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Internal Audit - Corporate GovernanceCompliance Regulatory Intelligence Services►Project team member on a compliance project to migrate the legacy ORC regulatory library to a ThomsonReuters service that will automated regulatory content feeds and provide a compliance research platform.Compliance Governance & Control►Enhanced the process over the regulatory library to ensure the completeness of the database and infrastructure while exploring short-term and long-term improvement opportunitiesUpgraded the process for evaluating corporate inherent regulatory risk ratings and made it far more transparent►Expanded analytical capabilities to identify efficiency improvement opportunities ►Corporate Compliance representative and active contributor to the Enterprise-wide Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) initiative. Participated in all phases to date including requirements analysis, vendor selection and proof of concept phases and completed Archer administration training.

Internal Audit Strategy and Innovation►Developed and led the execution of a CAATTS [Computer Assisted Audit Tools and Techniques] methodology that leveraged several off-the-shelf tools, to examine millions of transactions or events. This often resulted in surprising observations. Used data visualization tools to highlight outliers and issues that would not ordinarily be detected using conventional approaches.►Designed, developed, implemented, and maintained a robust multi-user audit universe risk assessment application that was used to risk rank audit entities worldwide.►Led and managed Corporate Audits technology infrastructure team that was responsible for internal applications, a data repository, and technical support.►Introduced process audits that cut across organizational entities and integrated traditional operational and IT audit teams, leading to more efficient audit coverage. Internal Audit Professional Practices►Project manager for State Street’s first external quality assessment that evaluated conformance with the IIA Standards, as well as the efficiency and effectiveness of the internal audit function.►Led the execution of the Annual Group of 25 Survey for five years which benchmarked an array of metrics and best practices for many of the largest and most sophisticated internal audit functions in the world.►Represented State Street on internal audit peer group best practices roundtables.Corporate Governance - Audit Committee►Served as the secretary to the Audit Committee of State Street's Board of Directors for 15 years. Recorded the minutes for over 100 full agenda meetings and subsequent to Sarbanes-Oxley covered all earnings pre-release meetings, as well as Committee’s reviews of certain SEC filings.►Performed independent assessments of all proposed public accounting firm engagements for adherence to the Audit Committee’s pre-approval. Interacted with senior management in all business units on a global basis.

Project manager Productivity Technologies Selected to work full-time with McKinsey and Company consultants on the rollout of a series of change management and productivity initiativesGlobal responsibility for the development of innovative IT and operations audit techniques and approachesLed audit engagements that cover a wide range of audit entities in areas of accounting bank operations and information technology across a wide range of geographies.

Performed a wide range of audit and tax engagements that included both public and privately held companies.

Master Of Science In Computer Information Systems, Information Technology

Mba, Business Administration

Bs Ba With Distinction, Accounting