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Richmond, Va, Us

Richmond, Va, Us

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Served as a leader and contributor on audit engagements focused on the National IT organization that provides centralized IT services nationally to the Federal Reserve System. Identified and drove activities to improve audit efficiency, coverage, and quality in our department and across the system audit community. • Championed new Continuous Risk Assessment framework and performed first assessments using the process.• Developed audit finding analysis process to identify and report thematic evolution across the Federal Reserve System.• Executed audits with focus areas in: Software License Compliance, SWIFT framework compliance, and Supplier Management. • Performed audit engagement planning, execution, and reporting activities with commendation for strong client relationship management and positive client experience. • Leveraged prior technical and managerial experience to provide insight and guidance to audit community members in the local department and across the system.• Lead system audit community IT Policy team, coordinating input into IT policy changes for the Federal Reserve System.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Recruited to stabilize actuarial technology operations and bring focus to compliance, reliability, and security. Serve as team leader for technology and data operations with primary responsibility to enable timely and accurate calculation and posting of approximately $26.1B in Long Term Care reserves each month. Provide architectural and strategic guidance over enhancements to actuarial data operations in support of Genworth’s multiyear rate action plan, which resulted in $975M of rate increase filings and $334M of implementations in 2019. • Created and manage a talented team of business analysts and process managers. Matrix manage members of other teams including architects, developers, testers, and release managers.• Serve as a coach and mentor to team members and others within the organization.• Became the actuarial team’s trusted ally in IT by leveraging a deep understanding of their business, processes, challenges, and data to champion IT solutions that provide maximum positive business impact. • Transformed the monthly actuarial IT process from one with near constant delay and rework to one requiring single digit IT interventions on an annual basis.• Built support for agile methodologies in the organization and completely changed the way our IT teams work by leveraging the Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework. • Participate in steering committee and leadership forums to understand and shape business and technology strategy within the actuarial space and across the organization.• Became the trusted, go-to representative for the actuarial team during control, process, and issue reviews with internal and external auditors.• Established architecture, development, and governance standards and continue to refine and improve them as the operational environment evolves.• Established metrics to measure IT performance against goals and objectives and use them to showcase our success and identify opportunities for further improvement.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Hired to lead workflow and platform redesign in response to rapid growth of the Third Party Compliance (3PC) function within the GE enterprise. Additionally, developed and managed a rapid response assessment and communication system to manage third party risk in the event of widespread zero-day security vulnerability events. • Oversaw RFP and vendor selection process and served as product owner and vendor supervisor during implementation and migration of department workflow process and data to the bWise GRC platform.• Performed security risk assessments on GE Corporate and GE Capital third party vendors to determine assessment requirements and scope based on engagement business risk. • Executed remote and on-site controls reviews with selected suppliers and made risk remediation and mitigation recommendations to the business. • Provided consultative services to assist GE businesses in managing identified supplier security vulnerabilities. Served as technical expert during the evaluation of supplier issue remediation plans and actions.• Earned management award for assistance with 3rd party security program creation at GE spinoff Synchrony Financial.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Served as application owner and primary support for critical treasury platforms underlying approximately $5.5bln of cashflow across the global enterprise. • Liaised between IT, internal business teams, and bank partners, to develop and execute operational strategy focused on reliability, flexibility, and risk mitigation.• Architect and application development lead on custom global cash forecasting platform and underlying data warehouse during a time of intense liquidity scrutiny for the organization on the back end of the 2008 financial crisis. • Other activities included contractor management, vendor management, and disaster preparedness planning.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Lead audit teams with a focus on Genworth’s US, Canadian, and Australian mortgage insurance businesses. • Provided feedback and coaching to team members throughout the audit process. • Performed engagement project management, relationship management, QA activities, and work paper review. • Prepared and presented audit results. • Coordinated finding remediation review and performed issue closure and reporting activities. • Assisted management in pre-audit analysis to develop long term audit plans and individual engagement scope based on business and environmental risk.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Served as an active audit team member, conducting audit fieldwork with a focus on IT systems and infrastructure and within established internal and industry control frameworks such as COBIT and COSO. • Supported management during audit planning by performing risk assessments and process documentation.• Supported risk mitigation efforts by working collaboratively with the business to design effective controls.• Assisted with the preparation of audit reports.• Received management commendation for professionalism with clients and quality written communication.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Developed software solutions to data quality, synchronization and transport problems using the Java and C# programming languages. Performed requirements analysis, solution architecture, project management, and client relationship management activities in support of the consulting business.