William Yang
William "Bill" Yang is a small business owner and consultant
headquartered in central Ohio. His consulting practice focuses on
security, management, process improvement, and applications of
technology to better meet business objectives.
Prior to starting his consulting practice, Bill served as the State of Ohio's IT Security Policy
Officer, where he headed the enterprise IT security strategy unit
within the Ohio Office of Information
Technology. As the IT security policy officer for Ohio, he
developed policies and strategies related to information assurance,
homeland security, critical infrastructure protection, and operational
cost containment for scores of Ohio government agencies and
departments. Bill was a net profit center for the State of Ohio
during his tenure, raising more than twice his salary in external
funding to improve State of Ohio security.
Bill built experience as the director of IROC (Incident Response
and Operations Center) operations at the start-up perimeter security
company, Secure Interiors, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. As director, he
led a team of network security and information analysis professionals
to provide 24 by 7 customer service, technical support, security
intelligence gathering and analysis security services for the Secure
Interiors Border Patrol service.
Prior to joining Secure Interiors, Bill was a senior system and
network specialist at OSC (Ohio
Supercomputer Center) in their New Initiatives and High
Performance Computing groups. He had spent a year providing technical
and scientific computing support to the higher education and research
communities at five universities in Northeast Ohio, and handled system
and network security analysis for systems within OSC. In addition,
Bill led a number of software development projects and handles the
application of Internet technologies to the cultural, social, and
political enrichment of communities.
In 1994, Bill designed, built, and for seven years remained the lead
system administrator of the Greater
Columbus Free-Net, a community service providing information and
Internet access to tens of thousands of users in the central Ohio
area. To this day, he remains a part of their systems analysis team,
providing architecture and policy guidance for GCFN's systems
operation and administration team.
Bill's design and implementation of WORKsource in 1998 created a
centralized job and training information repository for community
service organizations and state and local government agencies in
central Ohio. Bill also provided software architecture services to the
Technology Policy Group's ECOM project, designing software and
preparing qualitative analysis tools to measure the readiness of the
citizens and businesses of Ohio and other states to engage in
electronic commerce. He has also designed software for use in the
Electronic Commons project, an experimental system designed to
maximize citizen involvement in local problem solving and
decision-making by ensuring communication between government leaders
and the citizens of central Ohio.
Bill graduated from the Ohio State
University with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, and since that
time has been involved in fostering cooperation and trust between law
enforcement, computer, network, and IT professionals. His efforts led
to a formal recognition by the FBI "for exceptional service in the
public interest." In 1998, Bill was one of six founding members of InfraGard, a cooperative partnership
between the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and a coalition of thousands of academic and
industry organizations across the country dedicated to protecting the
critical infrastructures of the United States. He has served on the
InfraGard national executive board, including a term as national
chairman. He is currently active with security groups across the
country.
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