Prior to working at Deloitte, Michelle was the Director of Information Security at ChoicePoint where she developed and implemented policies to protect the enterprise's information assets and effectively manage corporate security threats.  She worked with ChoicePoint business units to manage customer relationships and ensure adequate controls were in place to mitigate risks for customer solutions and performed enterprise wide risk assessments across all corporate and subsidiary locations. Formerly, Michelle managed the Remediation and Relationship Management team at SunTrust Bank. Michelle’s experience at SunTrust included leading assessments of critical corporate applications and testing business units for compliance with policy elements and Gramm-Leach-Bliley regulations. Michelle created effective remediation management processes for the bank and developed key relationships between ETRM and the various business units at SunTrust. She has several years of experience managing Information Technology projects, developing program methodology, creating project tools and templates and preparing documentation as a deliverable to the customer.

Michelle has published several information security and risk management articles, has been involved in the development of CISSP training material and has provided instructional courses at Southern Polytechnic University. She was the founding Director of Communications for the Metro Atlanta chapter of the Information Systems Security Association and spent two years as the Managing Director of Information Security Quarterly Journal. Working with local school systems, Michelle founded and served as the Executive Sponsor of the Junior Information Systems Forensics Association. Michelle has also served as the International Director of Communications and Secretary for the ISFA and as well as the Director of Scholarships.