Dwayne Robinson

• Los Angeles County Metorpolitan Transportation Agency (LA METRO)

  • ​​Deputy Executive Officer, Enterprise Information Management, Cybersecurity

    • Provide executive accountability for protection of mission critical infrastructure including rail control, dispatch, emergency communications, public safety systems, and a complex SCADA and operational technology environment, ensuring uninterrupted operations and resilience.

    • Oversee enterprise cyber readiness and crisis management for large scale disruptions, coordinating executive response, law enforcement engagement, and public sector communication during high impact events.

    • Set enterprise direction for Security Operations and manage a 24 by 7 MSOC ensuring continuous monitoring, rapid detection, investigation discipline, and coordinated response across IT, OT, cloud, and SCADA environments.

    • Establish enterprise security architecture and infrastructure strategy including network segmentation, platform security, and secure design standards across all systems.

    • Own enterprise vulnerability management, patching, and system hardening programs to reduce exposure, improve remediation timelines, and eliminate repeat risk.

    • Establish and manage identity and access management strategy including privileged access, service account governance, MFA enforcement, and identity lifecycle controls.

    • Define and enforce Governance, Risk, and Compliance strategy including policy, technical standards, regulatory alignment, PCI compliance requirements, and audit readiness.

    • Lead enterprise third party and supply chain risk strategy ensuring security requirements, contractual controls, and continuous oversight across all external partners.

    • Drive cloud security and emerging technology strategy ensuring secure adoption, configuration governance, and protection of modern platforms and services.

    • Establish enterprise logging, monitoring, and telemetry strategy to ensure full visibility and support detection, correlation, and forensic investigations.

    • Build and oversee enterprise cybersecurity analytics and reporting frameworks that identify systemic risk, misconfigurations, and control gaps.

    • Deliver executive and Board level reporting on cybersecurity posture, threat landscape, operational impact, and program maturity with clear risk translation.

    • Define enterprise KPIs and performance measures tracking detection quality, response effectiveness, compliance maturity, and risk reduction outcomes.

    • Lead enterprise data protection and information governance strategy including data classification, encryption, data loss prevention, and lifecycle management.

    • Establish network and OT segmentation strategies to reduce lateral movement, isolate critical systems, and contain cyber threats.

    • Own enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity strategy ensuring resilience of essential services and rapid recovery from disruption.

    • Guide long term cybersecurity strategy, roadmap, and investment planning aligned to organizational priorities, regulatory expectations, and future operational needs.

    • Direct and manage technical architecture and secure system design across enterprise platforms, applications, and operational environments.

    • Drive modernization and continuous improvement of cybersecurity capabilities, tools, and operational maturity across the organization.

    • Provide executive leadership over multidisciplinary teams including SOC, engineering, GRC, and architecture, ensuring alignment, accountability, and performance.

    • Recruit, develop, and mentor senior leaders and technical staff to build a scalable and high performing cybersecurity organization.

    • Oversee budgets, financial strategy, procurement, and major technology investments including PCI audit funding, cost control, and long term financial forecasting within a public sector governance model.

    • Serve as a strategic partner to the CITO, Board, law enforcement, and government agencies to ensure coordinated resilience and regulatory alignment.

    • Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal cybersecurity, privacy, accessibility, PCI requirements, and public sector governance standards while upholding enterprise ethics and accountability.

    • Lead and manage enterprise cybersecurity, technology risk, and operational resilience strategy across IT, OT, cloud, and customer facing systems supporting a workforce of over 12,000 employees, aligning security to public safety, service continuity, and enterprise risk tolerance.

• Skydance Media

  • Director, Information and Content Security

    • Lead the development and implementation of comprehensive security policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and regulatory requirements to fortify Skydance Media's cybersecurity posture across all divisions, including Skydance Pictures, Skydance Television, Skydance Animation, Skydance Interactive, Skydance Sports, Skydance Development, Skydance Productions, and Skydance New Media.

    • Oversee the creation and enforcement of IP protection protocols, guiding my team to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of high-value content and proprietary information throughout the production lifecycle, tailored to the unique challenges of each creative division.

    • Direct the maintenance and optimization of the Security Operations Center (SOC) playbook, ensuring my team incorporates the latest threat intelligence and best practices to enable rapid incident response and protect Skydance's intellectual property and secure distribution partnerships with leading platforms like Paramount Pictures, Tencent, Netflix, Prime Video, and Apple TV+.

    • Supervise my team in conducting penetration testing and vulnerability assessments, ensuring they deliver clear, actionable reports to executive stakeholders across all Skydance divisions, which strengthens defenses and mitigates risks to creative assets and production processes.

    • Manage and prioritize security alerts, directing my team to employ advanced threat intelligence and triaging methods to address and neutralize potential threats, thereby ensuring the continuous protection of Skydance’s intellectual property and sensitive information.

    • Lead the investigation of security incidents, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring that risk assessments are communicated to executive leadership, enabling informed decision-making that safeguards the creative and operational integrity of Skydance’s global operations.

    • Oversee the evaluation and compliance efforts of my team, ensuring adherence to both organizational and government policies across systems, applications, and user data, thereby safeguarding sensitive information and intellectual property across Skydance’s numerous global sites and a workforce of over 1,100 employees.

    • Guide my team in assessing emerging vulnerabilities and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), developing and implementing defensive strategies that successfully thwart potential security breaches and protect Skydance’s creative assets.

    • Drive tool optimization and automation initiatives, leading my team to streamline security analysis and response workflows, which increases operational efficiency and enhances the protection of intellectual property across all Skydance divisions.

    • Ensure the robust management of security controls across diverse operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux) by my team, safeguarding the enterprise network environment and protecting Skydance’s digital and physical assets.

    • Lead the configuration and analysis of complex network architectures, including WANs, LANs, VLANs, VPNs, and TCP/IP protocols, ensuring secure connectivity and the protection of proprietary information across Skydance’s global footprint.

    • Oversee the development and enforcement of standards for Active Directory (AD), group policies, cloud systems, and business continuity planning, guiding my team to enhance the organization’s resilience against threats and ensure the continuous protection of creative assets and business operations.

    • Direct malware behavioral analysis and comprehensive system forensics, guiding my team in uncovering and addressing sophisticated cyber threats that could potentially compromise Skydance’s intellectual property and information security.

    • Excel in communicating complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders, guiding the organization towards its InfoSec goals while fostering a culture of security awareness across all Skydance divisions.

    • Exhibit exceptional leadership and organizational skills, ensuring the consistent delivery of top-tier performance in protecting intellectual property and driving Skydance’s security objectives in a dynamic and globally distributed environment.

• Hollywood Park Management / SoFi Stadium 

  • Head of Cybersecurity

    • Forged strategic alliances various department and legal teams to embed advanced security controls in more than 200 vendor contracts, ensuring global cybersecurity integrity and safety of digital assets across a venue hosting over 70,000 attendees and 200+ large-scale events annually.

    • Led the review of 75+ SOC reports annually, affirming partners’ adherence to ISO, NIST, cybersecurity standards, critical to protecting a brand value and partner security standards.

    • Restructured Hollywood Park’s technology landscape by deploying next-gen cybersecurity technologies, integrating AI-driven monitoring across 5,000+ endpoint and 400 sever technical infrastructure, reducing false positives by 30% and improving mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) by 45%.

    • Implemented predictive analytics for cyber threat detection, enabling proactive defense measures that identified and neutralized over 10,000 attempted phishing and intrusion attempts per month, establishing new benchmarks for venue cybersecurity.

    • Authored cybersecurity and IT policies covering data privacy, asset management, retirement, disposal and incident response, providing consistent operational standards across employees and contractors.

    • Orchestrated the development of an incident response plan aligned with NIST protocols, tested through live simulations annually, cutting average incident containment time from 10 hours to under 90 minutes.

    • Established a cybersecurity consortium engaging department leaders, driving key employee participation in annual security awareness training, embedding security as a core part of organizational culture. With this initiative awareness trainings resulted in quarterly reductions in failure in situated trainings

    • Implemented Automated & system tooling to reduce 60% of repetitive SOC processes, including alert triage and threat intelligence correlation, which increased efficiency by 35% and reduced analyst workload by 20 hours per week.

    • Implemented Zero Trust architecture with ZPA and ZIA, replacing legacy VPN usage and securing over daily employee and partner connections, reducing unauthorized access attempts by 27%.

    • Instituted privileged access management controls to secure over 400 high-value accounts tied to broadcast, ticketing, and digital content systems, eliminating untracked access, historical changes and strengthening compliance with NIST standards.

    • Launched a company-wide cybersecurity strategy that integrated protection into every business function, from ticketing systems handling millions of transactions annually to live event broadcasting reaching a global audience.

• Trader Joe’s 

  • Chief Information Security Officer

    • Directed the cybersecurity infrastructure for an enterprise with 550+ nationwide sites, supporting 50,000+ employees and generating more than $20 billion in annual revenue, where even one hour of downtime could cost the company millions in lost sales and operational disruption.

    • Built and led a cross-functional team to design and implement a comprehensive security program covering risk management, data privacy, incident response, vendor management, access control, network defense, web application security, and infrastructure hardening across all business units.

    • Reviewed and analyzed 200+ vendor SOX and SOC 2 reports annually to validate compliance prior to integration, ensuring only partners meeting security and regulatory benchmarks were onboarded.

    • Executed and maintained a companywide risk matrix to identify and prioritize enterprise risks, aligning tools and services to guarantee uptime above 99.99% for critical systems such as point-of-sale, logistics, and customer-facing platforms.

    • Investigated, gathered, and documented detailed audit trails for 100+ security incidents annually, reducing time-to-resolution by 35% and strengthening accountability across operations.

    • Ensured compliance with key regulatory frameworks, including PCI DSS for handling millions of annual card transactions and CCPA for safeguarding personal data across California operations.

    • Assessed and optimized mission-critical cybersecurity technologies—EDR, antivirus, firewalls, VPN, secure email gateways, IAM, PAM, and DLP systems—developing multi-year roadmaps to increase maturity scores by 20%+ year over year.

    • Managed nationwide strategic partners supporting SOC functions, email filtering, endpoint security, and device management, negotiating vendor SLAs with 99.9% uptime commitments and coordinating 24/7 support for incident escalations.

    • Commissioned quarterly security assessments on internal systems and external vendors, driving remediation that cut vulnerabilities by 40% in the first year.

    • Delivered cybersecurity training programs to more than 50,000 employees and vendor partners, reducing successful phishing attempts by over 60% within 12 months.

• Universal Music Group (UMG) 

  • Global Director of Recorded Music & Supply Chain Cyber Security

    • Established a team to monitor and remediate illicit cyber activities against the company's vast trademark and intellectual property catalog.

    • Provided technical direction and leadership to industry stakeholders to minimize cyber threats.

    • Implemented a strategic global intelligence program to automate the detection of cyber threats and vulnerabilities to protect the organization from cyber threats. 

    • Worked with partners to develop cyber security programs to dynamically identify, log and alert on cyber threats against UMG recording artists and executive management and developed protection methods against newly identified exploits.

    • Devise, implement and audit global information security policies, procedures, and controls to ensure that corporate digital assets are monitored, and cyber violations are immediately addressed.  

    • Established a global compliance program to comply with local laws and direct routine security audits to ensure enforcement.

    • Established a companywide cyber security awareness program to minimize internal threats to the organization.

    • Crafted and implemented Cyber Security measures for the company's global physical and digital supply chain to reduce leaks and protect assets and media from inception to the time of official release.

    • Developed and implemented vulnerability audits and penetration tests against company assets, partner companies, and sub-entitles. Analyzed outcomes and devised remediation schedules to coincide with board directives.

    • Devised client identity/access management to minimize unauthorized misuse of UMG personnel's likeness and reputation globally. 

    • Conduct cyber resiliency audits of standard platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to determine and mitigate risks to the organization.

    • Provide briefings for the executive board of directors regarding investigations after incidents, including impact analysis and recommendations for avoiding similar vulnerabilities.

• Interscope Geffen A&M

  • Vice President of Information Technology

    • Led a team of 17 support personnel, engineers, and technical designers to implement an advanced network infrastructure to support organizational goals successfully.

    • Decreased budgetary spending by 20% by reducing obsolete systems and leveraging SaaS products where appropriate.

    • Increased staff productivity with proprietary mobile app and application designs which enabled increased collaboration and provided a quicker than expected ROI.

    • Strategize with the executive board to develop and implement Information Technology solutions for productivity and cost-saving initiatives.

    • Managed a multi-million-dollar budget for infrastructure site development, security posture, and growth.

    • Engineered and implemented technical systems and tools to protect intellectual property stored and transmitted digitally throughout the organization and to external partners.

    • Deployed multiple secure Intranets and Extranets across the organization to streamline approvals and secure delivery of proprietary assets to reduce expenditures.

    • Executed companywide digital repository of assets to reduce shipping and offsite storage expense of assets.  

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Prior Executive Positions:

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• Interscope Records 

  • Senior Director of Information Technology

• MCA Records 

  • Associate Director of Information Technology

• Universal Music Group 

  • Senior Executive Support

• U-Haul International 

  • Senior Technical Analyst / Information Technology

• U-Haul Company of Van Nuys 

  • Senior Staff / Information Technology Executive

Consulting Experience

• Provided advisory on proactive cyber techniques, encryption and recovery platforms, office construction, and network infrastructure.

• Advised on global technology landscape, GDPR, and cyber security.

• Designed secure infrastructure for statistical feeds and cloud collaboration.

• Guided Merger and Acquisition activities, SOX, GDPR, data privacy, and ransomware prevention.

• Consulted for industries including film & TV, sports and entertainment, financial services, and entrepreneurial ventures.