$350

Hourly Consulting Rate

MIKE BICKFORD

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Accounting

Banking/Mortgage

Biotechnology/Greentech

Building Materials

Civil Engineering

Commercial Real Estate

Computer/Network Security

Consumer Electronics

Defense/Space

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Farming

Financial Services

Investment Banking/

+ 9 More

Location Supported

Germany

Ireland

Sweden

United Kingdom

United States

Languages Supported

English

Skills

  • Technical consultant
  • Functional consultant
  • Project management
  • Managed services
  • Business intelligence
  • IOT
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Machine Learning
  • ERP
  • Robotic process automation
  • +7 more

Product Specialization

  • UiPath Robotic Process Automation
  • Microsoft Azure BizTalk Services

About

Michael is a Solutions Advisor for Identity and Access Management. He has solved complex identity and access problems in large clients and employers such as Capital One, Federal Reserve, GE, and a number of medium to large federal and commercial clients through Protiviti, Accenture, and Simeio Solutions. He has developed and delivered large IAM program to completion.
Michael provides a proven ability of identifying and solving real problems and delivering IAM solutions toward maturity and optimized efficiency. Expertise in IAM includes strategy, operations, compliance, requirements definition, solution design, development, and enterprise wide deployment. Michael’s solution views are influenced from delivering results for large-scale IAM transformations and establishing new IAM services in high-volume entitlement and transaction organizations that decrease costs through automation.
Certifications Include:
PMP -PMI
CISA, CISM, CGEIT -ISACA
CSM
Okta Administrator
Beyond Trust - Certified in PS, DEM, RSM
SailPoint
Ping Identity
CyberArk
Transmit Security
Tuebora
Gurucul
Radiant Logic

Education:
MS, CyberSecurity, Liberty University
MBA, Concentration in Accounting, Virginia Commonwealth University
BS, Business Administration, VCU
BS, Electronic Engineering

Top Project Highlights

Enterprise IDaaS

Client in the Communications industry required solution for identity governance, access management, privileged access management, risk and compliance use cases and requirements.

Designed solution using proprietary IP, supported by Saviynt, Okta, Beyond Trust as a single pane of glass for all users in the workforce.

This solved day-to-day operations, and technical integrations with applications (600 applications integrated).

 

Employment

Associate Director

2018 - 2019
  • Provided IAM and Cybersecurity technical leadership to clients for technical solutions and delivery; generated service sales and new business.  Delivery lead for client project technical teams.  Frequent interfacing with client C-suite.

    • Priced, sold and delivered large enterprise IAM service implementations ($5M+); commercial and federal.
    • Provided solutions to client RFP responses; generated $1.24M in revenue sold and delivered in 3 months.
    • Completed IAM assessment for DoD agency, including SSO solution comparison across Okta, Transmit, Ping.
    • Designed and built an automated PAM entitlements role to users for cloud (AWS, Google CSP) using Azure AD group federation to move client to J-I-T privileged access control.
    • Designed an automated  onboarding and access provisioning solution with client to be ready for legal day 1.
    • Oversaw 4-week CIAM migration from CA to Ping Directory of 42M customer identities.
    • Proved client staff reduction of 28 FTE based on robotic process automation (RPA) for IAM manual processes.
    • Remediated a client project by taking over as delivery lead and successful delivery of a privileged user pilot.
    • Guided client to Active Directory remediation and new taxonomy for group meta data.

Education

Master of Science, Cybersecurity, Liberty University
2018-2020

MBA, Concentration in Accounting, Virginia Commonwealth University
1997-2001

Certification

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
2007-Present
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
2013-Present
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
2009-Present
Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT)
2009-Present
Business Process Manager (BPM)
2011-Present
ITIL Service Management Certified Professional
2013-Present
Certified Scrum (Agile) Coach
2008-Present
Sherwood Applied  Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
2019-Present

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