Joe Leavitt
Director IT GRC at Boyd Gaming
Henderson, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Leavitt is a seasoned IT GRC leader with 20+ years of hands-on experience across gaming and enterprise environments, now directing technology governance, risk, and compliance at Boyd Gaming. He specializes in translating regulatory requirements (PCI DSS, SOX, Nevada GCB MICS) into pragmatic programs that reduce risk, improve controls, and align security with business objectives. Joe has repeatedly stabilized fast-changing IT organizations—driving vulnerability management, MFA, SOC 2 readiness, and third-party risk oversight while scaling infrastructure and lowering costs. Known for building cross-functional partnerships with audit, legal, privacy, and business teams, he pairs technical depth (networking, intrusion detection, SQL/system automation) with clear executive reporting to boards and CEOs. A pragmatic operator, he’s delivered measurable outcomes such as a 38% risk-score reduction from security awareness and tooling at SuperBook and has a proven track record of turning high-turnover teams into mature, compliant operations.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science - BS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at WGU Nevada
English
Github Skills (7)
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
python4
addon2
world-of-warcraft2
azerothcore2
retail1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JoeLeavitt/joeleavitt.github.io
Nov 2015 - Oct 2019
Online portfolio (still in progress)
Contributions:2 PRs, 52 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
reactcssjavascriptin-progressonline-portfolio
JoeLeavitt/SkipTrie
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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