Ian H. Burleson

Manage geographically distributed team of 100+ security engineers, administrators, and network engineers securing classified systems at scale.

• Team Impact: Lead distributed team across 5 time zones; conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development; recruited and rapidly onboarded 51 engineers with 95%+ retention
• Technical Leadership: Architected security design for next-gen system from requirements through authorization, resulting in $200M+ contract awards; drove security automation reducing assessment time by 99%
• Business Outcomes: Pioneered container security program, designing Docker vulnerability scanning integrated into CI/CD pipeline, enabling secure automated deployments and faster authorizations
• Designed and piloted container vulnerability scanning program with chief software engineers, reducing critical vulnerabilities by 65% across software portfolio and creating repeatable security framework
• Built automated hiring pipeline using Power Automate and PowerBI, centralizing candidate data across department; personally hired 28 engineers with 90%+ offer acceptance while enabling 54 total department hires YTD, resolving critical staffing gaps

• Technical Leadership: Executed end-to-end security assessments from architecture review through authorization; collaborated with third-party pen test teams, triaging and coordinating remediation across 5+ engineering teams
• Team Impact: Developed system-wide vulnerability and patch management program spanning 4 geographically distributed teams and multiple subcontractors, hardening systems and improving mean-time-to-remediation by 60%