Juliano Giannerini
Houston,US
Summary
Seasoned IT Leader with extensive experience in OT and IT Security, infrastructure & operations, applications, and project management. I specialize in leading and securing critical Operational Technology (OT) environments. With a proven track record, my expertise extends across technical and strategic levels, enabling effective communication and collaboration with all stakeholders. I excel in managing budgets, resources, and timelines, with a keen focus on optimizing processes and enhancing security postures. As a trusted business partner, I am adept at understanding and aligning IT solutions with business objectives, ensuring tailored, secure, and efficient outcomes. My strong technical foundation, combined with strategic business acumen and exceptional relationship-building skills, positions me to drive comprehensive cybersecurity strategies that protect and advance organizational goals.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IADC Cybersecurity Committee Co-Chair
International Association of Drilling Contractors
02.2024 - Current
- Develop a forward-looking cybersecurity strategy that safeguards the industry's people and operations, involving all stakeholders across the supply chain
- Foster collaboration among drilling contractors, clients (IOCs), equipment manufacturers, service providers, classification societies, and regulatory bodies to create a comprehensive cybersecurity framework that offers protection for all parties involved.
Global Information Security Manager
Seadrill Americas Inc
11.2022 - Current
- Responsible for strategic leadership and policy development: spearheaded the development and execution of comprehensive cybersecurity strategies and policies, aligning them with organizational objectives and industry best practices
- Demonstrated leadership in safeguarding both IT and OT/IACS environments through innovative security solutions
- Global Compliance and Regulatory Adherence: Expertly navigated the complex landscape of legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations across multiple countries (USA, UK, Norway, Brazil, and Angola), ensuring full compliance with GDPR, SEC Cyber disclosure, and other international cybersecurity standards
- Advanced Security Technology Management: Oversaw the deployment and management of cutting-edge security technologies, including firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and encryption tools
- Pioneered the integration of these technologies into the organization's IT and OT/IACS networks, fortifying defenses against evolving cyber threats
- Risk Management and Threat Intelligence: Led thorough risk assessments to pinpoint vulnerabilities and potential threats, crafting robust response strategies
- Kept abreast of emerging cyber threats and vulnerabilities, continuously adapting organizational security measures to mitigate risks effectively
- Incident Response and Damage Control: Coordinated swift and decisive action in response to security breaches, minimizing damage and spearheading recovery efforts
- Developed and implemented incident response protocols to streamline organization-wide response to cyber incidents
- Budget and Resource Optimization: Managed the cybersecurity budget, ensuring optimal allocation of resources to critical areas, enhancing overall security posture and operational efficiency
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborated with various departments, including IT, to embed cybersecurity best practices into all organizational operations
- Advocated for a unified approach to security, integrating IT and OT/IACS considerations into overall strategies
- Cybersecurity Training and Awareness: Championed cybersecurity awareness initiatives, educating employees on best practices, threat recognition, and reporting protocols
- Fostered a culture of cybersecurity mindfulness throughout the organization
- OT and IACS Security: Have establishing a strategy for managing ICS/OT risks, and defining a governance structure (ownership, policies, and security standards) to effectively address and assess cyber risks impacting OT networks and systems
- Conducted a reasonable number of security reviews for OT systems
- Addressed the unique challenges of OT and IACS security, ensuring the protection of specialized networks and systems
- ICS network segmentation, vulnerability management, standalone systems, and asset management (servers and databases supporting the ICS applications)
- Implemented tailored security measures for OT/IACS environments, distinct from traditional IT security protocols.
Global Offshore Applications & Infrastructure Manager
Seadrill Americas Inc
08.2021 - 10.2022
- Responsible for the IT service delivery and management of operational applications and infrastructure
- Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines
- Oversees and directs Seadrill outsourced resources in delivering application and infrastructure support services
- Coordinate operational activities with external stakeholders
- Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures
- Proactive management and monitoring of infrastructure applications support pertaining to offshore business
- Drives continuous improvement in offshore application support and infrastructure activities across internal and external providers
- Drive value from Seadrill applications and ensure alignment with business needs
- Meet with department heads, manager, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems
- Consult with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess computing needs and system requirements
- Build a strong relationship to the System Owners, Business Process Owners and Super Users to be able to understand business requirements and jointly set the direction for Seadrill applications
- Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities
- Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers
- Recommend organizational process or policy changes
- Continually seek cost-effective opportunities, research new solutions to build efficiency, enhance processes, streamline operations always in line with the company vision
- Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity
- Prepare and review operational reports or project progress reports
- Recruit, hire, train and supervise staff, or participate in staffing decisions
- Develop and interpret organizational goals, policies, and procedures
- Evaluate the organization's technology use and needs and recommend improvements, such as hardware and software upgrades
- Determine resource needs
- Manage and control operational budget and expenditures
- Evaluate employee performance
- Resolve employee or contractor problems
- Conduct employee training programs.
IT Manager Western Hemisphere
Seadrill Americas Inc
06.2020 - 07.2021
- IT Business Partner of Deepwater/Floaters Operating Unit and accountable for the IT operations in Western Hemisphere offices (US, Mexico, Canada, and Brazil)
- As an IT Business Partner, the core of my role is to listen out to partners to understand business objectives and provide strategic insights to drive the right solution, anticipate technology trends and adapt to emerging opportunities while delivering core functions flawlessly
- Meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems
- Direct organizational operations, projects, or services
- Coordinate operational activities with external stakeholders
- Analyze data to determine project feasibility
- Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity
- Responsible for the IT operations on board the Floaters Operating Unit rigs
- Stay abreast of advances in technology, deliver innovative technology reliably, predictably, and cost-effective solutions that will ultimately help grow our industry leadership position with holistic solutions
- Analyze data to inform operational decisions or activities
- Easy to work with, always trying to use clear processes and flexible thinking, focused on business rather than technology when meeting with divisions business leaders, so they know our main goal is to make the company successful through the continuous delivery of value through Digital Services
- Provide users with technical support for computer problems
- Control operational budget and expenditures and purchase necessary equipment for the offices in Brazil, Mexico, US and Canada.
IT Lead Western Hemisphere
Seadrill Americas Inc
01.2020 - 05.2021
- Responsible for overseeing service delivery within the region
- Single point of accountability to Western Hemisphere (US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil) regarding IT’s end-to-end services
- Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines
- Direct organizational operations, projects, or services
- Coordinate operational activities with external stakeholders
- Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity
- Prepare and review operational reports or project progress reports
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, budget, and desired quality
- Proactively identify opportunities for business productivity through the use of Information Technologies
- Act as a point of escalations for the business and rig fleet identifying risk factors and contingency plans, communicate critical factors to management and other stakeholders
- Regularly meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems
- Engagement with service lines which supports business functions to help establish new initiatives, service improvements, and optimize service delivery to enhance operational effectiveness
- Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers
- Ensure secure, reliable, and efficient IT operations
- Define service levels needed by the business and manage local and global suppliers' delivery of services
- Prepare operational progress or status reports.
IT Lead Latin America South
Seadrill Americas Inc
05.2018 - 12.2019
- Responsible for overseeing service delivery within the region
- Single point of accountability to LAS (Latin America South) region regarding IT’s end-to-end services
- Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines
- Direct organizational operations, projects, or services
- Coordinate operational activities with external stakeholders
- Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity
- Prepare and review operational reports or project progress reports
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, budget, and desired quality
- Proactively identify opportunities for business productivity through the use of Information Technologies
- Act as a point of escalations for the business and rig fleet identifying risk factors and contingency plans, communicate critical factors to management and other stakeholders
- Regularly meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems
- Engagement with service lines which supports business functions to help establish new initiatives, service improvements, and optimize service delivery to enhance operational effectiveness
- Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers
- Ensure secure, reliable, and efficient IT operations
- Define service levels needed by the business and manage local and global suppliers' delivery of services
- Prepare operational progress or status reports.
IT Coordinator - Brazil
Seadrill Servicos de Petroleo e Gas LTDA
01.2014 - 04.2018
- Responsible to manage the end-to-end IT service delivery in the Brazil offices and rigs
- Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines
- Direct organizational operations and projects
- Drive operational efficiencies, manage incidents, problems, releases, and changes
- Ensure IT capitalizes from lessons learned and is performed following best practice, striving to mitigate risk, promoting safety and integrity consistently
- Support the business-partnering interface between IT and all other functions
- Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity
- Prepare operational progress or status reports
- Support both global and local end of life strategy
- Regular meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems
- Manage end-to-end local applications support and make sure suppliers meet the agreed SLA
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
- Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers
- Provide users with technical support for computer problems
- Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
- Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work
- Control operational budget and expenditures.
IT Coordinator
Sevan Drilling ASA - Brazil
05.2013 - 12.2013
- Responsible for IT Department of Sevan Drilling in Brazil and to deliver a defined set of IT services, technologies, and processes
- Develop operating strategies, plans, and procedures
- Analyze data to inform operational decisions or activities
- Develop computer information resources, providing for data security and control, strategic computing, and disaster recovery
- Provide expert advice to various client groups who could be within the IT function or based on other functions throughout the company
- Support the relevant aspects of the IT strategy aligned with business priorities with a focus on improving the efficiency and delivery of services
- Run the IT operation within the region and ensure service run as reliable and efficient as possible
- Consult with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess computing needs and system requirements
- Coordinate operational activities with external and internal stakeholders
- Analyze data to determine project feasibility
- Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity
- Manage organizational or project budgets
- Prepare operational progress or status reports.
IT Coordinator
Cia de Navegação Norsul
05.2011 - 04.2013
- Accountable for IT services delivery and direct daily operations of department, establishing and review priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines
- Responsible for infrastructure and application operations across the offices and fleet
- Development of strategies for critical services continuity along with immediate responses for critical incidents
- Develop and interpret organizational goals, policies, and procedures
- Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity
- Ensure the reliability and efficiency of IT services
- Relationship with business
- Supplier sourcing and management
- Recruit, hire, train and supervise staff, or participate in staffing decisions.
Team Leader
Quality Software S.A
10.2007 - 04.2011
- Accountable for the business process outsourcing team working on a client
- Direct and oversee daily operations of department
- Application, servers infrastructure, database and network management
- Responsible for the KPIs, incident, problem, and change management processes
- Customer relationship
- Single point of contact and escalation for the client
- Regularly meet with the client, listen out to their needs, requirements and engaging service lines to resolve problems, engage on new initiatives, service improvements and optimize service delivery.
Education
Specialization - Information Systems
University of Minnesota
Minneota, MN01.2021
BSc - Industrial Engineering
UNESA
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil05.2018
MBA - Business Management
IBMEC
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil10.2015
B. Tech - Computer Networks
UNESA
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil05.2008
Skills
- Leadership & Teamwork
- Strategic Planning
- Business Acumen
- OT/IACS & IT Security
- Risk Management
- Project Management
- Financial Management
- Communication & Collaboration
- Stakeholder Management
- IT Infrastructure & Operations
Accomplishments
- Strategic Cybersecurity Capability Enhancement: Led a comprehensive evaluation and enhancement of IT and OT cybersecurity frameworks, identifying critical gaps and strategizing improvements to fortify digital defenses effectively.
- Digital Security Strategy Formulation: Engineered a holistic Digital Security Strategy, intricately aligned with corporate objectives to ensure cybersecurity measures bolster organizational goals and operational coherence.
- Implementation of Cybersecurity Performance Metrics: Instituted KPI and KRI dashboards to accurately assess and strategically advance the organization’s cybersecurity stance, setting benchmarks for industry-leading security practices.
- Cybersecurity Organizational Transformation: Directed the restructuring of the cybersecurity division, customizing roles and streamlining operations to meet dynamic business demands while enhancing operational agility and security effectiveness.
- Leadership in Cybersecurity Program Advancement: Authored and secured executive endorsement for a forward-looking $3.5 million, 3-year cybersecurity initiative, launching five pivotal projects to substantially uplift the organization's digital security landscape.
- Initiation of Digital Security Culture: Spearheaded the establishment of a Digital Security Awareness Program, cultivating an organizational ethos of vigilance and preemptive action against cyber threats.
- Cybersecurity Communication Initiatives: Initiated a strategic communication plan with the launch of a Quarterly Cybersecurity Newsletter and Monthly Security Tips, significantly enhancing cybersecurity awareness and knowledge across the organization.
Certification
- Certified Information Security Manager CISM
- ITIL Intermediate Service Design
- ITIL Intermediate Service Transition
- ITIL Intermediate Service Operation
- ITIL V4 Foundation
- COBIT 4.1
- ITIL V3 Foundation
- LPIC-1
Courses Trainings
- Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Simplilearn
- Introduction to Onshore IT systems and Applications, Seadrill
- Hearing Conservation – National Safety Council, LMS
- Welcome and Reporting Integrity Concerns, Seadrill
- Compliance Awareness ISIT, Seadrill
- Putting ITIL Into Practice: Applying ITIL 4 Foundation Concept, LinkedIn
- Agile Product Owner, IT Partners
- Agile Foundations, LinkedIn
- Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations, LinkedIn
- Agile Principles, Methodologies, and Mindset, Skillsoft
- Enterprise Architecture Foundations, LinkedIn
- TOGAF Fundamentals - Content Framework and Capability Basics, Skillsoft
- TOGAF Fundamentals - Enterprise Architecture Basics, Skillsoft
- DevOps Fundamentals – Tools, Technologies, and Infrastructures, Skillsoft
- EXIN DevOps Professional, TI Exames
- Project Management (PMP), Dinsmore Compass
- Busibess Process Management Foundation, TI Exames
- Unix/Linux Server Hardening, Clavis Segurança da Informação
- VMWare Vcenter Cloud Management, Quality Software (in-company)
- Linux Network Engineer, M. Cury
- Linux System Engineer, M. Cury
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Training, M Cury
- Lotus Notes 6, NSI Training
Industries
- Infrastructure
- Telecommunication
- Transportation
- Technology
- Oil and Gas
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 05/08/85
- Marital Status: Married
Hobbies and Interests
- Being an outstanding son, husband and father
- Playing soccer
- Traveling
- Reading
- Financial market
Hobbies
Travelling
Soccer
BBQing
Financial Market
Languages
Portuguese
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Elementary
Timeline
IADC Cybersecurity Committee Co-Chair
International Association of Drilling Contractors
02.2024 - Current
Global Information Security Manager
Seadrill Americas Inc
11.2022 - Current
Global Offshore Applications & Infrastructure Manager
Seadrill Americas Inc
08.2021 - 10.2022
IT Manager Western Hemisphere
Seadrill Americas Inc
06.2020 - 07.2021
IT Lead Western Hemisphere
Seadrill Americas Inc
01.2020 - 05.2021
IT Lead Latin America South
Seadrill Americas Inc
05.2018 - 12.2019
IT Coordinator - Brazil
Seadrill Servicos de Petroleo e Gas LTDA
01.2014 - 04.2018
IT Coordinator
Sevan Drilling ASA - Brazil
05.2013 - 12.2013
IT Coordinator
Cia de Navegação Norsul
05.2011 - 04.2013
Team Leader
Quality Software S.A
10.2007 - 04.2011
Specialization - Information Systems
University of Minnesota
BSc - Industrial Engineering
UNESA
MBA - Business Management
IBMEC
B. Tech - Computer Networks
UNESA
- Certified Information Security Manager CISM
- ITIL Intermediate Service Design
- ITIL Intermediate Service Transition
- ITIL Intermediate Service Operation
- ITIL V4 Foundation
- COBIT 4.1
- ITIL V3 Foundation
- LPIC-1
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