Craig Minton

Sr Director Application Security @Hallmark Cards

Kansas City, MO, US

Built and drove corporate AppSec program; negotiating with vendors and mentoring a team of 4 engineers while increasing executing visibility into present risk by 98%.Introduced SAST, DAST, SCA, secret detection, secure pipelines, triage processes, and developertraining; decreased time‑to‑remediation and audit findings.Led migration of enterprise WAF from Imperva to Akamai, improving reliability, throughput and manageability while achieving ~$200K/year in savings.Architected and implemented an open-source AppSec posture management platform to automate evidence collection, reporting, and developer feedback, saving ~$100K/year in tooling.Built a centralized application inventory with owners, data classification, and risk scoring; used it to prioritize remediation and audits.Collaborated with corporate audit to enhance SOC 2 evidence readiness, reducing findings by 30%.

Oklahoma State University

Bachelor of Science, Computational Science

Oklahoma State University

Bachelors, Computer Science