Project: Ernst & Young (EY) | BNS Cyber & Information Security Audit Remediation Program

Project Duration: Nov 2024 - Present

Responsibilities:

• Issue Lifecycle Management: Oversee the entire lifecycle of multiple Regulatory issues, ensuring they are addressed in a structured and timely manner.
• Collaborate closely with management and remediation teams to ensure issues are managed efficiently.
• Timeline Adherence: Ensure all issues adhere to agreed-upon timelines and follow the established issue lifecycle structure.
• Stakeholder Communication: Regularly socialize project updates to relevant stakeholders and forums, ensuring transparency and alignment across teams.
• Provide timely escalations and highlight potential risks effectively to mitigate project impacts.
• Project Documentation: Maintain all project artifacts, ensuring they are up-to-date and reflect the current status of issues and resolutions.
• Team Collaboration and Best Practices: Share best practices within the team to enhance overall performance.

 Project: Stealth Mode Company | Founder, AI & IMM Cryptocurrency Bot Trading Platform

Project Duration: July 2020 – Present

Responsibilities:

• Design and test the algorithms for the various models created.
• Design and test the web platform functionality.
• Create and manage the project plans, bug tracking and remediation.
• Integrate chatbot into internal knowledgebase for AI generated results
• Working with legal to ensure alignment with compliance.
• Manage test group tickets.

 Program: Udemy | Certification course content creator & instructor

Duration: Mar 2020 – Present

Responsibilities:

• Build online learning content for courses covering ISC2: CISSP, CyberSec; Microsoft: Azure Architecture, Design & Engineering, Database Administration, Information Protection, Artificial Intelligence, Power Platform, DevOps, Dataverse, Fabric, Data Analysis, IoT, SAP; UiPath: Robotic Process Automation Analyst & Developer; AXELOS: ITIL4; Oracle: SQL, APEX.
• Manage student questions on course materials.
• Update material as required.
  

 Project: CIBC | Fusion Program, Cyber & Information Security

Project Duration: Jul 2024 – Nov 2024

Responsibilities:

• Structure planning and implementation for new OSFI Regulatory guidelines for all global regions of the CIBC Fusion Program focusing on Cyber & Information Security, Threat Intelligence, and AML/Fraud incidents.
• Take the projects from initiation, planning and roadmap creation to closure through region scope identification and implementation steps for each global region.
• Develop implementation playbook to share with the global regions for program execution.
• Project reporting in Planview.

 Project: BMO | Global Relay SourceOne Integration (Legal hold & data retention compliance)

Project Duration: Nov 2023 – Nov 2024

Responsibilities:

• Led weekly workgroups with implementation team, bi-weekly Operational Committee sessions with focused leadership group, and monthly Steer-Co sessions with the wider leadership team to report on progress and discuss challenges requiring executive attention.
• Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.
• Managed Big Data Regulatory project of on-prem migration to third-party vendor cloud storage, data cleanup, purge, and data transfer via hard storage device to other third-party vendor for long-term storage.
• One vendor was new to the bank which required taking vendor through the SEMS (vendor onboarding) process.
• Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.
• Managed detailed budgets using Clarity and Excel.

 Project: BMO | CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management)

Duration: Nov 2022 – Nov 2023

Responsibilities:

• High-profile, high-impact Regulatory project to remediate compliance findings for cloud asset security.
• Involved working with very large groups of stakeholders (100+).
• Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.
• Completed Proof of Concept (POC) with new vendor which I took through the SEMS (vendor onboarding) process, through the gating processes to deployment in the cloud.
• Created multiple parallel workstreams to implement tool for tactical and strategic solution implementation of tool using advanced Excel, Power BI, and ServiceNow for automated ticketing and finding remediation tracking.
• Implemented IAM/PAM remediations for security findings using CSPM tool, CyberArk, and Splunk.
• Implemented into Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline to contain testing prior to iterative cloud rollouts.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.
• Managed detailed budgets using Clarity and Excel.

 Project: BMO | IAM Cloud Assessment & Remediation (Identity & Access Management integration with CSPM tool, CyberArk, and Splunk)

Duration: Nov 2022 – Nov 2023

Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.
• Implemented IAM/PAM remediations for security findings using CSPM tool, CyberArk, and Splunk.
• Coordinated monthly with the Project Team along with the QA and Production teams to organize releases of security patches affecting several lines of business in BMO.
• Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.
• Managed detailed budgets using Clarity and Excel.

 Program: Scotiabank | Caribbean, Central America, and Uruguay (CCAU) Audit

Duration: Mar 2021 – Nov 2021

Responsibilities:

• Managed Regulatory audit remediation project for SEC (Securities Exchange Commission USA) findings affecting bank policies, procedures, practices, and applications.
• Coordinated with project managers in various geographic regions (Caribbean, Central America, and Uruguay) along with the QA and Production teams to organize monthly releases across affected lines of local business.
• Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.
• Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.
• Managed detailed budgets using Clarity and Excel.
• Worked with local Project Managers to effectively manage remediation of outstanding items.
  

 Program: BMO | Fraud Detection & Mitigation Integration to IBM Artificial Intelligence platform

Duration: Mar 2020 – Nov 2020

Responsibilities:

• Led large Regulatory program involving 3 major Canadian banks to identify fraud in bank transactions using AI platform to where known fraud items were used to identify similar patterns of activity in each of the bank’s activities.
• Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval.
• Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.
• Managed detailed budgets using Clarity and Excel.
• Involved working with very large groups of stakeholders with a significant focus on PII and CyberSec as well as sub-projects form various business lines and technology (100+).
  

 Program: BMO | OSFI Audit Remediation (Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions)

Duration: Mar 2020 – Nov 2020

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated monthly with the Project Team along with the QA and Production teams to organize releases of security patches affecting several lines of business in BMO.
• Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval.
• Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.
• Managed audit remediation project for OSFI findings affecting CyberSec, bank policies, procedures, practices, and applications.
• Remediated IAM/PAM findings using tools such as CyberArk, and Splunk.
• Worked with several lines of business to effectively manage remediation of outstanding items.
  

 Project: BMO | Capital Markets Big Data Migration

Duration: Jul 2019 – Dec 2019

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated monthly with the Project Team along with the QA and Production teams to organize releases of security patches affecting several lines of business in BMO.
• Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.
• Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.
• Lead project to close down datacentres and move data to cloud or other on-prem locations as required for the project. 
• Work with Business Analysts, Lines of Business, CyberSec, Procurement, and Technology groups as needed for the move or disposal of data as required by retention guidelines.
  

 Project: BMO | IIROC Regulatory Automated Data Governance

Duration: Jul 2019 – Dec 2019

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated monthly with the Project Team along with the QA and Production teams to organize releases of security patches affecting several lines of business in BMO.
• Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.
• Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.
• Managed audit remediation project to assist with automation of IIROC findings affecting bank policies, procedures, practices, and applications.
• Worked with several lines of business to effectively manage remediation of outstanding items.
  

 Program: TD Canada Trust | Governance of ETS Portfolio (Enterprise Technology Sector)

Duration: Apr 2019 – Jul 2019

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated monthly with the Audit team and Portfolio Heads to review technology projects to ensure compliance with internal regulations.
• Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.
• Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.

 Project: BMO | Capital Markets Manager Once Removed

Duration: Oct 2018 – Mar 2019

Responsibilities:

• Led training related project for mentoring various levels of staff with designated business leaders.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.

 Project: BMO | Capital Markets Big Data Repository Governance Migration

Duration: Oct 2017 – Mar 2019

Responsibilities:

• Led project to close datacentres and move data to cloud or other on-prem locations as required for the project.
• Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.
• Work with Business Analysts, Lines of Business, Procurement, CyberSec, and Technology groups as needed for the move or disposal of data as required by retention guidelines.
• Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio

 Project: BMO | Capital Markets RC Governance Automation (Regulatory Controls)

Duration: Oct 2017 – Oct 2018

Responsibilities:

Stakeholder management from Business Heads, SVPs through Analysts tailoring reporting according to end-user needs for granularity and focus.

Managed audit remediation project for OSFI findings affecting bank policies, procedures, practices, and applications.

Remediated IAM/PAM findings using tools such as CyberArk, and Splunk.

Worked with several lines of business to effectively manage remediation of outstanding items.

Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval

 Project: Yong America | SaaS Integration to Proprietary ERP

Duration: Nov 2014 – Oct 2017

Responsibilities:

• Led project to retire end-of-life ERP and implement proprietary and procured ERP system and augment with SaaS and CyberSec tools.
• Presented and co-authored technical and architectural documentation for Gating Committee approval.
• Used MS Office products including PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Project, Excel, and Visio.