Cha Yang, MBA

Education: MBA

Information Systems

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

2008 : 2013

BA

Political Science

Carleton College

1992 : 1996



Political Economy

University of International Business and Economics

1995 : 1995



Political Economy

Centro Mexicano Internacional, Morelia, Mexico

1994 : 1994

Experience: Responsible for providing leadership, strategy as well as operational and tactical support for cybersecurity architecture, engineering, and tools & services.

Lead a team of analysts, engineers, and architects to design and build a security architecture and engineering practice to mitigate risk and improve the security posture of the organization's digital technology solutions.

Collaborate with senior leadership to assess and understand strategic initiatives and ensure information security support.

Collaborate across IT teams to ensure cybersecurity is foundationally embedded within the various IT solutions and services.

Develop information security architecture, design, and engineering standards to promote a standardized set of requirements aligned with the organization's information security policies and accepted industry compliance and regulatory requirements.

2022 : Present

Oshkosh Corporation

Director of Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering

Responsible for strategy, deployment, and operational support

for ERP administration, middleware, databases, and identity and access management.



Created an Identity and Access Management program from the ground up by assessing the current state and developing a strategy to consolidate and leverage economies of scale to deliver shared identity services.

Designed and deployed three ERP (JDE) systems to eliminate tech debt and enable new capabilities by partnering with application leaders and vendors to understand future business needs and technology options.

Delivered the organization's first Azure cloud platform by leading a cross-functional IT team to learn, design, build, and deploy the platform.

Delivered an enterprise-wide MFA solution bringing the organization into compliance with NIST 800-171 standards, ensuring continued compliance with contractual obligations.

Executed complex identity migration from Azure Commercial to Azure GCCH by creating an innovative process that resulted in zero down-time for end users.

Eliminated 210,000 manual logins per month by deploying a single sign-on solution for 100+ applications.

Eliminated 1,500 password reset calls/month to service desk by deploying a self-service password reset solution.

Secured 7,000 devices from inappropriate access by deploying a modern MFA solution from Microsoft.

Automated creation of 300+ digital identity accounts/month by deploying a custom automation process.

Achieved >95% security vulnerability-free systems by deploying custom patching scripts across affected devices.

2017 : 2022

Oshkosh Corporation

Director of Application Platform Service

Responsible for strategy, deployment, and management of IT services for JDE systems, digital identities, and middleware applications.

Delivered new ERP system to LOB in under four months by leveraging standard build templates and configurations.

Stabilized enterprise warranty application by re-designing and re-deploying application onto new infrastructure and standardizing operational procedures.

Eliminated need for vendor support by on-boarding four new applications into the team's standard operational support model.

Delivered new JDE system with three test environments for enterprise level projects in under three months.

Developed first IAM strategy and technology roadmap for the enterprise and led effort to select cloud based SSO solution.

Ensured company passes annual audit of critical IT systems to certify company’s annual report by implementing standard security model and IT controls.

Maintained a ~5% annual operations budget variance by actively managing monthly forecast/actual.

2015 : 2017

Oshkosh Corporation

Senior Manager of Application Platform Services

Responsible for strategy, deployment, and management of IT services in support of JDE systems across five business segments.

Reduced time to promote code to production from 10 to 3 days by automating code promotion process.

Increased application uptime by proactively monitoring and alerting on potential issues before they occur.

Increased team efficiency and effectiveness by standardizing operational support model across all ERP systems.

Achieved 90% ticket resolution SLA by actively managing ticket queues and assigning tickets as needed.

Strengthened relationship and trust with team members by implementing consistent and standard management practices.

Ensured company passes annual audit of critical IT systems to certify company’s annual report by implementing standard security model and IT controls.

2013 : 2015

Oshkosh Corporation

JDE CNC Manager

Responsible for leading the day to day operational support of the organization’s nine JDE instances ranging from World A73 through E1 9.0.2 as well as providing technical expertise and direction related the these systems.

Designing improvements to the corporation’s JDE systems, managing resources to ensure quality service delivery, and collaborating with IT and business teams to develop solid solutions for the corporation.



Provide strategic recommendations as well as perform related tasks from initial assessment through go-live on JDE related projects. Provide input and recommendations related to hardware sizing and selection as well as back-end infrastructure configuration for JDE. Participate in determining and outlining the most effective path to perform technical upgrades.

2012 : 2013

Oshkosh Corporation

Principal CNC Analyst

Company: Oshkosh Corporation

Years of Experience: 16

Spoken Language: English, Hmong, Spanish