Sheila Holmes, Mba, Cisa, Cism Email & Phone Number

Silver Spring, Md, Us

Washington, D.C., Us

Responsible for day-to-day management, supervision, technical, and administrative direction of a multi-disciplined staff conducting IT and Cybersecurity performance audits and reviews in compliance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS) in a dynamic office environment. These audits address the effectiveness and efficiency of Amtrak’s programs and operations, and report recommendations for improvements to those programs and operations.

Washington, D.C., Us

• Completed assessments of the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the Amtrak programs and operations; adequacy of internal controls, compliance with laws, regulations, policies, contracts and/or grants, including Cybersecurity controls. • Received the Amtrak Office of Inspector General Annual Team Award (2023), the Amtrak Office of Inspector General Annual Meritorious Service Award (2021), and the CIGIE Information Technology Award for Excellence (2018)• Conducted performance and financial management audits in compliance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS).• Provided guidance and technical expertise to junior members of the team.

Substantial volunteer work in local PTA as advocate for academic achievement and increased parental involvement in public schools; conducted stakeholder meetings to resolve policy issues and address parent concerns. Received numerous Service Awards from State of Maryland and Montgomery County, MD. Represented Montgomery County at the 2014 NAGB (National Assessment Governing Board) Education Summit for Parent Leaders.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Provided efficient and effective services to system developers and customers of the modeling applications in the areas of Financial Reporting Operations, System Testing and Quality Assurance.• Led efforts to automate mortgage application testing (including Trend Analysis and Application Reconciliation) resulting in efficiencies over 100X. • Implemented new procedures for system testing, including review of developer testing and test case stakeholder reviews in support of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) updates.• Established Consulting services including User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of Financial Reporting end-user-computing (EUC) applications to minimize programming bugs.• Managed implementation of Linux/UNIX operations automation project resulting in monthly savings of 90 man-hours executing systems that support the generation of financials for the $3 trillion book of business. Hired contractors with specialized skillsets to complete project within accelerated timeframes.• Directed system testing of applications consisting of Oracle 11g, PL/SQL, SAS, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, and Shell Script.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Ensured the financial modeling division was in compliance with corporate governance standards; managed annual $5 million budget.• Instituted the first delegation of authority establishing corporate-wide process guidelines, documentation/reporting standards and responsibilities associated with transaction pricing and credit analytics.• Coordinated Financial Reporting operations and controls for the EUC applications, initially during the 2004 -2006 Financial Restatement implementing FAS133 Fair Value and Fin46 Consolidation Accounting Standards.• Wrote regulator policies, procedures and compliance plans for model validation, SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley), records management, and SDLC, as the Point of Contact to oversight groups (Audit, Risk Management, Safety and Soundness Regulator FHFA).• Directed services for developers and customers of the Single-Family (SF) Credit Risk Applications, including configuration management and infrastructure, system testing and quality assurance.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Transitioned the credit pricing application to the corporate shared analytics platform to decrease processing time for evaluating and measuring all credit risk for the structured finance business with acquisitions in excess of $500 billion annually.• Added Web Objects Graphical User Interface (GUI) to the credit pricing model application increasing deal pricing throughput.• Created Oracle database to house pricing grids and application for direct look up – improved response time over flat files.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Lead Financial Engineer on credit pricing model application updates for prepayment, default, severity, home price and capital models.• Initiated trend analysis templates for representative loans to better vet results.• Completed thorough sensitivity analysis for implementation of borrower-initiated cancellation of mortgage insurance program.• Managed Loss Projections analysis to assist Asset-Liability Strategy group in determining the annual mark-to-market value of the firm. • Successfully tested and guided the credit pricing applications through Y2K with no loss of data or application outage.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Priced credit risk for single family mortgage-backed securities (MBS), involving updates for new products in positions of increasing responsibility.• Designed financial models to assist Credit Policy in loss mitigation decisions.• Projected defaults and credit losses for $780 billion Single Family at-risk book.• Monitored updates to and oversaw documentation of pricing models.• Business Unit Recovery Plan: Departmental director for system disaster planning.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Developed software for Personal Computer user interfaces to improve displays of GPS satellite telemetry data.• Trained new employees in software development best practices, including unit and regression testing.• Completed preliminary analysis and budgeting of new projects. • Held Top Secret Clearance supporting United States Air Force Space Command.

Mba, Finance And Entrepreneurial Management

Certificate In Cybersecurity Strategy

Bs, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

Key Executive Leadership Certificate Program

School Of Mortgage Banking Graduate

High School Diploma