Bachelor of Science & Electrical Engineering

Cornell University

Masters of Engineering (Electrical)

Cornell University

United States Citizen

• Invited by the National Security Agency to be part of a very small team to help mediate issues related to the DoD ‘Starwars’ program security.
• Member (since its inception) of FBI Infragard, a government/private sector partnership to improve security of information systems in the private sector.
• Participated in IEEE 802.11 committee defining Ethernet security standards.
• Member of the Information Systems Security Association.
• Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Registered Practitioner, CMMC AB.

U.S. Patent 8,751,799

Methods and systems for enabling content to be securely and conveniently distributed to authorized users in encrypted form, on sending and receiving devices and during transport.

U.S. Patent 8,903,856

Methods and systems for delivering content to users in a manner that allows users to seek targeted content without having to reveal personal information.

CyberCecurity, LLC and Turnkey Cybersecurity and Privacy Solutions, LLC

Co-founder and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

As partner and CISO of two operational cybersecurity companies, Mitch is ultimately responsible for all technical strategies, engineering, program implementations, and third-party technical solutions for his clients, as well as his own companies. Since Mitch's companies offer the full range of cybersecurity and privacy services, his responsibilities require him to be uniquely well-informed about a wide range of technical and compliance issues. As a hands-on leader in the style of Elon Musk, there are few strategic and operational risk and governance issues related to cybersecurity and privacy that Mitch has not had direct experience with.

A sampling of Mitch's daily responsibilities include:

• Corporate cyber risk assessments
• Risk mitigation plans
• Cyber risk policy creation and rollout
• Cyber insurance assessments
• 800-171, ISO 270xx and NIST Cybersecurity Framework compliance planning
• Cyber incident and disaster response planning
• Cyber impact to business valuation
• Serving as virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) to multiple national and international companies

Absio Corporation

CTO, CISO and DoD Facility Security Officer (FSO)

Absio developed a family of applications to provide military-grade data level security and distribution control, no matter where that data resided. Mitch was responsible for the architecture of the Absio applications and IT infrastructure. As CTO, he managed the development team and provided sales support for all technical issues. He was also responsible for Absio operational activities. Mitch's responsibilities included providing guidance to the Board and other company management on these critical areas.

LenderLive Network, Inc.

Senior Vice President of Technology

Senior technical officer responsible for all information security and information technology strategy, architecture and operations. Mitch drove the technology merger of an acquired business as well as another division that had run autonomously until he joined the firm. All information technology staff reported to him in this position.

Mercury Companies, Inc.

Mercury Companies is a privately held financial services conglomerate with interests in real estate title, escrow, software and other real-estate related services.

CTO and CISO Chief Technical Officer:

Mercury Companies Information Technology Services: CTO and CISO Chief Technical Officer for Mercury Companies, responsible for technology architecture and strategy needs for all subsidiaries of Mercury Companies. Reporting to the Chairman, he was the senior technology strategist and architect and provided technology guidance and advice to the Chairman and senior management team.

Chief Information Security Officer:

Responsibilities included:

• Overall security strategy and implementation for a firm with over 200 offices and 7,000 employees.
• Serving as Chief architect of a new enterprise framework platform which ultimately merged 100+ diverse applications supporting production and administration into a single internal and external portal. This included design, coding, style and object reuse guidelines for all development in the company going forward.
• Leading the response to financial institution security audits and managing mitigation via the security operations team.
• Championed, architected, and lead a major data center virtualization strategy which virtualized hundreds of servers in order to reduce power, space, support and licensing costs.
• Acted as mentor for director-level IT staff in order to facilitate positive staff development, job satisfaction, and retention.
• Led the technical response to critical outages.
• Led efforts to reduce IT costs as company downsized to 25% of its prior size during the longest and deepest housing industry down-turn on record. Kept critical systems operational and support within targeted goals. While staff was reduced by half and operating expenses reduced by one-third, all systems remained operational and available.

Guardian Mortgage Documents, Inc.

CTO/CISO

Guardian Mortgage Documents, a division of Mercury Companies, is a technology service provider to the nation’s largest banks and mortgage lenders. As CIO and then CTO/CISO, Mitch oversaw the technology shift from a PC-based, thick client service bureau to a web-based ASP supporting three of the five largest lenders in the US, among other customers. The platform provided real time access for the lenders and their correspondents to create mortgage related documents and outsource selected pieces of their business process to Guardian. This shared platform supported the needs of multiple lenders with multiple data centers. Extremely high availability, tight security and a very structured development, maintenance and security process were all needed to satisfy large lenders and their government regulators.

Responsibilities included managing software development, network and data center operations, 24x7 help desk center and physical security for a highly available, fault tolerant ecommerce web presence supporting the nation’s largest banks and mortgage companies to deliver legal documents in real time. Provided technical sales support on every major customer engagement.

Texas Instruments, Inc.

Advanced Software Technology Department

Part of team that built the first generation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for the Air Force. Also part of the team that built the next generation air traffic control system for the FAA.

Distributed Computer Services

Technical architect and lead technical implementer for business unit that was responsible for providing computer services to the Defense Systems Division of Texas Instruments. Served as chief architect and managed the unit for several years. The resources included hundreds of Vaxs, thousands of PCs, several mainframe data centers, multi-million dollar computerized flight test equipment and 350 staff members. Managed budget of $50 million and capital budget of $10 million.

Information Systems and Services

As first information systems security manager, responsible for information systems security for numerous highly classified programs. Worked with program customers and program managers to design and implement information systems security programs and manage risk of potential security breaches and compromise of classified information.