Catherine Martinez
IT Cybersecurity
Detroit,MI
Summary
Highly motivated, result-oriented, dynamic IT leader with more than thirty years of experience in cyber security, crisis resiliency, project management, equipped with outstanding interpersonal communication skills within all levels of the organization. Proven ability to streamline daily operations and processes by identifying innovative, strategic opportunities with an awarded track record of solid work ethic, accountability, professionalism, and integrity.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
22
22
Certification
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
President
Detroit City Chess Club
01.2003 - Current
- Twenty-plus years, leading a highly accomplished scholastic competitive chess organization that serves hundreds of champions, annually
- Actively network and raise funding to mobilize multiple schools to compete nationally and internationally
- Organize and host United States Chess Federation (USCF) rated chess tournaments and events
- National advisor to The Black Odyssey, the first ever HBCU chess classic
Manager Specialist
DTE Energy
05.2007 - 01.2024
- Directed the cybersecurity resiliency crisis preparedness program
- Developed and promulgated annual policies, standards, incident response, business continuity and application continuity and disaster recovery plans
- Trained and fluent in FEMA’s Incident Command System (ICS), Hazard Mitigation Planning and Programs (e.g
- HMGP, FMA, FEMA ICS100, ISC 200, ISC 400)
- Personally, authored and led the smart grid cybersecurity plan instrumental in securing a $168M government smart meter implementation grant
- Managed a smart meter test lab and advised on hardening strategies that influenced vendor enhancements
- Consulted with penetration testers to develop strategies for test cases and mitigation recommendations
- Collated and analyzed incident-based data for team metrics and KPIs.
Global Technical Lead
Pfizer Inc.
06.2001 - 05.2007
- Managed an international integration team across multiple time zones, responsible for evaluating, consolidating, and decommissioning systems during multiple acquisition mergers across the enterprise landscape with a wide variety of technologies
- Developed integration and retirement strategies while orchestrating the technical migration of a global team with hyper-aggressive project deliverable timelines in a compliance regulated environment requiring extreme attention to detail and compliance artifacts
- Progressive expertise discerning capacity management, technical compatibility, compliance assurance and security risks
- Collaborated closely with enterprise business units and executives
- Streamlined processes for integrating and decommissioning technologies during mergers
- Managed a heterogenous environment of different platforms and software families.
Telecommunications Security Engineer
DoD
06.1992 - 07.2001
- Managed a top secret telecommunications facility responsible for safeguarding, processing, and distributing secured global message traffic
- Single-handedly managed the brigade’s MILNet (Military Internet email) and SIPRNet (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network)
- Innovatively restructured an unorganized datastore using Java Scripting and HTML, improving forensic efficiency and accuracy of data discovery
- TS/SCI w/ polygraphs (lifestyle and CI)
- Designed and executed tactical penetration tests
- Developed strategic resiliency plans
- Personally, blueprinted the entire telecommunications network architecture
- Installed and updated hardware and software, switches, routers, repeaters, software, day to day system and network administration
- Developed comprehensive training material and conducted formal classroom training.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Systems
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ 05.2004 - 05.2007
Associate of Science - Computer Science
University of Maryland - University College
Hyattsville, MD 01.1993 - 11.1996
Skills
- ITIL
- ISO 27001
- PCI-DSS/ PCI/ SOC
- Project Management
- Maturity Models
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- Cybersecurity
- Incident Management
- Auditing
- MS Azure
- GCP
- AWS
- ServiceNow
- SaaS
- PaaS/IaaS
- SECaaS
- Digital Forensics
- Incident Response (DFIR)
Certification
- IBM and ISC2 Cybersecurity Specialist Professional
- ISC2 SSCP – Systems Security Certified Practitioner
- IBM Cybersecurity Analyst
- InfoSec Cyber Incident Response
- NIST Cybersecurity Risk Management Framework
- ISC2 Customer Relationship Manager
- ISC2 Incident Response, BC and DR Concepts
- ISC2 Securing Software, Data and End Points
- ISC2 Network and Communications Security
- ISC2 Cloud and Wireless Security
Accomplishments
- Annual Master of Ceremony for DPSCD's STEM awards and various community ceremonies
- Awarded the Sara Sheridan Award for leading IT Security for the Smart Meter – Advanced Metering Infrastructure $168M government grant implementation
- Awarded the Sara Sheridan Award for a Operational Technology Cybersecurity Resiliency Tiger Tea
Work Availability
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Timeline
Manager Specialist
DTE Energy
05.2007 - 01.2024
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Systems
University of Phoenix
05.2004 - 05.2007
President
Detroit City Chess Club
01.2003 - Current
Global Technical Lead
Pfizer Inc.
06.2001 - 05.2007
Associate of Science - Computer Science
University of Maryland - University College
01.1993 - 11.1996
Telecommunications Security Engineer
DoD
06.1992 - 07.2001
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