William J.
Statesboro, GA · Director of IT Security · Aarista Technologies
Western Governors University
About
William J.. is a senior cybersecurity leader with expertise in Fractional CISO, startup security, GRC, and cloud security advisory. He has a proven track record of building and leading security, compliance, infrastructure, and resilience programs across diverse environments including startup, healthcare, federal, and consulting. He excels at translating technical risk into business impact for various stakeholders and possesses end-to-end ownership across security strategy, risk assessment, architecture, audit readiness, customer due diligence, and operational security maturity.
Skills
- Executive Security Leadership
- Cybersecurity leadership
- Security strategy
- Security roadmap development
- Executive communication
- Business translation of technical risk
- GRC
- Risk assessment
- SOC 2 readiness
- HITRUST alignment
21 skills in total
Experience
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Director of IT Security
Aarista Technologies
Jul 2024 — Present
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VP of IT & Security/CISO
Pollen Social
Jun 2023 — Aug 2025
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Cybersecurity Solution Architect
Premera Blue Cross
May 2022 — Oct 2022
9 experiences in total
Education
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Western Governors University
MBA, Information Technology
Jan 2019 — Jan 2020
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Western Governors University
Master of Science, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Jan 2016 — Jan 2017
3 education entries in total