Project Manager Resume Plano, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Skilled professional who have worked in various roles to help assist in preventing, identifying, analyzing, handling, tracking, reducing and controlling risks.
Worked in roles with increasing levels of responsibilities that enhanced my knowledge and skills where I am now seeking more opportunities to better utilize those skills to support the company in achieving the goals and objectives of “Crossing the Digital Chasm”.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential - Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, and release planning.
Coach the team with the creation of clear and concise epics/user stories.
Track and manage product backlog project timeline, efficiently communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
Monitor teams and product owners progress and manage conflicts / impediments to ensure deliverables are on-time and meet quality standards.
Direct teams from project initiation through the delivery of the final product.
Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including IT and business resources to ensure alignment with business and technical objectives.

Information Security Assurance Analyst/Project Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Ensured compliance with policies, standards, procedures and IT best practices.
Supported information security audits and assessment initiatives including tracking, planning, coordinating, documenting, driving remediation plans and tasks to closure directly.
Created metrics for reporting and maintained scorecards defined within information security to ensure it performing effectively and efficiently.
Managed exceptions and work directly with teams to document, identify compensating controls and remediation action plans accordingly.
Liaison within IT and applicable teams for audits and assessments: providing technical knowledge, recommendations and supporting knowledge across areas within information security, risk and IT.
Advised, coordinated, and contributed to the improvements of Vulnerability and Patch Management remediation efforts.

Senior Analyst, IT Security & Compliance/Project Coordinator

Confidential - Richardson, TX

Responsibilities:

Ensured compliance with policies, standards, procedures and IT best practices for IT Government Services.
Managed audit/compliance related activities - SOX, SOC, FTC, PCI DSS, PII, PHI, internal and external, Vulnerability Management, and periodic Access Reviews.
Provided metrics, prepare reports, guidance and interpretation as needed while also communicating, training, and educating IT Government Services.
Tracked timely closure of identified control gaps and risk mitigation plans and support action owners during issue remediation.
Collaborated with various teams, internal and external audit groups to reconcile discrepancies and assist with the management of vulnerabilities to ensure risks are efficiently mitigated.
Developed and lead weekly presentation status updates of all audit/compliance activities.

IT Audit/Compliance Consultant

Confidential - Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

Reviewed and updated process, policies and procedure documents.
Lead and provided IT testing support of IT key controls for several in-scope enterprise applications and processes.
Maintained audit test scripts, obtained evidence to support the control assertion, independently to assess compliance with the key controls documented conclusions, assembled and maintained audit work papers.
Performed analysis for any issues identified, developed and implemented remediation plan.
Collaborated and coordinated with various teams, internal and external auditors, including divisional SOX contacts in ensuring quarterly SOX compliance and reporting requirements.
Reviewed, approved and rejected all Mortgage Access requests for access to various environments.

Executive Recruiter

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

Managed, source, screen, interview, and recruited candidates for opportunities in Accounting, Finance, Business and Technology.
Conducted phone screens, in person and behavioral interviews with candidates to assess qualifications.
Facilitated the offer and acceptance process between hiring managers and candidates.
Performed due diligence on behalf of clients, including: performing background checks, reference checks, credit checks, income verification and professional license verification.
Provided guidance to clients on interview questions and ways to sell opportunities to candidates.