Jeff Mackatron.

The first 40 hours (x20 years)

Currently, I am the Senior Identity Management Engineer in Stony Brook University’s Identity Management Area. Part of the University’s Information Security department, my team and I were responsible for the deployment of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, our first modern Identity Governance solution. Today, we are its’ technical owners, taking advantage of a rare lull in projects to pretend to be skunkworks employees. For the first time in a long while, I can say that it’s exciting to go to work and build the plane as we ride it down the runway.

Prior to my transition (although it felt like a return home) to the Division of Information Technology, I spent several years as the Senior Director for Finance Policy, Compliance, and Internal/System Controls. In that role, I wore a dizzying number of hats - PCI Security Assessor, GLBA Red Flags program owner, Peoplesoft Student Financials functional owner. I was an equation sorcerer and an amateur PeopleCode developer - and I must have done something right, because some of the code I wrote is still running. Somewhere in there, I found time to oversee the University’s physical credentialing operation across three campuses and generally make a pest of myself across both Finance and IT.