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Jason Espone, MBA

Jason Espone, MBA

Global Technology Executive | Certified CISO - EC-Council | Agentic AI & MCP Security, Privacy, Compliance | SOC | Cloud…

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United StatesTransportation/Trucking/Railroad
Company
C.H. Robinson
Title
Global Head - Application Security Engineering & Security Operations(Soc) | Cybersecurity
Seniority
Head
Department
Master Information Technology
Location
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Industry
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

About

I am a Technology Executive with over 15 years of experience leading global application security, engineering, and digital transformation initiatives. My career spans across cybersecurity leadership, R&D, product engineering, and enterprise IT, positioning me to drive secure, innovative, and business-aligned technology strategies at scale. I bring executive-level expertise in cybersecurity, cloud governance, and AI/LLM/MCP security, combined with a proven track record in IT leadership, product innovation, and enterprise transformation. I focus on bridging the gap between technology and business strategy, enabling organizations to innovate securely while accelerating growth. Core Expertise & Focus Areas: • Technology & Innovation Leadership – Driving enterprise digital transformation, cloud adoption, and R&D excellence. • Cybersecurity & Risk Leadership – Application Security, AI/LLM/MCP security, Cloud Security, ASPM, DSPM, Red Team strategy, and compliance (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, PCI DS…

Experience

Global Head - Application Security Engineering & Security Operations(Soc) | Cybersecurity

C.H. Robinson · United States

Present

Providing strategic vision, technical direction and leadership in these areas to improve the application/product security posture of CHR's digital products/services landscape and Security Operations Center ★Artificial General Intelligence Security - Strategy, build guardrails, pipeline tools, and execution. ★ Secure Software Development Lifecycle through DevSecOps principles and practices for CHR products. ★Cloud Security. ★Application Security Testing - SAST, DAST, Offensive Security(Red Team exercises) in SSDLC pipeline. ★Application Security Posture Management(ASPM) to produce a business context risk story for executives. ★Product Security. ★Produce Application Security Metrics to Senior Leadership. ★Privacy Engineering. ★ Security Operations - SIEM/SOAR, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Business Partner Compromises

Global It Operating Manager - Digital Productivity Solutions - Sw Devsecops

Keysight Technologies · Colorado Springs, Colorado

I provide strategic direction and technical leadership for global secure software development solutions, with a critical focus on building a culture of innovation and continuous improvement in products delivery velocity, DevSecOps and processes across the IT and Engineering(R&D) organizations. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS ★ Collaborated with the CIO in defining and executing the strategic IT vision, business plan, and DevSecOps infrastructure to transform Keysight from a hardware-centric to a software solutions organization. ★ Play a key leadership role and partnering with cross functional product management teams in improving software development velocity by applying value stream management in the Secure SDLC and gaining first-to-market opportunities. ★ Leveraged leading-edge DevSecOps software tools (including JIRA, GIT, Artifactory, Jenkins, Blackduck and Confluence) to build the KOSi tool stack while promoting its adoption via roadshows and brown bag sessions (with current adoption by ~70% of…

It Infrastructure Operations Lead

Keysight Technologies

I strategized and executed the IT operations roadmap for the Data Management team, with full responsibility for administering, securing, and optimizing data management infrastructure (including NetApp and EMC storage/backup products). KEY ACHIEVEMENTS ★ Played a critical role as a technical strategy execution leader and subject matter expert, including providing guidance to partner teams from HCL/TCS and delivering innovative data management solutions for Keysight Engineering/Enterprise users. ★ Managed all escalations from the global user footprint and optimized escalation management processes through effective value stream mapping, issue management, and process automation to deliver a ~60% reduction in ticket volume. ★ Led the implementation of testbeds for Keysight instrument simulations, in addition to performing network troubleshooting (using OSI layers).

Global Operations Lead - Storage& Backup

Agilent Technologies

I strategized and executed the IT operations roadmap for the Data Management team, with full responsibility for securing, administering, and optimizing data management infrastructure (including NetApp and EMC storage/backup solutions). KEY ACHIEVEMENTS ★ Played a critical role as a technical strategy execution leader and subject matter expert, including providing guidance to partner teams from HCL/TCS and delivering secured innovative data management solutions for Keysight Engineering/Enterprise users. ★ Managed all escalations from the global user footprint and optimized escalation management processes through effective value stream mapping, issue management, and process automation to deliver a ~60% reduction in ticket volume. ★ Led the implementation of testbeds for Agilent instrument simulations, as well as network troubleshooting (using OSI layers) and security tests.

It Infrastructure Lead - Apac for Agilent Technologies

Emerio GlobeSoft, Singapore

I spearheaded the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of solutions for data management (SAN/NAS), compute platforms (Linux, virtualization), platform security management, and ITIL process management. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS ★ Generated cost savings of ~$750K a year by leading infrastructure consolidation and optimization (including migrating ~60% of the physical infrastructure onto a virtual platform).

Senior Linux Administrator for Merck Sharp and Dohme

Emerio

Engineering Lab Administrator

Motorola India Pvt Ltd

I delivered operational and technical oversight for the design, buildout, and continuous improvement of engineering lab infrastructure, as well as software configuration management, thereby facilitating product innovation for the development of next-generation telecom equipments. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS ★ Supported the local R&D team and global lab counterparts with IT infrastructure engineering and management expertise to enable seamless development, testing, and troubleshooting of the ATCA and Motorola blade server products. ★ Designed and implemented testbeds for both simulation and on-target instruments per topology and desktop customizations in addition to overseeing hardware installation and troubleshooting for ATCA and career-grade blade servers. ★ Established and maintained robust quality standards and operational integrity across product development and IT service management by using the TL9000 and DSS systems as well as the ITIL framework.

System Administrator

ABT Infosystems Pvt Ltd , An ABT group of companies.

ABT limited is a Public limited company which is the parent organization of the leading industrial group “SAKTHI” . The company was incorporated in the year 1931 to deal in transport and automobile industry.They are playing various industries like Finance & banking, Textiles, Automobiles, Food beverages.Out of which one of the division is ABT Info systems which has the authorized licensee of NIIT Ltd .we also maintain all the data centre and centralize EDP of all the group of companies.As a System Administrator I have intensively worked with Red Hat Servers and NetApp Storage systesm. Ensuring zero down time server, Provisioning the required storage space in NAS/SAN systems,creation of logins, assigning proper permissions, ensuring security for vital data, performing regular backups and the maintenance of 55 clients running under Linux Servers and workstation. Red hat Linux 7.2, 9.0, EL3.0, Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0, Novell Netware 3.12 Administration. Installation and configurati…

Education

UCCS College of Business

Doctor of Business Administration, Cybersecurity Management

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Graduate Certificate Program, Cybersecurity Management

MIT Sloan School of Management

Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation, Design Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Digital Transformation

MIT Sloan School of Management

Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership

University of Sunderland

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Organizational Leadership, Employee Engagement, Corporate Strategy

Annamalai University, Singapore Campus

Master in Computer Applications, Computer Science and Information Technologies

Annamalai University

B.Sc-IT, Information Technology

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