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Port Orchard, Wa, Us

Little Rock, Arkansas, Us

IT DIRECTOR OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT – SOX ANALYST | WESTROCK COFFEE | MAR 2023 TO CURRENT• Focused on SOX and Change Management programs.• Matured the SOX Compliance program. Liaise with internal/external audit, UAR (user access review) process, Change Management SOD, SOD analysis, manage RCM (risk control matrix), provided guidance and recommendations across all IT controls.• Developed policies specifically tailored to compliance of privileged system and application accounts, including separation-of-duties within and across the various business systems.• Utilized strong policy and process knowledge as well as knowledge of a variety of technologies to identify risk and compliance issues to drive mitigation, remediation and compliance activities within the business and IT organization.• Worked closely with the Information security engineers, business systems administrators and interacted with numerous departments and other business functions.• Managed remediation efforts of material weakness in IT Change Management, provisioning and deprovisioning and other deficient IT controls.• Managed the Change Management process. Matured internal CM process to align with SOX requirements and expectations.

Tacoma, Wa, Us

Tacoma, Wa, Us

IT Compliance, SOX, GRC, PCI, Audit.Managing IT compliance activities to ensure the proactive management, adherence, identification, and remediation of internal controls or standards that meet or exceed defined compliance, operational, and regulatory requirements. This includes both leading and supporting the technical and operational delivery aspects of the IT controls testing process for Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR or SOX), and non-SOX compliance programs.• Design and execute compliance tests of operating effectiveness for IT systems and internal controls; assist with required remediation related to SOX and non-SOX IT controls. • Support the continual compliance monitoring processes for IT delivery services currently in place to identify regulatory and internal variances including log reviews, organization and roles transitions and training, as well as assessment of appropriate metrics for IT delivery processes. • Continue review of “audit readiness” gap analysis via testing and recommend specific actions to fix gaps in applications, processes and/or process management. • Design enhancement for internal controls such as segregation of duties, production change management, software/change management, security, incident handling, and data integrity. • Manage and facilitate the control self-testing process through audit trail management using ServiceNow’s ticket management, GRC, and asset management solutions suit as well as other applications as necessary. • Supports the IT Compliance Manager in compiling, drafting, developing, and delivering input on all aspects relevant to compliance scan results, processes, and associated policy documentation.• Partner with peers and customers to make IT’s culture one that is “audit ready”• Deliver quarterly compliance and IT ethics educations.• Seamless interface relationships with both IT Operations and Delivery staff as well both internal and external audit.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Providing security, risk and compliance analysis as well as program management of security related projects with focus on PCI-DSS regulatory compliance . This includes security assessment. Assisting track GRC effort and multiple streams of work.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Cloud and Enterprise Security, Azure Core Security

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Technology PMOResponsible for diverse range of small to mid-size projects. Projects are technical in nature and have implications and impacts associated with the enterprise wide systems/system applications, network, and telecommunication/product devices.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a Program Manager, I planned and executed optimization and migration project for Microsoft data centers. Gathered migration and decommission requirements from internal customers. Drove cross team collaboration to ensure migration plans are timely, cost effective, and clearly communicated. Provided solutions to navigate through ambiguous situations, managed and mitigated risks and delivered results. Prepared reconciliation reports, documentation and metrics required for updating management, tracking progress, quantifying and mitigating risks; Created status reporting and communication cadence. This role required taking ownership of projects to drive results.

Houston, Texas, Us

As Network Security Compliance Lead coordinated with various business units and development groups to drive projects and manage complex IT security issues. As a representative of the SOX IT security team led by being diplomatic yet firm, fair, flexible and consistent in deploying industry standard information security best practices to ensure business continuity. Coordinated with SOX compliance officer to develop procedures to monitor and log all audited controls. Also included hardening of servers and file server shares for SOX compliance. Provided audit reporting for SOX audit and compliance. Quarterly database audit for internal audit.• Supported the user administration functions including adding, removing, changing and auditing data access privileges• Guided business units through the process of evaluating appropriate segregation of duties for their business areas• Used knowledge of information security standards and best practices to assist management in the creation of company policy and procedures• Provided extensive telephone support to IT staff and business units regarding compliance policy• Promoted activities to create information security awareness within the organization• Assisted in the implementation of new or enhanced software or procedures relating toinformation security and SOX• Evaluated security controls and identified potential risk• Maintained up to date procedure documentation in support of security administration tasks• Monitored compliance with information security policies and procedures, referringproblems to department managers• Monitored internal control systems to ensure that appropriate access levels are maintained• Analyzed, evaluated and resolved security-related problems and issues• Logged and reported security violations• Represented the Information Security Department in organizational projectsWorked with management, developers, employees and SOX compliance officer to accomplish integrated work objectives and audits

Houston, Texas, Us

This role included Active Directory maintenance for 5500 users. I also maintained NTFS directory structure. VPN certificate maintenance, Cisco Secure ACS remote access and servers support. Print server maintenance. Active Directory in DMZ and external accts maintenance. Microsoft Exchange user maintenance. Network Ops remote sites support, worked with service providers and internal customers to maintain circuits.

As Network Admin I managed daily maintenance of 15 Win NT servers and support of 3 remote sites. Also monitor and troubleshooting of Cisco and Ascend routers. WAN support of remote sites. Maintained ARCServe server backups. Provided 3rd tier support for internal support center