SUMMARY

• Proven project management abilities combined with outstanding analytical, organizational and communication skills.
• Able to seamlessly apply knowledge gleaned from multiple business process areas, inclusive of finance, operations, and information technology (IT) service organizations.
• Work produced exhibits high quality and is reflective of an ethical, systematic, and disciplined approach.
• Broad international business knowledge gained across multiple industries.
• Able to work both independently and manage multiple geographically dispersed teams.
• Typically manages projects in excess of one million dollars.
• Established the first IT internal audit function for a newly formed company
• Prepared daily, weekly, and monthly project reporting for varying levels of management, across functional areas, typically director and vice president level management
• Designed and implemented the company's first formal risk assessment for both finance and information technology
• Managed cross - competency teams consisting of employees from all over the world.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• PeopleSoft
• Hyperion
• Khalix
• Oracle Financials
• Infor SX.e
• Oracle APEX
• Eclipse
• SAP R/3
• Traffic
• Remedy
• Z/OS
• Linux
• AIX
• HP Unix
• Dynix (Sequent)
• Mac OS X
• Windows
• OS/400
• Sun Solaris
• Lotus Domino
• Oracle Beehive
• Sametime Connect
• Oracle Database
• DB2
• Essbase wireless LAN
• Cisco switches and firewalls
• Blue Coat
• Sophos
• Entrust and VPN/remote access systems.
• Programmed in languages including PL/SQL
• C
• C++
• COBOL and JCL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

Performed 8 IT Control Risk Assessments for Nationwide Financial Network Assessed and improved Nationwide's Compliant By Design self-assessment offerring

Deli Clerk

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

Chef assistant - prepped and served hot meals

Partner - Driver

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

Accomplishments Completed over 1000 trips Customer rating of 4.75 stars

IT Risk Manager

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

Completed Control Self Assessments for Database Secuirty Perform IT Risk Assessments. Managed Issue and Action Plans from identification to closure

Senior Security Architect

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

Reported directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Performed internal security assessments for compliant with HIPAA's administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. Prepared project reporting for varying levels of management, across functional areas and for the HIPAA steering committee

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

Reported directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Managed several security projects: Payment Card Industry, Web Content Filtering, E-discovery, and Security Endpoint Protection. Directly managed an internal staff of 4 security engineers and 1 manager for geographically dispersed projects; indirectly managed several resources across corporate functions. Managed of Service Level Agreements via the company's own proprietary ticketing system including web and email filtering; laptop encryption, and aspects of the company's mobile device management (MDM) experiments. Prepared daily, weekly, and monthly project reporting for varying levels of management, including IT management, directors, and vice presidents. Attended the CIO Magazine Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado in August 2011 Reason for leaving: recovering from two injuries that have fully healed in March 2011

Manager, Internal Audit - IT Projects

Confidential. Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

Completed and presented the company's enterprise wide IT risk assessment for 2009 in conjunction with Confidential ; presented the findings and recommendations to the CIO and IT executive leadership Developed, maintained, and executed the IT audit plan based upon the IT risk assessment, company management requests, regulatory requirements, and external audit coordination. Served on the SOX steering committee: managed and integrated the SOX IT subproject for year one of compliance in 2009, including formulating a communications plan, training materials for process and control owners, and identification of entity-level controls, application controls, and rationalizing IT general controls Established the relationship with the company's new external auditor, including sharing of workpapers and reports, and coordinating the annual audit plan. Owned and administered the audit department's electronic repositories: TeamMate workpapers, department shares and intranet portals; responsible for determining proper usage, application service management and vendor relations; requested, managed, and tested client and server upgrades. Built the internal audit department's business continuity plan using Living Disaster Recovery Planning System (LDRPS); including the identification of processes, contingency plans, vital records, applications, personnel, vendors and locations used for a department of 10 headcount. Designed and taught audit training courses to ensure that over 100 attendees could claim CPE credit Attended the CSO Magazine Conference in San Jose, California in March 2011

Manager of Financial Compliance - IT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Facilitated initial fraud risk assessments workshops with IT, distribution, and tax department management. Compiled and presented risk assessments to executive management, controllers group, and line management on key risks. Designed and implemented the company's first formal risk assessment. Pioneered the use of an aggressive strategy to implement AS 5, a control self-assessment program, and established standards for achieving a reliance strategy with the company's external auditor, further containing overall compliance costs. Pursued, obtained, and interpreted for management SAS 70 reports covering advertising sales, payroll tax, purchasing cards, broadcast, and cable media operations. Nominated for a Gold Star for “Building Camaraderie” in the Corporate Finance and Confidential Special Projects groups.

Senior Associate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered IRM services including risk assessments and systems auditing to assist clients in achieving compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Evaluated and documented system-based and manual controls around enterprise resource planning (ERP) application business processes.
• Reviewed information security controls to help provide effective, efficient, and secure access to information within these applications.
• Communicated information security and technology issues to client and internal staff, on both a formal and informal basis.
• Honored with Confidential Encore Award For Outstanding Achievement.

Compliance and Risk Management Advisor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed validation reviews of management self assessments to provide assurance to the Nordic Service Delivery Executive that proper corrective actions were defined for control weaknesses.
• Defined key performance indicators (KPI) for processes, such as security status checking, security patch management, user-id management, media management, and developing customer security plans.
• Implemented a pilot program to capture the required KPI's for high-risk contracts across multiple industries and countries in the region.
• Relocated temporarily as international assignee to Stockholm to work closely with Nordic process owners to resolve controls problems.

Business Controls Advisor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Coordinated and coached review staff in identifying deficiencies in IT service delivery processes; prepared reports and communicated findings to executive management; and supported management in the development of action plans to correct identified problems. Led 17 of 24 reviews performed over an 18-month period. Worked with major communications, distribution, finance, industrial, and public sector customers with total contract values between $100M and $2B. Developed program to perform early base-line reviews on outsourcing contracts and acquisitions to ensure that appropriate action plans were established to inhibit the development of control weaknesses. Designed and conducted education sessions on IBM and industry IT risk management strategies for all levels of employees and management. Traveled extensively in the region, commuting over 50% of time to work on-site in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, South Africa, and Hungary.

IT Audit Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Reviewed and analyzed technology processes using risk-based auditing techniques for IBM and IBM customers. Prepared reports and related audit work papers for executive and line management, and external audit organizations. Mentored audit and technical staff in understanding the audit process. Coordinated findings and performed audit testing with internal audit staff and IBM's external auditor. Identified emerging risk, designed audit programs and tests, and further refined IBM's internal audit processes. Monitored the development of IBM standards and processes. Provided feedback to owners to ensure that control weaknesses were identified and mitigated.Led 8 of the 29 audit and consulting engagements performed in over 16 countries across 6 continents covering the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.

IT Specialist

Confidential

Provided application development and support services for the client's merchandising systems. Worked on Windows NT, Essbase, AIX, Oracle, HPUX, DB2 and Mainframe environments.