Summary
Ed Schmidt is an information security integrator with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing secure, efficient infrastructure and aligning technology to business objectives. He has led security architecture and compliance programs across large enterprises, including HIPAA, PCI, and FedCirc-related initiatives, and has a track record of building managed security services, auditing practices, and highly available network environments. His career spans roles from hands-on network engineering at CompuServe and McKesson to senior security architecture and director-level leadership at Sedgwick and TEKsystems, culminating in his current freelance practice. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he focuses on people and processes as much as tools, turning compliance requirements into operational architectures. Based in Olive Branch, Mississippi, he brings deep experience in multi-site redundancy, patch validation, and vendor/customer security integration that often goes unheralded but materially reduces risk.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
The Ohio State University