SUMMARY:

Mission Statement: Energetic and Purpose - driven Team player with over 17 years of cumulative experience in Sales, Information Technology, and Information Systems Assurance ready to make a difference.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Vice-President (Sales)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built and Led a salesforce of thousands of distributors Nationally and Internationally.
• Worked with principal company to design and implement policies, training manuals, and other tools necessary to promote the growth of the sales force.
• Worked closely with the marketing department in designing and drafting training materials and formats for Training events nationally and internationally.
• Assisted the company founders is designing and developing the Compensation plan structure for the field representatives. Expert in closing difficult clients and moving the sales team along.
• Responsible for breaking grounds in starting up and leading new teams in several new cities/states across continental USA.
• Trained, Developed and Coached budding sales leaders on a global scale. Unmatched Presentation skills.

Senior IT Consultant

Confidential, Ellicott city, MD

Responsibilities:

• Providing solutions and technical advice to both big Corporate and individual clients with diverse
• IT-related issues ranging from simple service calls to complex network and network security-related problems.

IT Audit Manager

Confidential, Beltsville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Led the IT integrated audit efforts for various Federal and Private sector clients, which consisted of teams of both IT and Accounting Auditors. The engagement management activities included the coordination of IT audit efforts with multiple IT audit teams, frequent status meetings with client management to communicate progress and discuss reliance, and the proactive resolution of audit issues.
• Led the planning and execution of IT-related and transaction-level control assessments (e.g., strategy, change management, security and IT operations), and the evaluation of IT control environments for a broad variety of audit clients spanning multiple industries.
• Managed and coordinated service organization examinations, which included the identification of both IT general and transaction-level controls, creation of system control narratives for the organization, and the development, execution and reporting of testing procedures.
• Develop and maintain Best-in-Class Dashboards containing leading practice GTM content for specific service offerings (e.g., Cyber Security).
• Performed risk assessments of IT and business processes, based on multiple regulatory frameworks, to assess risks, identify and implement remediation plans, and secure stakeholder sponsorship to help ensure seamless execution and sustainable results.
• Managed a portfolio of projects by monitoring teams’ execution against project plan milestones and budgets, and monitoring the project budget through the efficient use of both resources and expenses.
• Engaged senior management in thoughtful discussions relevant to their specific risks and provided thought leadership; routinely complemented by external audit clients for providing thoughtful, in-depth perspectives on IT risk and control matters, particularly in the context of their personal and business goals and objectives.
• Led discussions and roundtables with clients’ teams to evaluate their control frameworks from both an IT and business process perspective.
• Co-led a gap assessment of a company’s controls against the Trust Services Principles and criteria (both business process and IT related). Compared the company’s current policies, procedures, and controls to those required to address the selected AICPA Trust criteria through interviews with key executives. Provided a written description of gaps identified and recommendations to improve controls to accomplish the criteria, a Findings and Recommendations report for internal use by the company for control remediation and preparedness purposes, and developed a mapping of the HIPAA Security Rule to the AICPA Security and Availability Trust Principles.
• Facilitated team members’ progression through the development of a formal learning and development plan, and measured against performance goals through regular touchpoints; served as a formal career counselor for senior and staff team members.
• Served as an Instructor for the firm’s training program which included leading training sessions of over 10 participants on topics ranging from evaluating business processes and related risks to critical security configurations of operating systems, databases and major ERPs.

Network Engineer

Confidential, Beltsville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining detailed network documents, including physical and logical network diagrams, routing details, IP address assignments, and network change logs.
• Designed and published network infrastructure documentation such as design specifications, system administration guides, product guides, and reference designs
• Monitored and analyzed LAN - WAN performance both at the Corporate office and at the various satellite construction sites. Troubleshot network problems and outages on both fronts.
• Captured network traffic as necessary and facilitates analysis of packets
• Participated in evaluations of new hardware and software
• Planned and documented, while implementing network component changes as part of new network deployments or hardware/technology refreshes. Safeguarding and Protecting the network from any likely attacks.
• Opened and supported cases with vendors or service providers as necessary until resolution.
• Ensures that network equipment is covered by support contracts as appropriate and that necessary personnel have access to contract details and are authorized to open support cases
• Participated in large cross-functional projects under the direction of project management team
• Captured and analyzed network requirements and transformed them into operable and secure network changes.
• Participated in service management processes such as incident, change, and configuration management.

INSTRUCTOR

Confidential, Beltsville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Participated in on-campus mentoring and training programs after school.
• Participated in community outreach programs and charity events with other staff members and students.
• Played major roles on a consistent basis during in-house trainings of staff members and instructors.
• Worked regularly with Human Resources department in coordinating job fairs and career events.