Carraig Stanwyck

CISO | Neurodivergent | Startup Advisor | Boardroom Certified QTE

Kansas City, MO, United States

Details

Education: Bachelor's degree

Social Psychology

Colorado Christian University

2011 : 2013

Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies

Defense Language Institute

2003 : 2005

Experience: 2021 : Present

Avnet

VP / Head of Global Cybersecurity and Compliance

2021 :

Aphinia

Advisor

2019 : 2021

H&R Block

Director of Information Security (Wave Financial)

2019 : 2019

USDA

Chief, Security Engineering and Planning (Farm Production & Conservation)

2016 : 2019

USDA

Information Systems Security Program Manager (Risk Management Agency)

Company: Avnet

Years of Experience: 22

Spoken Language: Arabic

Skills Biometrics, Briefing, Counterinsurgency, Cyber-security, DoD, Government Contracting, HUMINT, Information Assurance, Information Security, Intelligence, Intelligence Analysis, Interrogation, IT Management, IT Strategy, Leadership, Linux, Microsoft Word, Military Experience, National Security, Operational Planning, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Program Management, Security Clearance, Security Management, Security Operations, Security Operations Center, Strategic IT Management, Top Secret, Training, Military Operations, Command, Analyst Notebook, Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, SIGINT, Software, CIDNE, Bro, FireEye, Sourcefire, Regex, Army, Interagency Coordination, Special Operations, Homeland Security, Electronic Warfare, Weapons, Military Training

About Proven people leader and program architect with extremely diverse background and extensive track record of immediate success and constant improvement.

After leading the Security Operations Center (SOC) for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), transitioned to government service and was immediately competitively selected as Acting CISO of the Risk Management Agency (RMA) securing over $100 billion dollars in liabilities. Led a 4x reduction in delayed projects, 94% improvement in vulnerability remediation SLAs, and built a metrics driven approach to continuous improvement.

Recruited by H&R Block to rebuild their security operations program from the ground up. Built first fully integrated global team and created an organic, globally-agnostic, 24/7 Incident Response function that launched in March 2020 in the face of COVID while maintaining stellar metrics. Rebuilt around a progressive SOC model that included dedicated SOAR and Adversary Emulation functions.

As a result of success building H&R Block's security operations program, was asked to build and direct Wave Financial's security program given its exponential growth and importance to H&R Block's long term strategy to support small businesses.

Prior to landing in cybersecurity, focus was on Human and Biometrics Intelligence with the Department of Defense. Has well over a decade of experience as an expert analyst in numerous fields, and the proven ability to excel in all of them.