Wayne Hawkinson

About Wayne Hawkinson

Highly effective technology leader and military veteran with proven success, consistently expanding responsibilities to manage global security operations, engineering, and architecture teams for a leading retailer and information service provider. Proven abilities in managing through change, optimizing security solutions for growth and cost efficiency, improving service quality, defining critical objectives, and implementing actionable plans in collaboration with internal stakeholders, vendors and third parties. Highly skilled at aligning security functions to be seamless and effective in support of business operations and overall objectives.Able to blend hands-on technical knowledge covering security, servers, networks, virtualization and cloud-based initiatives along with superior communication and people management skills to drive key objectives including threat mitigation, network perimeter hardening, and security orchestration and automation. Respected leader with the ability build, align, train, and motivate top-performing teams across different cultures and global locations to drive critical programs including security awareness, vendor evaluation and selection, security assessments and audits, enterprise-wide security policy and procedures.Proven technical abilities and recognized for thriving well under pressure with the ability to stay calm and focused in crisis situations ensuring timely resolutions. Hands on, results oriented, analytical, and self-starter.Specialties:• Cloud Security • Agile • Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration • IT Operations Management • Data Center Management • Infrastructure Management • 24/7 Global Operations • Engineering • Strategy Development • Client Relations • Profit & Loss • Technology Assessment • Team Building • Corporate Governance • Vendor Management • Problem Solving • Standardization • Integration • Automation • SaaS/IaaS/PaaS • Acquisition and Divestiture • Hosting Management • HIPAA • SAS70 • SOX Compliance • PCI DSS • Data Center migrations • Network & Security Architecture

Experience

1. Director, Cyber Security Architecture and Engineering

   Target

   Apr 2016 — Present

   Lead the IT Security Architecture and Engineering organization responsible for architecting and engineering cyber security solutions and operations for Target in the following domains:• Endpoint Security - Anti-Virus, Malware Prevention, Application Whitelisting, IOC Hunting, Endpoint Full Disk Encryption, and Device Control• Network Security – Secure Web Gateway (Proxy), Network Access Control (NAC), Automated Threat Forensics and Dynamic Malware Detection against Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and Spear Phishing, and Adaptive Application Protection• Data Protection - Tokenization, Cryptography, Encryption, Enterprise Key Management, Data Loss Prevention, PKI, Bastion Host, Mainframe Security, Digital Rights Management, and Credential Management• Security Operations – provides IT Security platform support, monitoring, and enterprise security services

Education

• North Dakota State University

  Bachelors of Science, Management Information Systems

Skills

• Strategy
• Disaster Recovery
• Incident Management
• Storage
• Databases
• Data Center Migrations
• Management
• Virtualization
• Data Center
• IT Service Management
• Team Leadership
• Vendor Management
• Itil
• Integration
• Cisco Technologies
• Cloud Computing
• Network Security
• Testing
• Virtual Private Network (Vpn)
• Infrastructure
• Information Technology
• Networking
• Cisco Systems Products
• Switches
• Vpn