Open To Work
Danny R. Hawkins
Lake Wylie
Summary
Strategic Product Owner with over 25 years in financial services, specializing in executing product roadmaps aligned with organizational goals. Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams to prioritize features and optimize development processes. Leverages strong analytical skills in market trends and agile coaching to enhance customer retention and satisfaction.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Digital Product Manager - Cybersecurity, Privileged Access Management, IAM
Wells Fargo Bank
Charlotte
05.2020 - 12.2025
- Unified PAM tools members from various product lines into one cohesive team, managing multiple JIRA projects and boards while updating agile registry and resolving workflow challenges..
- Led a cross-functional team of engineers, developers and operations for PAM product line to ensure use of AI tools were part of roadmap, cohesive DEV-OPS framework was used, updated product lifecycle.
- Executed agile methodologies and scrum practices across three development and QA teams, decreasing time-to-market for new features by 40% and enhancing sprint velocity by 30%.
- Championed stakeholder management for audit-focused initiatives under tight deadlines, reallocating resources from ongoing projects to meet audit requirements effectively.
- Conducted in-depth product meetings with delivery team stakeholders and product peers, using data-driven insights to review velocity burndown charts and align resource planning.
- Deployed agile framework for scrum and kanban teams within the product line, facilitating backlog refinements and daily standups.
- Streamlined product backlog management to address high-risk initiatives foremost, aligning with leadership's focus on minimizing firm risk.
Lead Information Security Analyst – Cybersecurity / IAM Operations
Wells Fargo Bank
Charlotte
08.2019 - 05.2020
- Assumed product owner role for Enterprise Password Services product line in May 2020, applying extensive experience in platform engineering, DevOps, and project management.
- Reviewed access controls to ensure proper user permissions across systems.
- Lead analyst on tools rational effort to reduce the number of applications required to be supported by IAM which performed like functions, reduction of redundancy, resulting in cost savings.
- Implemented security best practices with IAM operations and support desk teams, contributing to a reduction in drop-call metrics to less than 20%
- Delivered data instructions and metrics to leadership for migration of IAM operations teams to DevOps framework utilizing agile principles..
- supported strategic planning for IAM operations personnel, including managers and directors, using data-driven metrics provided by team.
- Managed security updates and software enhancements required for maintaining application lifecycle vendor support agreements.
Information Security Engineer – Cyber Defense & Cybersecurity (GIS)
Bank of America
Charlotte
11.2017 - 08.2019
- specialized in SIEM and implementing ArcSight as current information security instrument.
- Established use cases in ArcSight to ensure alerts and notifications aligned with GIS policy.
- Build and support connectors, parsers and use cases within ArcSight to support real-time SIEM operations.
- Created suppression requests and modified use cases in real time to mitigate malicious attacks.
- Address DDoS flooding and malicious attacks monitored in real-time within ArcSight.
- Ensured that correlation functions operated correctly within ArcSight for each use case and control.
- Guarantee data feeds from Splunk are integrated into ArcSight use cases using Syslog and CEF formats.
- Updated current procedures and operational documentation to synchronize with agile-oriented roadmap.
- Collaborated on malware prevention, managed firewall access, and monitored applications for effective SIEM utilization.
- Monitored network traffic for suspicious activities and anomalies.
- Investigated potential breaches of information security policies by analyzing log files from servers, firewalls and other devices.
- Developed plan to ensure use cases were decommissioned according to SDLC standard and policy.
Education
Technical Certificate -
Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, NC06-2000
Skills
- Identity Governance
- CyberArk
- Data Security
- MFA
- Secrets Management
- RBAC
- OIM
- Risk Management
- Incident Management
- Product roadmap development
- Feature prioritization
- Customer feedback analysis
- Market trend analysis
- Cross-functional team collaboration
- Stakeholder engagement
- Agile methodologies
- Agile framework
- Backlog Refinement
- User story management
- Process optimization
- Product quality improvement
- Customer retention strategies
- JIRA
- Confluence
- AWS
- Azure
- OCP
- TKGi
- Hashicorp
- Oracle
- SQL
- Unix/Linux
- Change Control
- IGA
- SDLC
- SaaS
- PaaS
- OKRs
- PING
- Azure AD
- SaaS
- PaaS
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance, #001226083, 07/18/21
- Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO), 09/22/24
Platform And Skills Competency
- JIRA
- Confluence
- AWS
- Azure
- OCP
- TKGi
- Hashicorp & CyberArk
- Database
- OIM
- Oracle
- SQL
- Unix/Linux
- MFA
- Secrets Management
- RSA
- RBAC
- Change Management
- Risk Management
- Governance
- IGA
- SDLC
- Agile Playbook & Methods
- Okta
- PING
- Azure AD
- UI/UX
- OKR’s
- ServiceNow
- SaaS
- PaaS
- CoPilot/AI
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Open to workWork Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
On-SiteRemoteHybridSalary Range
$45000/yr - $200000/yrTimeline
Lead Digital Product Manager - Cybersecurity, Privileged Access Management, IAM
Wells Fargo Bank
05.2020 - 12.2025
Lead Information Security Analyst – Cybersecurity / IAM Operations
Wells Fargo Bank
08.2019 - 05.2020
Information Security Engineer – Cyber Defense & Cybersecurity (GIS)
Bank of America
11.2017 - 08.2019
Technical Certificate -
Central Piedmont Community College