Jeremiah Pierson
Bath,USA
Summary
Dynamic cybersecurity leader with a proven track record in digital security transformations at Cigna Inc., where the centralization and governance of identity platforms were successfully implemented for over 145K colleagues and 45 million customers. Expertise in strategic vision and cross-functional team leadership led to a reduction in operating costs by $3 million. Skilled in merging technical acumen with executive strategy and team development to drive organizational success.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Managing Director of Global Identity and Access Management
Cigna Inc.
Bloomfield, Connecticut
03.2020 - Current
- Jeremiah leads the Global Identity and Access Management organization at Cigna
- In this capacity, his organization is responsible and accountable for the centralization, governance, and cybersecurity of Cigna’s Workforce and Customer Identity platforms, utilized by over 145K colleagues and 45 million external customers, clients, and partners
- Jeremiah’s organization drives simplification, governance, and unifying the Identity controls for the global enterprise
- The role is accountable for setting global direction and leading the centralization and governance of workforce identity and customer identity
- The role is accountable for working directly with business stakeholders to ensure alignment with identity standards and NIST Cybersecurity standards
- Accountable for leading team to design and deploy new global customer identity standard and migrations of 45 million customer accounts from a diverse set of identity solutions into a single standard solution leveraging Okta
- Accountable for leading team to design and deploying new global workforce identity solution which created a 30% reduction in technical debt and 3-million-dollar reduction in operating costs
- Accountability for the M&A identity integrations for the business to absorb or divest business segments
- Accountable for adoption of Multi-Factor Authentication for 45 million customers
- Accountable for enterprise attestations that support SOX1/2 compliance and reporting
- Responsible for the team’s less than 5% attrition rate in 2021
Senior Director of Endpoint Architecture
Cigna Inc.
Bloomfield, Connecticut
11.2012 - 01.2020
- Jeremiah led the Endpoint Architecture group at Cigna
- In this capacity, he was accountable for solutions focused on endpoint centric services from physical/virtual workstations, Messaging and Collaboration, Application virtualization, Endpoint policy, Directory Services, and Mobility
- One of the responsibilities has been on building relationships with business leaders and aligning technology roadmaps to business strategies
- US Patent (US 10,133,307 B2) Secure wireless dock for mobile devices
- Enterprise Client Computing Roadmap alignment with business leaders
- Designed the Office 365 SharePoint Online and OneDrive enablement for the global enterprise
- Designed an internal portal to drive virtual Program Increment (PI planning) for Agile teams and reduced annual travel expenses of 2 million dollars
- Designed the Strategy to release a workstation Anti-theft solution
- Design work on migration from MobileIron and Blackberry to XenMobile
Senior Global Platform Architect/ Information Security Architect
Covance Inc.
Princeton, New Jersey
02.2008 - 11.2012
- Jeremiah was accountable for the technical architecture of the global desktop platform at Covance with a strong focus on endpoint security
- Jeremiah was accountable for managing all the Information Security engagements with third party vendors and internal operations
- As the architect of this team, he provides direction to the team to deliver industry leading capabilities and assists with threat investigations
- Designed Enterprise Management System to management and maintain the global desktop
- Designed Endpoint Security Strategy
- Designed secure printing solution with Ricoh to meet business requirements working with sensitive documents
- Designed global endpoint encryption solution
- Designed global automated desktop build process
- Designed global application package standards
- Designed global Antivirus upgrade for desktops and servers
- Designed global Zscaler proxy solutions
- Integrated Endpoint Security Strategy into global Information Security reference architecture
- Designed the global data lost prevention solution
Senior Desktop Architect
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
07.2005 - 02.2008
Manager of Workstation Engineering Services
C3I Inc.
Morristown, New Jersey
12.2004 - 07.2005
Senior Consultant
Unisys Corporation
New Providence, New Jersey
06.2004 - 12.2004
Principle Engineer
ePresence, Inc (Banyan Systems)
Westboro, MA
05.2000 - 06.2004
Systems Engineer
Strategic Network Designs
Clarke, New Jersey
07.1999 - 05.2000
Systems Analyst
Cornet International Ltd
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
08.1996 - 07.1999
Education
Bachelor of Information Technology -
American Intercontinental University Online
Illinois, USA01.2005
Skills
- Cross-Functional Team leadership
- Risk Management
- IT Project life cycle
- P&L Management
- Security Transformations
- Digital Security
- Cybersecurity Specialist
- Information Security KPIs/KRIs
- Executive Presentations
- Team Building & Mentoring
- Security Policies & Processes
- Cybersecurity Strategies
- Mentoring and training
- Team collaboration
Websites
Certification
- MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, G169-4561
- MCSA: Cloud Platform, G165-0013
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Managing Director of Global Identity and Access Management
Cigna Inc.
03.2020 - Current
Senior Director of Endpoint Architecture
Cigna Inc.
11.2012 - 01.2020
Senior Global Platform Architect/ Information Security Architect
Covance Inc.
02.2008 - 11.2012
Senior Desktop Architect
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
07.2005 - 02.2008
Manager of Workstation Engineering Services
C3I Inc.
12.2004 - 07.2005
Senior Consultant
Unisys Corporation
06.2004 - 12.2004
Principle Engineer
ePresence, Inc (Banyan Systems)
05.2000 - 06.2004
Systems Engineer
Strategic Network Designs
07.1999 - 05.2000
Systems Analyst
Cornet International Ltd
08.1996 - 07.1999
Bachelor of Information Technology -
American Intercontinental University Online
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