Lisa Schaefer
Director Information Security
Santa Ana, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLisa Schaefer is a seasoned information security executive with over 20 years of experience building governance, compliance, and risk programs across finance, lending, and technology sectors. Currently Director of Information Security at Preferred Travel Group, she has hands-on experience delivering CMMC Level 1 and 2 compliance, IT SOX auditing, and rebuilding security frameworks to NIST, ISO, and COBIT standards. She has led cross-border cybersecurity for divisions in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, and is known for turning stalled compliance projects into on-time successes while formalizing policies, GRC processes, and incident response based on business impact analyses. A CISSP, CISA and CDPSE, Lisa combines technical grounding—full-stack contributions on web apps and a long-running interest in programming and data security—with strategic leadership that improved vendor compliance and slashed critical operational delays. Fluent in French, Spanish, and ASL, she brings a rare blend of communications skills, business acumen from an MBA, and practical audit-first thinking that makes security both measurable and actionable.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Information Technology, Master of Business Administration - MBA Information Technology at University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of BusinessUniversity of California, Irvine
French, Spanish, asl
Github Skills (10)
html10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
erb10
javascript9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
css7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ece106/tomatocan
May 2013 - Jan 2014
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:95 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Lisa appears to have worked on both the front-end and back-end aspects of a web application. Their commits involve cleaning up and improving links within the user and book views, suggesting front-end UI/UX improvements. Additionally, the changes to `app/views/users/fieldsList.html.erb` indicate work on a user data listing, implying back-end data display and management. They also made changes to front-end assets, indicating they likely were working on a full stack project.
CultureFuturist/SentenceZingaling
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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