Christopher Cerniglia Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Zurich, CH

• Establish and oversee the delivery of the firm’s information security audit plan to provide assurance to the Board of Directors over the effectiveness of the firm’s information and cyber security controls, associated.
• Defined the firm’s approach to audit cyber security, including the definition of risk considerations necessary to ensure a consistent and adequate level of coverage across both IT and business reviews.
• Manage a global team of information security audit professionals to deliver the information security audit plan while maintaining overall accountability for risk coverage through these assessments. Reviews include.
• Provide continuous risk monitoring through the use of data analytics to measure and trend key cyber risk indicators across the organization.
• Provide information security risk guidance to the organization's technology department in support of risk remediation efforts and requests for closure of operational risks items recorded within the firm’s risk portfolio.
• Support the department as the risk subject matter expert for data protection by providing guidance during audit planning and issue development and by constructively challenging during risk discussions.

Zurich, CH

• Manage the team of EMEA IT Audit staff in support of the global technology audit team's mandate to provide technology risk coverage for the firm's audit plan, covering both distributed (e.g. Windows server and desktop.
• Assess the technology risks impacting UBS' presence in the EMEA region and support the country Audit Head's efforts to assure the effectiveness of appropriate controls that satisfy regulatory requirements (e.g. FCA.
• Establish and maintain partnerships with key technology management by discussing risk trends that may have an impact on the audit plan, and raise attention to any thematic concerns that impact their respective areas –.

Zurich, CH

• Plan, lead, and execute technical reviews of UBS’ technology estate through the evaluation of the design and operational effectiveness of IT controls (e.g. change, problem & incident management, security architecture.
• Present audit findings to senior business management and work with them to identify and agree sustainable risk remediation actions. Author audit reports for distribution to executive management, including UBS’ Board of.
• Provide issue assurance on the operational effectiveness of controls following business management's requests for closure of actions and issues identified both through audits and self-assessments.

Zurich, CH

• Managed a global team of forty-five technical professionals providing follow-the-sun operational support across multiple web, middleware, and data management technologies used by a portfolio of nearly one-thousand.
• Accountable for the stability of the Investment Bank's internal and external web hosting and enterprise information management infrastructures.
• Provided technical guidance and direction for the team’s global infrastructure strategy, covering an estate of over four-hundred Wintel, Linux, and Solaris servers.
• Managed relationships with software vendors, outsourcing agencies, and 3rd party service providers who provided services such as staff augmentation, technical infrastructure, managed hosting capabilities.
• Partnered with IT development managers to prioritize and resource their application requirements which required the software infrastructure components offered through the team's service catalogue.

Zurich, CH

• Service owner for UBS’ instant messaging systems responsible for managing a global team of support analysts to maintain the availability of the messaging infrastructure.
• Partnered with the firm's legal and compliance function to understand and implement data retention requirements for the suite of instant messaging products.
• Designed and implemented the infrastructure resiliency architecture using global and local load balancing tools (3DNS / BigIP) to reduce failover complexity and recovery time following service disruptions.
• Managed software patching updates to maintain the stability and security of the environment.
• Developed automated tools and scripts to simplify maintenance and reporting tasks, including the distribution of daily chat records to UBS clients of their interactions with UBS trading staff.

Zurich, CH

• Provided support for the bank’s client facing e-commerce infrastructure, consisting of over one-hundred servers hosting real-time trading systems, research applications, and other transactional systems.
• Designed and implemented application-specific disaster recovery solutions to minimize downtime during both planned and unplanned outages.

Overland Park, Kansas, US

• Designed and developed network configuration management tools to maintain currency of technology asset information across multiple systems (e.g. network hardware, monitoring software, Oracle Financials).
• Deployed infrastructure components following the implementation of new data centers. Responsibilities included: OS installation, network configuration, and packaged software installation and configuration.
• Implemented a bandwidth utilization monitor to allow clients to have real-time access to their consumption.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Computer Systems Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Salutatorian