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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Supported the Business Technology Compliance Team by providing leadership and consulting services across the Business Technology organization to ensure compliance Sarbanes-Oxley controls. Contributed to the several projects: • Phase I - Role Validation across numerous applications including several force.com applications.• Documented controls and assisted with remediation applying effective solutions to provide assurance and enable go-live. • Quarterly Access Review – Modified to access review template to make the review more efficient and easier to use.

Birmingham, Al, Us

Provided strategic leadership as part of the Internal Audit department transforming the IT Audit activity from a heavily Sarbanes-Oxley compliance focus into a true risk-based audit approach that focused on a value-added audit strategy. • Leveraged automation to reduce the fieldwork effort and timelines by 50%.• Developed the Alteryx strategy that would allow Financial auditors to self-provision data that included enhanced analytics like data stratification and automated sampling. • Implemented continuous monitoring for a dozen IT audit tests leveraging an SQL Server database that generated email notification of exceptions to the process owners, which allowed the migration of these audit testing steps from audit programs into automated procedures. • Implemented an Internal Audit SQL Server instance that leveraged linked services to pull data from all SOX production databases (Oracle & SQL Server) and Active Directory, facilitating a knowledge repository of audit queries that had been used to facilitate the IT Audit Activity, thereby, allowing less technical IT Audit staff to perform more technically sophisticated audit steps. • Restored the confidence in the IT Internal Audit activity by implementing a true risk-based approach to handling audit exceptions.

Franklin, Tn, Us

Provide IT Audit and Compliance leadership across the organization. Introduced the concepts of IT assessment to drive improvements of IT General Computer Controls.• Implemented a Sarbanes-Oxley initiative to promote industry best practices across the IT organization.• Conducted IT audits of ERP applications controls, which corrected segregation of duties conflicts.• Led a cross-functional team to correct major deficiencies in the revenue recognition cycle.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Responsible for auditing multi-national IT Enterprise with a headcount of nearly 800 employees throughout North and Latin America • Built a proficient IT Audit team from scratch • Developed and introduced data analysis, data mining and fraud testing• Utilized HR demographical data to identify cross pollination in North American vendor master files across multiple ERP systems• Maximized the productivity of the IT Audit team by leveraging technology like McAfee FoundScan, Nessus, SEKCHEK, and SAP GRC Access for continuous monitoring• Conducted consulting engagements with several audit segments to remediate the body of outstanding IT Audit issues; these engagements dramatically improved the IT Controls in the target sites, thereby, reducing risks • Responsible for executing the IT compliance testing for Japanese Sarbanes-Oxley Act; provide the correct interpretation of controls which ultimately helps the various IT groups come into compliance• Standardize the IT Audit plans and focus the IT auditors to maximize the staff proficiency• Coached the staff, gave continuous feedback on development plans to the required skills

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• Developed and implemented technical tools which enabled the staff auditors to be more productive and independently retrieve data required to support investigations and planned audits• Built an IT Audit team • Developed a time reporting application and an investigations application to assist with the tracking of investigations and the preparation of Audit Committee reports• During the 2006 calendar year, I completed one formal consulting project assisting with the integration of a treasury application into the general ledger and two official audits, Change Management and Project Management. Both these audit areas contributed to material weaknesses on the company’s 10-K report for the 2005 calendar year • Developed and documented several public queries based upon common data requests. These queries enabled audit staff to retrieve the data required to support audits and investigations

• Responsibility covered eleven states across the southeastern region and part of the southwest. • Generated $420K in sales revenue during my first quarter • Expanded the NEON customer list and set the stage for several multi-million dollar contracts. • Generated twelve (12) software trials with onsite support

• Provided technical sales support across the entire product line. NEON offered three distinctive product categories; Middleware, IMS Utilities, and Application Integration • Specialized in the IMS database tools and the Application Integration suite providing support I was sole support for the Application Suite until the company left EAI market space late 2001 • Supported a Sales Team across the North American continent

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Managed a team of 21 individuals providing technical support for a development organization of 800+ across three platforms: UNIX, NT, and MVS • Provided UNIX System Administration • This team was instrumental in the implementation of major MVS upgrades required for Y2K

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Supported MVS based database systems, DB2 and IMS; more detail can be provided upon request • Instrumental in building efficiencies into all the work processes which allowed management to dramatically reduce the size of this team by fifty percent