Paul Wheeler

Seasoned cybersecurity and information systems professional with significant, progressive expertise spanning governance, risk, compliance, enterprise security, and large-scale IT operations across commercial, defense, and government sectors.

Proven leader in multi-site infrastructure, secure architecture design, classified system administration, and organizational alignment with regulatory frameworks to strengthen operational resilience. Highly committed to leading cross-functional teams, mentoring junior professionals, influencing executive and technical stakeholders, and driving the development of robust risk management practices, vendor security oversight, policy standardization, and technology modernization that protect critical assets and enable business continuity.

Enterprise Risk Manager Mar 2023 – Oct 2025

• Championed risk mitigation protocols to strengthen defenses across Financial, Technology, Operational, and Transactional domains, with emphasis on cybersecurity, information security, business continuity, monitoring, and reporting.
• Directed cybersecurity control audits, identifying deficiencies and performing gap analyses to drive remediation strategies, strengthening compliance readiness and reducing risk.
• Led the strategic implementation of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), aligning enterprise controls and management practices.
• Conducted vendor technology reviews to validate compliance, performance reliability, and adherence to enterprise risk standards.
• Orchestrated a cross-functional business continuity (BC) tabletop exercise simulating a ransomware incident, validating incident response protocols with internal and external stakeholders, identifying gaps in response plans.
• Represented the Risk group in technology forums to influence decisions, align practices, and drive effective risk management strategies.

Bachelor of Science Management Information Technology

Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH

Associate of Science Electronic Systems Technology

Community College of the Air Force