Program Manager II - Converged Advertising & Linear Systems

Halit Uygur

Greenwich, CT ***** ***.*****@*****.*** 203-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/haluygur/ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior IT leader with global experience in IT risk, cybersecurity, IT services, infrastructure, and software development. Highly data driven and analytical; quantifies exposures, measures outcomes, and prioritizes remediation to drive business value. Trusted partner to executives and line of business technologists; established regulator validated, highly transparent evidence and remediation processes to achieve sustained compliance and clear stakeholder accountability. CORE COMPETENCIES

Cybersecurity Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) Identity and Access Management (IAM) Program Management Incident Management Emerging Tech & Fraud Risk Regulatory Remediation & Audit Closure PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professional Development & Consulting – Active job search 04/2025 - Present

• Completed 20+ LinkedIn Learning courses in AI/ML; earned certificates in Applied ML and Responsible AI.

• Provided pro-bono IAM risk assessment for a nonprofit, reducing privileged-access exceptions 25% in 3 months. Director - Royal Bank of Canada, Jersey City, NJ 09/2024 - 03/2025 Led technology risk identification, measurement, and remediation across Combined U.S. Operations (10 BUs, 20k users), driving root cause analysis, cross functional remediation, governance, and reporting.

• Operationalized RCSA, logical access testing, and quantitative risk measures; assigned custodianship to 100+ business process owners, formalized remediation governance, increased ownership to 80%, and cut control exceptions 50% in six months.

• Directed IAM remediation governance and exception management; instituted business risk weekly triage, reduced backlog 35% and MTTR 40%, and advised on compensating controls and exposure mitigation.

• Integrated telemetry, vulnerability, and control evidence into automated GRC dashboards and workflows, enabling coordinated assessments, evidence based escalation, and improved audit/regulatory readiness. Vice President - State Street Corporation, Jersey City, NJ 06/2023 – 09/2024 Directed a global IAM transformation and identity governance data strategy for 50,000 users, building the platform, ETL pipelines, entitlement catalog, and analytics to enable role design, access attestations, regulatory exam readiness, and executive reporting.

• Led migration to role based (RBAC) and attribute based (ABAC) access controls, partnering with UX/UI consultants to streamline workflows, reducing provisioning time 50% and standardizing enterprise wide access controls.

• Built role mining ETL pipelines and global analytics, raising least privilege compliance from 60% to 98% and surfacing entitlement patterns that informed enterprise RBAC/ABAC definitions.

• Automated access governance and segregation of duty (SoD) controls, eliminating 95% of exceptions and closing a European Central Bank audit finding while strengthening privacy and regulatory safeguards.

• Transformed certification processes into role based attestations with usage analytics and automated reporting, enabling 30% more data driven revokes and cutting SOX audit preparation time 50%. Director - Mitsubishi UFG Financial Group Inc, New York, NY 06/2020 – 06/2023 Journey owner accountable for operationalizing and governing security strategy to align with business objectives, regulatory expectations, and evolving technology. Delivered scalable operating models, measurable outcomes, and durable risk reduction.

• Automated provisioning and recertifications by architecting and deploying a target state IAM with embedded lifecycle controls, boosting compliance 50%.

• Implemented CyberArk and remediated IAM/PAM findings from regulators and third party penetration tests, applying zero tolerance thresholds and continuous compliance workflows to cut privileged access exceptions 85%.

• Partnered with business architects to enforce SoD controls, eliminating 5,000 unauthorized access paths.

• Architected ETL pipelines to consolidate identities, entitlements, and infrastructure, increasing asset coverage to 95% and enabling real time risk dashboards that accelerated remediation and strengthened compliance. Senior Consultant - Royal Bank of Canada, Jersey City, NJ 06/2019 - 12/2019 Advised the infrastructure CTO on cloud modernization strategy to accelerate innovation and operational agility.

• Engineered ETL pipelines and analysis framework for ~1,000 applications, streamlining discovery and cloud migration planning.

• Operationalized SQL reconciliation reports and deployed system owner dashboards, cutting migration decision time 50%. Halit Uygur Page 2

Executive Director – Morgan Stanley, New York, NY 04/2010 - 05/2019 Led a data driven cybersecurity transformation, integrating the asset identity model with offshore SOC operations to deliver predictive controls, anomaly detection, and model-based risk scoring. Transitioned to business-as-usual (BAU) and retained oversight of IAM operations and SOC performance.

• Designed, governed, and operated the firm’s authoritative, regulator validated asset identity data model, capturing application/component lineage, data sensitivity classifications, and user entitlements.

• Standardized risk metrics and consolidated reporting, integrating into the enterprise risk framework and SDLC gates; built the ETL and dashboarding pipeline to deliver auditable risk insights to stakeholders, bringing 65% of identified risks within tolerance.

• Chaired Data Security and Insider Threat/Fraud Prevention steering committees; operationalized anomaly detection and telemetry controls, cutting sensitive data exposure 40% and sustaining 95% compliance, and managed identified risks through the firm’s operational risk management framework.

• Modernized IAM, implementing 500+ RBAC/ABAC roles and just in time provisioning, eliminating SoD violations, cutting incidents 30%, and closing global governance findings within 12 months. Senior Director - Veritas Technologies LLC, New York, NY 04/2002 - 04/2010 Launched CommandCentral Service (CCS), a storage management platform with metering, provisioning, APIs, and reporting. Owned product vision, roadmap, QA, and go to market; partnered with sales and engineering to accelerate time to market and boost adoption.

• Secured Gartner Magic Quadrant placement and exceeded first year revenue targets +40% through a targeted commercialization and customer facing adoption strategy.

• Cut launch cycle 30% by adopting CI/CD, refining Agile sprints, and coordinating with an offshore engineering team to accelerate releases and improve quality.

• Expanded the CCS ecosystem by integrating metering and process automation from strategic acquisitions and leading 50+ API workshops to enable system integrators and partners. Vice President – StorageNetworks, Waltham, MA 04/2000 - 04/2002 Launched and led the global 24/7 Network Operations Center for a storage services provider. Defined an ITIL aligned service delivery model and ITSM roadmap, and implemented runbooks and operator training to ensure high availability.

• Sustained 99.5% availability by deploying a centralized service level management system for real time monitoring and reporting of storage performance, consistently meeting client SLAs. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Security & Observability: Splunk; SIEM; SOAR; Telemetry; Log Analytics; Archer Identity & Access Management: SailPoint; Forge Rock; Ping Identity; IAM; PAM; RBAC; ABAC; PBAC; Provisioning; Access Certifications Governance & Frameworks: NIST; ISO/IEC 27000; SOC 2; COBIT; BCBS 239; HIPAA; HITRUST; ITIL; ITSM; SDLC; PDLC Data & Analytics (Statistical Programming / Data Science): SQL (MSSQL; Oracle; Postgres); Excel; VBA; R; Python; ETL Data Visualization: Tableau; Power BI; Splunk dashboards; Excel (advanced modeling); Python (Pandas/Plotly) Project Management & Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, sprint/release planning); Waterfall; SAFe; MS Project Collaboration Tools: ServiceNow CMDB; Confluence; JIRA; OneNote; PowerPoint; MS Project; Visio EDUCATION

Master of Public Administration (MPA), Urban Planning New York University - New York, NY

Bachelor of Science (BS), Applied Mathematics

Stony Brook University - Stony Brook, NY

LANGUAGES

English (Native); French (Conversational)

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