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John D. Johnson, Ph.D., CISSP
Career Objective
My goal is to serve as a senior security executive or CISO at a large multi-national corporation, with responsibilities to:
- Align information assurance and risk management policies with busines objectives. Background
- Senior security professional with more than 12 years proven experience managing technical security programs across more than 130 John Deere business units in 160 countries worldwide at John Deere and 20 years of professional experience in government and industry. - Previously held DOE TCI Clearance, working as a postdoctoral fellow, technical staff member and network security manager for Los Alamos National Laboratory (1993-1999). - CISSP credentialed since 2000
Experience
- Experience managing professionals in cross-functional teams, for technical evaluations, global product deployment, process development and ongoing technical and customer support.
- Experience working with business partners and stakeholders to deliver security solutions that enable business growth, process excellence and add genuine business value.
- Experience developing global security policies, standards and guidelines.
- Experience working closely with legal and supply management in contract negotiations to select security tools and services on contracts exceeding $1M.
- Experience developing, testing and implementation of disaster recovery and continuity plans.
- Experience working with global audits and legal and compliance issues, including: HIPAA, SOX, GLB, PCI.
- Experience implementing security best practices and protocols, including: SSL/IPsec VPN, SSL, SSH, NAT, IDS, WLAN, VLAN, Mobile Communications, embedded systems, PKI. - Experience identifying protection goals, managing technical security and incident response for a heterogeneous and globally diverse network of 80,000 endpoints. Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to interact well with peers, customers, staff and senior executives. - Able to explain complex subject matter in an easy to understand way, to global audiences with varied experience and cultural backgrounds. - Extensive training and experience managing complex global projects. - Well respected subject matter expert and security industry thought leader, engaged with industry leading information security leaders on leading edge efforts on security standards, policies and practices. - Ability to communicate knowledge and expertise and to provide insight and direction to stakeholders. - Highly ethical and dedicated professional, able to work effectively in a global, matrixed, multi-cultural, collaborative environment.
- Possesses a self-motivated, resilient, can-do attitude to overcome obstacles and find resolution in sometimes difficult conditions.
- Experienced leader and facilitator, with the ability to persuade and inform stakeholders with diverse interests to reach consensus on complex and high impact subjects. - Demonstrated initiative, critical thinking skills and enthusiasm. Professional Activities - Experienced entrepeneur and business ower, developing online content and educational courses for large universities.
- Adjunct faculty member at Excelsior College, Eastern Iowa Community Colleges and St. Ambrose University. Experienced educator and lecturer, having taught more than 30 on-site undergratuate and graduate courses since 2003. - Serve on various society, university and industry boards and CISO panels, in the capacity of contributing member or officer, including: IEEE, Sigma Xi, InfraGard, Board of Governors for University of Advancing Technolgy. - Enthusiastic promoter of science and engineering community outreach and humanitarian efforts. Past-President and Director of Quad City Engineering and Science Council. - Serve on organizing committees for regional and international security conferences. - Frequent invited speaker on security topics at industry conferences.
- Experienced mentor, with 5+ years as a John Deere Advanced Mastery Coach.
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