Patrick Powell Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Reporting directly to the CIO, As the Head of Governance, Compliance and Security, I was responsible for GreenFirst’s IT Governance, Compliance and Security, which successfully managed IT risks.
• Developed GreenFirst’s IT Security Program aligned to the NIST framework which successfully facilitated compliance to COSO 2013, C-TPAT, SOX, Bill 198, Bill C-43 among other laws and regulations.
• Developed GreenFirst enterprise security posture including endpoint protection, network protection and a managed response to incidents (EDR/MDR).
• Successfully aligned GreenFirst IT policies and standards to the NIST and ITIL framework while working with HR to modernize their employee focused policies.
• Implemented GreenFirst’s security awareness and testing program, this had the direct tangible benefit of lowering our threat footprint by fortifying our “Human-Firewall”.
• Transformed GreenFirst’s compliance program to align with the COBIT framework. This transformation successfully provided evidence of compliance with COSO 2013, CTPAT, SOX, Bill 198, Bill C-43.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Sr. Management consultant
• Delivered IT, personnel and organizational recommendations to municipalities in order to maximize their operational efficiencies. This allowed for services to be delivered in a timely and cost effective manner.
• Worked in collaboration with municipalities to develop their strategic IT direction in order to optimize their IT spending. This resulted in an efficient and coordinated spend of IT resources.
• Worked at times in a unionized environment which allowed me to exercise my ability to challenge the status quo by encouraging and championing the adoption of innovative methods, organization structures and technologies.

• Consulted with key system partners, to identify emerging information technology needs and solutions and make recommendations for the coordination and prioritization of information technology initiatives, Working with.
• provided leadership to various clients by foster a leadership culture by mentoring and coaching Sr. management staff on how to be more dynamic and proactive to new and existing challenges.
• Lead IT department including build and design, operations and support, project management and consulting for clients
• Delivered IT, personnel and organizational recommendations to clients in order to maximize their operational efficiencies. This allowed for services to be delivered in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Worked extensively providing and developing “in-house” IT and leadership direction for multiple startups
• Working with a start-up client in Florida I was able to take the business vision and translate it to a cost effective, highly reliable and highly adaptive and managed service offering to their clients.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Worked with CIBC audit to identify, quantify and enumerate regulatory risks. Once risks had been identified, I was responsible for describing the risks to all operational and business stakeholders. Once the identified.
• Developed access control practice in accordance with Sarbanes Oxley, the Privacy Act, The Patriot Act, and the EU Data Protection Act that allowed CIBC to obtain, monitor and measure compliance with such legislation.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led a team of IT Thought Leaders which formulated the technological vision of HP flagship Canadian Customer. The team was successfully able to develop solutions for challenges which were too big to be solved by any one.
• Led a high-profile governance effort on behalf of executive management to modernize all IT corporate standards and policies.o This was done to better manage audit and operational risks and ensure effective and.

Toronto, ON, Ontario, CA

Architected/designed and implemented CIS (Corporate Information Systems) which was a multi-year program to migrate multiple services from the mainframe into a distributed environment which facilitated the successful closure of the trading floor while raising availability and usability to the client.

Redmond, Washington, US

Consolidated all the diverse non Microsoft networks into a Microsoft OS centric environment