Brian Ziegler Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Project and Program Manager, Problem Solver, Trusted Advisor, Crisis Manager

Chicago

Senior Manager, ConsultingOversaw crisis situations requiring commitment and dedication to resolve C-level mission-critical issues. Turned around troubled business and IT projects and worked to resolve IT delivery issues, regulatory control issues (lines of defense/ownership/resolution of significant findings around SOX, FFIEC, CMMS, PCI, HIPAA, among many others and legal situations). Assisted with M&A transactions on the buy- and sell-side during the operation of transactions around logical separations, acquisitions, carve-outs, and spins. Helped with various ERP implementations.

Chicago, Il`

Greater Chicago Area

Formerly known as et aliaResponsible for approximately $2 million in annualized production support billings for client on HR (PA and PY), MM, SD, PP, ETM, PS, ABAP, BASIS, and Security.• Managed the production support work of 12 and 14 full-time functional consultants and a development lead, as well as part-time work of seven consultants staffed on multiple consulting engagements.• Managed system integration testing for production planning project, finishing at 50 percent ahead of allotted time necessary to complete work involved.• Eliminated disputed billings by changing and enforcing approval procedures for production support tickets.• Empowered functional consultants by having them lead meetings and set/manage client expectations, improving morale and changing management approach to production support.• Dramatically simplified the billing process by rewriting a number of clauses and getting client agreement in the 2012 statement of work.• Developed processes and monitoring to improve accuracy of work estimates and reduce the amount of requests above estimates. Eliminated work performed without estimates.

* Built project plan and assembled IT/business approach for Fortune 50 SOX remediation and mitigation effort. * Rolled out proprietary "service catalog" model for spinoff of Fortune 150 conglomerate.* Performed four week assessment of security model and supervised transition from business to IT.* Advised Fortune 500 insurance company and managed transition of IT security responsibilities and developed workplan. * Provided implementation plan on organizational management and contextual authorizations.* Recommended to client list of critical transactions and segregation of duties.* Implemented list of best practices, and developed "to-be" flow chart analysis.

Reported to the Financial Controls department in a San Antonio Oil and Gas Refining Corporation under the controller and advised on business/Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) controls through use of SAP security and made recommendations to SoX rule sets, developed Role Based Access, and initiated changes to business processes to eliminate risks and to take advantage of the true functions of the business units of Accounting. Developed and mentored personnel in a new department governing access in the controllership.

Responsible for order to cash and application security in European operations

Mba

Bba