John Woods
BISO at StoneX Group Inc.
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Woods is a seasoned cybersecurity and IT leader with 13+ years of experience building and running enterprise security programs, now serving as BISO at StoneX Group after leading information security transformation as Senior Director/CISO at R.J. O'Brien. He specializes in turning cybersecurity from a compliance checkbox into an operational differentiator—implementing risk-based frameworks, measurable cyber risk metrics, and cloud platform architectures that drive executive and board engagement. His career spans hands-on offensive security roots as a penetration tester to running full security budgets, vendor strategy, and cross-enterprise roadmaps at large firms. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he combines pragmatic engineering instincts with strategic governance to make security an enabler of growth. An early career background in infrastructure and disaster recovery gives him uncommon depth in both legacy and cloud environments, enabling pragmatic, audit-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Telecommunications Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Telecommunications Management at DeVry University
Github Skills (3)
kali-linux8
bash5
linux4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
secjohn/obfy
Aug 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 3 months
secjohn/kali-scripts
Mar 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 2 months
kalilinuxkali-linuxbash
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