Wes Cole Email & Phone Number

Lansing, Mi, Us

Acts as interface between Information Security and all business units in the Chicago area. Because of this, the role supports many hats - updating funds boards, advising on technical projects, ensuring proper governance is met, supporting 3rd party vendor management, advising on meeting regulations.All domains supported.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Worked with the Identity Security and Access Management team at American Family Insurance to implement Role-based Access for all employees within the company. Benefits to include faster ramp up time for new hires as well as easy ramp down for transfers and terminations. Automations based on pre-approvals, and built-in governance controls.

Madison, Wi, Us

CUNA Mutual Group: Insurance and financial service companies serve their credit union policy owners. Provider of accident, health, life, long term care, and private mortgage …• Led team of 20+ security engineers, supporting multiple applications that provide enterprise-wide security, like Active Directory, Password Vault and Identity Access Management tools• Managed Corporate Compliance, facilitating Service Organization Control audits by 3rd Party Auditors • Led Risk Management Acceptance Board, discussing exception requests, suggesting ways to mitigate, and escalating to the CISO as needed• Assisted in Common Control refinement, merging NIST, PCI, HIPAA, SSAE16 (now SSAE18) controls where possible • Refined the audit process, streamlining/automating steps for future audits, as well as creating a timeline for deliverables and explanation of dependencies• Managed new and recurring vendor security assessments • Working with our Vendor Management Office, refined our vendor assessment process• Updated our vendor assessment questionnaire to reflect current needs• Working with IT Executives and Managers, implemented Resource Management tools and processes for all individuals within IT• Led initiative to migrate our entire Collateral Protection portfolio to a separate national company, leading a team of 20+ individualsTools supported: CyberArk Password Vault, Voltage for data encryption, Active Directory for identity stores, NetPoint/OAM and Ping One/Federate/Access for Access Management…

Mequon, Wi, Us

Stratagem: Providing IT solutions across industries to businesses throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota. Services range from project management to staff supplementation…• As Project Manager/Business Analyst for client, CUNA Mutual Group, implemented a web interface allowing credit unions to view and edit their data. • Once implemented, managed a 25 person development team to clean and transition data to another corporation. Hired by CUNA Mutual Group during this process. At client site 100% of the time.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Cerner: Electronic health record system for hospitals, health care providers, clinics. • Sr. Developer: Worked with an 8 person team of developers creating and supporting secure, HIPAA-compliant, reusable web components to be used by various Cerner applications offered to client hospitals and health care providers. • Manager, Shows and Events Team: Managed an 8 person team that supported all Cerner shows and events, as well maintained their theater and executive conference rooms. Technologies: J2EE Architecture, Java, HTML, CSS, Java Script

Dublin 2, Ie

Accenture: Leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services.• PM/BA for SBC (now AT&T) in enterprise-wide upgrade to client’s billing system – our team specifically handled bill presentation for paper, CD, and web• IT Lead for Sprint for custom enterprise-wide CRM tool – our team specifically worked on multiple user interface components within a J2EE environment. Also functioned as “project morale team” member and “new team member” trainer as this was a large project with long hours expected from every individual.• Lead IVR Developer for the state of Kansas, upgrading unemployment user interface – reduced average times from 15 minutes down to 2 minutes, off-loaded 10% of all calls to a Self-Service option• Technical Trainer for implementing our in-house Java Mobile Solutions Platform (JMSP), helping to develop/implement training and tours for clients and internal implementers world-wide. Led a two week class, training 10+ Asian Developers to enable them to implement the JMSP in their various environments.• Designer/Developer, creating interactive website for potential Sprint broadband customers that walked them through the entire process, reducing the amount of follow up calls/visits by 75% and speeding up installation times from 2 full day visits to only 4 hours. Technologies: multiple, including J2EE, JSP, CSS, Java Script, and TRexx for IVRUp to 100% travel, depending on project.

Laredo, Texas, Us

Insurance Claim Processing Services… Computer Programming Services…• Provided onsite support for the Chicago Teamsters, supporting all of their billing and benefits systems. • Acted as webmaster and support for upgrading/integrating their UNIX servers with green-screen terminals and Windows desktops. • Prepared all applications/functionality for the Y2K date change by updating hundreds of lines of COBOL code. Technologies: UNIX, COBOL, HTML, VB codeAt client site 75% of the time.