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Chadds Ford, PA, US

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, ON, CA

Radnor, PA, US

• Upgraded SAP GRC Access Controls from version 5.3 to 10.0
• Manage a global team focused on aligning disparate Access Management processes into a comprehensive global Identity Access Management program.
• Led compliance effort to standardize IT general processes and controls from multiple business units into a streamlined global process and control catalog. Managed implementation efforts to redesign processes accordingly.

Radnor, PA, US

• Led implementation of SAP GRC Access Controls 5.3 to support access and compliance for a new implementation of SAP supporting over $2 billion of VWR business.
• Facilitated Segregation of Duties conflict identification, remediation, and mitigation interfacing with the Corporate Controller, Internal Audit, IT project teams, and Business units.
• Led the Security & Controls Work Team for 4 major SAP implementations in the North America business units. Developed and built SAP authorization roles to support all business units. Developed and established SAP IT.
• Facilitated global IS Risk Management processes including management’s monitoring of SOX and operational IS controls across all layers, remediation and closure of identified audit issues, global Risk Assessment.
• Ensured adherence and gap identification for various governing compliance entities (SOX, PCI, Safe Harbor, etc.)
• Managed the IT Change Management function governing all changes to global systems

Radnor, PA, US

• Developed and supervised a staff of two IT Auditors to perform SOX and Operational IT audits at three global locations for a life sciences distribution company with revenues of over $3.5 billion.
• Performed annual Risk Assessment to identify, prioritize, develop, and execute an operational audit plan in a highly complex IS organization.
• Worked closely with the Director of IT Audit to establish in-house IT internal audit function at a multi-billion dollar global corporation, developing audit framework and procedures and creating templates for planning.
• Worked closely with Manager and Managing Director of external audit firm to gain 80% reliance on the testing of IT Internal Audit, reducing total costs and hours devoted to external SOX audits.

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• Supervised and performed technical and SOX 404 audits of networks, operating systems and financially significant company applications at multiple clients, each with unique environments. These reviews included.
• Assisted senior team members in aggregating and evaluating financially significant internal control deficiencies relevant to the Sarbanes Oxley Act and communicating these findings to clients' senior management.
• Responsible for supervising, coaching, and developing team members including delegating and assigning tasks and responsibilities, providing real-time feedback, tracking engagement economics and budget to actual.

• Computed Incentive Compensation bonuses for Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives based on industry data.
• Performed extensive calculations using Excel, Visual Basic, and Synygy software to analyze large amounts of pharmaceutical sales data to produce compensation reports for clients.

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• Managed all daily operations of internal operations infrastructure supporting over 700 employees
• Systems administration using Windows Server 2000, Exchange Server, and AD.
• Worked closely as a team member on various projects performing upgrades, migrations, load balancing, software evaluation, and coordinating resources with DBAs and UNIX administrators.

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• Provided Level II desktop support for connectivity, hardware, and applications as an integral member of six-member team responsible supporting over 2000 workstations.
• Conducted extensive hardware and software installation, configuration, and troubleshooting including building systems from scratch.
• Worked independently as the sole provider of maintenance and support of over 50 production servers, internal servers, database servers, and backup processes.
• Provided troubleshooting of issues and outages, analyzed test results, and reported and documented daily issues involving critical systems.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Politics, And Economics

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