Strategic IT Leader Cloud, Security & Automation

Michele Schochet

Information Technology Director

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Sarasota, Florida 34241

E-mail: ******@*****.***

Mobile: 408-***-****

Summary

Strategic-minded leader with 20+ years of experience building, growing and managing teams using a holistic and data-driven approach. The threat landscape is evolving, framing the paradigm to be solutions-driven is a foundational element for teams to successfully land impact. Security and scalability are at the core of our DNA. Leveraging a broad range of skills, I lead the Cloud and Client Endpoint Production and Security Engineering teams responsible for the building of scalable, reliable, and secure solutions to meet our productivity goals in alignment with the company mission. We empower teams to streamline the scaling of their productivity within safe and secure environments to build a privacy-focused social networking platform. With a passion for the transformation and stabilization teams, focusing on the alignment of roadmaps with org- and company-wide strategic direction, I thrive in complex environments where I am presented with challenging situations. These are the most interesting, and rewarding opportunities for teams to automate, scale and grow. Experience

Schochet Consulting, LLC - January 2023 - August 2025 (2 years 9 months) 1/5/2023 - 10/1/2023 Program Management Consultant for CIO at ASU United States

● Successfully led programs for the IT infrastructure and Cybersecurity organization's compliance and initiatives to deliver results on time and within a well managed scope supporting the Office of CIO campus-wide. Implemented dashboard informed and updated business processes to align with ITIL V4 Framework practices, University culture and the Executive Sponsor’s priorities.

● Drove the upgrade of the legacy ServiceNow implementation to the most current version across the modules purchased by the University to recognize $80M of potential loss and risks identified in financial audits results.

● Successfully reduced total quantity, length of duration and overall severity of outages (planned and unplanned maintenance windows) by 95%-98% upon completion of the contract through the implementation of short- and long- term strategies, focusing on Security based practices leveraging OWAP Top 10 and the NIST frameworks to reduce risks introduced by data loss and breaches.

● Proactively provided targeted updates via monthly reporting to the Executive Steering Committee with detailed weekly updates to Individual Contributor Stakeholders through the implementation of the XFN Change Control Board, composed of Individual Contributors and Stakeholders at a Leadership level. Twitter - Senior Director Information Technology June 2021 - January 2023 (1 year 8 months)

● Reduced overall employee turnover rates from 90% to 10% over 2 quarters, addressing morale concerns communicated via Pulse surveys during planned 6 month intervals to drive down overall cost of employee hiring and ongoing support by HRBP teams. Morale improved to 90% within the IT Operations and Client Platform Engineering team, supporting team of 100+

● Successfully increased savings to the business by $50M YoY through the strategic allocation and introduction of process efficiency improvements using automated tooling and real time monitoring dashboard in partnership with HRBPs and strategic reallocation of resources. Results measured in a $50M reduction of

● Identified assets lost or stolen to ensure 95% data accuracy for legal holds, as measured via Munki and Uptycs dashboard reporting tools. Improperly tracked assets were identified, with a measured reduction from 1200 to 9 for the total fleet of 18,000 systems.

● Successfully measured and reported security breaches reported by Apple and Microsoft reduced from 88% to an overall 5% on a daily and monthly reported basis for an overall reduction in reported data security breaches leveraging measured dashboards which as measured by Daily Active Users(DAU) in the short-term and Monthly ActiveUsers (MAU) in longer-term.

● Implemented an RFID tracking tool to decrease improperly tracked assets identified for high risk legal holds upon termination of employees while increasing risk from improperly tracked assets identified as “legal hold” requirements upon termination of employees. costs and financial loss and measured the intangible reputation losses as measured by Daily Active Users (DAU) in the short-term and Monthly ActiveUsers (MAU) in longer-term.

● Increased system management to 99% fleet wide across Linux, Windows and MacBook platform through active patch management on a daily cycle, communicating to users via email, text, with forced updates based on the urgency levels identified.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Director, Infrastructure - December 2019 - June 2021 (1 year 7 months)

● Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS, Board Member) April 2019 - December 2020 (1 year 9 months

● Experienced data center, IT infrastructure implementation TPM and recovering

● UNIX release engineer focused on creative data-driven solutions to Technology barriers for internal users. Through increased engagement with our customers, we establish shared challenges and common goals to develop solutions as a team.

Current initiatives:

● North America End User Operations

● Leadership development programs, partnering with eng and infra orgs

● Diversity champion for women in team. Manager, Enterprise Engineering Infrastructure TPM and Globa

● Capacity Planning

January 2011 - February 2015 (4 years 2 months)

● Built and managed Enterprise Engineering Infrastructure TPM pod, focused on a global portfolio of high impact, complex and cross functional initiatives.

● OCIO Program Manager, Management Practice Leader November 2010 - February 2012 (1 year 4 months).

● Invisible IT - Director of Professional Services (June 2008 - October 2010 (2 years 5 month)

● Provide safety, resilience and protection of Facebook's corporate information - FacebookJanuary 2018 - November 2019 (1 year 11 months) Sr. Manager, Enterprise Operations

1.January 2015 - September 2017 (2 years 9 months)

Redwood City, California FriendFinder Networks, Inc. 2.Director of Operations

June 2007 - May 2008 (1 year)

3.GNi: Director of Operations

er 2005 - July 2006 (8 months)

Program Manager responsible for outsourcing of Mercury Interactive's global

IT support to EDS as a partner to our CIO. This became an acquisition 4.Engagement by HP Pac-West Telecomm - Technical Development Manager (August 2004 - April 2005 (9 months))

5.Taos - Technical Project Management ((February 2004 - July 2004 (6 months)vContracted as a project manager to oversee project consolidating 4 datacenters into 1 facility, buildout of multiple internal organization labs campus relocation of 800 users

6.Abovenet, Inc./SiteSmit - Senior Project Manager (September 2000 - December 2003

(3 years 4 months)

7.Sendmail, Inc. (Manager - Knowledgebase Engineering and Development August 1999

- September 2000 (1 year 2 months)

8.Cygnus Solutions - Program Manager (November 1997 - August 1999 (1 year 10 months)

9.Lighthouse Design/Sun Microsystems - Release Engineer -February 1997 - November 1997 (10 months)

Education

University of Nevada, Reno

● International Affairs, Russian Foreign Policy, Economics · (Septembr 1993 - December 1996)

● University of Nevada, Reno (Bachelor of Arts (BA), International Affairs, Minor in Economics)

● University of Nevada, RenoZ (Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Economics)

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