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St Louis, Missouri, United States

Greater St. Louis Area

Greater St. Louis Area

Bentonville Arkansas

- Headship in overall compliance efforts such as close monitoring of specific information security controls concerning the international ISO, SOX Act, PCI, HIPAA and PII- Efficient service as team lead for the Security Risk Management Team, in charge of managing workflow and priorities of two other workers.- Comprehensive review and identification of risks by examining new and existing business processes, understanding factors of influence, determining the relationship between risk and governance, and monitoring the remediation of known vulnerabilities- Commendation for significant reduction to security posture risks, as well as critical and high finding past due remediations to zero.- Introduction of a data dashboard for upper management to present weekly and monthly progress of risk remediation effort, enabling trend and projection analysis to identify problems and issues and prevent them from being critical- Leveraging of adeptness with security policies, standards, procedures, and best practices to effectively provide support with the implementation of security governance administration and maintenance- Active participation in helping clients throughout the delivery process, network diagrams, Change management plans, documentations and scope statements- Fulfillment of diverse tasks such as reviewing metrics, inefficiencies, and non-standard actions to determine outliers and resolve IT security risks and vulnerabilities- Management of all aspects of the implementation of security initiatives including resolution of critical issues; monitoring of project progress against plan; escalation of complex or difficult issues; facilitation of informational presentations; and development of performance reports

Bentonville, Arkansas

- Facilitation of training to three facilitators and staff on topics such as compliance and elevated security administration including SOX, PCI, HIPAA and PII; creation of logon accounts and user ID's; transfer of associates access from one job area to another; termination of accounts and associates; vendor and third party access setup; vendor life cycle management; UNIX access; and domain moves and Teradata access- Keen oversight in the development and implementation of a training and development program, which increased the number of trained security administrators by 700% annually, while reducing customer support issues by 27%- Efficient design and application of live webinar training for the United States and other international markets, including Africa, Canada, Central America, China, Germany, Great Britain, Mexico and Puerto Rico- Driving force in $85k training savings through on-demand video training to globally cover compliance and administrator training, thus eliminating classroom instruction; along with $1m annual savings by driving key business efficiency initiatives.- Commendation for the establishment of an automated testing, grading, and reporting system, Metrics that Matter, which enabled the team to review class test results from multiple levels as well as to adjust classroom training as necessary- Presiding over and training more than 3,000 global security administrators who achieved an average of 92% on their final exam- Management of the training schedule for 34 classes comprised of 1,500 security administrators to support the rollout of the company's new provisioning tool in TCRACF within two months.

Bentonville, Arkansas

- Full administration of the Realty Division, Store Planning, and Accounting, as well as construction manager in researching and developing tools to streamline market penetration including evaluation of new software; setup of onsite proof of concepts; and review of software used in various production areas- Effectual handling of AS400 global accounts including access control, auditing access, accounts modification and removal, and data entry for the Executive Real Estate Committee- Contributor to the implementation of the JD Edwards OneWorld Enterprise Solution setup role-based management- Introduction of a training program for the Realty Division to provide security administration training to more than 40 administrators

Greater San Diego Area

- Setup and installation of Computer systems; - Repair and diagnostics of software and Hardware- Warranty work on Dell, MAC, IBM, Compaq, HP,

Greater San Diego Area

- NACOMIS Data base Administrator and Data Analyst