Kylie Hunt
Goldsboro
Summary
Strategic Cybersecurity and Identity Governance leader with experience in enhancing access controls and modernizing IAM capabilities in complex environments. Transformed fragmented processes into scalable governance frameworks and advanced SOX defensibility while reducing risk and improving data integrity. Influenced senior stakeholders and led cultural transformation, building high-performing teams that achieve sustainable results.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director Cybersecurity/SVP
First citizens
Goldsboro
06.2025 - Current
- Provide enterprise leadership for Identity & Access Management strategy, strengthening entitlement hygiene, lifecycle governance, and access related risk mitigation across the bank.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline operational processes, enhancing overall efficiency and alignment across departments.
- Implemented innovative solutions to improve service delivery efficiency.
- Established performance metrics to monitor team effectiveness and productivity.
- Directed the organization's daily operations, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Collaborated with senior leadership to set long-term objectives for the company.
- Developed and implemented comprehensive strategies to improve operational processes and organizational efficiency.
- Lead enterprise-wide IAM UAR Governance strategy, driving maturity across access controls, entitlement hygiene, and decentralized application oversight for high-risk systems.
- Translate complex regulatory, audit, and security requirements into clear, actionable frameworks, enabling business and technology teams to adopt secure-by-design practices.
- Oversee completeness and accuracy controls, implementing cross-source reconciliation, delta tracking and workflow standardization to strengthen SOX defensibility and operational discipline.
- Championed automation initiatives using UiPath and other tooling to enhance lifecycle governance for identities, roles, and managed hardware, resulting in improved data quality and reduced manual effort.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to define ownership models, enforce accountability and ensure consistent application of IAM policies across decentralized business applications.
- Drive cultural transformations by coaching teams, elevating process transparency, and fostering a collaborative environment that aligns security, compliance and business priorities.
- Delivered executive-ready communications, audit responses, and program updates that clearly articulated risk posture and strategic direction for IAM capabilities, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Lead vendor evaluations to enhance data hygiene, entitlement accuracy, and governance automation across the identity ecosystem.
- Develop and maintain governance playbooks, reviewer training guides, and operational templates that scale IAM processes and support continuous improvement.
- Developed complex solutions and process improvements to resolve escalated security issues.
IAM Technical Director II
Truist
Goldsboro
01.2022 - 06.2025
- Directed strategic and operational plans to achieve IAM business objectives.
- Remove ‘IAM Blinders’: take a company-wide approach to owning and resolving challenges.
- Oversee strategic and operational plans in support of business objectives; develop cross-departmental business cases to solve problems by making technical and financial tradeoff.
- Lead and actively manage IAM Mainframe projects of large complexity and notable risk exposure.
- Design and implement the identity management and access control strategy on time and within budget.
- Proactively engage with stakeholders to make them aware and willing to adopt our solutions, which includes managing up, out, and down to avoid surprises and position our solutions to be successful.
- Analyze and resolve access issues and incidents related to RACF Mainframe access provisioning and mainframe security.
- Mentored and developed IAM Mainframe Security Team members to enhance team capabilities and performance.
- Provide consultation regarding Truist security policy, standards, and procedures, and RACF Mainframe technical features; assess requirements and recommend solution options in support of incidents, modifications, enhancements, and proof of concepts.
- Identified information security deficiencies and opportunities for improvement to strengthen business security.
- Developed new procedures and processes independently or through the team to resolve problems, analyze situations, and provide input into the implementation of enhancements to prevent problems from recurring.
- Assist Identity Management group constructing authorization controls for application specific access.
- Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and corporate policies.
- Identify and evaluate risks present within the mainframe system.
- Collaborate with the following functions to support Corporate cyber security: infrastructure, application development, application support, business unit risk management, technology risk, audit, and external auditors.
- Managed the remediation of regulatory matters and internal findings by collaborating.
- Direct experience with financial services institutions as well as demonstrable experience in the protection of vertical relevant data types (PII, PHI) and legal requirements.
- Sought opportunities for process enhancement to improve efficiency.
- Lead a strategic approach to the delivery of data-driven solutions.
- Relate business requirements and risks to technical controls, systems and processes.
- Highly adaptable to a constantly changing business and technological environment.
- Led technology strategy initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align technical projects with organizational goals.
- Managed vendor relationships to ensure quality service delivery and compliance standards.
- Directed system integrations to improve data management and reporting capabilities.
- Mentored technical staff in best practices for project management and system implementation.
- Evaluated emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation within the organization.
- Developed and implemented technical strategies for the production of live events.
- Set and administered budgets alongside leadership staff.
- Kept production in line with company guidelines, compliance requirements and quality standards.
- Identified resources needed to complete tasks, resolved issues with personnel and maintained deliverable estimates.
- Developed forward-thinking solutions to expected technical issues.
- Effectively interacted with cross-functional teams working in analysis, architecture, build and deployment.
- Identified areas for improvement within existing processes and procedures related to technology.
- Organized pre-production meetings with stakeholders to discuss project requirements.
- Coordinated with other departments to ensure successful integration between technical systems.
- Evaluated emerging technologies for potential application in solving client challenges.
- Performed regular system audits to identify and address potential security vulnerabilities.
Cybersecurity Engineer
Truist
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Led RACF access redesign project, enhancing security and compliance for mainframe systems.
- Developed and maintained the technical IT/cyber security capabilities to safeguard the firm's Mainframe system.
- Analyze and resolve access issues and incidents related to RACF access provisioning and mainframe security.
- Manage user administration; remove/grant, or modify access controls using TSO RACF, zSecure, REXX, or JCL.
- Lead complex and visible projects with moderate to high risk and complexity.
- Mentor and train new teammates on the RACF Mainframe Security Team.
- Support Disaster Recovery planning and practice events.
- Responsible for mainframe digital certificate rotation and renewals.
- Provided support for applications including ServiceNow, SharePoint, xMatters, Rally, and Microsoft Teams.
- Supported manager by acting as manager and chairing meetings.
- Assisted in developing solutions for operational issues, streamlining processes and supporting team efficiency.
Software Engineer I
Truist
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Led development efforts including analysis, design, coding, and testing of business applications.
- Consulted with business product owners to deliver complex software solutions.
- Managed a small software automation team to achieve project objectives.
- Lead the effort to define and automate test cases for regression and future testing efforts.
- Automation lead and trainer on the roll out of new software to support automation testing.
- Evaluate and apply application automation tools for regression testing and Agile software development.
- Software automation using Selenium open-source tool.
- Analyzed and resolved complex technical and operational issues to improve system performance.
- Implemented software automation processes utilizing Selenium open-source tool to streamline testing.
Treasury Senior Business Analyst
Truist
01.2018 - 01.2020
- Analyzed operations and developed strategies to enhance efficiency, streamline IT processes, and implement optimal solutions.
- Developed and modified procedures to address complex business problems, aligning client needs with application capabilities and industry requirements.
- Analyzed requirements and designed applications using techniques, such as structured analysis, data modeling and information engineering.
- Planned and executed appropriate testing (e.g., test plans, test cases, and test scripts) to comprehensively evaluate assigned enhancements to business applications.
- Implemented computer system requirements by defining and analyzing system problems, designing, and testing standards and solutions.
- Developed solutions by preparing and evaluating alternative workflow solutions.
- Maintained an expert business and operations knowledge of direct and associated clients in order to add value in analyzing complex and highly integrated projects.
Systems Manager
Department of the Air Force
Spangdahlem Air Base
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Lead application design, testing and implementation of squadron technical system projects.
- Developed, managed, and automated system applications for the Military Personnel Section in support of all members assigned to Spangdahlem Air Base.
- Enhanced home-grown Visual Basic Script (VBS) application to improve functionality and user experience.
- Analyzed procedures as they affect command automated and non-application policies and procedures with the use of SQL queries, data mining, and programming technique.
- Managed, maintained, and created security groups for network access to restricted folders for authorized members to access data files.
- Delivered technical support to users while executing backup and restore procedures and applying security patches to ensure system reliability.
- Ensure Integrity of authorized access to assigned programs and systems, performed periodic inventory of user equipment and program access.
- Provided guidance for system installs and verified software support items followed existing regulations, directives, and vendor specifications.
- Led efforts to manage data integrity across all PSM monitored systems, ensuring accurate and secure data processing.
- Identified required network system modification requirements.
Education
Bachelor of Science - IT Networking and Telecommunications Technology
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FLSkills
- IAM strategy
- Cybersecurity strategy
- Cybersecurity Frameworks
- Risk leadership
- Audit engagement
- SOX Completeness & Accuracy
- Regulatory compliance
- Access Management
- Access control
- Identity management
- Mainframe Security
- Vulnerability Management
- Security Testing
- Data Protection
- Data reconciliation
- Workflow & Process automation
- Automation Development
- Incident Management
- SDLC
- Executive Communication
- Collaboration Tools
- ServiceNow
- Agile Methodologies
- Cross-functional influence
- Project management
- Program Maturity Roadmapping
- Operational efficiency
- High-risk oversight
- Risk mitigation
- Mentorship and coaching
- Cultural transformation
- Leadership development
- Strategic Leadership
- Effective communication
- Change management
- Access governance
- Automation initiatives
- Strategic planning
- Innovation management
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Decision-making
- Change management
- Strategic Leadership
- Information technology management
Certification
- IBM z/OS Associate Systems Programming and IBM z/OS Mainframe Practitioner
- Certified Scrum Master – Scaled Agile, Inc
- Truist Leadership Program
- ASQ CQIA certification
- CompTIA Security+ Certification
Timeline
Director Cybersecurity/SVP
First citizens
06.2025 - Current
IAM Technical Director II
Truist
01.2022 - 06.2025
Cybersecurity Engineer
Truist
01.2021 - 01.2022
Software Engineer I
Truist
01.2020 - 01.2021
Treasury Senior Business Analyst
Truist
01.2018 - 01.2020
Systems Manager
Department of the Air Force
01.2016 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Science - IT Networking and Telecommunications Technology
University of West Florida