Cyber Security Manager

Nathan Hoyt

******.****@*******.*** 281-***-****

***** ********* ***** **., ******* TX 77433

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-hoyt-63a339/

Cybersecurity Leader

Experienced technology professional with experience guiding global engineering teams, driving enterprise initiatives, and cultivating high-performing, cross-functional teams. Recognized for mentoring early-career professionals, creating impactful onboarding programs and building inclusive, productive team cultures. Trusted to lead through change, including merger readiness, numerous and varied tool integrations, and site-level team engagement. Known for strategic thinking, people-first leadership, and removing barriers to team success.

Core Competencies

Leading Technical Teams Cross-Functional Collaboration Interpersonal Communication

Talent Development Change Management Stakeholder Management Project Management

Professional Experience

HPE Cybersecurity, Houston TX November 2022 – May 2025

Sr. Manager - Office of the Chief Security Officer

Led strategic cybersecurity onboarding, team development, and engagement initiatives to support early-career professionals.

Designed and implemented a cybersecurity onboarding process in preparation for a merger; earned a 93% “very positive” satisfaction rating from new hires.

Appointed by the CISO as Site Leader for over two dozen Houston-based cybersecurity staff, mentoring primarily early-career professionals to support their success and integration.

Created a welcoming, team-oriented site environment, resulting in nearly 50% increase in office attendance.

Directed onboarding and engagement efforts for a high-potential employee program and led intern hiring and development for cybersecurity.

Led a Pan-HPE initiative exploring centralized Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) tool adoption to streamline compliance efforts.

Actively supported HPE’s Houston site culture by organizing multiple community-focused events, including food bank volunteer activities.

Removed day-to-day barriers for junior staff, enabling stronger focus, team cohesion, and job satisfaction.

HPE Cybersecurity, Houston TX December 2012 - November 2022

Sr. Manager of Cybersecurity Engineering

Led a team of up to 16 engineers responsible for Cybersecurity product evaluation and deployment, Cybersecurity consulting within HP, and Cybersecurity network reviews. Awarded the 2019 HPE’s President’s Quality Award for efforts to improve HPE cybersecurity posture. This was awarded from strong working relationships with groups such as HP IT both at the technical level as well as business level to improve the security posture of the company.

Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) from Splunk

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Led the selection, negotiation, and deployment of critical cybersecurity solutions

oLed group that managed Rapid7 service scanning 750K node and decreased full enterprise scans times by more than 75%. Also moved to utilize agent-based scanning for improved data accuracy.

oMaintained 500K+ node McAfee endpoint protection tool.

oDeployed Tanium to 500K+ endpoints.

oProofpoint for email security that decreased malicious email by more than 50%

oVectra for network detection and response.

oRestructured SIEM and added SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) with first phase efficiencies equating to 1.5 people resources.

Trained 4 new managers and 3 have been promoted to Sr. manager or director levels.

Led Cybersecurity network team as we successfully and securely separated HP, HPE, and DXC.

This role was about delivering value, acting as both a program manager/lead at times, vendor management and negotiations, resource allocation management, and working with the PMs and management to not just get the right staff in place, but also to resolve obstacles for the team to be successful.

HP/HPE, Houston TX November 2001 - November 2012

Sr. Manager of IT Engineering

Managed a team of 11 to 13 engineers covering both Enterprise Directory/Active Directory for engineering and service delivery for HP/HPE IT.

Managed the team that successfully moved all services into new data center, meeting cost and timing goals and reduced number of servers needed by 50%.

Managed oldest (outside of Microsoft) enterprise class Active Directory through 3 major acquisitions/mergers.

Architected and engineered DNS, PKI, NTP, and SiteMinder web authentication. Projects included the Active Directory integration of EDS acquisition, architecting team’s portion of IT’s Data Center Consolidation. Led effort to move team from managed services back to IT internally.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

Management Information Systems from University of Houston, Cum Laude

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

University of Houston, with a management area of concentration

Certifications

CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) - 2015

CCSK (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge) - Feb. 2021

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Apr. 2023

ITIL Foundation – 2014

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