Mario Villegas

• New York, NY

Mario Villegas

Mario Villegas's Bio:

Mario Villegas's Experience:

• Senior Cybersecurity Program Manager at Carnival Cruises

  2017 - Present | Miami FL

  Liaison with key consulting partners Cap Gemini and Accenture. Overarching goal of this initiative was the creation and delivery/multi-ship implementation of a “Smart Wristband-Medallion” device (ostensibly distributed to the paying guest)—containing relevant data—from ticket information to preferred drinks—and all points in-between. Approximately 800 professionals were involved in this clandestine product development endeavor, housed in a nondescript building. • Reported all risks and potential vulnerabilities in the Security environment, performed patches and reported to the infrastructure team, interfacing regularly with four Directors. Liaison with PCI, Identity Management, Portfolio Security and Chief Security Information Officer, briefing each with high/medium/low issue priorities. • Implemented Agile/Scrum process and trained Cybersecurity team; ran Sprints every week; setup a JIRA dashboard providing data visualization of risks and issues. • Successfully deployed multiple Security tools; Twistlock (automated, scalable container security solution deployed in AWS Cloud); Qualys (scanner for network vulnerabilities); Carbon Black (endpoint detection and response); Splunk (views vulnerabilities/threats, and monitors logs for coders).

• Sr Program Manager at Microsoft

  2013 - 2015

  Program Manager Director “SMART” stands for Security, Monitoring & Analytics Response Team. Manages a team of mix of 30 FTEs, 25 vendors and contractors charged with monitoring/detecting any attacks or intrusions in the environments of Xbox and Xbox Live, Universal Store, WDG Core, and Health Services. Provides leadership within the Information Security Portfolio/ Program Management function. Identifies and manages all security focused projects and programs in the Security Portfolio and Roadmap. •Successfully migrated more than 25 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months. Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise •Created program and set structure for the department via Visual Studio Online and dashboards (team had been using Outlook exclusively). Trained/mentored, product owners on backlog grooming, effective user stories, Sprint planning and use of Kanban boards. •Prepares and delivers an executive presentation reporting team progress/metrics each month to VPs, Chief Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer. •Protect team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and sprint timeline.

• Senior Program Manager at Microsoft

  2013 - 2015

  Works closely with VPs managing multiple high profile projects, and overseeing numerous and PMs in wake of Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype (based in Estonia). Initiatives have spanned due diligence, IT and systems integrations, service migrations, cost reductions, financial management and Agile/Scrum process improvements. Manages Finance teams, methodically tracking purchases and budgets. Delivered nearly $10M COGS savings. •Provided guidance to Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Teams, including Story mapping, road mapping, Planning, Backlog management, definition, grooming, ranking, Story sizing and task estimation. •Drove ongoing datacenter upgrades scaling Agile/scrum methodologies (cabling, server maintenance, configurations, etc.). Managed operations, ensuring all designs commensurate with security and IT compliance protocols. •Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 63% within the first year of Agile adoption ensuring compliant “lock-down”; all physical and data security, data encryption, firewalls, and servers, successfully driving and reaching medium/high business impact (MBI and HBI) objectives. Brought networks up to Microsoft standards, reaching 99.9% uptimes with zero defects.

• Sr Program Manager-Consultan at Caradigm

  2012 - 2013

  Caradigm, a Microsoft-GE Healthcare Company, Bellevue, Washington • 2012-2013 Senior Program Manager (Consultant) Outlined project scope, staffing needs, budget, scheduling, and risk identification. Developed contingency plans. Maintained deliverables and all other documentation related to administration of the project. • Worked with leads and staff to initiate and execute datacenter and infrastructure projects, monitor project progress, suggest corrective actions, and aid in issue resolution and risk mitigation. Led efforts in creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables in support of business needs. • Facilitated project meetings focused on status reporting, problem resolution and feedback. Fostered open communication within the team on project planning and execution.

• Sr Program Manager- Consultan at Medtronic

  2011 - 2012

  Medtronic, Redmond, Washington • 2011-2012 Senior Program Manager (Consultant) Oversaw a large scale international enterprise initiative to facilitate Medtronic’s separation and divestiture from a former subsidiary, and establishment of a new, independent Healthcare company (Physio-Control). Role better described as Program Manager; leading a team of 50 worldwide and a budget of $8MM; directing the physical IT separation of new company’s infrastructure, applications and data from Medtronic to create an autonomous entity. • Led teams across Asia/Asia-Pacific regions and in Europe. Established 14 offices in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Spain, China, Japan, Denmark and others. • Infrastructure implementations included telephony, all information systems, networks, security and databases (Active Directory) and cloud-based platforms (SharePoint). • Responsible for all elements of design/engineering computing, office computing, manufacturing computing, and enterprise computing.

• Sr Project Manager-Consultant at T-Mobile

  February 2010 - March 2011

  T-Mobile, Bellevue, Washington • 2010-2011 Senior Project Manager (Consultant) Oversaw multiple, matrixed enterprise IT projects simultaneously, collaborating with diverse business and technical subject matter experts to define scope, and develop strategic and tactical plans to promote successful throughput. • Conducted reviews, managed risk mitigation activities and change control processes. Established liaison with Executives in IT organization and business units. • Tracked project throughput against original plans and kept lines of communication open to ensure projected deliverables commensurate with needs. Led teams proactively while granting prudent levels of individual autonomy.

• Project Manager at Expedia

  April 2004 - January 2010

  Expedia.com, Bellevue, Washington • 2004-2010 Project Manager Led critical enterprise projects through entire lifecycles. Projects included software implementations, infrastructure initiatives, DC migrations, enterprise data warehouse implementations, and security upgrades involving management of analysis, development, and oversight of technical and business teams. • Key projects included a SQL implementation—migrating Hotels.com and TravelNow to unified SQL 2005 platform; a data center migration—relocation of two datacenters across the country consolidating 1126 servers to new VMware virtual machines (realizing nearly $800,000 in combined annual cost reductions); a 5,000 seat Windows XP to Windows 7 platform upgrade; worldwide upgrade of Antivirus software and single platform consolidation.

Mario Villegas's Education:

• Harvard University

  2018 – 2019
  Certificate
  Concentration: Cybersecurity Risk Management

• University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management

  Bachelor of Science in Business
  Concentration: Management Information Systems and Services

• Scrum Alliance

  Certified Scrum Master Certificant ID: 000579959
  Concentration: Scrum & Agile

• Standford University

  Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate
  Concentration: Project Management

• Bellevue Community College

  Project Manager Certificate
  Concentration: Information Systems Project Management

• Project Tracking Software Teams

  Project Management Tools
  Concentration: MS Project- Microsoft Visual Studio-Power BI -Microsoft Planner-Jira

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