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Russ Dietz

Executive leadership, cybersecurity, technology development, entrepreneurship, cloud solutions & digital transformation

  • San Francisco Bay Area
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Highlights

A seasoned professional security and technology leader with 30+ years of experience executing leadership in building global teams designing effective cybersecurity, cloud, and platform-as-a-service products while developing the necessary technologies to ensure controlled and trusted access to data, operational systems, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud-based systems. Talented collaborator with the ability and knowledge to start new businesses, maximize resources, execute strategic planning, and build or transform teams to drive innovative cybersecurity product development and delivery. A skilled executive with proficiencies in delivering security systems and technologies, focusing on optimizing the balance of security with network, storage & system performance across hybrid IoT, cloud, and traditional information systems. With professional experience in driving technology performance on a global scale, I have the proven ability to assist organizations in achieving their goals.

  • Secure Digital Transformation 
  • Cyber & Information Security
  • Cloud Systems & Security
  • Internet of Things (IoT) & Device Security 
  • Threat Research & Analytics 
  • Identity & Access Management Solutions
  • Venture & Private Equity Experienced
  • Technology & Solution Development
  • Thought Leader 
  • Strategic Business Planning 
  • Product & Solution Go-To-Market & Vision
  • Business-driven Technology Organizations

Career Experience

June 2024Current

Vice President, Enterprise, Physical, Product & Device Security

Omniva, LLC
  • Designed and scaled a global security organization encompassing cyber, information, product, device, service, and physical security for comprehensive AI-IaaS end-to-end protection across enterprise, systems, infrastructure, and services.
  • Led the development and implementation of global security operations centers and automation systems to secure development environments, labs, design assets, and data centers worldwide.
  • Established advanced physical security capabilities tailored to artificial intelligence processing systems and safeguarding critical information assets in a global service provider context.
  • Coordinated enterprise IT functions with technical engineering and design security services while overseeing the scaling of teams to support organizational objectives.
2021Mar 2024

Head of Cyber, Product & Information Security Engineering

Amazon - Project Kuiper
  • Established and directed the cyber, information, device, constellation, and physical security organization for Project Kuiper, ensuring end-to-end security of applications, devices, infrastructure, and services.
  • Developed and implemented comprehensive security strategies, delivering robust protection for Kuiper's global assets and systems.
  • Acted as an external and internal security evangelist and advocate, promoting a culture of security awareness and best practices throughout the organization.
  • Implemented rigorous third-party, supply chain, and delivery trust integrity measures, mitigating potential security risks and ensuring the integrity of Kuiper's operations.
  • Built and scaled the security organization from one engineer to over 65, supporting Kuiper's global security operations.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate security considerations into the development, manufacturing, operations, ground, and launch systems, ensuring the highest level of security across all aspects of the project.
  • Maintained clear and concise policies for security protocols and procedures, facilitating knowledge transfer and ensuring consistent adherence to security standards.
  • Stayed abreast of the latest advancements in orbital and spacecraft elements for cybersecurity and industry best practices, continuously enhancing knowledge and skills to effectively address emerging threats and challenges.
20192021

Vice President, Chief Technology Officer Software & Chief Security Officer

GE Digital (General Electric)
  • Established and implemented software, system, and service architecture methodology, common practices, and broad standards for GE Digital's industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) offerings, including Predix, the Asset Performance Management system, and industrial edge computing solutions.
  • Developed and deployed cyber and operational security systems with over 400 engineers across global industrial infrastructure, scaled across elastic compute and containerization, ensuring the safety and security of client operations in Europe, MENA, China, and Russia.
  • Operated geo-private GE Digital solutions data centers, achieving localization and compliance with regional security regulations.
  • Integrated security operations with industrial modernization for geo-specific government
    critical infrastructure, large government-owned industrial operators, regional intellectual
    property segregation, and usage of machine learning and predictive security analytics.
  • Prioritized the development of engagement models for globalization and regional security operations, supporting local oil and gas production, electrical generation, manufacturing automation, and industrial control operations in restricted global markets.
  • Spearheaded development and implementation of industrial resource planning data modeling, scaled through containerization on Kubernetes-based global systems, enhancing operational efficiency.
  • Ensured strategic and operational success with rigorous local government oversight for regional customers, emphasizing the importance of supporting local industries and operations.
20142019

Vice President, Chief Security Officer & GM/Industrial Internet Cyber Security

GE Digital (General Electric)
  • Established and implemented a robust cyber and operational security organization of over 300 engineers for GE Digital's first industrial Internet-of-things (IIoT) offerings, GE Digital Predix, the Asset Performance Management system, and industrial edge computing solutions.
  • Led strategic modernization efforts, driving the corporate vision and facilitating process improvements in cyber and product security within the Industrial Internet Center of Excellence across General Electric.
  • Developed and implemented the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) framework policy and solutions in coordination with cyber security professionals and senior management, ensuring the technology security of corporate portfolios, products, applications, and information.
  • Created a customer-centric engagement model for product security across multiple industrial business units, enhancing operational success and increasing customer satisfaction.
  • Improved external services through internal process enhancements, introducing cutting-edge technological solutions aligned with the company's digital transformation goals and objectives.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to successfully integrate cyber and operational security systems into GE Digital's offerings.
  • Delivered scalable administrative and privileged user identity management solutions for a multi-tenant platform-as-a-service cloud-based industrial infrastructure.
20122014

Executive Vice President of Products & Chief Technology Officer

Raytheon | Websense, Inc. (Forcepoint 2016)
  • Led global teams of 1,600 product leads and engineers to deliver innovative cybersecurity and threat intelligence technology solutions, manage all engineering and product management aspects, and ensure effective operations organization. 
  • Ensured collaboration with global teams throughout our development and delivery teams in China, the United Kingdom, Israel, the European Union, and the U.S. to promote unified product lifecycle processes.
  • Established productive leadership, driving communications to present efficient solutions within cyber security applications, guarding web, e-mail, and data services.
  • Significantly increased international business services by 20% within the first 12 months, a testament to our successful expansion and growth. This was achieved in addition to improving the frequency of productive technology solutions and cloud service revenue by 30%, further demonstrating our commitment to innovation and excellence.
  • Introduced cloud solutions through global framework systems, delivering technology improvements utilizing distributed cybersecurity and threat intelligence infrastructure driven by machine learning and attack predictive models.
20092012

Corporate Vice President & Chief Technology Officer

SafeNet | Gemalto (Thales Digital Identity and Security 2019)
  • Created innovative information security solutions to assess current methodologies and processes and introduced new development practices to enhance efficiency.
  • Controlled costs by optimizing performance and directing cyber security improvements within cloud computing security, data protection, lifecycle ownership, and control with data-centric protection product lines.
  • Collaborated with management teams, introducing improved virtualization and cloud computing security technology solutions.
  • Established industry-first cloud computing products and services, coordinating core technology with encryption and information security technologies.
20002009

Vice President & Chief Technology Officer

Hifn, Inc. (Exar 2009)
  • Ensured operational excellence toward corporate goals, initiating strategic planning objectives for network and storage, capacity optimization, and security solutions.
  • Secured new long-term partnerships with external organizations, achieving acquisitions with IBM PowerNP Network Processing Technology and new business solutions, including NetOctave, the key to FlowThrough's unique SoC designs.
  • Improved market segment revenue growth by 300% within 18 months.
  • Designed IETF Transport Performance Metrics standards.
  • Participated in the development of IEEE LinkSec (802.1AE) security standards.
  • Increased customer-level interface within technology network and storage solutions, introducing creative technical marketing to improve revenue and profit growth.
19952000

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Apptitude
  • Venture funded and facilitated product development and introduction of technology to achieve $50M in sales while ensuring client satisfaction.
  • Sold company for +$80M public equity.
19891995

Co-Founder & Vice President of Engineering

Technically Elite Concepts
  • Self-funded & assisted in creating the company, building year-on-year revenue to achieve $2.2M in annual sales.
  • Sold company for $18M in equity.
19851989

Senior Consultant/Senior Design Engineer

Digital Equipment Corporation (Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2002)
  • Engineered using the first electronic mail service (MCIMail) before the market adoption of AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy.
19831985

Manager, Distributed Systems

Magnavox Government & Industrial Electronics Co.
  • Built an information technology management group from 5 to 30 in less than 2 years.
  • Received the company’s highest excellence award in 1985.
19821983

Senior Systems Analyst

Bendix Field Engineering Corporation
  • Deployed the first US-DoD secure satellite-based ship-building network.

Education

Stony Brook University SUNY, Stony Brook, New York (1981 - 1982)
Computer Science Courses

Crotoville Alumni, General Electric Leadership University (2015 - 2020)
Building Essential Leadership Skills - Corporate Leadership Development (2020)
Executive Leaders Challenge - Corporate Leadership Development (2017)
Management Development Course - Corporate Leadership Development (2015)

Affiliations

2013currently

Founding Member & Advisor

Security Advisor Alliance

Security Advisor Alliance is a nonprofit group of Top security leaders from the Global 1000 who have come together to donate weekly time to help our peers in any security area as a pro-bono service.

We focus on collaborating with the security community to unite us against a common enemy. By revealing the secrets of the world’s most consistently secure organizations, sharing strategies, sharing the latest cybercriminal tactics, and mentoring new CISOs, we help security leaders succeed.

While I continue to participate and volunteer, I ended my leadership role in 2019.

2010current

Founding Member

Cloud Security Alliance
  • Cloud Control Matrix working group contributor
  • Cloud Data Governance working group contributor
2009current

Contributing Member

Trusted Computing Group
  • Editor for endpoint trust agreements
  • Contributor to other code trust agreements
1989current

Active Member

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standards
  • Involved in many of the Ethernet (802.3) and LAN (802.x) standards development.
  • Led secure and authenticated communications.
1985current

Active Member & Author

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Standards
  • Architected and implemented RMON (Remote Network Monitoring).
  • Authored three (3) draft standards on Traffic Analysis and Monitoring.
  • Security, encryption, identity and cyber security working group activity.
20002009

Forum & Hardware Working Group Chair

Network Processing Forum Industry Forum
  • Forum Chairman 2004 - 2005
  • Architected and implemented ‘Network Processing Elements Interfaces’.
  • Managed three (3) Task Groups with completion of two (2) Implementation Agreements.
  • NPF-Streaming and NPF-Look-aside-1

Patents

  • System and method to enable PKI- and PMI-based distributed locking of content and distributed unlocking of protected content and/or scoring of users and/or scoring of end-entity access means-added (patent Issuer & Number US 10,567,361) February 18, 2020
  • System and method to enable PKI- and PMI- based distributed locking of content and distributed unlocking of protected content and/or scoring of users and/or scoring of end-entity access means-added (Patent Issuer & Number US 10,038,678 - July 31, 2018
  • System and method to use a cloud-based platform supported by an API to authenticate remote users (Patent Issuer & Number US 9,843,450) - December 12, 2017
  • System and method from Internet of Things (IoT) security and management (Patent Issuer & Number US 9,832,026) - November 28,2017
  • System and method for internet of things (IoT) security and management (Patent Issuer & Number US 9,716,595 B1) - July 25, 2017
  • System and method to use a cloud-based platform supported by an API to authenticate remote users and to provide PKI and PMI based distributed locking of content and distributed unlocking of the protected content (Patent Issuer & Number US 9,356,916 B2) - May 31, 2016
  • System and method to enable PKI and PMI based distributed locking of content and distributed unlocking of protected content and/or scoring of users and/or scoring of end-entity access means (Patent Issuer & Number US 9,270,663 B2) – February 23, 2016
  • Remote Pre-Boot Authentication (Patent Issuer & Number US 20,120,179,904) – January 11, 2011
  • State processor for pattern matching in a network monitor device (Patent Issuer & Number US 72,992,825) – November 20, 2007
  • Method and apparatus for monitoring traffic in a network (Patent Issuer & Number US 6,954,789) – October 11, 2005
  • Reusing information from data transactions for maintaining statistics in network monitoring (Patent Issuer & Number US 6,839,751) – January 4, 2005
  • State processor for pattern matching in a network monitor device (Patent Issuer & Number US 6,789,116) – September 7, 2004
  • Associative cache structure for lookups and updates of flow records in a network monitor (Patent Issuer & Number US 6,771,646) – August 4, 2004
  • Processing protocol specific information in packets specified by a protocol description language (Patent Issuer & Number US 6,665,725) – December 16, 2003
  • Method and apparatus for monitoring traffic in a network (Patent Issuer & Number US 6,651,099) – November 18, 2003

Interests

  • Soaring
  • Christianity
  • Church leadership
  • Genealogy & Ancestry
  • Sailing
  • Computers
  • Internet communities
  • Global travel
20142015

Team Captian

Silicon Valley Walk for Water
  • Inaugural year for the Silicon Valley Walk for Water annual event
  • Raised over $300,000 in the first year
20042006

Congregational Council - President

St. Timothy's Lutheran Church, San Jose, CA
  • Implementation of 2020 'vision' plan for congregation
  • Pastoral leadership expansion planning
20032004

Congregational Council – Vice President

St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church, San Jose, CA
  • Implement new Lay-leadership to ‘structure and focus’ the membership.
  • New building expansion planning.
20012003

Strategic Planning Team – Chair

St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church, San Jose, CA
  • Responsible for building our ‘vision’ roadmap.
  • Drove the purchase of $3.5 Million adjacent property.
  • Built Lay-Leader development program.
19982000

Congregational Council – President

St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church, San Jose, CA
  • Architected and implemented ‘Purpose Driven Church’ Model.
  • Restructured Lay-leadership to ‘lead and direct’ the membership.
  • Growth in membership over 15% per year.
19971998

Congregational Council - Facility Team

St. Timothy's Lutheran Church, San Jose, CA
  • Formed new team efforts to manage growing church and school facilities.
  • Leadership growth planning

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