Dan Parks

Dan Parks is a results-driven technology executive with over 20 years of experience in leadership and execution. He has a strong background in large-scale infrastructure engineering projects, information security program development, and IT department performance optimization. Dan excels in developing strategic IT visions, creating actionable plans, and leading teams in deploying technology solutions for highly regulated companies.

His expertise includes leadership, IT strategy, IT/business alignment, information security program development, enterprise systems engineering, business intelligence, data warehousing, Big Data utilization (Hadoop/Spark/Machine Learning), Agile/Scrum application development, cloud technologies (AWS/Azure), risk assessment and management, budgeting/forecasting/capacity planning, and hiring/developing top talent. Dan is CISSP certified since 2009 and holds a Master's Degree in Computer Information Systems and Information Security.

Dan Parks studied Liberal Arts and Business at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Bachelor of Science in Sociology at Excelsior College, and a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems at the University of Denver.

He has held various leadership positions at prestigious organizations including Vice President of IT at The Venetian | The Palazzo | Las Vegas Sands Corp., Vice President of IT and CISO at Vendavo, Vice President and Interim CIO at Squaretwo Financial, and Chief Information Officer at The Venetian | The Palazzo | Las Vegas Sands Corp. Dan also served in IT leadership roles at Lenderlive, Zapotec Software, and the US Army.