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Roswell, GA, US

Tampa, Florida, US

• Oversee management and strategic planning for financial services IT environment including servers, workstations, customer and company data, cloud environments, applications, and networks to ensure that disparate.
• Leveraged Salesforce to create business process automation around financial payments. Module has sucessfully processed thousands of transactions valued in the billions of dollars in transactions, while improving.
• Utilized Azure Data Factory to automate API connectivity with banking services, Salesforce integration, and aggregation of data in Azure SQL managed instance
• Improved and maintained rating with multiple state financial regulatory agencies
• Successfully led company through pandemic-related IT issues transitioning from 50% employee remote capabilities to 100%, with no downtime, including rapid deployment of laptops, secure remote access, Microsoft Teams.
• Managed all IT aspects of multiple business acquisitions which increased revenues by over 50%, including data & Office365 instance migrations, employee onboarding, custom business application deployments, and creation.

Atlanta, GA, US

• As highest-ranking information security leader in a publicly held, 3,000-person, software development company, oversaw and managed the enterprise-wide Information Security and IT Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC).
• Established Global Security office consisting of 7 functional leaders and 10 business information security owners with responsibility for enterprise-wide information security & IT governance, risk, and compliance
• Created and chaired the Cyber Risk Committee which included leaders of all major business lines and addressed IT security risk and remediation, IT policies, and project prioritization
• Evaluated, negotiated, and implemented ServiceNow ITSM, Project, and GRC suites to standardize and manage IT service requests, security, incidents, problems, changes, projects, demands, ideas, monitoring, events.
• Established Sarbanes-Oxley compliance practices, including documentation of controls, evidence collection procedures, and implementation of change management control in Salesforce
• Implemented SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS cloud security policies and guidelines for IT operations and business production offerings utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure

• Managed all Information Security and IT Risk functions for one of the largest independent trust companies in the country, which also served as Technology Service Provider to over 40 financial institutions. Created.
• Ensured security of SaaS & ASP environments containing over 1.5 million financial accounts with private, personal information (NPPI, PHI, PII) and ensured compliance with federal (GLBA, HIPAA) and state breach.
• Improved and maintained FFIEC regulatory rating through remediation of outstanding regulatory findings and coordination with US Government agencies
• Established IT Steering Committee, reporting to the Board of Directors, with representation from the directors of all major business lines, as well as the CEO, CFO, and CRO
• Worked with executive management and lines of business to developed enterprise-wide risk assessment processes and management portals, incorporating reporting dashboards, key performance indicators, and custom workflows
• Implemented project management & requirement documentation processes which enabled progress tracking, status communication tools, management approvals, cost/benefit and risk analysis, and intra/inter-departmental.

New York, New York, US

Oversaw all firm technology assessments including Sarbanes-Oxley, Internal Audit, SAS 70, IT Control Reviews for Financial Audits, PCI Compliance, HIPAA, and various consulting projects. Communicated directly with client senior management and firm partners in order to diplomatically convey IT risks and recommendations. Designed and implemented firm-wide IT.

Washington, DC, US

Inspected the information security, system development, incident response, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and computer operations of major financial institutions including: −New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)−National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD)−Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) −Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Designed.

Mba, Information Technology

Ba, Economics