Milanie Cleere

About Milanie Cleere

Forward-deployed intelligence and operations leader with experience embedding on site with teams workingthrough messy, legacy, and incomplete systems. Synthesized network telemetry, IP attribution, identity data,and third-party threat reporting to establish situational awareness during operational disruptions, securityincidents, and crisis scenarios, prioritizing constrained response resources toward the highest-risk issues.Worked hands-on with engineers and analysts and served as a trusted advisor to global banking and insuranceCIOs, Chief Risk Officers, and audit executives, supporting time-critical decisions under uncertainty.

Experience

1. Senior Advisor

   CapTech

   Aug 2024 — Present

   Advised CIO and enterprise architecture leadership of a global financial services organization on disaster recovery and crisis readiness, with recommendations directly informing the stand-up of a dedicated global disaster recovery team and operating model.Designed and applied decisioning tools, including AI-assisted frameworks, to bridge alignment gaps between enterprise architecture, risk, and business leaders, translating disaster recovery maturity, regulatory exposure, and operational impact into clear, pre-justified decision options that reduced friction and accelerated executive approval.Led vision and requirements for a single-pane-of-glass operational capability that unified SIEM, SOAR, log analysis, analyst inputs, and task prioritization, aligned to NIST Cybersecurity Framework response and recovery functions.Analyzed application, infrastructure, and security telemetry including observability signals to identify failure patterns, test incident hypotheses, and inform recovery sequencing and executive decision tradeoffs during active events.Facilitated cross-functional sessions to identify mission-critical applications, system dependencies, recovery priorities, and cost-of-failure impacts across technical and business teams.Introduced a structured threat and escalation model informed by FPCON concepts and aligned disaster recovery and continuity planning with audit-readiness requirements across NIST, ISO, and DORA.

Education

• University of Southern California

  Business Administration and Management, General

• University of Virginia

  Interdisciplinary Studies; Information Technology