Dr. Rachel Levitch has served as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Charles Edda and C Bouley since 2014. Her advisory components encompass information technology resources and investments; she provides guidance on internal cybersecurity and performance activities, project management analysis, human performance measures, and the coordination of capacity management while ensuring compliance with regulatory IT requirements (including the acquisition of coordination services).
She earned her doctorate in Technologies and Performance Improvement from the Toulouse Graduate School at the University of North Texas, within the College of Information. Her academic work focused on performance management, training in regulatory best practices for human performance, and research methodologies, which included analysis structures, research evaluation and assessment, as well as historical recall and long-term research. Her dissertation management and study concentrated on the Veterans Administration and hospital analysis, along with Performance Improvement. Workshops on dissertation performance and results covered systems, hospital management, system support, customer evaluation and feedback, systems tunneling, and computer-generated support and analysis.
In 2010 and 2011, she received leadership and strategic management awards from Texas Christian University. Her research career has been supported by scholarships from the College Negro Fund. As a recipient of the Post-Bachelorette Achievement Award from the Ronald E McNair Scholar Program, Dr. Levitch has concentrated on strategic communications, learning the theories and methods related to professional cyber-attacks and crimes that affect global victims. Her future endeavors will involve regulatory management and the legal prosecution of cyber threats, premeditations, and forensic evidence.
Dr. Levitch’s Master of Arts in Strategic Communication aids in recommending policies concerning security programs and improvements.