Results-driven Information Security Analyst with notable success directing a broad range of corporate IT Security initiatives while participating in planning, analysis, and implementation of controls, solutions, and process in support of business objectives.

Certifications

COMPTIA: Security + CE (COMP001021267393)

Splunk Certified User (License Cert-237575)

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) – In Progress

Technology Tools

Symantec DLP 12.5, 14.6 & 15.1, Splunk, CSAB, ITSM, RSA Archer, Firewalls, Teammate,

MS SharePoint, MS Office - Advanced Excel skills, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Project. Microsoft Access, SQL, Sales Force, NESSUS, IDEA, NUIX, Kcura Relativity

Education

University of Greenwich, UK 2004 – MS Finance and Financial Information Systems

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana 1998- BA. Social Sciences

Senior Consultant – Celerity Consulting (03/2017 – Present)

Responsible for creating new or updating existing DLP rules to reflect changing business needs

Undertake Data triage in DLP for a Pilot project that has identified broken down business processes. My analysis enables business units remediate these broken-down processes.

Define and execute functional test cases, which led to the identification of a bug in the Symantec DLP software requiring extensive follow-up with Symantec Engineers, resulting in a Hotfix to version 14.6.2.

Collaborate with Infrastructure and application owners to ensure successful implementation and upgrade of DLP 14.6 to DLP 15.1, and its alignment to the overall technology deployment strategy.

Working directly with stakeholders or business owners to reduce false positive alerts by analyzing the alerts and rules / policies.

Provide expert advice in designing, testing, and configuring Symantec DLP tool for Endpoints, Network Prevent for Web, Network prevent for Email and Network Discover Scans.

Ability to reuse existing DLP policies and workflows for cloud applications – CASB

Senior Associate - Fronteo (09/2015– 02/2017)

Provided expert advice in designing, testing, and configuring Symantec 14.6 DLP tool for Endpoints, Network Prevent for Web, Network prevent for Email and Network Discover Scans.

Configured Policies, Response rules, agent configuration as well and whitelisted of applications in the Enforce console.

Reviewed DLP logs in Splunk and drawing conclusions that ensured that the DLP tool was working effectively as designed.

Determined best practices and assisted in the re-engineering of eDiscovery workflows for efficiency and accuracy.

Ingested Data into Nuix, created Item sets, Production set deliverables and uploaded them to ECA or Review workspaces in Relativity

Senior Analyst - Navigant Consulting (04/2012 – 09/2015)

•Provided end to end ingesting of Electronic data using Law PreDiscovery and Relativity

•Created and prepared load files and deliverables for review in Concordance and Relativity

•Analyzed and manipulating data, designed tables/views in relational databases -SQL

•Worked with clients and internal teams to identify the ediscovery scope and best solution approach to projects.

•Created and ingested productions in LAW PreDiscovery and Relativity.

•Uploaded third party data into hosted litigation Databases – Kcura Relativity

•Utilizing Text Pad to modify Load files (DAT, OPT, DII, LFP) to overlay or append data in litigation databases

•Advanced level experience using MS Excel to solve complex data analysis and manipulation

•Responsible for writing Standard Operating Procedures to standardize work processes