Linda Rust has a track record of many successful cybersecurity projects that cap a career of mission-critical projects which require both technical skill and business savvy.

Clients praise her deep insight, flexible strategy, tact and skill in working from front line employees to the C-suite, while smoothing the way for  new habits that mean real change for an organization and its culture.

• Over 25 years of industry experience started with a degree in computer engineering¹.
• Among the first certified Project Management Professionals² (PMP), she specialized in crisis management and mission-critical programs.
• Seeing that technology projects often forced business to change, Linda studied best practices in large scale business transformation³.
• Creativity in business alignment across silos comes from many years in those silos including product development, product life-cycle maintenance, large scale IT infrastructure, training, marketing, sales and Fortune 500 P&L responsibility.
• Industries: Automotive and discrete manufacturing, High tech manufacturing, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software, Systems Integration, Consumer Electronics, Insurance and Banking.
• Scale: Linda has orchestrated initiatives in enterprises of over 50,000 employees, led project teams of over 250 people, and managed budgets up to $34 million.

1. B.S. Computer Engineering with distinction, Iowa State University;
   B.S. Plant Pathology with honors, Cornell University
2. Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), ISO/IEC 20000 Lead Auditor,  Project Management Professional (PMP)
3. Navigator status for Change Leaders Roadmap (CLR), Certified for Prosci ADKAR.