Sam Abraham Email & Phone Number

Clinton Township, Mi, Us

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Global IT Sarbanes-Oxley Controls Assurance Manager for the Mainframe Technology, leading a team of assessors for General Motors. Duties include working with our external auditors, harmonizing on testing approaches, performing quality work paper reviews of internal mainframe SOX assessors, resulting in the maximum reliance of our work papers. • Author, coach, and performer of the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance testing guidance for mainframe applications, operating systems, and tools.• Innovate and execute CARLa, REXX, CLIST, SORT, and PL/1 scripts to automate population creations and sample selections for controls testing.• Automate authoring of work papers using HTML and mainframe SMTP based on design understanding and system evidence.• Analyze change management requests for compliance impact control analysis and product disclosure statements to the program management office.• Advise on proper remedy of control deficiencies to achieve framework compliance.

Detroit, Mi

Global Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Lead of a team of assessors for General Motors providing service excellence and expertise by developing Best in Class tools to assure compliance. Also responsible for deploying, and executing an IT framework for generic applications across the mainframe platform and PeopleSoft technologies. Sought out as the IT SOX Technology Compliance Leader for Mainframe and PeopleSoft applications.• Author and performer of the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance testing guidance for mainframe and PeopleSoft applications.• Developed and deployed control walkthrough readiness procedures for mainframe based applications and PeopleSoft HCM.• Consultant and developer of best in class global IT access reporting tools and procedures for mainframe and PeopleSoft applications.• Analyze change management requests for compliance impact control analysis and product disclosure statements to the program management office.• Advise on proper remedy of control deficiencies to achieve framework compliance.

Detroit, Michigan

Service Delivery Consultant for the General Motors Information Security Clients providing service excellence expertise in assessing IT compliance of applications on mainframe and midrange platforms. Assessments entail ensuring compliance to the Sarbanes-Oxley IT regulatory policies through documenting findings for reporting to external auditing firms such as Deloitte and Touche. Developing best in class programs and procedures for mainframe ACF2 software, UNIX applications, and PeopleSoft applications to effectively meet compliance in areas of weaknesses or failures.• Develop, deploy, and oversee compliance of IT controls related to ACF2, DB2, CA7, dataset, resource transaction, UNIX, Oracle, and PeopleSoft applications.• Prepare formal IT assessment communications to report compliance and audit findings to the General Motors client for review by external auditing firms.• Streamlined review procedures for determining access permissions to sensitive and critical IT security controls.• Sought out as a subject matter expert in many IT areas using tools such as MS-Office to develop solutions for effectively performing reviews

Detroit, Mi

Incident manager and consultant for the re-compete of the General Motors master services agreement. Provided solutions to meet contract requirements for the 2003 master services agreement and 2006 enterprise service agreement. Areas of specialties include incident management, change management, compliance management, and problem management for the intrusion detection sensors, firewalls, and access administration.• Process developer and approver for security tasks performed by the global service desk.• Coached and mentor fellow team members for intrusion alerts.• Published and deliver metrics to the GM Chief Information Security Officer in weekly review meetings.

Southfield, Mi

Technical Leader for 23 ACF2 security personnel performing ACF2 logon ID and access rule administration. Sought out as a consultant for new or complex security architectures for General Motors and security problems. Responsible for providing ACF2 Security and Technical Support for the General Motors assembly plants. Communizing ACF2 processes and request procedures to reduce turn-around time. Developing audit programs and automating processes so that the 23 personnel are utilized efficiently and security requests are processed rapidly.• Programmed Best in Class Processes and ACF2 reporting mechanisms for all EDS accounts to utilize for GM and non-GM business, including user friendly ACF2 reports for data owner to review as required by the GM Information Security Policy.• Maintained JCL, source code, and sysin libraries on one mainframe and automating the replication of these libraries to approximately 52 other mainframes under my responsibility.• Managed, monitored, and audited ACF2 logon IDS and rules across 52 mainframes for multiple customer bases using JCL, COBOL, PL/I, Easytreive, and utilizing software from companies such as Compuware, IBM, CA, Microsoft, and EDS.• Designed, documented, implemented, and enforced documentation guidelines for Information Security processing procedures and audit compliance jobs for team reference.

Pontiac, Mi

Business Analyst. Provide customer support for financial accounting systems and the Plant Production Scheduling Inventory Control (PSIC) system.• Planned, presented, and implemented customer projects for GM Powertrain financial customers.• Coded JCL using File-Aid, IBM, and EDS utilities to resolve production scheduling conflicts for financial processing.• Researched and resolved security violations and customer lockouts.• Standardized and automated consistent scheduling procedures for cost, accounts receivable, and accounts payable for 13 plants.• Provided training and support to EDS team members and GM customers in mainframe and MS-Office applications.

Troy, Mi

Advanced Information Security Analyst. Perform security requests and authorization management for over 16,000 dataset high levels and resources for 28 mainframes using ACF2 security software and 2 mainframes using RACF security software.• Maintained JCL, source code, and sysin libraries on one mainframe and automating the replication of these libraries to the other 27 mainframes that I was responsible for.• Coded JCL, COBOL, PL/I, and utilizing File-Aid, IBM, and EDS utilities to manage, monitor, and audit ACF2 logonids and rules on 27 mainframes from one mainframe for multiple customer bases.• Researched and resolved security violations and customer lockouts.• Implemented DRA backups for production data and security information backup.• Automated, installed, and scheduled audit compliance jobs to report and identify weakness or security exposures.

Troy, Mi

Performed security request processing, and authorization updates for EDS security account personnel.• Audited and conducted ACF2 compliance reviews for automotive plants using MVS systems.• Developed and automated security audit compliance reports for internal departmental processing.• Coded in COBOL and PLI to generate thousands of ACFNRULES from authorized user requests for batch installation.• Processed add, change, and delete requests for logonids and access rules.• Recommend and executed UID string conversions and assisted with single image logon setup.• Coordinated the training and instructor of the NETID ACF2 CICS On-line System (NACOS) to the US central region.

Detroit, Mi

Submit batch JCL for generating hospital census, billing reports, and management materials system.• Performed system and data backups using IBM software utilities.• Created computer operations documentation for batch jobs.• Performed application system shutdowns and start-ups.

Warren, Mi

Submit batch JCL for college transcripts, budgets, payroll, and accounting.• Scheduled batch jobs for execution.• Instructed cooperative education students on the IBM 4300 mainframe series as an integral part of training.• Developed tape library system using REXX.• IML and update features on communications controllers

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Programming Specialty, Magna Cum Laude

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