Cynthia Gregory

Past

• Director, Information Security Governance at NetApp
• Senior Program Manager at Sun Microsystems
• Principal Management Consultant at Alignent Software

• Director, Program Management Office at Sun Microsystems
• Director, Sigma Deployment Champion at Sun Microsystems
• Director, Wireless Business Development at Sun Microsystems
• Director, Program Management at Sun Microsystems
• Senior Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems
• Seinor Program Manager at Apple Computer
• Program Manager at Bolt Beranek & Newman

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Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• The Wait Cafe

Cynthia Gregory’s Summary

Broad professional experience founded in Computer Science, from effecting change across corporations to managing and improving strategic partner relationships. Cross-industry experience includes driving programs for a government defense contractor, building software components for consumer products, and leading cross-divisional, collaborative efforts to deliver complex systems and infrastructure.

Cynthia Gregory’s Specialties:

Strategic Planning, Leadership & Collaboration, Business Operations, Program Management, Team Building, Product Lifecycle, Process Improvement,Technical Leadership, P&L Responsibility

Cynthia Gregory’s Experience

• Director, Information Security Governance

  NetApp

  (Public Company; NTAP; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2006 — April 2009 (2 years 5 months)

  Affected business change through the implementation of the Information Security Governance program. Influenced corporate leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to support and adopt changes required to protect NetApp. Created and implemented policies, procedures and systems to protect NetApp’s critical assets.
  -Implemented unique model for security governance, obtaining representation and regular participation from senior VPs from all functional areas.
  - Led cross-functional teams in defining, developing and approving policies based on ISO 27000, and negotiated schedules and priorities for implementing policies. (ISO 27000 certification obtained by NetApp’s IT Global Security, November, 2007.)
  -Developed and deployed compliance policies and procedures, such as the use of laptop encryption tools, information classification and labeling procedures.
  -Defined and facilitated projects such as, unstructured data analysis; information security audits, security strategy roadmap

• Senior Program Manager

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2005 — October 2006 (11 months)

  Drove corporate initiative across assigned product lines and achieved 75% adoption rate within six months. Influenced product teams to adopt a method of making products “connected”, i.e., capable of two-way transmission of telemetry and registration data in order to create and sell additional value-added services to end-customers.

• Principal Management Consultant

  Alignent Software

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  June 2005 — December 2005 (7 months)

  •Introduced and implemented five pilot programs using Alignent’s software to improve the customer’s strategic planning and product roadmapping processes. Coached customers through pre-sales and pilot programs, training and product acceptance, process integration and implementation. Customers included major defense contractors, U.S. government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies.
  •Created and implemented new partner management, enterprise-wide deployment, data reporting, analysis and decision-making processes. Trained employees on engagement practices and product use.

• Director, Program Management Office

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2004 — May 2005 (1 year)

  Built a program management team that created governance, business operations and product development processes required to deliver a new set of services for newly formed 600+ person organization. Managed strategic planning sessions and followed through to execution. Ensured compliance to process models using metrics and managing process variances.

• Director, Sigma Deployment Champion

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2003 — June 2004 (8 months)

  Responsible for the strategic deployment of Six Sigma across the software division ensuring adoption at all levels. Increased adoption and Sigma capabilities throughout business unit. Provided oversight of project selection ensuring alignment with Software Division’s product road map, strategy, corporate key goals and initiatives. Collaborated across division with Master Black Belts and Black Belts to strengthen Sigma community, and aligned with cross-functional initiatives.
  Worked closely with OPG Master Black Belts and Lead Black Belts to build OPG's Sun Sigma community, and collaborated with Software Customer Advocacy team to ensure alignment with Customer Advocacy and other cross functional initiatives in Sun.

• Director, Wireless Business Development

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2001 — November 2003 (2 years 2 months)

  Won three contracts in one year totaling $50M in strategic, leading-edge architecture implementations (e.g., MMS, provisioning), positioning Sun as a thought leader in end-to-end mobility solutions. Improved collaboration between Sun’s wireless and mobility centers and world-wide sales teams. Teams shared solutions and created staff-rotation schedules that increased solution knowledge and expanded customer and partner wins. Managed and shepherded teams through difficult transitions: rapid growth to downsizing; organizational and management changes. Coached and developed high performers and guided them to new challenges; mentored difficult employees.

• Director, Program Management

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sunw; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 11 months)

  * Directed cross-functional, cross-divisional negotiation teams for proposals and contracts from $50M to $300M+ for Service Providers, Network Equipment Providers, and tele-communications firms. Closed $350M in contracts within twelve-month period.
  *Represented Sun to customer, and customer to Sun. Leaveraged organizational networks to ensure that contract obligations were met by Sun divisions.
  *Established team and process to drive proposal efforts. Defined requirements for complex software systems; obtained cross-divisional and cross-geo alignment, co-operation, collaboration, and commitments; determined and defended cost and schedule estimates; led business owners and teams to contract closure through execution.
  *Created and implemented program for Sun's first Women's Leadership Conference 400 Sun women attended from around the world. Solicited industry executives to speak, arranged seminars and conference schedule. Received Sun Women's Leadership Committee & Conference Award.

• Senior Engineering Manager

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sunw; Computer Software industry)

  August 1996 — January 2000 (3 years 6 months)

  *Led 20+ engineering team through software development cycles to product release for Sun's network management software system and Sun's mail server.
  *Implemented software development practices for 100-person department using the SEI's CMM. Identified metrics to manage software quality and customer satisfaction. Contributed examples of implemented solutions to inter-departmental team to facilitate development of similar processes and metrics throughout Software Division.
  *Created "tiger-team" of 6 engineers to work with high-profile customers and rapidly develop features in parallel with the messaging server product release cycle. Estimated, scoped and planned feature requests directly from customers, and analyzed ROI to determine selection and priority of features to be implemented.
  *Mentored, challenged, encouraged and guided employees through fast-paced, high-pressure, high-tech careers. Developed career plans and training programs to motivate employees and build skill sets.

• Seinor Program Manager

  Apple Computer

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; aapl; Computer Software industry)

  April 1995 — August 1996 (1 year 5 months)

  APPLE COMPUTER, CUPERTINO, CA 1995-1996
  PROGRAM MANAGER
  Initiated implementation of a $6M communications infrastructure project for future generation PowerBooks. Infrastructure would provide a seamless integration strategy for a variety of communications technologies, from voice over wireless to multimedia teleconferencing. Plan leveraged both emerging Apple technologies and third-party developers.

• Program Manager

  Bolt Beranek & Newman

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BBN; Computer Software industry)

  January 1985 — March 1995 (10 years 3 months)

  BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., COLUMBIA, MD 1990-1995 PROGRAM MANAGER
  Delivered $4M software development effort under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to create the first key, privilege and certificate management system used by Department of Defense. Received NSA Award for Completion of Fortezza Security Management Infrastructure.
  
  Directed a 70+ person team to deliver an $11M software development effort under a firm-fixed price contract for a network management system for the U.S. Army's mobile cellular network. Completed project ahead of schedule and under budget, securing a discretional $275,000 incentive award from the prime contractor. Received the BBN Performance Excellence Award.

Cynthia Gregory’s Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  BS , Information & Computer Science , September 1977 — June 1982

  Addtional training:
  Six Sigma: DMAIC, DMADV, Facilitation Skills, Change Acceptance/Acceleration Process

Additional Information

Cynthia Gregory’s Websites:

• The Wait Cafe

Cynthia Gregory’s Interests:

Running, Skiing. Travel, Reading. Cooking. Wine. Ancient Roman History. Matisse. WWII History.

Cynthia Gregory’s Groups:

Chair, South Valley YMCA Board of Managers, San Jose. Chair, Financial Development Committee. Member, Board Development Committee. Member, Triangle Campaign.

•    Sun Alumni
•    Computing Alumni Group, Georgia Tech
•    Executive Suite
•    Women 2.0
•    Georgia Tech Alumni Association
•    NetApp Alumni
•    YMCA
•    BBN Alumni
•    JobAngels

Cynthia Gregory’s Honors:

Association of Fundraising Professionals Honoree, 2007
Sun Women's Leadership Committee & Conference Acknowledgment, 2000
NSA Award for Completion of Fortezza Security Management Infrastructure, 1995
BBN Performance Excellence Award, 1992

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