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Apex, North Carolina, United States

Southeastern Us

These engagements involved completing tasks associated with IT SOX Compliance, risk analysis, vendor evaluations, process development and documentation, and SOD remediations.

Allentown, Pennsylvania

- Essentially rewrote the entire list of IT SOX controls to be more clear and understandable to members of the IT department. Made suggestions regarding the clarifications of all risk wordings.- Developed individual flowcharts, narratives and procedures for each of the controls.- Provided various templates and approaches for walk-throughs and other key documents.- Developed control policies, processes and templates for all IT SOX documentation.- Worked with three separate public auditing firms concurrently during the course of the 2016 audit as well as the PPL internal audit department.- Worked closely with all system matter experts to provide requested evidence to external audit teams.- Provided continuous clarification and detail training to process and control owners.

Stamford, Ct

- Responsible for all aspects of insuring that the company was IT SOX compliant. Facilities involved included the headquarters in Stamford, CT; Oklahoma City, OK; Botlek, Netherlands; as well as locations in South Africa and Australia.

Stamford, Ct

- Create and review all technical documentation created as a result of required FDA documentation for all infrastructure changes.

Stamford, Ct

- Functioned as an interim SAP Project Manager during a major SAP application implementation

Bedford, England

- Successfully completed all aspects of the JSOX project, including the training and development of my successor.- Responsible for the management and completion of all work associated with documenting and testing IT General Controls relating to the Japanese version of the U.S. Sarbanes/Oxley law. ERP application was SAP.- Also provided general consulting assistance to the FujiFilm IT Director and staff relating to any and all aspects of IT.

Valhalla, Ny

- Responsible for annual JSOX review and testing for all North American FujiFilm compliant entitiies.- Functioning as a Project Manager for a major SAP implementation in an FDA regulated environment.- Providing general consulting assistance as requested to the VP and Directors of IT Shared Services.

Stamford, Ct

- Successfully completed all aspects of the JSOX project, including the training and development of my successor.- Responsible for the management and completion of all work associated with documenting and testing IT General Controls relating to the Japanese version of the U.S. Sarbanes/Oxley law.- Also provided general consulting assistance to the FujiFilm IT Director and staff relating to any and all aspects of IT.

Tilburg Area, Netherlands

- Successfully completed all aspects of the JSOX project, including the training and development of my successor.- Responsible for the management and completion of all work associated with documenting and testing IT General Controls relating to the Japanese version of the U.S. Sarbanes/Oxley law. ERP application was SAP.- Participating on a task force to design and implement an Information Management (IM) organization for the European business. Included are: Business Alignment, Investment Management, Project Portfolio Management, Service Portfolio Management, Application Portfolio Management and Chargeback.- Also provided general consulting assistance to the FUJIFILM European CIO and staff relating to any and all aspects of IT.

Greenwood, Sc

- Responsible for the management and completion of all work associated with documenting and testing IT General Controls relating to the Japanese version of the U.S. Sarbanes/Oxley law. ERP application was SAP.- Secondarily, providing general consulting assistance to the Director of IT and staff relating to any and all aspects of IT.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

- Assisted in the project management of the company’s efforts to comply with the French version of the U.S. Sarbanes/Oxley law.- Identifying key financial controls, developing process documentation and conducting tests to ensure that the financial controls are in place and functioning correctly.- Primarily focused in the area of IT General Controls with special attention to Program Change Control, Disaster Recovery and Security.- Helped develop various templates used to document business processes. Some of these templates are still in use throughout Michelin Worldwide. Templates and processes generally approved by multiple outside auditing firms.- Helped develop process for business owner self assessments and control testing management.- Participate in program to assist Michelin outside auditors in their annual financial audit, including verifying physical inventories at various distribution centers.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

- Managed staff of 8 serving the Aircraft Division utilizing an IBM AS/400 system.- Responsible for long-term strategy development for Information Technology.- Hired, trained, supervised, delegated duties, motivated, evaluated and terminated employees.- Developed and managed budget.- Implemented a means to capture, track and prioritize all business requests.- Each employee was given a personal plan with tasks and targets to accomplish.- Under my leadership, the team was transformed from a group of “isolated techies” to true business partners.- Successfully reduced the Information Technology budget 5% each year while completing more projects/system enhancements than any prior year.- Developed and implemented a fair means to “charge back” the cost of information technology to the appropriate business departments.- Provided regular communications to upper-level management regarding the ongoing status of projects.- Worked with the central IT Department.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

- Held a newly created position functioning on behalf of the client to insure that problems, delays, and other issues with IT, were quickly and satisfactorily resolved.- Heavily involved in the creation of a steering committee, comprised of business and IT Management, to review and prioritize business needs of IT. This process resulted in a much closer relationship between IT and the business. It created business awareness of the actual cost of IT and forced them to better prioritize their requests. The committee not only looked at each business unit’s needs, but also what was best for the entire company.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

- Hired as the Manager of North American Warehousing and Transportation systems. This position evolved to include 28 employees, including 2 supervisors, with responsibility for all elements of the North American distribution system, from order entry through accounts payable and sales reporting.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area