Jerry Combs

Jerry is a solutions-focused IT professional with more than 20 years of success designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale technology solutions for major global organizations. He has a proven track record leading project teams, performing risk and needs assessments and implementing systems capable of supporting multimillions of users – all while saving time, increasing security and reducing costs.

Thanks to his results-driven approach, Jerry has been entrusted by governments as well as some of the world’s largest companies to craft and implement identity and access management systems. As one example, his work for the world’s largest retailer includes leading an IAM project that supported more than 2 million employee identities, processed over 40,000 HR actions daily and required integration of 30 connected systems and data sources. The final implementation was completed in 9 months – 4 months ahead of schedule.

Highlights of Jerry’s government work include designing, upgrading and implementing the access management system used for the authentication and authorization of Mexican taxpayers. Jerry also designed and deployed the NCID-NG identity and access management system utilized by state of North Carolina, replacing a massive legacy system with no service interruption. The new system capabilities included protection of 120+ websites and management of more than 3 million identities.