James Okoro
Director of Information Security · CISSP
j.okoro@email.com+1 206 555 0110Seattle, WAlinkedin.com/in/jamesokoro-ciso
Summary
Security leader with 15+ years building programs that scale with product growth — balancing risk, compliance, and engineering velocity. Track record of board-ready metrics, budget stewardship, and hiring diverse security teams.
Skills
- Program management
- GRC
- AppSec
- cloud security
- budget & vendor management
- SOC 2/ISO 27001
- incident response
- executive communication
- hiring & mentoring
- M&A security diligence
Experience
Director of Information SecurityBrightpath SaaS
2019 – Present
- Scaled security program from 12 to 45 FTE; established product security, GRC, and MDR partnerships.
- Owned $4.2M annual budget; delivered SOC 2 and ISO 27001 with zero major findings in last cycle.
- Partnered with CTO and sales on enterprise deals; reduced security questionnaire turnaround by 50%.
Head of Security EngineeringCascade Payments
2014 – 2019
- Built AppSec and cloud security functions; introduced bug bounty and tabletop exercises for leadership.
- Led incident response for payment processing outage; improved MTTR and customer comms playbooks.
Education
MBA · Technology ManagementUniversity of Washington Foster School
2014
BS Computer Engineering, Oregon State University · 2008
Certifications
CISSP(ISC)²
2016
Awards & honors
Security leadership awardPacific Northwest CISO Forum
2023
Recognized for cross-functional security culture programs and measurable risk reduction.