SUMMARY

• Information Technology Manager wif over 20 years of experience delivering large complex and Confidential IT solutions for global corporations at national and international scale.
• Extensive experience on IT governance, IT compliance, performing information security and privacy assessments based on industry regulations, (HIPAA, GDPR, NYDFS, FISMA) and formal IT frameworks such as NIST, ISO, COBIT.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Cyber Security Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented Information Security Risk Assessment tools based on relevant security regulations and standards (NIST 800 - 171, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, ISO 27002, and NYDFS). Performed cybersecurity risk and privacy assessments for Confidential clients. Assessed and determine level of compliance wif relevant regulations (NYDFS, HIPAA, GDPR, FISMA, FedRamp).
• Developed information security strategies, delivered information security plans, policies and procedures to implement technical, physical and organizational controls to strengthen the security posture of organizations.
• Performed security and privacy reviews and delivered security risk assessment reports including, plan of actions and short term measures. Performed GDPR assessments, determine compliance gap, provided recommendations and remediation plans.

Confidential

Sr. IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported the SSAE-16/SOC 2 audit and led the resolution of issues reported by the auditors. Led and managed the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning and testing. Responsible for defining and executing the plan of actions to ensure compliance wif regulations and contractual obligations.
• Supervise and managed the Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, and Release Management teams. Responsible for managing the change and release management processes controlling the deployments of information system changes to production.
• Managed the development effort and migration of legacy system to a cloud based technology (Microsoft Azure). Managed the project based on Agile methodology using Microsoft Team Foundation (TFS) tool.

Confidential

Momentum Solutions - Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed data standardization efforts, including elimination of manual processes while ensuring the integrity and accuracy of rating information flows.
• Develop and managed the infrastructure plan to configure, implement and roll out of new platform of servers and retirement of old infrastructure.
• Develop and manage the plan to change and integrate the Capital Market applications wif the new Ratings platform. Performed sprint planning, facilitated resolution of impediments, reviewed team velocity and progress against milestones. Prepared dashboard to report status, risk, issues at a program level. Monitored the compliance wif regulatory requirements. (Methodology Agile/ VersionOne tool)

Confidential, NY

Compliance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting IT internal and external auditors (OCC) efforts. Managed and prioritized schedules of IT efforts across ICG sector (Capital Markets, Fixed Income, Treasure and Trade, EMEA,ASPAC)- to remediate information vulnerability issues and implementing security controls. Reported by IT internal and external auditors, and Citi technical standards.
• me led members of different departments (Information Security, IT engineering, Infrastructure and Development) during the resolution of issues, while ensuring progress and successful completion of remediation projects.
• Analyzed technical raw information, summarized, aggregated and prepared an executive summary report (dashboard) for C-Level management to inform status of IT risk utilizing KPIs and KRIs.
• Managed the portfolio of system and infrastructure changes required to maintain compliance. Provided executive report of progress and status to executive management.
• Managed technology refresh projects to onboard new technologies and upgrades resulting on significant architectural efficiencies and cost savings.

Confidential, NJ

Senior Integration Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed software development and system integration projects. Responsible for scope, schedule, cost, resources (internal/external) and deliverables. Managed budgets of 1.5 M and teams of 15+ resources.
• Using Agile methodology, me managed the development and roll out of java-based application to process customer orders, billing and payments. (J2EE architecture, Websphere, AIX).
• Managed technical efforts to integrate 40 applications (legacy, third party solutions, data warehouse) wif custom developed applications. Managed external IT partners ensuring delivery of milestones on schedule. Analyzed dependencies, developed action plans to prevent impact to project schedules.

Confidential, NJ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed third party vendor development efforts, controlled on time, on budget delivery of milestones. Followed business requirements and managed the production roll out. Led resolution of issues wifout impacting estimated ROI (PM Tool; Clarity)
• Successfully delivered new Revenue Management intranet java-based system; reducing lead time to approve rate changes from days to less than a hour. Budget 500K, Resources 4.

Confidential, Lyndhurst, NJ

Project Office - Infrastructure Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed infrastructure and system architecture teams (DB, Network, Unix, client server, storage, capacity planning) involved on building the infrastructure to host 24X7 mission critical applications. (PM Tool Clarity).
• Developed and managed plans to perform software migrations, upgrades and production cut over wifout disrupting business operations. Reported financial status to senior management (budget $7M).
• Delivered multi-tier, redundant, scalable infrastructure of clustered environments to support 24X7 Laboratory Data Process system (J2EE/Weblogic/Oracle). Ensured compliance (SOX, HIPAA, GxP, IT security). Managed the incremental addition of 700 Labwork offices to the system.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed work efforts to develop internet based solutions including analysis, artistic design, development, testing (system, stress, usability) and go-live. Led the integration of web sites wif external products. Maintained client relationship, reported project status, budget, schedule to senior management and client.
• Delivered Employee Recognition Rewards web site for Maritz (J2EE architecture, Websphere, MSSQL, AIX). Coordinated scope changes, negotiated financial closure of project (budget 7 M).