PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with over 28 years of experience in the industry with 25 years of experience in the Audit and Information Technology industry and over 10 years experience managing medium to large global IT projects.
• Worked as a Project Manager, Business Analyst, Financial and IT Auditor and Systems Analyst in Finance and Manufacturing industries.
• Extensive experience with ERP systems: SAP, QAD and PeopleSoft. Proficient in many software applications including audit software, and has obtained several specialized certifications.
• Clients include the following: Visteon, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, Comerica, Chrysler and TRW.
• Instructor in the PMP exam prep course offered by the Great Lakes Chapter of PMI.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Confidential

Project Controls Analyst

While engaged at TD Auto finance:

• Developed project control processes to facilitate PMO monitoring activities
• Maintained the reporting and monitoring of the Corporate Internal controls standardization initiative
• Maintained reporting for the project Integration processes with the parent company and subsidiaries
• Lead the activities for the yearly budget and profit plan roll out
• Responsible for monthly Project financial status reporting to corporate management
• Responsible for the monthly department financial variance reporting for all areas of the company
• Developed and maintain the central financial Data base of Technology services
• Planned the new reporting requirements for the coming year

Confidential

Project Manager

• Served as Project Manager for Health Care initiative impacting financial applications.
• Responsible for Project planning, Time and Cost budgets, multiple project delivery

Technical Environment: Plan view, MS Project

Confidential

Project Manager

While engaged at General Motors Corporation:

• Served as Project Manager monitoring and reporting on compliance with Sarbanes Oxley requirements and audit remediation plans.
• Worked closely with Deloitte on SOX compliance processes. Reviews included configuration, privileged accounts, and password compliance.
• Maintained and monitored vendor contract budgets and cost accruals
• Utilized compliance tools such as Qualys.

Technical Environment: UNIX, Windows, Linux, VMWare, Qualys

Confidential

Project Manager

While engaged at Ford Motor Company:

• Served as Project Manager responsible for the tools used for server performance monitoring. Worked closely with PWC on compliance issues.
• Led multiple simultaneous projects for infrastructure team including global deployment of Oracle Enterprise Manager for database monitoring. Reviewed ETL and Perl code for projects.
• Developed and maintained the project plans under SDM Classic/Unified and SDBM methodology for the team using MS Project.
• Gained experience using Clarity software for project management reporting.
• Provided PowerPoint and Excel presentations of statistical reports for management of department performance and EVA statistics on project performance.
• Served as Lead Project Coordinator on global service releases for the IT infrastructure team led the weekly WebEx project status meeting with Manager to Director level team members and stakeholders located the US, Europe and Asia.
• Prepared and presented project gate reviews and scorecard status reports.
• Developed and maintained the MS Project plans as well as Issues, Risks and Change logs.
• Interfaced with team members from North America, Europe Britain and Germany , Asia Pacific India , and South America
• Deployed common IT services globally, and aligned services with ITIL processes. The project included the global deployment of the Intranet and Extranet web services Open Systems Hosting, SAN and NAS Storage services, documenting firewall rules, and network communication systems.
• Developed project requirements and design documentation, including technical process flowcharts.
• Created and maintained SharePoint libraries that housed project documentation.
• Developed policy and procedures for updating and accessing the team's SharePoint site, which maintains data related to projects and service releases.
• Created SharePoint site for maintaining and reporting project deliverables. Performed duties as Access Security Administrator for the SharePoint site.
• Participated in IT Governance, Risk and Compliance GRC management practices for the department which included researching Industry best practices to align IT activities with corporate objectives.

Technical Environment: Clarity, Oracle Enterprise Manager, ETL, Perl. MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, SharePoint

Confidential

Project Manager

• Performed SAP and QAD Sarbanes-Oxley reviews for a major automotive supplier of its installations worldwide. Worked closely with KPMG on audit reviews. Audit reviews had emphasis on SoD and authentication reviews involving the Versa tool.
• Developed SAP and QAD audit programs for clients that included user access control, change control and business cycle module control steps. Worked closely with E Y on modules.
• Consulted with client on the development of Sarbanes-Oxley self-assessment templates for its IT departments.
• Directed the work of teams of auditors on various SAP reviews that primarily focused on security BASIS module , user access controls and segregation of duties evaluation.
• Led IT audits of QAD ERP systems in Brazil, Czech Republic, Malaysia, China and the US.
• Directed IT audits of SAP ERP systems in Germany, France, and the US.

Technical Environment: LAN, Client/Server, SAP, QAD, PeopleSoft

Confidential

Project Manager

While engaged at Visteon, 13 Months :

• Played an instrumental role in the Ford to Visteon cutover project to implement and support the PeopleSoft Accounts Receivable, General Ledger systems, and Oracle Essbase reporting systems at Visteon.
• Acted as liaison between the Visteon Corporate Accounting department and the Systems Support staff in implementing application enhancements.
• Administered the incident reporting system by assigning priority to issues that arose daily, using the IBM product, Manage Now/Change Now. This also included designating both onsite and offshore Analysts to resolve issues and coordinating the completion.
• Interfaced with IT and Accounting personnel from Ford to obtain the necessary knowledge transfer to proceed with the cutover project.
• Successfully networked with all the representatives of different contact firms that made up the alliance partnership designated to provide the systems service to Visteon.

Technical Environment: LAN, Client/Server, PeopleSoft, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, Windows 2000, MS Outlook

While engaged at Ford Motor Company, 22 Months :

• Designed and implemented a billing process and system to manage IT resource costs and internal billings.
• Managed the billing application process which resulted in improved controls and eliminated the lost revenues for the IT center that had been averaging 100K per month.
• Devised and utilized financial analysis and management reporting templates for the client.

Technical Environment: LAN, Client/Server, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, Windows 98, MS Outlook

• Managed a team of 17 direct report system professionals that supported the Ford Parts Division and Marketing and Sales group that included maintenance of Marketing and Sales operational and Financial systems that included the applications for Dealer Billing systems and Warranty Support systems.
• Requisitioned the client to get staff for these applications as necessary. Routinely met with user management and user management representatives to establish priorities and receive new systems initiatives.
• Assigned tasks to staff members and directed them in handling system problems.
• Monitored and reported on the team's activities and progress.
• Maintained metrics on the staff's work throughput and reported such to client management.
• Performed the salary and performance reviews for Compuware staff members.
• Technical Environment: LAN, Client/Server, Mainframe, MS Project, Project Workbench, Windows 98, MS Outlook
• While engaged at Wayne State University, 18 Months :
• Managed a team of 5 system professionals in a conversion project for the university to move the Alumni Management and Fund Raising system from mainframe to a client/server system. Set-up the project plan tasks.
• Assigned the tasks to the team members.
• Monitored and controlled the team's progress using the project plan.
• Reported progress and issues to client and Compuware management.
• Controlled the budget for the project and cycled staff resources on and off the project as necessary.
• Coordinated the efforts of university personnel assigned to the project and monitored their activities within the project plan.
• Interfaced with the software vendor representatives of the new system on specification and delivery matters.

Technical Environment: LAN, Client/Server, Oracle, UNIX, Project Workbench, Windows 98, MS Word, MS Outlook

While engaged at Chase Bank, 24 Months :

• Evaluated the impact of year 2000 risks for the bank's various business units and provided recommendations to management for corrective action.
• Performed process-mapping analysis to support risk evaluation for Electronic Banking Unit, Loan Operations, Branch Operations, and Payment Processing Unit.

Technical Environment: LAN, Mainframe, MS Word, MS Excel, Windows 95, COBOL, CC: Mail

Confidential

IT/Finance Auditor

• Audited operational, financial and EDP functions of the company with special emphasis on operational risk management.
• Developed database model to be used as a tool by the Audit department for risk assessment of the company's operations.

Technical Environment: LAN, Mainframe, Client/Server, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, CC: Mail

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IT Auditor

• Supervised EDP audit reviews of mainframe-based computer applications throughout the company, which included the Purchasing, Payables and Human Resource systems.
• Developed and documented an application review process for internal control that was written to parallel the stages of GM's four phase System Development Process. Audits included credit card process compliance i.e. PCI, PII .

Technical Environment: LAN, Mainframe, MS Project, MS Office, Lotus Notes