Aren Swartz
Roseville
Summary
Results-driven professional in cybersecurity, specializing in cross-functional collaboration and incident response coordination. Demonstrated success in integrating stakeholder requirements and driving product innovation, ensuring robust defense against cyber threats while managing multi-million dollar project budgets. Proven track record in leading teams and enhancing cybersecurity capabilities to mitigate emerging threats and maximize product lifecycle value.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cybersecurity Product Line Manager
Chevron
San Ramon
07.2025 - Current
- Direct a 75-person global organization to enhance technical capabilities in Security Operations, Risk Management, and Vulnerability Management.
- Lead strategy development to identify key initiatives, new capabilities, and opportunities in product lifecycle management to align with the overarching strategic vision while ensuring Chevron is defended from emerging cyber threats.
- Build strategic partnerships with key cyber vendors to ensure maximum value is delivered to Chevron.
- Integrate stakeholder requirements into product development processes to maximize value delivery.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize product development processes, delivery, and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Cyber capabilities.
- Deploy capabilities spanning a global workforce of over 60,000, with project budgets upwards of $6 million per year in OPEX spend.
Product Manager - Cyber
Chevron
San Ramon
12.2020 - 06.2025
- Modernized legacy cyber capabilities, including SIEM and SOAR platforms, in order to enable AI-based threat detection, automation, and response.
- Rationalized technical debt through the deployment of cybersecurity platforms, which delivered simplification and efficiency gains for the Security Operations Center, including both internal and external threat monitoring processes and toolsets.
- Delivered on the strategic goals of Cyber (CISO) and Enabling IT (CIO) by implementing modernized capabilities, migrating from on-prem to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS-based solutions across IT.
- Deployed capabilities that strengthened capabilities across the MITRE ATT&CK framework, as well as improved maturity across NIST standards.
- Led multiple DevOps teams totaling over 30 employees and contractors, delivering work through the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), conducting both run and maintain, as well as delivering projects of over $5 million.
Team Lead - Cyber Threat Monitoring
Chevron
Houston
07.2017 - 12.2020
- Managed the tier 1 cyber threat monitoring team at Chevron, responsible for responding quickly to alerts generated a multitude of monitoring tools including IPS/IDS, SIEM, EDR, CASB and other technologies.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge of emerging trends in the field of cybersecurity as well as best practices for defending against cyberattacks.
- Recruited, trained and supervised Cyber Threat Monitoring team staff which spanned multiple timezones across the globe for follow-the-sun 24x7 monitoring.
- Drove down key metrics toward operational goals for Mean Time to Detect, Contain, and Respond.
Team Lead, Major Incident Management
Chevron
Houston
07.2014 - 07.2017
- Managed a global team of 9 individual contributors whose focus was coordinating the restoration of outages to IT, conducting Root Cause Analysis and then taking lessons learned and applying a find once, fix everywhere strategy in order to improve the reliability of IT capabilities at Chevron.
IT Major Incident Management Coordiantor
Chevron
Houston
04.2012 - 07.2014
- Lead the restoration of service as a Major Incident Management coordinator, bringing on-call resources to bear from across all of IT at Chevron, where there were outages to Tier 1 applications and capabilities.
- Conducted a post-mortem and RCA to ensure that lessons learned from the root cause of IT outages were understood, and that new processes or technical safeguards were put into place to prevent future outages.
- Raised awareness aligned across IT in a find-once, fix-everywhere approach to continuously improve IT operations in order to prevent IT disruptions.
- Worked closely with the ITSM process management team in order to track key metrics such as MTBF and MTTR, as well as SLA breaches of services provided by both internal and external IT service providers.
System Support Engineer
Sun Microsystems
Santa Clara
06.1999 - 04.2012
- Delivered solutions including system administration, configuration, and implementation of a myriad of solutions across Sun Microsystems' wide array of technical offerings, including Sun's big iron servers such as the E10k and F6800, Storage Area Network (SAN) design and implementation leveraging Brocade SAN fabric technology, and Hitachi Lightning Storage Arrays, as well as other Sun-developed technologies.
- Supported top accounts as a dedicated onsite support engineer at eBay, Apple, and other large accounts in the greater Bay Area of California.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA05-1999
Skills
- Product lifecycle management
- Cybersecurity strategy
- Risk management and compliance
- Vulnerability assessment
- Cyber threat monitoring
- Incident response coordination
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Stakeholder engagement
- Agile methodology
- Team leadership
- Strategic thinking
- Product performance metrics
- Cyber threat detection
- Security operations
- Mobile security
- Threat intelligence analysis
- Cybersecurity frameworks implementation
- Business continuity planning
- Security policy development
- Team motivation and influence
- Root cause analysis techniques
- Project management principles
- Service level management strategies
- Asset management practices
Languages
English
Professional
Spanish
Limited
Certification
GCIH - 2017
Timeline
Cybersecurity Product Line Manager
Chevron
07.2025 - Current
Product Manager - Cyber
Chevron
12.2020 - 06.2025
Team Lead - Cyber Threat Monitoring
Chevron
07.2017 - 12.2020
Team Lead, Major Incident Management
Chevron
07.2014 - 07.2017
IT Major Incident Management Coordiantor
Chevron
04.2012 - 07.2014
System Support Engineer
Sun Microsystems
06.1999 - 04.2012
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
Humboldt State University