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Greer, Sc, Us

Greenville, South Carolina, Us

• Work in tandem with enterprise technology, risk management, cybersecurity and business leads to incorporate GRC practices and industry standards.• Cultivate working relationships with technology, compliance, enterprise risk, cybersecurity, audit and third-party stakeholders.• Work closely with risk management and security leadership, teammates and stakeholders to evaluate and recommend models aligning with organizational risk posture.• Design, develop, and implement IT governance frameworks that align IT strategy with business objectives (e.g., CIS CSC, NIST CSF, FFIEC).• Create policies, procedures, and guidelines to guide the IT function in achieving organizational goals.• Identify strengths and weaknesses in the program as they relate to privacy, security, business resiliency and compliance frameworks.• Document, formulate and enforce security improvements that balance risk with business operations, and do not diminish efficiencies or innovation.• Attend change and project management meetings to understand and proactively strengthen controls to avoid unnecessary risk across lines of business.• Manage and direct a team of subject matter experts for technology risk, compliance and effective controls.• Continuously monitor changes to regulatory requirements, the threat landscape and business impact.• Steer the program with emphasis around security, business resiliency and compliance frameworks.• Partner with internal and external auditors to validate controls for compliance.• Uphold policy and rigor in the vendor risk assessment process used by all business units.

Greenville, South Carolina, Us

• Established the initial Governance, Risk, and Compliance function within the Information Security department, laying the foundation for effective risk management and regulatory compliance.• Provide support to the CISO contributing to strategic planning, budgeting, and executive reporting, ensuring alignment between information security initiatives and business objectives.• Streamlined and automated the FFIEC CAT and CIS18 assessment and remediation tracking processes, resulting in improved efficiency and accuracy.• Foster effective collaboration with the IT audit department, managing information security audit issues raised by internal and external auditors, and ensuring timely resolution and compliance.• Successfully conduct quarterly PCI assessments and annual SWIFT assessments, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations, and mitigating potential risks.• Transformed the cybersecurity awareness program from a compliance-focused initiative into a culture of awareness, engaging employees company-wide and fostering a proactive approach to security.• Established a comprehensive application development security program, encompassing policy development, procedures, tooling, and staffing, ensuring the integration of security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.• Led the development and implementation of a comprehensive data protection program, encompassing data classification, policy development, procedural guidelines, and resource allocation.• Developed an IT risk acceptance process, leveraging automated inputs, risk analysis, and outputs supported by expected financial loss probabilities, enabling informed decision-making and effective risk mitigation.• Maintain and update information security policies to align with governance frameworks, identified risks, and emerging technologies, ensuring ongoing compliance and a proactive security posture.

Greenville, Sc, Us

Provided leadership for the Cloud Operations, Datacenter, Database Administrators, Network, DevOps, and Security and Compliance teams.

Greenville, Sc, Us

Developed and implemented policies and best practices relative to security and compliance, and Business Continuity for the company. The primary directive was to ensure the security and continued viability of the company on a daily basis by protecting its interests.

Oversaw the entire IT infrastructure for the agency to include End User Computing, System Server Engineering, Network Operations Center, IT Helpdesk, and Security Operations Center.

Responsible for the administration, management, configuration and support of the Microsoft Windows server operating systems and Active Directory architecture.

West Columbia, South Carolina, Us

Budgeted, planned and oversaw POS hardware/software installations at major grocery stores throughout the southeastern US. Responsible for the management and security of the corporate network to include desktops, servers, VMs, switches, routers, modems, firewalls, and networking equipment.

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Responsible for managing a network consisting of 6 CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machines, 5 servers, 75 workstations including offices in Columbia, Charlotte, Charleston and Chennai, India. Executed and presented project reports to executive management, including timelines and process improvements.

• Responsible for designing, developing, and testing Web and Windows based applications to run on the Microsoft .NET platform. Managed network and server environment (WAN & LAN, TCP/IP, file and printer sharing.) Responsible for all maintenance of internal PCs and servers.• Installed and maintained DVR based security systems.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics

Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mathematics