“Using internal phishing exercises is a very inexpensive tool that helps fight the risk and is an investment in staff’s knowledge and education.” Wesley Simpson – COO of (ISC)2
Source: TechRepublic
About Wesley Simpson:
Driving Digital Transformation Expert | Growth Accelerator | Optimizing Operations | Combining vision, strategy, core values, and execution to bring about purposeful change | Risk & Controls | Data Privacy
Global Corporate Strategist, Futurist, Technologist, Operations & Innovator. Delivers consistent and measurable increased market value & share and global market leadership through operations, innovation, business, investment, M&A, and strategies.
Adaptive change leader who devises strategies that create business value and facilitate sustainable growth through transformation and exploitation of a company’s core strengths. Vast global experience leading cross-functional teams of executives, development, operations, and product management, developing disruptive innovative technologies, business, products, and solutions, widely adopted by consumers, customers, enterprises, industry & Govt.
Works with the latest and emerging technologies to deliver scalable, high-performing, always-available secure infrastructure services around the world. Delivers highly leveraged, hyper-converged, and cloud-optimized platforms that connect, host, virtualize, store, collaborate, integrate, compute and transact business solutions using automation, analytics, and infrastructure as code.
Career Highlights
✓ Designed and led multi-year, multi-million-dollar Global Digital End-to-End Transformation initiatives.
✓ Built and implemented Transformation Program Offices COE from scratch, reducing operating costs by 35%.
✓ Managed team of 400+ matrixed, outsourced, offshore, and international bureau-based employees.
✓ Served as Keynote Speaker at top 40+ IT/ICT and Cybersecurity global industry conferences.
✓ Managing Director for APAC, EMEA, LATAM – Global Services and Consulting
✓ Decommissioned over 50% of the data centers by moving the company to a hybrid, SaaS architecture.
✓ Utilized the Lift and Shift migration approach to migrate our applications and associated data to the cloud with minimal changes or impact to internal customers and stakeholders.
✓ Decommissioned over 50% of the data centers by moving the company to a hybrid, SaaS architecture.
✓ Lead the architecture and deployment of moving all on-premise data centers to the cloud to support internal customer 24/7 and business resiliency needs.
✓ Utilized the Lift and Shift migration approach to migrate our applications and associated data to the cloud with minimal changes or impact to internal customers and stakeholders.
