Billy Spears

About Billy Spears

I lead IT and security operations for high-IP development environments where partner trust, audit readiness, and developer productivity are non-negotiable. Over 20+ years, I’ve modernized infrastructure for resiliency and throughput, strengthened identity and endpoint governance, improved audit readiness, and reduced operational cost through platform consolidation and standardization.I’m a hands-on leader who builds systems that scale: documented standards, access controls, segmentation, observability, and service workflows that don’t live in one person’s head. I serve as a Google Workspace Admin and have led cross-platform identity strategy (SSO/MFA, policy enforcement, lifecycle management) alongside modern endpoint security and governance (Entra/Intune/Defender).I’m at my best where security, infrastructure, and business risk meet—turning “tribal knowledge” into documented operating models and measurable controls. If you need a leader who can protect high-value IP, modernize platforms without downtime, and communicate risk in plain English to executives and partners, let’s connect.

Experience

1. IT Director

   Panic Button

   Sep 2019 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Led security governance and partner audit readiness for high-IP projects, supporting recurring assessments across access controls and data protection requirements.• Google Workspace Admin: owned identity lifecycle, security configuration, groups/OU design, and collaboration governance for secure operations.• Consolidated identity and access across key SaaS using SSO/MFA patterns, improving control consistency and reducing vendor sprawl.• Modernized endpoint security posture by migrating to Microsoft Defender and expanding investigation capability (advanced hunting).• Re-architected compute/storage for resilience (clustered HA/failover) and implemented network segmentation (VLANs) to reduce risk.• Enabled secure remote work during COVID (VPN + secure access workflows) while maintaining protection for sensitive development hardware.• Improved developer throughput by deploying 10GbE and infrastructure upgrades supporting large build movement (80GB–200GB per SKU).• Reduced run-rate costs via Linux standardization (~85% licensing savings), VMware→Proxmox modernization, and ITSM optimization (Jira Service Management / ITIL workflows).

Skills

• Photoshop
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Fundraising
• Software Documentation
• Game Development
• Windows
• Iis
• Php
• Management
• Video Games
• Cisco Technologies
• Disaster Recovery
• Vpn
• Vmware Esx
• Servers
• Iphone
• Game Design
• Javascript
• Project Management
• Mysql
• Vmware
• Html
• Voip
• Tcp/Ip
• Switches
• Ps3
• Microsoft Exchange
• Software Development
• Python
• Team Leadership
• Xbox 360
• Analysis
• Perforce
• Computer Hardware
• Firewalls
• Microsoft Office
• Cloud Computing
• System Administration
• Microsoft Servers
• Active Directory