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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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.