Mark Neiswinger
Lincolnton,NC
Summary
Results driven executive with strong focus on strategic thinking, collaboration, and relationship building. Highly skilled at program and product management to drive and deliver on objectives. Key areas of expertise in security, risk, architecture, business enablement and user experiences.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Executive Director Identity Security
The Walt Disney Company
03.2021 - Current
- Responsible for enterprise wide security policy, controls, and standards for consumer, employee and 3rd party Identity and access management programs & services
- Led team of IAM security engineers and architects responsible for subject matter expertise, security policy, risk identification and data metrics and reporting services.
- Expanded the IAM security oversight across all of TWDC through establishment of structured assessment, governance and data reporting criteria.
- Built and maintained extensive cross company relationships and partnerships across all levels of the organization up to senior executives to accomplish our goals and meet our objectives.
- Established an embedded model of engagement for both our consumer and employee IAM security engineering teams to drive IAM priorities and industry expertise in product and platform development.
- Led multiple teams and projects to advance key solutions and security initiatives including advancing company wide MFA, Centralized and standard user access reviews, zero standing privileges, secrets, PAM, and industry leading technology in Identity Threat Detection & Response.
Director, Identity & Access Management
The Walt Disney Company
01.2017 - 02.2021
- Responsible for defining and driving the overall Company security strategy and vision for Identity & Access Management.
- Established and leveraged business relationships to advance adoption and alignment of the IAM portfolio to additional business units and segments.
- Led the definition and transformation of the IAM execution model through partnerships with established engineering and operational support teams to better align work activities across organizations.
- Responsible for product management across multiple IAM solutions, including setting direction for user experience, business enablement and product roadmap prioritization and strategy.
- Established and managed both program and product management methodologies to drive prioritization and work intake across the established IAM security functions.
- Led execution of identity & access models for multiple merger and acquisition activities.
Sr. Manager Identity & Access Management
The Walt Disney Company
12.2013 - 12.2016
- Responsible for developing, maintaining, and executing a clear strategy for all of the IAM portfolio, and driving the direction to ensure a secure environment while enabling the business and delivering an effective end user experience.
- Established and ran multi-year program to drive centralized adoption of federated authentication services across the company, leveraging influence and strong collaboration and business engagement.
- Built development teams and established the usage of Agile development to advance end user services across the IAM space including new self service capabilities.
- Implemented a product management approach to the set of centralized tools and services across IAM, establishing a clear product message for both end users and developers to understand.
- Led a team responsible for all security aspects of IAM, including influencing and defining policies, identifying and reviewing risk, performing solution and architecture as well as offering consulting services across TWDC.
Manager, Identity & Access Management
The Walt Disney Company
01.2009 - 12.2013
- Led and coordinated an external assessment of company wide IAM technologies, processes and procedures to identify gaps, and define a multi-year strategy.
- Engaged with senior leaders across the company, including enterprise, segment and individual business units to define challenges, improvement opportunities and areas of focus for IAM functions.
- Established an enterprise privileged access management product and service to improve security controls and offer centralization for administrative server controls
- Defined and implemented the first company wide data aggregation and centralized authentication source for end users in a Virtual Directory Service.
Manager, PCI Compliance
The Walt Disney Company
10.2007 - 01.2009
- Responsible for execution of project remediation activities in advance of the Companies first formal assessment and Report on Compliance for the Payment Card Industry.
- Coordinated and delivered weekly executive report outs to the CIO and senior leaders as well as quarterly updates to the CFO and Chief Legal Counsel.
- Managed the Companies first external assessment of PCI by an outside assessor, including identifying and selecting the vendor, establishing scope, project planning, coordinating and executing the assessment across all of TWDC.
- Established the overall program for ongoing execution of PCI compliance reviews and remediation activities for annual assessments.
- Implemented process improvements and streamlining opportunities to better align compliance requirements across the multiple programs including SOX, SafeHarbor and PII.
Service Delivery Specialist
The Walt Disney Company
06.2005 - 10.2007
- Responsible for the relationship with our IT Supplier, IBM for Server hosting support services.
- Liaison between the business, other IT organizations and IBM for direction, requirements, and execution of day to day business needs and problem resolution.
- Led project initiatives including our supplier transition and transformation, a datacenter migration, PCI and SOX server remediations, and establishment of procurement and installation processes for servers.
Technical Specialist
Walt Disney Imagineering
06.1998 - 10.2005
- Responsible for all network and server direction, installation, support and administration, for Florida based Imagineering
- Led projects including the design and implementation of Active Directory and Exchange across the entire Imagineering organization, a datacenter migration into Corporate, and establishing our first virtualization server environment
- Responsible for key new technology initiatives including mobile video conferencing, web based time lapse video for project builds and long range WiFi support for remote job sites.
Systems Engineer
Procter & Gamble Co
01.1995 - 06.1998
- Member for the Customer Support Solution Center for end user support of systems and applications.
- Led Network Support of Novell, Windows NT and other systems for P&G's Health Care Research Center.
- Responsible for project initiatives around technology upgrades, server lifecycle management and software implementations.
- Identified departmental needs and made suggestions regarding technical direction.
Skills
- Team leadership
- Agile methodology
- Problem resolution
- Policies and procedures
- Customer focused
- Excellent communication skills
- Presentation and facilitation
- Technical specifications development
- Project management
- Product Management
- Program Management
- Story Pitching
- Financial Management
- Verbal and written communication
- Strategic Planning
- Staff Development
Technologies & Platforms
- SAML/OIDC
- LDAP/Kerberos
- SCIM
- RBAC/ABAC
- Shared Signals/SETS
- Ping Federate
- Okta
- BeyondTrust
- CyberArk
- SGNL
- CA PAM
- HashiCorp Vault
- AD/Azure/EntraID
- SiteMinder/Identity Minder
- SailPoint
- LastPass
- 1Password
- reCaptcha
- 1Kosmos
Certification
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- Project Management Professional
- Microsoft Certified Professional
- Microsoft Certified System Engineer
- Novell Certified Administrator
- Novell Certified Engineer
Timeline
Executive Director Identity Security
The Walt Disney Company
03.2021 - Current
Director, Identity & Access Management
The Walt Disney Company
01.2017 - 02.2021
Sr. Manager Identity & Access Management
The Walt Disney Company
12.2013 - 12.2016
Manager, Identity & Access Management
The Walt Disney Company
01.2009 - 12.2013
Manager, PCI Compliance
The Walt Disney Company
10.2007 - 01.2009
Service Delivery Specialist
The Walt Disney Company
06.2005 - 10.2007
Technical Specialist
Walt Disney Imagineering
06.1998 - 10.2005
Systems Engineer
Procter & Gamble Co
01.1995 - 06.1998
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