Ms. Skehan is the Director of the Information Privacy and Protection Office and the Security Focal for IBM GBS North America. She is successfully leading a program to drive long-lasting, sustainable compliance with government, industry, and corporate security policies, standards, and procedures. She also oversees the management of Security Risk Assessors and Security Experts in the US, Canada, India, and Mexico.
Throughout her career, her professional accomplishments and awards have been associated with thought leadership, technology evaluation and business alignment, security/privacy controls, and privacy management. She has successfully transformed a cybersecurity risk management program to align with strategic technologies such as cognitive, mobile, cloud, and Internet of Things; directed the remediation of numerous audit findings associated with the absence of business controls and inadequate management of system/technology changes; launched the
design, development, and implementation of a Public Key Infrastructure and automated a company’s entire operations through the various stages of design, development, installation, and support.
Recipient of numerous company awards; Crystal Award for displaying Exemplary Performance and Leadership; Premier Achievement Award and Technology Breakthrough Award; President’s Award for Leadership and Innovation; Management Team and Most Valuable Player Awards. She holds a Master’s Degree in Security Engineering Management and several professional certifications: ISACA’s CRISC, CISA, CISM, and CDPSE; IAPP’s Fellow of Information Privacy, Certified Information Privacy Technologist and Certified Information Privacy Professional for Canada, US Private Sector, US Government and Europe; CSA’s Certificate Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK); ADCG’s Data Privacy and Protection Specialist. She is Director of Academic Relations, ISACA, Greater Washington DC Chapter.