Information Security Financial Services

ADOLPH BARCLIFT

CISSP Atlanta Metro 612-***-**** ******.********@**********.***

www.linkedin.com/in/adolph-barclift-5916621/

Summary

Adolph Barclift has more than 20 years’ experience information systems solution delivery, information security and data visualization with broad background as a CISO, building and leading teams in financial services.

Portfolio includes information security policy, operations, vulnerability management, fraud detection, business intelligence and bank regulatory compliance operations across heterogeneous SaaS environments.

Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks including: NIST-CSF, NIST 800-53 Security and Privacy Controls: GDPR, SOX, PCI-DSS, GLBA, SSAE 16/18, and ISO-27001.

Education

University of Minnesota, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Certification

Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP)

Experience

CyberdomeUSA, Marietta, GA (December 2023 – Date)

SME Consultant

CyberdomeUSA ( https://www.cyberdomeusa.com/#about ) is an information security managed services provider (MSSP) offering integrated cyber security solutions.

oMember of CyberdomeUSA Center of Excellence providing managed security services (CISO-as-a-Service, security assessments, SOC management, zero-trust solutions) to the healthcare sector & municipalities.

Five Star Bank (Financial Institutions Inc.), Rochester, NY (September 2020 – May 2023).

Chief Information Security Officer

Five Star Bank ($6B assets) provides banking and financial services in Western and Central New York State.

oHired as their first 1st CISO to rebuild the InfoSec program and provide guidance to executive leadership.

oCrafted a 3-yr strategic InfoSec plan to support digital transformation and growth initiatives.

oGuided regulatory compliance, BCP/DR, threat detection, risk assessments and security awareness.

oAdvanced cybersecurity skills training and development for all staff.

oInstantiated a cybersecurity incident response plan using NIST frameworks.

oParticipated as a member of 3 board-level committees.

Trintech, Inc., Addison, TX (November 2019 – September 2020).

Consultant

Trintech is a multi-national financial software and SaaS provider.

oSuccessful rollout of ISO 27001 Certification Program.

oSME for a Reporting, Analytics, BI platform using Snowflake, WhereScape, Tableau and Power BI.

NCR Financial Services (NCR), Atlanta, GA (2015 – November 2019)

Chief Information Security Officer

NCR Financial Services Division includes: Digital Banking, ATMs and POS devices. Digital Banking delivers Internet banking products as a cloud service (SaaS) to more than 900 financial institutions.

oMember of senior leadership team and Incident Response leader for Digital Banking business unit.

oProvided cybersecurity and compliance best practices guidance to Financial Services Division.

oSuccessfully managed FFIEC, PCI-DSS, SSAE 16/18 and ISO-27001 audits for SaaS Digital Banking.

oDelivered GDPR privacy program for SaaS Digital Banking.

oEnhanced cyber-security for (2000-vendor) management system and policies.

oRedesigned cybersecurity code review & penetration-test programs using SafeNet, Whitehat, Contrast, F5 Technology, and Rapid7.

oDeployed (10,000-server) Data Loss Prevention (DLP) & cryptographic-key management systems.

oSuccessfully established NIST Cybersecurity Framework into Digital Banking private-to-public cloud digital transformation.

oNegotiated security and data privacy compliance contracts.

oExpanded (Splunk-based) digital banking fraud-detection and countermeasures.

USEReady, Inc., New York, NY (2014 – 2015)

Director, Business Intelligence Solutions

USEReady is an Agile Methods BI consultancy and cybersecurity managed service provider.

oSME for Dev Ops and Business Intelligence technology guidance.

oSolution architect for ~15 clients. Presales support to Sales team.

oEvangelist for BI and visual analytics technology.

Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C. (2008 – 2014)

Database and Infrastructure Manager; consultant with Fannie Mae’s Chief Risk Office Technology Group.

oData visualization SME using Tableau BI.

oArchitected a BI system using SharePoint, PolyPaths, ADCo, AFT, Tableau and SQL Server for Capital Markets and Credit Risk.

oTransformed data modelling/visualization platform for analysis of $3-trillion mortgage-backed securities.

Knowledge Decision Services, LLC., San Francisco, CA (2001 – 2008)

Managing Director, Strategy

(KDS) provides prepayment and default models via: www.kdsglobal.com & www.cprcdr.com.

oImplemented a market strategy, presales support program, database SME roles, lead generation.

oParticipated in creating a SaaS OLAP platform for credit card and mortgage-backed securities; 35 TB with 33-million loans.

Professional Expertise

Methodologies UML, SEI-CMM 20 yrs.

O/S Windows, Linux, AIX, OS/390 20 yrs.

Languages C#, UNIX Shell Script, Java Eclipse, PowerShell 20 yrs.

Tools SQL Server, Oracle, Visio, Matlab, PolyPaths 20 yrs.

Middleware SharePoint, Tableau, .NET 15 yrs.

Associations ACM, IEEE, National Society of Black Engineers

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