Miro Georgiev
Director of IT and Information Security
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Miro Georgiev
IT and Information Security Director
Hands-on Infosec Director with more than 17 years of progressive technology experience. People manager for startups in FinTech, Gen AI, and Social Media.
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Employment
Hometap
Director of IT and Information Security
03.2022 – Present
Overseeing the security program of 300+ employee fintech startup offering homeowner investments.
● Reporting to CIO, leader of cross functional Infosec team consisting of Compliance, Legal, Engineering
● Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on strengthening the existing company security posture
● Overseeing security efforts for GLBA, and CCPA compliance. Responsible for company’s SSPM, and CSPM
● Deployed and configured security controls: DLP , CASB+, Web Filters, EDR, Device Posture, and VPN
● Designed and implemented company-wide annual security training
● Implemented internal and external penetration testing: Social Engineering, API, OWASP
Persado
Director, Enterprise IT
03.2017 – 03.2022
Managed a team of 5 IT Engineers in a Generative AI company, delivering enterprise SaaS products to global financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies.
● Responsible for 3rd party security audits and compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR
● Evaluated and deployed security controls: Full Disk Encryption, MDM, MFA, SAML 2.0 SSO, SIEM
● Partnered with DevOps and Engineering in security a multi-cloud environment: AWS, Azure
● Owner of Jamf Pro, MS Intune, MS SCCM, CrowdStrike, OS management and support for 500+ devices
● Vendor management
Kinetic Social
Technology Services Manager
05.2014 – 03.2017
Main technology point of contact for social media startup with 100+ employees.
● Lead on Wireless, VOIP , ISP infrastructure upgrades
● Provided Salesforce administration for Marketing, integrated Marketo
● Deployed cloud-based products: Dropbox, Office 365, Confluence, Slack
● Participated in day one teams, responsible for IT in merger and acquisitions
Hill Holliday
Desktop Support Engineer
08.2013 – 05.2014
Support for established ad agency with 600+ employees.
● Exclusive support for executives, new business, and accounting teams
● Responsible for company-wide encryption and hardware deployment projects
Simmons University
Technology Support Analyst
05.2011 – 05.2013
● Service Desk / Tier I and Tier II support for 5000+ staff, faculty, and students. Assistance for classrooms, conferences, and high-profile events. Imagining, configuring, migrating data for 300+ computers
Education
University of Plovdiv
Bachelor of Science – Computer Science and Math
2004 - 2008