Jessica Raymond is the IT Security Manager for Weld County Government where she had the opportunity to build the security program from the ground up over the last 5 years. She is responsible for information security in a 360 degree fashion including designing, implementing, and maintaining security infrastructure, compliance and audits, governance, risk management, security awareness, incident response, vulnerability management, threat prevention, budgeting, forecasting, project management, and more.

Prior to working for Weld County Government, Jessica was a Senior IT Security Analyst for the University of Northern Colorado for 5 years and was part of the IBM Managed Security Services division as a member of the Security Operations Center for 7 years. She worked professionally in the Information Technology field for the past 25 years.

In addition, Jessica serves on the Product Advisory Board for the MS-ISAC. She holds the CISM, CISSP, and C|CISO certifications.