Jason Hill
M: 865-***-**** adhadr@r.postjobfree.com Summerville, GA
Practice Building Diverse Competencies Business Convergence
Information Security Executive
Entrepreneurial, driven information security executive successful in growing teams, building organizational excellence, establishing secure and compliant organizations while enabling business growth and profitability.
Practice Building: Directly responsible for building practices responsible for achieving certifications and accolades as well as multiple Managed Security Services Providers creation and profitable growth.
Diverse Competencies: Consistently distills complex technical and regulatory ideas into layman terms to enhance cross discipline understanding and break barriers between groups.
Business Convergence: Solid record of maximizing return on security investment for various financial services, health care providers, and other regulated firms.
~ Strengths and Competencies ~
Former PCI-DSS QSA ● US Citizen ● DoD Contract Experience ● Managing Technical Teams ● Risk Assessment ● NIST SP 800-53 ● Auditing ● Infrastructure Architecture ● SIEM / IDS ● Training ● Cloud Computing
Professional Experience
CYBRIANT. - Alpharetta, GA ` 2016 - 2020
Director, Strategic Services
Hired as 6th employee and helped build the organization, within the executive leadership team, to be recognized as one of the fastest growing and best places to work in Atlanta.
·Developed first of its kind mobile security assessment program for Fortune 1000 clients allowing for unprecedented visibility into mobile device threats
·Integral to increasing revenue in MSSP business unit to profitability in four years through ensuring continuous progress and organic growth.
·Increased cybersecurity resiliency for the Department of Defense via research initiative
·Drove compliance practice to achieve American Institute of CPA’s SOC2 certification by building the policies, processes, and procedures from scratch
·Increased departmental revenue 7X by managing a team that captured 40% of all highly technical vendor training and professional services worldwide by achieving 87% Net Promoter Score, double the nearest competitor
·Expanded existing capabilities by 17% through mentoring and grooming project management office personnel to PMP standards
·Lead company special projects team to ensure prompt and effective action on emerging threats
SWORD & SHIELD ENTERPRISE SECURITY, INC. - Knoxville, TN
Enterprise Consultant 2013 - 2016
Provided highly technical and strategic aid in achieving corporate planning and cyber security alignment from SMB to multinational Fortune 500 customers. Acted as a CISO for multibillion revenue corporates for providing efficient incident management system and augmenting cyber-resiliency.
·Built to profitability Managed Security Service Provider division by establishing and coordinating all operations and leading MSSP business unit until on-site manager could be found.
·Increased cyber-resiliency that enabled active successful incident containment as acting CISO for multibillion revenue company.
·Ensured compliant and certified results on quarter billion dollar Department of Defense infrastructure project as project Information Assurance lead.
ALIENVAULT (ATT CYBERSECURITY) - San Mateo, CA
Subject Matter Expert Engineer / Trainer 2012
Provided top tier support for customers as SME engineer. Contributed to AlienVault Training material and provided top rated training for end-users. Designed and implemented AlienVault deployments at various locations across the country and in a wide variety of environments.
TERENINE - Chattanooga, TN 2009-2012
Achieved 99.985% uptime by managing effective team of Linux engineers. Also, reduced datacenter overhead by 27% by building 99% virtualized datacenter with virtually
Critical Infrastructure Manager 2010-2012
Improved business performance and efficiency by developing KPIs and strategies for highly professional team and mentoring that team to become center of excellence standard for company.
Ensured continued operation by designing and championing Business Continuity and Disaster Recover Plan program for Tier 3 Datacenter.
Garnered accolades as technical SME, private cloud – VMware, for internal and external clients
Met and surpasses projects targets by meeting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and implementing effective procedures through leveraging ITIL approaches.
Linux Team Manager 2009-2010
Grew effective team of six Linux engineers to provide greater uptime than any other infrastructure department while also exceeding uptime SLAs
Architected and implemented security guidelines that exceeded NIST Moderate standards for data security on Linux platform
Ensured smooth transition during enterprise storage migration as infrastructure liaison to storage team
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA - Linux System Engineer III - Chattanooga, TN 2008-2009
Ensured uptime and availability of the universities’ EDR and websites.
RINGGOLD TELEPHONE COMPANY - Linux System Administrator - Ringgold, GA 2007-2008
Optimized uptime and availability of all company’s IT infrastructure
ADVANCEME INC. - Telecom/Network Administrator - Kennesaw, GA 2005-2007
Redesigned call center in-house for 43% reduced cost vs vendor
Education and Certifications
Master of Science in Information Systems - Kennesaw State University - Kennesaw, GA
Certified Information Systems Security Professional - CISSP
Certified Information Systems Auditor - CISA