Ryan Whelan

Drove platform strategy for our Arctic Wolf Asset Platform, helping design and define microservices to better improve our consuming products. Fostered and collaborated with cross-functional teams and development teams from UI to Data Pipeline. Designed experiments to test new features and changes in user experience.

• Worked with AI team to create potential AI learning module to increase accuracy of platform algorithms.
• Spearheaded detailed technical specifications documents outlining the functional requirements of proposed products or features.
• Provided guidance on best practices related to user interface design, usability testing and analytics tracking.
• Created SLOs and SLI requirements for our data pipeline while providing recommendations for technologies and services to help fulfill SLOs.
• Developed junior-level product managers providing guidance and best practices for requirements gathering, grooming, and prioritization of development efforts.

Led technical teams on various out-of-the-box content for all of Devo's security focused products (detections, SOAR, and threat hunting) increasing the content library by 400%. Developed product strategies and product vision for each team to align with the company's overarching goals. Interfaced with various customers to provide updates and receive feedback on product's roadmaps and designs.

• Worked with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and revenue-generating features and products.
• Conducted and planned initial scoping to guide the direction of the product with various technical and business oriented teams.
• Directed stakeholder communication and reported status, issues and changes to technical and business leadership.
• Gathered data, conducted product reviews, and case studies, to inform management and stakeholders of user requirements.
• Partnered with clients to help design and meet their requirements for new initiatives by conducting user studies.
• Created KPIs and increased efficacy of out-of-the-box content

Organized and communicated compliance requirements to various teams, breaking down features into stories to meet those requirements.

• Improved and designed successful compliance monitoring and risk assessment programs.
• Led meetings with the development teams to maintain plan development around new application security features.
• Developed, and presented, risk and recommendation reports to leadership.
• Monitored contingency plan exercises, assessed plan effectiveness, and designed new procedures to improve responses to emergencies.
• Provided information security oversight and collaboration through excellent documentation and communication.
• Created and evangelized security polices and projects to help various teams maintain compliance while focusing on business priorities.

Attended grooming sessions and developed multiple user personas for the company's access management system. Created various UAT test cases and help conduct UAT testing with the development teams. Prioritized stories with the development teams based on remediation of vulnerabilities within the application and any upcoming audits.

• Led cross functional teams to mitigate potential organizational risks, and advanced the maturity of the IS program.
• Directed the toxic access combination requirements to ensure no segregation of duties violations, and created methods for the risk to be continuously monitored.
• Collaborated with stakeholders and software engineers to create features for the IAM tool, and communicated application workflow requirements to relevant teams.
• Worked with engineering teams to implement fixes to vulnerabilities and lower application's risk thresholds.