ERIC L. DIXON
Jersey City,NJ
Summary
U. S. military Veteran with a proven track record of helping clients and stakeholders translate business strategies into business capabilities, technical architectures, plans of action and road maps to effectively deliver desired business outcomes. Accomplished Cybersecurity, Operational Resilience and Information Technology Manager. Experienced in leading Global Teams to achieving organizational goals and objectives on high profile, technologically complex, and business critical projects. Over 20 years of experience as a Senior Director/BU CIO and Cybersecurity SME.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Global Head of Fusion Exercise Program-Cyber/Risk
Morgan Stanley
New York, NY
02.2021 - Current
- Heading a global team in the development of a portfolio of exercises to assess the Firm's ability to respond and recover to operational events, which include cyber, technology and physical impact scenarios.
- Responsible for assisting Business Units with understanding regulatory change required by new, revised laws and regulations by assessing operational impacts.
- Collaborates with teams across Business Units, Technology groups, Operations and Risk organizations to develop exercises to assess Firm processes and functions to manage operational threats and incidents in diverse workstreams such as; Insider Threat, Cloud Computing, Critical Infrastructure and Business Services.
- Orchestrates the Firm's involvement in vendor-facilitated and sector-wide exercises that assess the accuracy and responsiveness of the Firm's response processes against top cyber threats such as Ransomware and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks.
- Engages and trains stakeholders across the Firm regarding exercise development, planning and facilitation procedures.
- Develops and tracks programs key performance indicators, including improvement actions resulting from exercises.
Senior Infrastructure Resiliency Advisor
ICF International Inc.
Ft. Meade, MD
09.2018 - 02.2021
- Advised key leadership on mission assurance risks and risk management decisions.
- Assisted stakeholders in the development and implementation of critical infrastructure risk mitigation strategy that ensured critical business functions and technology remains available across the full spectrum of operations.
- Coordinated, planned and lead high priority engagements between commercial critical infrastructure and Department of Defense Clients.
- Through marketing, outreach and thought leadership, increased ICF footprint 200% within a Department of Defense client by identifying and capturing growth opportunities.
J-5 Director (Director of Strategy and Plans)
JFHQ-DODIN/U.S. Cyber Command
Ft. Meade, MD
06.2016 - 09.2018
- Led a group of high performing IT and Cybersecurity planners to develop, implement and assess the cyberspace defense policy and plans for the global Department of Defense (DOD) networks.
- In collaboration with executive partners and key stakeholders, developed the organization’s overall Cybersecurity strategy to include strategic goals, objectives and policies.
- Tracked Strategy, Plans and Policy objectives and key results to drive organization's continuous improvement.
Assistant Chief of Staff G-6 (Business Unit CIO)
I MEF/1st MEB USMC
Camp Pendleton, CA
06.2014 - 06.2016
- Managed 50+ IT professionals providing planning and engineering, network operations, cybersecurity, and IT maintenance for a large globally dispersed organization.
- Delivered technology solutions, strategies and road maps to effectively deliver business outcomes.
- Principal advisor to executive management on IT and Cybersecurity matters.
- Managed $500 million inventory of IT and Marine Corps communications equipment.
- Managed $7 million budget.
Assistant Chief of Staff G-6 (Business Unit CIO)
I Marine Logistics Group, USMC
Camp Pendleton, CA
06.2012 - 06.2014
- Responsible for the direction and supervision of 40+ IT professionals providing IT planning and engineering, network operations, cybersecurity, and IT maintenance for a 10,000 person organization.
- Advised senior leaders and staff on all aspects of IT/cybersecurity.
- Managed $100 million inventory of IT and Marine Corps’ communications equipment.
- Developed and successfully delivered the organization's Tech Roadmap.
- Tech Roadmap eliminated multiple single points of failure in business operations. Developed off-site functions, processes and capabilities to ensure resilient business operations.
Executive Officer (Business Unit COO)
Marine Wing Communications Squadron 38, USMC
Miramar, CA
06.2011 - 06.2012
- Directed high performing IT/cybersecurity professionals on the implementation of policies, objectives and activities of the organization.
- Ensured continuing operations while maximizing returns on investments and increasing productivity.
- Principal advisor to the Senior Management on all operations.
- Provided executive oversight for preparation for audits of entity operations and policy/procedure review.
- Optimized operations by managing $21 million annual budget covering travel and operating expenses for staff members.
Lead IT Planner
NORAD/US NORTHCOM
Colorado Springs, CO
06.2008 - 06.2011
- Led a cross functional team to provide IT planning and network engineering for DOD disaster response operations.
- Directed the planning and implementation of secured networks and communications/cybersecurity support for VIP events including the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Presidential Inauguration, State of the Union and the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
- Provided IT and communication assessments to senior leaders on nuclear command and control architectures to support Homeland Defense missions.
- Lead instructor of network engineering at the DOD senior IT/Communications Planners Course.
Education
Master of Science - Cybersecurity
Brown University
Providence, RI05.2021
Master of Arts - National Security And Strategic Studies
Naval War College
Newport, RIBachelor of Science - Urban Studies
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GACertificate - Command, Control, Communications And Computers
USMC C4 Planners Course
Quantico, VASkills
- Global Leadership
- Team Development
- Strategic Planning
- Process Improvement
- Operational Resilience
- Mission Execution
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Project Management
- Technology Integration
Accomplishments
- Global Leadership Hand picked to lead a newly formed organization of 400+ IT and cybersecurity professionals to go into combat. Effectively managed the success of a mission simultaneously on multiple continents. Developed, directed, and motivated the team to reach objectives in support of business operations.
- Team Development Developed, advocated and implemented the organization, objectives and training of 500+ IT and cybersecurity professionals which led to a more functional team that increased service availability and reliability by 40% for 10,000 users.
- Strategic Planning Directed multifaceted approach to the first ever series of cybersecurity plans that directly led to the maturation of the DOD global cybersecurity operations of the world’s largest information network.
- Process Improvement Organization transitioned from outsourced IT/cybersecurity support, to organic IT/cybersecurity support uncovering significant gaps in IT equipment accountability, security, and business resiliency. Developed processes to increase accountability of inventory location accuracy through auditing and documentation management. Reduced future investment of IT inventory by 25%.
- Operational Resilience Developed exercise platform to assess and validate the financial firms ability to continue critical operations and core business functions during disruptions and hazards.
- Mission Execution Based on senior management’s direction and vision, lead exercises globally across the firm’s business segments. This portfolio of work successfully met the regulatory and compliance, governance organizations, risk management, and industry requirements.
Affiliations
- Founding member of Altorus Cyber Foundation
- Board of Directors CORE Wrestling
- Student Ambassador Brown University
- Field Grade Officer of the Year, NORTHCOM J-6
- Published Author Marine Corps Gazette
Timeline
Global Head of Fusion Exercise Program-Cyber/Risk
Morgan Stanley
02.2021 - Current
Senior Infrastructure Resiliency Advisor
ICF International Inc.
09.2018 - 02.2021
J-5 Director (Director of Strategy and Plans)
JFHQ-DODIN/U.S. Cyber Command
06.2016 - 09.2018
Assistant Chief of Staff G-6 (Business Unit CIO)
I MEF/1st MEB USMC
06.2014 - 06.2016
Assistant Chief of Staff G-6 (Business Unit CIO)
I Marine Logistics Group, USMC
06.2012 - 06.2014
Executive Officer (Business Unit COO)
Marine Wing Communications Squadron 38, USMC
06.2011 - 06.2012
Lead IT Planner
NORAD/US NORTHCOM
06.2008 - 06.2011
Master of Science - Cybersecurity
Brown University
Master of Arts - National Security And Strategic Studies
Naval War College
Bachelor of Science - Urban Studies
Georgia State University
Certificate - Command, Control, Communications And Computers
USMC C4 Planners Course