquired.

Senior Technical Program Manager

Insight Global, Seattle WA. July 2016 – February 2017

Led company wide effort for Microsoft to replace their existing partner relations tools. These tools allow MS to securely share pre-release builds, documents and feedback with external companies during the software development phase.

Senior Technical Program Manager, Privacy and Security

Amazon, Seattle WA. August 2013 – June 2016

Responsible for privacy and security across Amazon’s advertising division. Partnered with business, engineering, InfoSec, legal and PR to develop business friendly solutions to complex privacy and security related issues. Lead the initiative to move all of Amazon’s advertising division to use HTTPS worldwide. Appointed a legal representative of Amazon to conduct internal compliance reviews, including code reviews and network access and configuration.

Senior Technical Program Manager

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA. August 2011 – July 2013

Responsible for overseeing and coordinating all overseas development of technology for Electronic Software Distribution (ESD). Partnered with business and engineering teams to deliver a world-class delivery system for all Microsoft products. Responsible for creating and running the sustained engineering program for all Redmond based HBI applications related to ESD. Collaborated with multiple partner teams to create a system for monitoring and maintaining all of our interrelated HBI systems.

Technical Program Manager

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA. May 2008 – April 2011

Successfully drove a cross division effort to upgrade and strengthen the product key technologies that are core to all of Microsoft’s activation and validation strategies as well as other key security technologies. Coordinated effort with IT, business, marketing and engineering to update hundreds of systems company-wide that relied on these technologies.

Lead Software Development Engineer (SDE)

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA. December 1997 – May 2008

Lead developer working on various MSN properties including MSN Billpay, MSN Money (both web and box) and MSN Travel. Responsible for all aspects of the project life cycle from the initial concept and design to final deployment. I managed schedules and personnel as well as 3rd party relationships. I also provided training for developers in various areas of development and debugging techniques. Experienced in desktop and client/server application design and development.

Familiar with many technologies including C, C#, C++, ATL, WTL, COM, SQL, IIS, ISAPI, ASP, VBScript, Java, ADO.NET and other .NET technologies along with 3rd party APIs.

Education

Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA

BA in Computer Science

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