Brian Cady

Education: Master of Science - MS

Information Systems Management

The University of Salford

2019 : 2021

Experience: Providing leadership by directing enterprise security architecture and strategy for one of the largest healthcare organizations in the US with 26 billion in annual revenues and 240,000 unique user identities. Providence Health includes 53 hospitals and over 1,200 clinics in addition to research centers, physician networks, senior living facilities, home healthcare services, a health insurance network, a high school, and a university.

I partner with groups across the enterprise to coordinate secure solutions, create policies and standards, identify risk, and improve capabilities while removing technical debt and ensuring compliance. I am currently creating and managing security architectures and designs for all Providence locations and affiliated hospitals, clinics, and educational facilities, including solutions for email protection, generative AI, PCI DSS, HIPAA compliance, CASB, BCDR, IAM, VPN, EDR, AV, DLP, SIEM, privacy, eDiscovery, firewall management, and compliance scanning solutions.

• Creating secure development and management controls for cloud and generative AI based solutions.

• Developed the security architecture model for cloud migrations and deployments.

• Led the enterprise architecture technical team for over two years.

• Streamlined operational activities by formulating design for Kubernetes containerization solution.

• Played integral role in the migration of a large datacenter to the cloud and the transition to a cloud-first organization.

• Provided end-to-end security leadership for the rapid development and deployment of all COVID related projects and IS programs.

• Controlled end-to-end activities of corporate cybersecurity by managing programs and cybersecurity projects, building security roadmaps, and creating security designs.

2016 : Present

Providence

Director, Information Security Architecture

During my time at Wizards I achieved key corporate objectives by managing the infrastructure architecture team and several programs. I spearheaded architectural operations by delivering cloud architecture and design while defining and implementing security, privacy, performance, and compliance standards.

To showcase exceptional performance, I managed cloud migrations, delivered project leadership for infrastructure expansion into China, and acted as a Product Manager for the Future Technologies, Digital Agility, and Cloud Process Framework programs.

My achievements for this role include the following :

• Ensured adherence with regulatory requirements by creating architecture and design of hybrid cloud solution for delivery of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions

• Accelerated growth by migrating several solutions to US and international cloud environments

2013 : 2016

Wizards of the Coast

Lead Infrastructure Architect

As a Lead Senior Service Architect, I maximized overall productivity by leading a large team of engineers and architects in the development of manageability solutions for Microsoft IT. I developed security, privacy, engineering, and architecture standards, as well as designed and built cloud environments to securely host the MS-IT engineering environments.

My key contributions for this role include :

• Successfully reduced 90%+ monitoring downtime and latency by leading a multi-team program

• Executed monitoring solutions for internal Azure system and migrated enterprise security monitoring tools to Azure

2008 : 2013

Microsoft

Lead Senior Service Engineer / Architect

Led the Washington Mutual eCommerce teams responsible for security, monitoring, software delivery, capacity planning, patching, certificate management, and inventory. My teams accomplished all projects on time and on budget.

• Designed and deployed the first security monitoring and management solution which spanned the entire enterprise

• Integrated monitoring tools with operations and support groups, reducing time to resolution by an average of 87%

• Automated creation of custom dashboards, KPI/KRI reports, and compliance reports covering SOX, GLBA, & PCI DSS

• Marketed security solutions to internal customers

2001 : 2008

Washington Mutual Bank

Senior Technology Manager

Technical team lead for all Microsoft based projects at Washington Mutual Bank. Managed a large group of architects and engineers in the design of enterprise level platforms and solutions.

(Contract employee from August, 1998 to August, 1999. IBM employee from August, 1999 to February 2001)

1998 : 2001

IBM Global Services

Lead Platform Engineer

Company: Providence

Years of Experience: 26