Walt Carter - Senior Security Consultant at PwC US Public Sector (Transitioning)

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Walt Carter Senior Security Consultant at PwC US Public Sector (Transitioning)

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Walt Carter is a highly accomplished security and privacy expert with a track record of success in strategic planning and global deployment of large-scale enterprise ecosystems. With over 12,000 LinkedIn connections, Walt is recognized as a valued teammate and has been instrumental in securing a $485 million information technology enterprise contract for U.S. Central Command. Despite challenging circumstances, including sequestration and a government shutdown, Walt ensured the execution of over $135 million in requirements.

Walt has extensive experience in various critical positions, including working at The White House, the Pentagon, and in multiple international locations. They have cultivated effective partnerships with public/private sectors, interagency, military, and international multilaterals.

Walt's expertise spans a wide range of corporate disciplines, including IT enterprise operations, cybersecurity, cloud computing, risk management, and more. They have also served as a senior security consultant at PwC, where they have provided innovative business transformation solutions and leveraged their cybersecurity and risk management knowledge to deliver differentiated end-to-end solutions. Overall, Walt is a visionary and strategic leader who excels at building enduring relationships and protecting reputations.

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Full name: Walt Carter
Location: McLean, Virginia, United States
Title: Senior Security Consultant
Company: PwC US Public Sector (Transitioning) (since 2016)
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waltcarter1/
LinkedIn Connections: 12655
Summary: Team centric security & privacy champion with demonstrable accomplishments in strategic planning and global deployment of large scale enterprise ecosystems, particularly in dynamic, high pressure environments. Passionate about building productive, enduring relationships, giving back to local communities and protecting our reputation: Our Brand. Valued Teammate: Recognized for key contributions towards the lead effort in the successful re-compete and award of the 5 year, $485M information technology enterprise contract for U.S. Central Command, while simultaneously ensuring 100% execution of Directorate Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 requirements totaling more than $135M, despite sequestration and shutdown of the U.S. federal government. Strategic Acumen: Visionary goal achiever, consultant and advisor with knowledge applied across a broad spectrum of corporate disciplines: IT enterprise operations, full spectrum cyber operations, cloud computing, cryptographic services, change/risk/vendor management, help desk services, legal advisory; PMO/program/project management, acquisition/contract management; technology road map development; BCM/business enterprise disaster recovery, SIEM, DLP, audits/investigations, declassification/archival/corporate records management, data protection, incident response planning and human capital reinvestment. Experience: Served in critical positions while working in The White House (3 yrs), Pentagon (4+ yrs), Afghanistan (1 yr), USCENTCOM (3+ yrs), Germany (3 yrs), South Korea (2 yrs), the Hawaiian Islands (4 yrs) and Qatar (7 mons); cultivating public/private sector, interagency, military and international multilaterals into effective partnerships.
Skills: Leadership Computer Security

Education

Georgetown University: Master
Attended in 2007 - 2009
Field of study: Policy Management (MPM)
Webster University: Master of Arts (MA)
Attended in 1999 - 2000
Field of study: Computer Resources and Information Management

Positions

PwC US Public Sector (Transitioning) Mclean, Virginia: Senior Security Consultant
Apr 2016 - Present

Providing to the private and public sectors, innovative business transformation solutions leveraging client focused cybersecurity, risk management and privacy advisory services with specialization in the Technology, Media, Telecommunications and Critical Infrastructure sectors, serving as a catalyst for creating and delivering differentiated end-to-end solutions based on unique client needs from strategy to execution.
Principal Cybersecurity and Privacy Consultant/Business Owner Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area: Consultant
Aug 2014 - Mar 2016

In a discreet manner, I worked side by side and leveraged collaborative tools in support of my client-teammates’ success. Together, we successfully implemented efficacious solutions that were strategically aligned with business objectives, regardless to current capability maturity status. We focused our efforts on achieving outcomes that specifically targeted profitability and growth, while maintaining fiduciary stewardship, especially with respect to security and privacy.

Value Proposition:

► Collaborated with business units to improve privacy/security compliance, incident response, manage risk and increase overall effectiveness
► Created a program development plan based on current best business practices that included security gap assessments, policies, procedures, guidelines, playbooks, training and tabletop simulations/testing
► Developed a procedural set of responses to security incidents
► Liaised with other cyber threat analysis entities and expeditiously synthesized threat intelligence
► Coached and mentored key personnel to ensure security/privacy recommendations complied with laws and regulations and inculcated into company procedures, guidelines and culture
► Analyzed audit findings and developed Corrective Action Plan (CAP)
► Established protocols for communications within an organization which also took into consideration external entities such as the media and law enforcement agencies before/during/after security incidents
► Partnered with client-teammates to develop business plan and presented investor pitch

Knowledge Areas:

• Privacy and Data Protection
• Incident Response
• BC and Disaster Recovery
• Third Party Vendor Risk Management
• IT Audits, QASP, Inspections
• Security Program Management
• MITRE ATT&CK Knowledge-base, FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool
• SOC Strategy, Pentesting
• Vulnerability and Continuous Monitoring, Tanium
• ISO, PCI-DSS, NIST 800 SP Series CSF/RMF, COBIT5, FISCAM, EAFs: TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, DoDAF
U.S. Central Command Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area: Deputy Division Chief
Jan 2012 - Jul 2014

Served as the Deputy Chief, Resources and Analysis Division, USCENTCOM, J6 Directorate. Provided an expansive range of resource support to the CIO/Joint Cyber Center and to a Command consisting of 5100 joint, multi-national, interagency personnel and over 40 General Officers/Flag Officers/Senior Executive Service government civilians.

Portfolios included acquisition/financial management - budget/spend plan/contracts, collectively worth more than $1/2B; executed asset and data lifecycle management; superintended HR, legal/compliance advisory, Safety program management; executed Headquarters/Theater Postal planning/oversight; administered the USCENTCOM Records Management Program, Declassification/Archival Program, data protection program, Privacy Act & Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) programs for official release to the Public, to other Agencies, and to the Primary Next-of-Kin.

► Served on the initial Operational Planning Team collaborating with MIT Lincoln Laboratory for the development and procurement of a Cyber Common Operational Picture (COP) for USCENTCOM.

► Successful re-compete and award of the 5 year, $485M IT enterprise contract for USCENTCOM.

► Provided executive oversight in retrograde processing for the largest war records archive in U.S. history from Operations IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING FREEDOM (over 46 Terabytes of data) - leveraged distributed computing tools to process very large data sets.

► Ensured over 4.1M Operation IRAQI FREEDOM records were processed and transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

► Led USCENTCOM defensive/offensive cyber exercise planning, collaborated directly with national cyber planners from Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Australia.

► Teamed with USPS and the MPSA, provided executive policy oversight and strategic governance to more than 60 U.S. Armed Forces Post Offices operating in the Middle East and Central Asia.
U.S. Central Command Al Udeid, Air Base, Qatar: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), J6 Forward
May 2011 - Dec 2011

Led a team of expert U.S. joint military service personnel, Department of Defense civilian employees, and government contractors, provisioning command and control IT systems, privacy and data protection, enterprise services and cyber security capabilities and capacity for the Commander, U.S. Central Command and his warfighting staff, while they were deployed to the U.S. Central Command Forward Headquarters, in support of Operations NEW DAWN and ENDURING FREEDOM.

► Led the successful execution of a no notice, Disaster Recovery/Continuity of Operations transfer of all mission essential functions supported by IT networks/services, from the Air Force Central (AFCENT), 609th Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC), to the CENTCOM Forward Headquarters, due to a real world crisis/catastrophic event - averted total loss of command and control of the airspace managed by USCENTCOM covering 19 countries in the Middle East and Central Asian States.

► Led the program to operationalize the cyber capability, increase the service delivery, virtualization capacity, privacy/data protection and enhance the incident response plan for the USCENTCOM Forward Headquarters.
U.S. Central Command Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area: Director of Operations / Chief of Enterprise Services
Dec 2010 - May 2011

Led a team of over 420, provisioning large scale IT enterprise services/cyber capability/capacity to the U.S. Central Command; directed network operations, SOCs, privacy/data protection, virtualization, IT governance, information assurance and computer network defense for 17 global networks in Tampa, FL and at disparate enclaves located in Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and multiple sites inside the National Capitol Region (NCR).

► Leveraged Agile practices, ISO 27001/27002, NIST SP 800 Series, TIA 942, OWASP; provisioning leading edge cloud computing construct (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) by implementing enterprise wide, thin/zero client/virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) underpinned by a robust IT infrastructure consisting of three geographically dispersed, Tier 4 unified fabric datacenters augmented by network gear valued at more than $700M.

► Successfully led the project enabling the USCENTCOM Forward Headquarters to serve as a viable business continuity/disaster recovery site capable of accommodating data protection for a multiplicity of mission critical, multi-classified domains in concert with heterogeneous enterprise services, verifiably ready for incident response.
Combined Security Transition Command / NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan (CSTC-A/NTM-A) Kabul, Afghanistan: Inspector General (IG)
Jun 2009 - Jun 2010

Served as the Inspector General and Senior IG Advisor to the Ministry of Interior (Mol), Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), in a multinational organization with military and police professionals from 46 nations, responsible for developing capabilities of the ANSF to generate, employ and sustain the force.

Planned, programmed and implemented systems of accountability structured with transparency in order to build sustainable capacity and capability for the Afghan National Police.

► Successfully facilitated CSTC-A/NTM-A responses to over 20 audits initiated by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG), and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).

► Assisted Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) efforts by leveraging standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and partnered with the Major Crimes Task Force, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Afghan Ministry of Finance and The World Bank in order to train the Afghan Ministry of Interior IGs to recognize cash structuring, analyze transaction complexity and scrutinize transactions from cash intense businesses.

► Collaborated with multi-national/multi-interagency partners and trained, certified, and graduated the first Afghan detectives for the government of Afghanistan. Partnered with the European Police Mission Afghanistan (EUPOL), the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the U.S. Department of State, and successfully trained the Afghan detectives in clandestine surveillance, covert-sting operations, forensics, and detective protocols and procedures.
Office of the Inspector General The Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia: Investigator
Jul 2005 - May 2009

Served as an IG Investigator in the Investigations Division, Department of the Army Inspector General Agency (DAIG). Investigated allegations of impropriety against senior Army officials (General Officers, and civilian senior executives) and other sensitive matters, as directed by the Secretary or Under Secretary of the Army, the Chief or Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, The Inspector General of the Army, or U.S. Congress.

► Developed investigative plans and quickly and thoroughly collected and analyzed evidence required to make complete, fair and impartial recommendations to the directing authority. Identified systemic weaknesses and recommended corrective measures to the U.S. Army senior leadership and to members of the U.S. Congress.

► Protected the best interests of the U.S. Army while preserving the privacy, confidentiality and rights of all individuals involved in the investigative process.