The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value
Michelle Dennedy currently serves as Chief Privacy Officer to McAfee, an Intel Company. She is responsible to creating a privacy practice that is focused on quality and excellence in McAfee's policies, products, procedures and governance efforts. Her team is a staunch supporter of McAfee's outreach efforts to educate and protect children, families and communities in the Digital Age. Before coming to McAfee, Michelle founded The iDennedy Project, a consulting and advisory company specializing in privacy and security sensitive organizations. Michelle is also a founder and editor in chief of a new media site -- TheIdentityProject.com -- that was started as an advocacy and education site, currently focused on the growing crime of Child ID theft. Michelle was the Vice President for Security & Privacy Solutions for the Oracle Corporation. Her team worked closely with customers to enable them to proceed with the confidence that information is protected and accelerated as an asset. Before the Oracle acquisition of Sun, Michelle was Chief Data Governance Officer within the Cloud Computing division at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Michelle worked closely with Sun's business, technical and legal teams to create to the best data governance policies and processes possible for cloud computing to build trust for cloud environments through vendor transparency. Michelle also served as Sun's Chief Privacy Officer where she was responsible for the development and implementation of Sun's data privacy policies and practices, working across Sun's business groups to drive the company's continued data privacy excellence. Michelle has a JD from Fordham University School of Law and a BS degree with university honors from The Ohio State University. In 2009, she was awarded the Goodwin Procter-IAPP Vanguard award for lifetime achievement and the EWF - CSO Magazine Woman of Influence award for work in the privacy and security fields. In 2012, she was honored by the National Diversity Council as one of California's Most Powerful and Influential Women.Jonathan Fox is currently Director of Data Privacy at McAfee. Previously, Jonathan was the Director of Privacy at eBay Inc., and before that, Deputy Chief Privacy Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Jonathan is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and was a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). He has worked closely with marketing, information security, engineering, internal audit, professional services, technical support, and cloud teams to establish policies and operate programs to ensure the protection of customer and employee personal information. Jonathan regularly speaks at industry events on privacy issues. He is on the International Association of Privacy Professional (IAPP)'s Certification Advisory Board.Mr. Thomas R. Finneran has Bachelors Degree from Ohio State University, a Master of Administration from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and a Juris Doctor Degree from Cleveland State University. He is a Member of the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court and of Ohio, New Jersey, and Connecticut and the Member of Patent Bar. He has practiced business, civil rights, and intellectual property law. Mr. Finneran has held executive positions at major corporations, including Director of MIS at a major research lab.  He was also a managing principal in a successful mainframe software company.  He has done strategic planning as well as implementation of tactical projects.  He is currently associated with the IDennedy Project, a privacy policy, strategy, and implementation organization. Tom was Principal Consultant for CIBER, Inc for over 25 years.  His strengths include Enterprise (including data, information, knowledge, business, and application) Architecture, business and data analysis, UML Object Analysis and Design, logical data modeling,database systems design and analysis, Information Resource Management Methodologies, CASE and metadata repository tools, project management and Computer Law. He is experienced in almost all application system areas, including real-time data collection systems, inventory control, sales and order processing, personnel, all types of financial systems, the use of expert systems, and project management systems. He has developed and taught training courses in the areas of Use Cases, Relational Concepts, Strategic Data Planning, Logical Data Modeling and the Utilization of CASE Tools, among others.