Rainier (Ram) Milanes

Focus profile

GRC, IT Risk & Security Compliance

Hands-on governance, risk, controls and assurance work spanning GRC, IT and technology risk, security compliance, risk and control assessment, audit readiness, remediation and stakeholder coordination.

Competencies

What this track emphasizes

  • Governance, Risk & Compliance
  • IT Risk
  • Technology Risk
  • Security Compliance
  • Risk & Control Assessment
  • Security Assurance
  • Audit Readiness
  • Remediation
  • Third-Party Risk Management

Experience

Selected roles

RAM Privacy & Security

October 2024 – Present

Principal Consultant

Independent Consulting Practice

  • Assess cybersecurity, privacy, and technology-risk issues for regulated and high-risk organizations and translate findings into governance, control, and remediation work.
  • Conduct risk assessments and translate findings into prioritized remediation actions, implementation roadmaps, and measurable controls.

National Privacy Commission

October 2024 – January 2026

Innovation and Transformation Consultant

Designation: Chief Information Technology Officer

  • Assessed cybersecurity, technology-risk, and information-security issues and advised on control implementation and critical-infrastructure protection.
  • Supported risk assessments and the development of controls addressing identified cybersecurity and information-security risks.

National Privacy Commission

March 2021 – September 2024

Information Technology Officer III

Designation: Chief, Compliance and Monitoring Division

  • Led compliance monitoring, breach-notification processing, registration, compliance support, and regulatory reporting operations.
  • Conducted and oversaw privacy, security, technology, and compliance assessments across high-volume operational workflows.

Bankmer Realty Corporation

January 2017 – July 2020

Director of Operations

Additional functions: Head, Legal and Compliance; Designated Data Protection Officer

  • Established the organization’s first Privacy Management Program, including privacy governance, policies, security procedures, data-handling standards, employee training, and accountability controls.
  • Conducted privacy and operational risk assessments and translated findings into corrective actions and improved data-governance practices.

Bankmer Realty Corporation

March 2015 – December 2016

Corporate Counsel

Additional functions: Facilities Manager; Head, Information Technology

  • Planned IT and information-security improvements and digitalized corporate records to protect confidential organizational information.
  • Coordinated technology vendors, contracts, regulatory requirements, and implementation activities involving confidential organizational information.

Featured evidence

PrivAI Guard

Control design, access boundaries, risk scoring, remediation, and audit evidence.

Featured project

PrivAI Guard

AI Governance, Privacy-Risk & Control Workflow Platform · 2026

A cloud-deployed full-stack Shadow AI governance MVP that converts potentially risky AI use into structured risk assessment, governance review, remediation, and audit evidence.

Role / contribution. Designed and developed

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase/PostgreSQL
  • Vercel
  • GitHub

Northwestern MSIS capstone — cloud-deployed non-production MVP. Synthetic demonstration data only. Human governance review — not automated legal or regulatory decisioning.

Read the PrivAI Guard case study

Credentials

Relevant credentials

Education

Master of Science in Information Systems, Security Specialization

Northwestern University · 2026

Coursework includes Information Security Management; Enterprise Security Strategy; Cybersecurity Attacks & Countermeasures; Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity; Python for Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Spec-Driven Software Development; Project Management.

Certification

Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)

IAPP

Certification

Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

ISC2

Training

Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Training

U.S. Department of Homeland Security, CISA

Licensure

Licensed to Practice Law in the Philippines

Supreme Court of the Philippines / Integrated Bar of the Philippines

Writing

Selected writing

White paper · 2026

Architectural Fragility and the Illusion of Cost-Savings: A Critical Analysis of the eGov PH Super App Outage and the Imperative for Enterprise-Grade BC/DR

A resilience-focused analysis of the eGov PH Super App outage examining cloud capacity, availability, interoperability, identity governance, data protection, sovereign continuity, and business continuity and disaster recovery for national-scale digital services.

Also available: Privacy, Compliance & Assurance

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