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Scottsdale, Az, Us

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Data, Tech & Cyber Senior Risk Officer / Manager• Manage oversight of all operational risk practices, analyze metrics and reporting focusing on tech, cyber and data governance and digital risk framework.• Manage 1LOD risk objectives for all technology and cyber risk assessments and remediation treatment plans with governmental agencies and internal audit.• Working with partners on Cybersecurity incidents, all EIS, Network and Information Security policies, standards, protocols and challenges, including but not limited to assessment, remediation and workarounds.• Leads, tracks and reviews all areas involving change, risk and vulnerability remediation including escalations• Provides challenge and responsibility to develop, evaluate and implement risk management best practices and establishes consistent processes that comply with regulatory requirements and business needs directing strategic modeling involved in the organizations operating risk management.• Provides independent risk oversight of the IT and Information Security functions.• Interfaces with all levels within the bank, external regulators and auditors to provide clarity and insight on risk reduction.• Voting member of first line of defense councils, committees, methodology/standards discussions, and change management that involve key risk decisions.• Provides guidance in the development of technical and process-based controls • Evaluates controls to ensure risks are properly mitigated and are operating effectively.• Provides support and guidance in the development and implementation of risk metrics, including key risk indicators, key performance indicators and operational key risks.• Evaluates alignment with the Operational Risk Management Framework.• Reviews and validates technical processes to ensure they are adequately designed.• Performs business analysis along with targeted reviews to ensure risks are appropriately identified and mitigated throughout the enterprise.

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Led Kanban, stakeholder and weekly project team meetingsProvided PM services in support of all Infrastructure / Security projects with most having a 90-120 day close outManaged financials / analysis through all phases from initiation to close out including all documentation, sign off, approvals including but not limited to identifying all risks factors, milestones and escalations when necessaryWorked with upper management and PM’s on resourcing allocation

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

• Led the C2B (Click to Buy) Commercial Pilot Initiative• Participated in and ran weekly / daily meetings / conference calls with development teams, vendor, delta QA and project team to plan for upcoming changes and status• Assisted team with best practices, site content, developed schedules, created professional documentation (BRS, Requirements, Test Case reviews), project schedules and managing client and internal teams• Kept project team and stakeholders abreast of escalations as well as worked in unison with 3rd party vendors in completing wireframes, HTML and CSS coding• Logged and worked all defects with the project team

Valhalla, Ny, Us

Wells Fargo Bank, Mesa, AZ / Minneapolis, MNProject Manager, Wells Fargo Insurance3/2012 - Current• Provided Project Management services in support of regulatory and compliance initiatives, research, documentation and resolution activities.• Worked with PMO Manager, stakeholders and team leads to establish and document comprehensive, repeatable project deliverables including sound change and configuration management principles.• Managed assigned projects through all phases Initiation (project objectives, project charter, high level estimates); Planning (scope, WBS, resources, schedule, budget, project management plan); Execution (manage & track progress, quality assurance, communication); Control (integrated change control, performance measurement & reporting, quality control, risk management); and Closeout (formal acceptance, lessons learned, documentation).• Effectively identified, addressed and communicated all project risks, issues and constraints to upper management.• Interfaced with upper management, stakeholders and project team members during core team meetings, stakeholder reviews and peer counsel• Lead teams of 70+ for Project Vision – Documentation of all Standard Operating Procedures Manuals for 12 identified Insurance teams• Leading teams that consist of Directors and VP’s for the Healthcare Initiative for 2014 to prepare for field team training, compensation and revenue roll outs, identifying risks, both market, regulatory and reputational. • Lead a team of high level stakeholders and team leads for Carrier Rationalization – minimizing the amount of carriers that WFI currently carriers along with 3 sub initiatives: 1) Carrier Relationship management, 2) Intermediary Carrier Placement Strategy and 3) Annual Carrier Review• Lead Carrier Program Initiative which was compiled of 4 major sub projects

-Managed diverse, very complex IT projects and multiple IT projects, including project planning, execution, timing, functionality, quality and cost. ⁃Utilized my expertise and leadership skills to direct staff and to resolve issues to ensure project goals and requirements were met ⁃Communicated with business partners (including senior leadership team members) to provide timely and accurate information and status updates, and to work through project issues and escalations. ⁃Detailed Project Planning including developing and maintaining project schedule, key milestones according to project governance standards and best practices, while utilizing the appropriate tools (MS Project, Dashboards) -Project Estimates including gaining a full understanding of the project scope, technologies required, and business goals to ensure all departments and functionality worked in sync. ⁃Promoted relationship management and communication with key internal business resources, in particular partnering with Business Project Sponsor (generally VP level), Vendors (per project needs), senior business management VP level, director level) on critical project activities, issues management, and resource acquisition. -Managed Project Communication, Project Scope Control, Issue and Risk Management including identifying and resolving project risks and issues that directly impact each project; Project tracking, test planning quality assurance and delivery -Coaching, mentoring, motivation and supervising project team members to take positive action and meet deliverables and assisted in developing and managing high performing teams -Ensure designs are implemented as defined, with reverse modeling to effective implementation of recommended solutions -Active management of team activities and milestone for preparing release of blocks of activity into production and deployment to our clients