OVERVIEW AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

David has been working in cybersecurity and IT operations for almost 20 years. David has been with Acorn for 8 years. At Acorn he leads the helpdesk, systems engineering and cybersecurity departments. He has assisted in integrating new technologies and bringing in security options for customers. Part of his responsibilities also included leading and performing vulnerability assessments and audits for various projects and customers. Many were for municipal governments that are current customers today.

David’s passion is in leading transformative cybersecurity change, mitigating risk, advancing cutting edge solutions and services, creating efficiencies, driving down costs, and collaborating to solve enterprise & industry-wide challenges.

David encourages his teams to take a balanced approach between risk and capability to deliver pragmatic controls to enable and protect the brand. David takes great pride as a technology innovator who understands technology, cyber and privacy trends, and market forces.

As a strong communicator, David is often called to define, articulate, and execute cybersecurity and IT operations strategy & plans; communicate metrics with the C-suite/regulators. David’s strengths are relationship building, collaboration, and strong background in technology.