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Subject matter expert for IT Vendor Risk Management Program in the identification, escalation and mitigation of IT security risks.

• Provides leadership in the standardization of vendor risk management (VRM) program framework and processes, implement and manage the integration of effective end-to-end management and governance of IT and enterprise third party risk, and design standardized programs for best in class vendor relationship management and risk mitigation.• Developed IT and enterprise third-party risk identification, assessment and monitoring plans and protocols to sustain scoring and risk weighted calculations applicable to third-party inherent and residual risks for the entire engagement and assessment process. • Developed program metrics and provide regular reporting to executive management on overall performance, including analysis of key risks and trends, risk mitigation, issues management, and vendor performance.• Develops value-added business processes, including enabling an efficient procure to pay process flow by managing the Enterprise Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Operations and Accounts Payable team, through effective due diligence and strategic negotiation standards, and cost optimizations on the purchases of goods and services.• Initiated and implemented a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) cloud-based Financial and Supply Management solution to streamline department workflow processes for maximizing effeciencies and cost savings.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Supports multiple categories of over $100M in procurement spend across domestic and international regions with market knowledge of suppliers, trends, and pricing models.• Establish supplier relationships on a global level and negotiate comprehensive sourcing agreements on a global basis, identifying risk, liabilities and commercial leverage.• Develop and deliver cohesive global sourcing strategies by category in conjunction with the US and international based teams to ensure business value and deliver the costs saving targets established by the business units.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Developed overall Compliance policies, procedures, sanctions, monitoring requirements and remediation plan completions.• Developed overall Data breach notification and distribution policies, procedures, sanctions, and information distribution process.• Interprets network Operating Rules for internal and external sources • Liaison to Legal and Regulatory compliance programs for network operations.• Responsible for escalating critical issues to senior management.

• Manage a staff of senior legal analysts; serve as primary resource for specific lines of business to draft and negotiate complex domestic and international multi-million dollar network, e-commerce and credit/debit/prepaid card agreements• Draft and implement legal language for standard templates for international and domestic agreements and forms used for customer-centric products and services• Interpret legal documents for various lines of business and provide direction for business and legal responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs)• Serve in an advisory role for various Compliance and Product groups; act as a liaison between internal and external customers by participating in or managing projects from development through completiono Co-chair the design and implementation of a Compliance Engagement Workflow Processo Co-chair the design and implemenation of multi-level legal job descriptions and competencies for organizational structure, workflow processes and escalations

• Worked with business units and in-house counsel to identify categories of spend that could be leveraged through sourcing • Issued RFPs; facilitated between the Legal Department and business units• Managed indirect spend for professional services in excess of $500M• Drafted and negotiated multi-million dollar corporate contracts • Managed supplier relationships to ensure contract and legal compliance with corporate policy and business performance objectives• Managed current supplier base and maintained potential supplier base for future initiatives• Facilitated onsite due diligence audits of current and potential suppliers to ensure compliance of corporate, legal and regulatory policies Facilitated onsite due diligence audits of current and potential suppliers to ensure compliance of corporate, legal and regulatory policies. Was responsible for ensuring business and savings objectives and metrics by tracking vendor performance and managing projects.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business Psychology