

As a CISSP certified, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, I help organizations operationalize GRC frameworks that minimize legal and financial liabilities, while building stakeholder trust and brand equity. My practical approaches to cyber resilience and risk optimization reduce regulatory fatigue, while preventing costly business interruptions and lost opportunities, while maintaining compliance.
• Applied HIPAA, HITRUST, DICOM, and ISO 27001/NIST CSF frameworks to manage risk, compliance, and security controls across PACS and medical imaging environments; owned policy lifecycle from drafting and review through exception handling and periodic refresh.
• Built and maintained risk registers for medical imaging infrastructure — assessing inherent/residual risk to patient data and system availability, driving risk treatment plans, and translating findings into exec-level reporting aligned with FDA medical device cybersecurity guidance.
• Performed control assessments, maturity evaluations, and gap identification mapped to ISO 27001 and NIST CSF; coordinated evidence across stakeholders for surveillance audits and regulatory inspections, maintaining zero major findings.
• Conducted third-party risk assessments for SaaS providers processing PHI, evaluating data protection, retention, and access controls against HIPAA standards and enforcing security obligations through provider audits.
• Developed and maintained Information Security Policy suite aligned with ISO 27001 A.5.1 (Acceptable Use, cloud/BYOD controls); tracked policy exception requests, risk acceptances, and control deficiencies
• Managed ISO 27001 transition from 2013 to 2022 standards across the enterprise: mapped 93 controls, identified 12 gaps (A.5.23 cloud services, A.8.9 configuration management), and built an evidence-linked SharePoint SoA that reduced audit prep time by 40%.
• Built and managed technology risk registers; performed annual internal control assessments and maturity re-evaluations mapped to ISO 27001 Annex A, driving risk-based remediation with assigned ownership and closure timelines.
• Served as primary liaison for ISO 27001 external audits with BSI, coordinating evidence across 8 stakeholders and sustaining zero major findings.
• Conducted vendor risk assessments for SaaS providers processing PHI, enforced contractual security clauses, and managed CAPA workflows — drafting corrective actions within 48 hours and closing nonconformities within 90-day windows to maintain continuous certification.
UK Social Care comprehensive application. ISO/IEC 27701/27002. GDPR compliance.
Key Responsibilities
UI/UX consulting, Testing, Business Analysis, Technical/Content Writing, Website, Project Management, Client Account Management, Pre-Sales & Support. Drafting ISMS. ISO/IEC 27001 internal audit.
Technologies
MySQL, Application Support, Scrum, Project Management, CAM, Pre-Sales, Support, Excel
Professional Services
Customer Success
Cyber Security GRC
AI, Risk & Project Management
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Security Controls
Agile Scrum Ex-PMP
Business Analysis
BRD FRD Requirements
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