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ISACABoard Member
May. 2024Northwest OhioServing as the ISACA Northwest Ohio Chapter Secretary
B. Riley FinancialIT Controls Manager
Feb. 2024Toledo, OH- Overseeing Compliance: Ensuring adherence to IT controls across IT and business-administered systems.
- Audit Cycle Management: Leading semi-annual audit cycles, including User Access Reviews and SOC reviews.
- Findings and Remediations: Directing responses to audit findings, assessing deficiencies, and tracking remediation efforts.
- SOX and IT Controls Expertise: Providing guidance on compliance with IT controls and SOX to IT and business teams.
- Process Improvement: Enhancing control processes for efficiency, particularly in user access reviews.
- Rigorous Assessments: Conducting detailed assessments of IT controls using industry standards, leading practices, and professional judgment.
- Artifact Analysis: Requesting, obtaining, reviewing, and analyzing artifacts for IT controls testing, such as security plans and system configurations.
- Collaborative Work: Working with business and corporate units to embed an understanding of the firm's risk profile and appetite.
- Communication of Results: Summarizing, documenting, and communicating IT controls assessment results to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Acting as a SME to senior stakeholders and team members, guiding and advising on IT governance.
- Continuous Learning: Staying updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes to address IT governance challenges.
- Critical Attributes: Demonstrating solid experience in IT controls within a SOX environment, attention to detail, the ability to understand complex IT environments, excellent communication skills, professional persistence and skepticism, conflict resolution, independent judgment, and operating with minimal supervision.
Armanino LLPInformation Technology Audit Manager
Jan. 2024 - Feb. 2024Austin, TXIT Audit Manager within the IT SOX service line, responsible for managing multiple SOX-404 integrated compliance audits concurrently primarily in the technology industry,
Armanino LLPSupervising Senior IT Auditor
Jul. 2022 - Jan. 2024Austin, TX
Armanino LLPSenior Information Technology Auditor
Jan. 2022 - Jul. 2022Austin, TX
Holtzman PartnersSenior Information Technology Auditor
Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2021Austin, Texas (Remote)Merged with Armanino LLP effective January 1, 2022.
Aronson LLCSenior Information Technology Consultant
Dec. 2017 - Sep. 2018Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Assisted in execution of IT Assessments for clients in a variety of industries including but not limited to Construction, Information Technology Services, Logistics/Transportation, and Employee placement
- Involved in various compliance audits for a U.S. government contractor including DSS-RMF, NIST SP 800-53r4 and NIST SP 800-171
- Involved with the marketing of firm services by writing industry and topic related whitepapers, blogs, and social media posts; also assisted with the work proposal process as a result of those marketing efforts
- Worked as the lead consultant on SSAE 18 SOC 2 Type II engagements for clients in the SaaS and Hosting industries; viewed as the SME within the department regarding SSAE 18 SOC report engagements
Experis/Manpower GroupIT Consultant (Contractor)
Jul. 2015 - Sep. 2015Midwest Region- Assisted in execution of the Sterling Jewelers SOX-404 integrated audit, including testing of IT controls and business process improvement recommendations
- Acted as point of contact between the Sterling Jewelers Internal Audit department and the hired external auditor, KPMG, which included but is not limited to providing work completion statistics, tentative deliverable dates, and any control issues or testing failures
- Worked with lesser experienced team members on a daily basis, assisting them with the completion of their work and performing initial non-formal reviews of audit deliverables prior to their submission to Management I was employed at Experis in a contract capacity to assist with the annual IT Audit with one of their larger clients in the Akron, OH area. Once the audit was completed and the contract expired I was unable to stay in the workforce due to an immediate family member becoming ill, as I felt it my responsibility to assist with day to day needs, appointments, etc.
DeloitteEnterprise Risk Services Senior Consultant - Internal Audit Transformation
Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2015Phoenix, Arizona, United States- Assisted in the execution of the 2014 annual SOX-404 compliance audit for a global leader in the energy and resources industry
- Led a team of Staff Consultants on numerous IT operational audits including a hardware asset management review, and various mine site Management directive reviews throughout the Southwestern United States for the largest copper mining company in the world
- Assisted in the execution of numerous integrated audits in the manufacturing, IT development, and construction industries, while working closely with Financial Audit team members to ensure all IT risks were addressed through a controls risk based approach
- Developed Staff Consultants on each of my engagement teams by acclimating them to firm culture and methodology, delegating audit tasks appropriately, reviewing completed audit deliverables with enhancement comments, and assisting with auditing techniques where necessary - Wrote and communicated performance evaluation reviews for Staff Consultants on my engagement teams
- Expanded my knowledge base of the SAP ERP system through firm offered trainings and on the job experiences as all of my clients were SAP customers while in this position
- Developed and fostered relationships with all levels of client personnel from entry level positions through Senior Directors and Chief Officer positions
Nationwide InsuranceIT Audit Specialist
Oct. 2013 - Feb. 2014Columbus, OH- Assisted in execution of integrated audits for various lines of business, including testing of IT controls and business process improvement recommendations
- Assisted with completion of the annual SOX-404 IT general controls testing covering the entire enterprise, working in a direct assist role for external auditor KPMG
- Worked with lesser experienced team members on a daily basis, assisting them with the completion of their work and performing initial non-formal reviews of audit deliverables prior to their submission to Management
Ernst & YoungIT Risk & Assurance Senior IT Auditor
Sep. 2009 - Oct. 2013Toledo, Ohio Area- Assisted in execution of multiple SSAE 16 (SAS 70) SOC 1 and SOC 2 examinations for organizations within the insurance and financial services industries - Assisted in execution of multiple SOX-404 compliance audits for Fortune 500 organizations within the financial services, insurance, hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, gaming, automotive supplier, and consumer products industries
- Responsible for the planning of SSAE 16 and integrated audit (ITGC) engagements including scheduling staff team member’s time, preparing and monitoring engagement budgets, as well as scheduling, budgeting, and coordinating resources from firm offices overseas to assist with the execution of control testing
- Assisted in execution of a FISMA compliance audit for a department within the United States government
- Performed data analytics journal entry analysis to assist with financial statement audits for organizations across multiple industries
- Analyzed business and IT processes in conjunction with executing control testing strategies for a variety of technologies including but not limited to Oracle, SAP, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, Hyperion, SQL, AS400, UNIX (AIX), Red Hat Linux, DB2, zOS Mainframe, and Windows (Active Directory)
- Supervised first and second year staff on a variety of integrated audit (ITGC) and SSAE 16 engagements. Supervision included the appropriate delegation of audit tasks while developing staff's understanding of audit objectives and testing being performed, detail review of staff completed deliverables, and acclimating staff to firm culture.
- Wrote and communicated performance evaluation reviews for first and second year staff on my engagement teams
- Acted as the primary point of contact for IT audit client stakeholders during the execution of engagements, and communicated engagement results to client Senior Leadership at the CEO, CFO, CIO, Director, Vice President, and IT/Business Unit Management levels
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