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About Mark Thomas

As a former Army officer with over 28 years of professional experience, Mark has a wide array of industry experience including government, health care, finance/banking, manufacturing, and technology services. He has held roles spanning from CIO to IT consulting and is considered a thought leader in frameworks such as COBIT, NIST, ITIL and multiple ISO standards. Mark routinely speaks at US and international conferences and earned the ISACA John Kuyers award twice for Best Speaker/Conference contributor of the year. Mark also holds the CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT) and CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) certifications.

Noted Experience:

Typical engagements include digital transformation governance, maturity assessments, hands-on implementation, and consultative training and coaching in the service management, enterprise governance/risk and cybersecurity domains.

Acted as interim leadership for clients with a specific focus of organizational design, operational processes, risk, cybersecurity and governance models including ITIL, COBIT, NIST and TOGAF.

Provided training services for major training firms and consulting clients in several disciplines including Business Analysis, ITIL, COBIT, MOF, ISO, NIST Cybersecurity and IT strategy areas.

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Key Certifications

CGEIT, CRISC
COBIT 4.1, 5, 2019
NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
ITIL v3 Expert Designation
ITIL v4
PRINCE2 Practitioner

Areas of Expertise

Enterprise governance of information and technology
Risk governance and management
Cybersecurity strategy
Information controls assurance and compliance
IT strategy development and implementation
Agile, Lean and DevOps
GRC frameworks (COBIT, NIST, COSO, ISO, ITIL)

Education:

BS, University of Central Missouri
MS, Central Michigan University

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ITIL 4 is coming February 28 and I think you are going to like this

ISACA Now

COBIT 2019 Makes Framework Easier to Understand, Customize

ISACA Now

COBIT 5 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework – A Simplified Framework Solution

ISACA Now

Here Comes the GDPR. Are You Ready?

APMG

Webinar – COBIT 2019 Use Cases: Tailoring Governance of Your Enterprise IT