Evan Linden
Arnold
Summary
Senior IT leader with a proven track record of driving maximum business value through the delivery of secure IT solutions. Skilled in leading teams and managing multiple projects focused on enterprise architecture security and strategic partnerships. Utilize vendor relationships and industry best practices to optimize IT value and reduce total cost of ownership. Committed to implementing IT best practices to achieve optimal results, with strong verbal and written communication skills.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
CISO
Nortek Inc
01.2021 - 01.2025
- Implemented security program for Nortek Air Solutions, Data Center Cooling and Nortek Global. Developed real time security controls monitoring dashboard. Established security policies and ensured compliance for company IT assets. Established risk register and exception management processes. Implemented third party IT evaluation policy and evaluation process. Implemented (OT)Operational Technology network segmentation to secure plant floor operations. Managed vulnerability management and remediations, deployment of endpoint protection. Introduced Active directory alerting and backup tool (Sempris). Managed and reported to CFO of Madison Air a multi vertical effort to improve security posture of Madison Airs 17 independent verticals. “Road to three”. Managed Madison Air HQ Security positive and tools. Managed security awareness training for 4 Nortek verticals as well as Madison Air.
Sr. Director Business Intelligence
Nortek Inc
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Developed Business Intelligence practice for Nortek Air Management. Built and supervised enterprise data warehouse integrating financial and supply chain data from 5 ERP systems
CEO and Principal
Evolve Computer Services LLC
01.2017 - 01.2019
- Network operations reviews. SOC and PCI readiness reviews. Custom application development. Penetration testing, secure coding and application security reviews and training. Successful implementations of incident management teams and red and blue team program development.
Sr. Director Information Security
MARITZ MOTIVATION
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Penetration testing program, secure coding and application security reviews. Successful incident management team and red and blue team program development.
Sr. Director Ecommerce
MARITZ MOTIVATION
01.2015 - 01.2016
Sr. Director IT Shared Services
MARITZ MOTIVATION
01.2013 - 01.2015
Sr. Director Application Architecture
MARITZ MOTIVATION
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Responsible for financial infrastructure management, labor planning, and business unit financial reviews. Direct business intelligence enablement and data warehousing, testing, deployment, security, compliance and customer contact center. Responsible for Microsoft and Java architecture, technology direction and development resources for Maritz Motivation. Lead architecture direction, decisions and technology adoption in the Microsoft technology space and manage all developers. Accountable for technical decisions related to all development solutions and financial infrastructure management.
- Process Champion for: Developing secure cryptographic networked solutions, security policy development, security architecture reviews, compliance to policy, training, internal penetration testing.
- Achievements
- Established employee Security awareness training with annual recertification. Training include education on general computer security, safe information handling, malware and ransomware warning signs as well as anti- phishing education.
- Designed and implemented bastion environment for processing eCert codes through the procurement and warehouse management lifecycle. Solution included secure file transfer, restricted email policies, file management practices, secondary network credentials and multi factor authentication for the restricted user base. Designed and implemented high security physical gift card processing environment. Solution included the integration of multiple commercial products with a custom process flow for sensitive data encryption processing and public private key management. Network isolation, full auditing and file inspection and validation and multi factor authentication.
- Performed Application Architecture Security Reviews and collaborated on Infrastructure Security reviews. Penetration tests and business process reengineering along with ad hoc security investigations.
- Developed and implemented a process to review and right size the infrastructure landscape for Maritz Motivation IT. Total realized savings in FY12 was $1.15 million with year over year savings of over $1.4 million.
- Established recognized architecture team delivering increased value to the business through thought leadership and proactive team engagement. Initiate the process of delivering quality products through the application of standard processes, development patterns and environment management.
Chief North American Architect
ANHEUSER BUSCH
01.2009 - 01.2011
- Chief North American Architect for Integration: Member of a team of seven architect's responsible for determining and setting the strategic direction for the technology portfolio in the North American Zone of Anheuser Busch InBev. Responsibilities included developing consolidation and standardization roadmaps, managing the application and technology portfolio as well as developing, fostering and evaluating innovative ideas.
Sr. Technical Manager Microsoft Center
ANHEUSER BUSCH
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Sr. Technical Manager/Microsoft Center for Excellence: Responsible for architecture direction, decisions and technology adoption in the Microsoft technology space. Responsible for management and direction of 131 Microsoft developers. Accountable for technical decisions related to approximately $55 million in support and development budgets.
Domain Architect
ANHEUSER BUSCH
01.2003 - 01.2008
- Domain Architect: Responsible for domain reuse and enterprise integration. Developed a strong Architectural team providing value added services to the applications development and project teams. Accountable for technical decisions related to approximately $7 million support and development budget. Technical direction and design for Cost Management System, Parts Imaging and Automated Storage and Retrieval systems.
Senior Team Lead - Developer
ANHEUSER BUSCH
01.1999 - 01.2003
- Senior Team Lead: Managed three development teams with various technologies including Web ASP, Visual Basic, MFC, ATL and DCOM integration across approximately 120 workstations in 12 geographically disparate locations.
- Achievements
- Delivered technical decisions regarding human resources technical direction surrounding Microsoft, SAP, and J2EE technical implementations.
- Member of the team that defined the global shared application footprint.
- Mapping business processes to a minimum of level three processes.
- Evaluating candidate application based on defined criteria for global fit.
- Mapped applications to business processes and establishing the target state.
- Developing roadmaps to consolidate on global applications.
- Developed the three-year Hire to Retire strategic roadmap that reduces the application footprint by28%, implementing a global ESS MSS solution. Planned increased efficiencies by reducing paper and manual processes and reduced IT spend by consolidating non-integrated systems into a single portal solution.
- Ensured successful implementation of Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance for applications and upgrades to our Enhanced Network Architecture (Extranet).
- Introduced Coding Standards for .Net development and reuse rules for new development gaining reduced cost and time to market for development projects.
- Introduced a significant amount of reusable code into the .Net development life cycle including: Security, MQ Series broker, Webservice Security helpers, Data maps and Active Directory Services, FTP client, User settings services Standard encryption and User Search Control to assist in reducing the time to develop and deploy.
- Coached and mentored application architects in an effort to make better architecture decisions.
- Sponsored initiative with information protection and enterprise operations management to open the communications channel between the intranet application tier and the secure extranet application tier for web service communication to enable the vision of service oriented architecture for PPM business services hosted in the Anheuser Busch intranet.
Consultant
HOWARD SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL
01.1996 - 01.1999
- Anheuser Busch Companies) Sr. Developer - Visual Basic, UNIX C, and C++ (Financials and Cost of Goods Sold and Manufacturing Costs)
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Political Science - Political Science
Principia College
Elsah, IL01.1990
Skills
- Java
- Enterprise Software
- Security (14 years)
- Payment Card Industry (4 years)
- ASP
- Architecture (10 years)
- Policy development (2 years)
- SQL
- PCI (4 years)
- Net C# VB (10 years)
- MySQL
- Information Security
- Microsoft SQL Server
- It Security
Additional Information
- KEY COMPETENCIES
- Software/Platform Architecture
- Audit Management PCI, SOC1,2 Client Driven
- Cryptography
- Vulnerability Management
- Strategic Planning
- Policy Development and Enforcement
- Process Engineering
- Incident Management and Response
- Technology Evaluation
- Contract Negotiation and Review (Security)
- Lifecycle Management
- Compliance Enforcement
- Team Leadership
- Disaster Recover
- Monitoring
- Business Continuity
Timeline
CISO
Nortek Inc
01.2021 - 01.2025
Sr. Director Business Intelligence
Nortek Inc
01.2019 - 01.2021
CEO and Principal
Evolve Computer Services LLC
01.2017 - 01.2019
Sr. Director Information Security
MARITZ MOTIVATION
01.2016 - 01.2017
Sr. Director Ecommerce
MARITZ MOTIVATION
01.2015 - 01.2016
Sr. Director IT Shared Services
MARITZ MOTIVATION
01.2013 - 01.2015
Sr. Director Application Architecture
MARITZ MOTIVATION
01.2011 - 01.2013
Chief North American Architect
ANHEUSER BUSCH
01.2009 - 01.2011
Sr. Technical Manager Microsoft Center
ANHEUSER BUSCH
01.2008 - 01.2009
Domain Architect
ANHEUSER BUSCH
01.2003 - 01.2008
Senior Team Lead - Developer
ANHEUSER BUSCH
01.1999 - 01.2003
Consultant
HOWARD SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL
01.1996 - 01.1999
Bachelor's Degree in Political Science - Political Science
Principia College
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