Jeff Viola

Education: MIS and Accounting

Bowling Green State University





Computer Science

Owens Community College

Experience: The responsibilities of a Cybersecurity Enterprise Architect (CEA) include Marathon Petroleum's security roadmap, security strategy, approving and interpreting standards, policies, and all projects. The Cybersecurity Enterprise Architect works hand in hand with the department of CDO and CISO. The CEA collaborates with solution architects, technical/system architects, Threat, Vulnerability management, CSOC, and GRC within the Cybersecurity Department.

2020 : Present

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Cybersecurity Enterprise Architect

My current role at Marathon Petroleum Corporation is Cybersecurity Architect and Enterprise Architect.

I Collaborate with many teams and on many projects while working to architect a secure solution based on our internal cybersecurity standards, some of which I have authored. My focus is on securing cloud technologies while working on O365, AWS, Azure, and other SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS solutions, but I am also responsible for on-premise or traditional technologies.

Marathon is the nation's largest Oil refiner, with the capacity to produce over 3 million barrels a day in their 16 refiners. Marathon also has over 3900 retail stores and over 7800 company locations.

2020 : 2022

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

CyberSecurity Architect II

As a Cloud Cybersecurity Architect I provide leadership and oversight to the delivery of security architect services to CBI Customers. Experienced with working with leaders in Technology Infrastructure, Internal Audit, Legal, Enterprise Risk Management, Corporate Security, and other IT support areas. Driven to improve security operations and to improve the overall security posture and maturity of the organization. Focused on providing cloud cybersecurity architecture support to Cloud, O365 and Digital Transformation efforts. Implementing of security controls and technologies to address the ever-changing and emerging cybersecurity threat landscape.

2019 : 2020

CBI | Cyber Security Solutions

CyberSecurity Architect

Report directly to global head of IT and CEO of North American Operations, holding accountability for the migration of cloud hosting products and other technical solutions on the Enterprise level. Worked with cross-functional groups for new solutions, policies, and procedures. Stratigized and collaborated with multiple groups to migrate and integrate acquisitions onto AMCS Group domain. Contribute to global roll outs, migrations, and transitions of various applications, including Office 365, Skype for Business, MS Teams, Teamviewer and others. Establish and configure security and compliance policies, data classification, DLP, GDPR and Threat Management solutions. Effect policies for mobile device management(MDM), implement new ticketing solutions, and managed cloud operations.

• Managed teams for hosted solutions in both AWS and Azure.

• Trained cloud team in both AWS & Azure to ensure business continuity.

• Led team in migrating SaaS Cloud services from AWS to Azure to meet AMCS’s standardized platform requirement.

• Successfully migrated On-Premise development and support servers to Azure. To reduce cost.

• Instrumental in roll out O365, Microsoft Teams, Intune, Teamviewer, to standardized improve communications and support.

• Teamed with head of IT to Implement O365 Security and Compliance policies and Data Loss Protection policies.

2018 : 2019

AMCS Group

IT Manager

Partnered with Chief Information Officer in the executive management & decision making of all IT operations globally. Responsible for all of North Americas IT strategies and operations, including projects, infrastructure, security, design, vendor relations, contracts, software implementation, security, training, preparing budgets. Contributed to the maintenance and administration of 1.2K+ servers and devices internally, in addition to numerous cloud service servers in AWS, Microsoft Azure Services, and Rackspace. Served as the Lead Engineer and primary point of contact for IT Engineers.

• Transitioned offices from MPLS to SD-WAN and cloud security for a $250K annual savings.

• Cut hosting costs by 70% through shifting backend hosting providers, Rackspace, to AWS in North America.

• Successfully implemented ERP SaaS solution in AWS for significant additional sales opportunities and revenue.

• Led training of internal support staff to administrate AWS servers for a savings of $48K annually.

• Standardized Hypervisor from VMWare to Hyper-V to drive a $33K YoY cost savings.

• Identified hardware and software equivalents in lieu of mainstream brands to effect a 50% savings YoY.

• Authored SharePoint workflow for asset tracking and contract expiration alerts, saving hundreds of man hours yearly.

• Managed move from Exchange to Office 365, driving an estimated $200K savings over five years.

2012 : 2018

Brady PLC - HQ

Senior IT Engineer

Company: Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Years of Experience: 25

Spoken Language: English