Life's Too Short to be a One-Trick Pony
Bringing member Fortune 100 companies together to discuss critical cyber security and compliance issues. Use my expertise to provide insight and facilitate detailed intellectual exchange.
I have concluded my Ford career but remain active in the fields of cyber security, compliance and audit, IT strategy, and business resilience / business continuity.
Managed 40+ security professionals to ensure applications and infrastructure across all areas of the business are compliant with information system policy and legal regulations. Senior consultant on risk, cyber security / strategy, and audit / compliance.
Worked with the senior IT leadership team in developing and implementing the worldwide IT strategy. Researched trends across the IT industry, the automotive industry, and external indicators and trends to develop a robust approach to strategy development and refresh. Led a cross-functional global team of strategists at all leadership levels, to develop and enhanced strategy map addressing near, medium, and long-range challenges.
Managerial positions included: Availability analysis, production planning and control, enterprise data center hardware configuration, large-scale mainframe systems development, systems life cycle, enterprise business continuity, CIRT (incident response), IT audit
This is one of those stories that has nothing to do with what the title suggests.
Normans abound. I’m not talking about the Normans who won the Battle of Hastings as part of “1066 and all that.” (1) I’m talking about people named Norman, of which there were two who stood out in my experience.
One we called Norm (never Norman); the other, Norman (never Norm).
Let’s start with Norm. (Norman will wait until Part Two.)
Norm was a guy who’d reached nearly the end of his career by the time he...