Stephen Ikin, Cissp, Cism, Ccsp Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Working with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to identify, design, implement, test and deploy IT infrastructure and system upgrades.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Designing, implementing and supporting the U.S. Presidential Transition Team & IT Infrastructure for the 2024 Presidential election.
• IT infrastructure is completely segregated from the GSA headquarters in Washington, DC and the cloud platforms from Cisco, Zscaler, Okta, CloudStrike, Splunk, AWS, Citrix, Microsoft Azure AD, Office 365 and Google.

Washington DC

• Promoted to Manager, IT Strategy & Implementation, 08/2012-04/2023Promoted to Enterprise Architect, 08/2009-08/2012Network Administrator, 08/2006-08/2009
• Empowered business strategy achievement by leading strategic and tactical IT roadmaps, focusing on the architecture, build, deployment, and service desk.
• Generated cyber security KPIs to measure and quantify the IT environment’s security posture.
• Supervised project planning and estimation, providing input on technical feasibility, timelines, and resource requirements. Projects included upgrades to the General Ledger, the Trading System, the Portfolio Risk.
• Supported and upgraded end-to-end solutions for complex software applications, ensuring scalability, reliability, and secure applications.
• Rebuilt IT infrastructure, starting from the ground up:o Rearchitected hardware, software, network, and cybersecurity to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations.o Improved performance and savings by consolidating and.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Infrastructure Modernization: Redesigned and upgraded the legacy architecture, infrastructure, and systems adding high availability redundant systems: All internet circuits, firewalls, switches, wireless APs, server.
• IT Project Management: Led the project to outsource the day-to-day management, monitoring, support, and cybersecurity of IT resources and environment to a managed service vendor. 5-year contract: $750,000 annually.
• Audit Leadership & Optimization: Implemented the user access review platform thus making the semi-annual COBIT SOX ITGC Access Reviews automated with a defined workflow for certification. The scope included the.
• Cybersecurity: Introduced Cybersecurity awareness training, ensured 100% compliance, ~25% reduction in phishing incidences.
• Disaster Recovery: Designed and executed the Farmer Mac IT pandemic business continuity plan encompassing all employees (175+ employees, 25+ contractors, and 25 board members). 100% remote working environment with.
• Application Scaling: Worked with the QRM (Quantitative Risk Management) development team scaled the analysis server farm to a high-performance network configuration helping to reduce the time to process asset.

New York, New York, United States

• Managed all technology services, migrated infrastructure, controlled costs, boosted productivity, and identified service, project, regulatory compliance, and strategic risks by engaging with all stakeholder levels and.
• Ran IT networks, software, hardware, security cameras, databases, backup, cybersecurity, and legacy system conversion.
• Managed servers, routers, network cables, PCs, upgrades, business machine installation, and provided tech support to staff.
• Enabled better decision-making by business leaders by improving data availability, quality, visualization, analysis, and speed.
• Enable organization goal achievement while mitigating potential risks by leading cross-functional staff.
• Exceeded all SLA metrics via improved service delivery, workflow automation, escalation procedures, and quality assurance.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Enabled equity trading, financial processes, and growth by converting functional needs into technical project scopes.
• Architected and deployed TD’s eBank integration with and broker customer details operating on IBM AS/400s.
• Managed IT project planning, requirements gathering, contracts, schedules, budgets, test scripts, tracking, quality assurance, risk management, data analysis, metrics, evaluation, problem-solving, communication, and.
• Created technical project management documentation standard for the Wireless Application Protocol mobile trading platform.

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

• Oversaw technology strategy that empowered business goals, execution, projects, daily functions, and support staff. Help grow the organization from ~200 to ~500 users and from 8 to 15 offices.
• Used digital workflow and collaboration tools to create escalation procedures to inform leaders on technology issues.
• Improved cost, consistency, and quality of the IT function in 15 offices by combining services after several business mergers.