Cyber Security, Information Technology, Strategy, Leadership

Rick Pressler

Senior IT Leader, BSIT, MSITM, CISM

Highly experienced Information Technology Cyber Security Leader, building partnerships with the C-level business leadership, external partners and vendors to maximize their investments in human capital and data technology through program oversight, project delivery, solution option analysis, technology roadmap initiatives, IT and Cyber strategy, system architecture, security, and business process optimization. Direct and lead enterprise level programs and project solutions across a wide variety of industries and verticals. Experienced at managing project timelines, vendor relationships, resources, SOW’s, specifications, requirements, budgets, governance, risk management, program management, and security profiles, P/L targets and training plans. Specializing in enabling, coaching and mentoring team members to be successful at providing positive work and project outcomes and ensuring business stakeholders are highly satisfied.

EDUCATION

JCCC IT Management and Supervisory Program

BSIT, Bachelors Information Technology, University of Phoenix

MSITM, Masters Information Technology Management, Keller Graduate School

CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Microsoft Certified .NET Professional (MCNP)

Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)

Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)

Scrum Master, International Scrum Institute™

CompTIA Security +

Keller Foundation for Leadership and Success, Certificate

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Coca-Cola Florida, Tampa, Fl. March 2023 - Present

Director of Cyber Security

Evaluates, tests, recommends, develops, coordinates, monitors and maintains information systems (IS) and cyber security policies, procedures and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware and software. Ensures that IS and cyber security architecture/designs, plans, controls, processes, standards, policies and procedures are aligned with IS standards and overall IS and cyber security. Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security. Develops techniques and procedures for conducting IS and cyber security risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents. Implements IS and cyber security policies and takes measures against intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks. Works on complex issues where analysis requires advanced analytical thought and judgment. Participates in the interview/selection process, provides training and mentorship, offers career development guidance, and is engaged in performance management. Develops functional plans, including business, operational, and financial priorities that contribute to business unit strategy. Establishes and assures adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements. Translates business unit/company objectives into functional plans and guides execution.

Purecycle Technologies, Orlando, Fl. 2021-Dec 2023

Director of Cyber Security

Leads Global Cyber Security Operations through subsidiary leaders, or highly analytical and technical professionals, focusing on strategic work. Evaluates, tests, recommends, develops, coordinates, monitors, and maintains information systems and cyber security policies, procedures, guidelines and systems, including access management for hardware and software. Ensures that IS and cyber security architecture, designs, plans, controls, processes and standards are aligned with IS and Industry standards such as NIST and CMMC. Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security. Develops techniques and procedures for conducting IS and cyber security risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents. Implements IS and cyber security policies and takes measures against intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks. Looks beyond existing methodologies and own function to define and resolve complex issues. Participates in the interview/selection process, provides training and mentorship, offers career development guidance, and is engaged in performance management. Adapts and executes business plans for departments and/or functional areas; contributes to business unit strategy. Translates business unit/company objectives into functional strategic plans that impact operating results of the business unit/company. Secures and deploys resources to achieve results aligned with business unit/company goals, commitments, and financial responsibilities including MSPs and SOC/SIEM partners. Has overall control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods. Span of control to 60 people.

Heartland Coca-Cola, Lenexa, Ks. 2016-2021

Cyber Security Director

Design and build from the ground up and then continue to manage cloud solutions, infrastructure, technology, security, governance, data center and application projects for a $600 million new bottler with 2200 employees across 18 locations in 3 states. Manage relationships with vendors and partners; build and manage leader relationships with the technology departments at the other bottlers across the United State and Canada; attend all national conferences and summits to interact and build strong partnerships with TCCC and CONA (parent of independent bottlers within Coca-Cola entities); develop and mentor the team and staff, help build careers and evolve the technology landscape inside Heartland Coca Cola. Built up a enterprise effort to redesign and rebuild a complete Cyber Security solution and environment with SOC and SIEM capabilities, operational and governing policies and procedures to meet primarily NIST-8xx standards with selected ISO -27001, COBIT 5, ITIL and CIS level 1 guidelines as well then implement company wide. Continue to monitor, escalate, report, mitigate or remediate all Cyber Security risks, issues and incidents. Proactively test and train all 2200 employees to watch for phishing and malware intrusion attempts and block them. 2020 was a stellar year and saw us roll out MSFT TEAMS, ATP DEFENDER, QRADAR, INTUNE, AZURE, FORTINET and AUTOPILOT. Direct and lead enterprise level programs and project solutions across a wide variety of industries and verticals. Experienced at managing project timelines, vendor relationships, resources, SOW’s, specifications, requirements, budgets, governance, risk and security profiles, P/L targets and training plans. Specializing in enabling, coaching and mentoring team members to be successful at providing positive work and project outcomes and ensuring business stakeholders are highly satisfied. Span of control is 30 to 40 people at any given time.

Adams Gabbert, Overland Park, KS 2013-2016

Sr. Program Manager / IT Service Delivery Director

Served as a technical leader, strategic project director, project manager, team leader and liaison between both internal and external (client) stakeholders and suppliers. Through these relationships gather, translate, and document high-level business requirements for inclusion in proposals and enterprise level system projects resulting in highly satisfied clients. Understands the entire scope of the project at a high-level and works to build a level of effort and technical approach which allows for the successful delivery of a solution based on the business need, risk, and investment criteria. Up to 100 consultants in the field at any given time.

Recent Project: Service Delivery Manager for Zurich North America overseeing IT Service Delivery for over 900 employees coast to coast delivering consistently at 97% satisfaction level. Implemented a new single solution using Oracle tools. Upgraded Office and IE to latest versions across 900 desktops and laptops. Infrastructure upgrades and rollouts over the entire network. Installed and delivered cloud solutions as needed. Delivered private cloud virtual server allocation system. Migrated from Remedy to Service Now for all change control, incident management and CMDB. Delivered large migration project moving from Lotus Notes to MSFT Exchange. Ran annual disaster recovery exercises at offsite facility. Authored change control procedures and SLA’s for all systems. Heavily invested in full SDLC delivery from Scope to Specifications and Requirements through Delivery.

Perform as director of project delivery at Quest diagnostics redefining their SDLC application delivery processes and governance using waterfall and scrum techniques that delivered objects up to 50% faster than previous methods. We improved communications and sign-off processes for gathering and delivering specification and requirement documents.

BizTalk and SQL Server Delivery project review at eGov Pennsylvania providing stellar service to allow early project delivery using stream-lined SDLC.

UMB, Kansas City 2012-2013

IT Service Delivery Manager

Worked closely within all levels of MIS to scope, spec, design, build, deploy, and maintain optimized, consistent, and cost-effective MIS data service projects and solutions

Focused on service delivery, project delivery and service management disciplines and be expected to provide leadership to ad-hoc teams, projects, and informal working groups

Designed and developed advanced IT Data Systems practices to better improve the UMB computing experience

Trained new employees following UMB corporate, department and work center policies as requested. Partner and interact with technology vendors in support of the UMB environment

Led Team of 12 people.

TEK Systems Consultant 2009-2012

Project Director, Principal Enterprise Consultant

Contract: UMB Financial

Delivered, oversight and executed a SQL Server enterprise-wide data migration and consolidation project. Offer database systems performance and capacity planning best practices to increase data optimization. Team of 12.

Contract: Americo Financial

Delivered SQL Server/Windows based Data Infrastructure projects for large Insurance industry applications and systems including 450 end users. Help develop standards and best practices rules and spec/req documentation for the data infrastructure, help lead up the internal SQL architecture design committee. Review/approve all project plans including any data components. Team of 6.

Contract: Embarq Communications

Oversight for a team that designed and constructed an enterprise automated database marketing system to analyze marketing campaign data in order to optimize and schedule up to 40-50 million media drops per month for various campaigns across advertising types and markets. With enhanced SDLC life cycle, we achieved a reduced time to market and simplified post campaign success analysis evaluation process. Team of 8.

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