Nathan Hans

Background

About Nathan Hans

Continuous circles are my spirit animal. I take goals and break them down to actionable, measurable steps. Rinse and repeat. I am naturally optimistic. My can-do attitude helps me find a way forward."How can I make this better" is my approach to work and life.Currently, as an IAM Administrator I am responsible for technology and processes for our access management program. PowerShell, Python, SQL, Confluence, and JIRA are my infinity stones.The smell of victory is the relief our team has when I create a script to replace some repetitive task. I love checklists in Confluence. Our 47 check daily/weekly/monthly checklists give us THE place for "how do we make sure this doesn't happen again." It is our lighthouse. I focus meetings and clarify problems. When I started on the Application Security team, the meetings were unfocused. When the Director of Software Technologies gave us 4 goals he wanted to achieve I sprang into action. Within 1 month I had an action list, a dashboard with 6 goal related charts, and an agenda for the meeting. I helped our developers determine their pain points and use our biweekly meetings to develop more securely while meeting business objectives.Our CISO invited our (relatively new) zero trust team to a meeting with many IT managers and directors on 2021 Zero Trust Planning with "no firm agenda." I led our team to ensure there WAS an agenda - one that facilitated conversation and allowed attendees to understand zero trust, ask questions, and express concerns. This resulted in a productive afternoon that helped clarify the direction of Zero Trust and concerns we would need to address along our path.Prior to the NYISO, I was in SEFCU's security team and before that I enjoyed 7 years as an "accidental" system administrator. While I was inexperienced, my work ethic and can-do attitude helped the team offload tasks they didn't want(patching and citrix farm management) and allowed me to learn, grow, and become an 'on-purpose' sysadmin. This position really helped me find my path in IT.Before I had a direction in my career my life has been driven by one goal above all: Be a good dad. I love my wife and kids. What a blessing they have been in my life. Camping, vacations, games, cooking, cleaning, yelling, arguing, all make life much richer from my front porch looking in. In April/May, You can find me up at 5am watching NBA Playoffs from the prior night.If you have a passion for IT, especially security and IAM, or NBA basketball - I'd love to talk, I hope you reach out. Be Well.