George Horta
Vice President of IT and Cybersecurity (Global) @ACS Industries, Inc.
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WORK HISTORY
Vice President of IT and Cybersecurity (Global) @ACS Industries, Inc.
As VP, I lead the company’s global digital infrastructure, cybersecurity architecture, and secure AI integration strategy — spanning operations in 7 countries and serving employees. My role encompasses executive stakeholder alignment, compliance transformation, and scalable systems design.Key Highlights:* Designed and implemented a secure enterprise AI framework, including creation of the company’s first AI governance board*Designed, built and deployed company first RAG pipeline and front end LLM solution that is secure, leveraging Azure AI components and custom GPT/LLM functions.*Built complex multi index Tier 1 Automotive Quality RAG that included multiple governance frameworks, customer quality manuals, plant quality manuals and industry template documents. Connected to a custom OpenAI GPT front end.*Designed, built and deployed company first PowerBI to custom GPT/LLM solution that is secure* Architected the global cybersecurity roadmap leading to TISAX ML3 High certification* Scaled global IT support team to 25+ staff, closing a significant staffing deficit and improving 24/7 global service coverage* Increased infrastructure capacity by over 25% while maintaining budget discipline (<2% spend growth)* Led global ERP/MRP data flow modernization and advanced ICS security integration and introduction of Retrieval Augmented Generation process in Sharepoint and Azure AI
EDUCATION
DeVry University
AS, Telecommunications Management
VJAL Institue
Certificate, VJAL AI for Executive/Teams/Communities Trainer, AI Training for Organizations
Daniel Webster College
BS, Information Technology Management
101 Blockchains
Certificate, Certified Enterprise Blockchain Professinal
Microsoft Virtual Academy
Course Completion, Big Data Analytics
D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University
MBA, International Business & Entrepreneurship
NJ Technology Bootcamp
Certificate of completion, Cisco network design and architecture (CCNA Track)
SKILLS
ABOUT GEORGE HORTA
Global technology executive specializing in manufacturing, robotics and international operations. Driving secure, scalable transformation across industrial systems with complex compliance objectives, AI and business initiatives, and multi national enterprise operations. Economically. I bring 20+ years of impact across high-consequence industries — from defense to robotics to advanced manufacturing — where infrastructure must be resilient, compliant, and globally interoperable.As VP of IT & Cybersecurity at ACS Industries, I architected a secure AI adoption strategy, led the company to its first ML3 High certification, and scaled our workforce across 7 countries — with only a 2% budget increase.I specialize in secure connected systems (ICS), ERP/MRP data flows, and modernizing legacy architecture without compromising uptime, compliance, or cost control. I’ve led global IT transformation for employees, built high-trust high performance teams, and designed governance-ready AI and BI frameworks for regulated industries. TISAX | GDPR | CUI | NIST | AI Governance | OpenAI Champion Available for board advisory, expat leadership, or remote-first enterprise transformationExpertise of focus are highly secure networks with extraordinary computing demand, tight budgets and that are geographically dispersed in the manufacturing, engineering or aerospace/DoD sectors.I’m experimenting with conversational AI to explore new ways of presenting background and experience.You can interact with a prototype here:https://huggingface.co/spaces/GeoTree433/Career_Conversation_with_G3v2
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