Mark Gardner is a Zero Trust and identity-centric security leader with 18+ years advancing IAM strategy and architecture, currently serving as IAM Lead & Zero Trust Technical Coordinator at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He brings deep operational experience from banking and federal institutions—designing and scaling NetIQ-based identity solutions, SSO/federation with OAuth2/SAML2, LDAP at million-object scale, and multifactor/PKI integrations. Mark pairs hands-on engineering and team leadership (including leading IAM teams and teaching OOP as an adjunct professor) to translate complex security requirements into auditable, production-ready systems. Based in Kansas City, he has a track record of reducing help-desk costs via self-service and role-based access programs and a practical background that ranges from student intern server automation to enterprise IAM architecture.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Brigham Young University
Contributions:7 releases, 20 commits, 13 pushes in 10 months
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Mark Gardner - IAM Lead & Zero Trust Technical Coordinator