Management Manager

David M. Stolz abmfad@r.postjobfree.com

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* ******* ************* / ** ******* / IT SOX Auditor

Supporting information technology environments with multiple locations,

providing management support in network operations, helpdesk, systems

support, project management, security and IT implementations, including

compliance (SOX 404 and ISO 9000). Utilized principles from from ITIL,

COBIT, ISO, PCI, etc to implement best practices. Soft skills include

dealing with all levels of user skills, at all levels of an organization.

Able to manage multiple projects and to communicate effectively. Core

competencies include:

. Business change partner. Moved corporate data centers at Cumulus Media

and Siemens while maintaining access to critical systems. The Siemens

move entailed 50+ servers and 300+ workstations. At Cumulus, generated

$1M yearly savings by eliminating underutilized circuits; also reduced

back office infrastructure by 75%. Consolidated email services providing

uniform access to all employees. Reduced costs of implementing new

business system by %80 using thin client technologies. Involved in the

full SOX life cycle: management's assessment, process narratives, IT

general controls, IT application controls, testing, and remediation and

implementing best practices. At GPS, reduced management exposure to

audit deficiencies by 80%.

. Customer Support. Maintained internal Siemens customer relations by

training and managing up to 12 technicians in a distributed corporate

helpdesk. Provided support for over 3500 accounts in up to 60 locations

at Cumulus.

2 Professional Experience

1 2005 - Present D.M. Stolz & Associates Fayetteville, Georgia

Serve as an IT compliance consultant; assisted management with their audit

preparation. Clients included:

1 Global Payments Atlanta, Georgia Multiple years

Global Payments (globalpaymentsinc.com) provides credit and debit card

processing, check authorization, and other functions for merchants and

financial institutions with earning of $1.2b.

. Performed change management, logical access and IT operations testing to

ensure adherence to established key controls.

. Fully involved in the full SOX life cycle: management's assessment,

process narratives, IT general controls, IT application controls,

testing, and remediation and implementing best practices.

. Created accurate process and control documentation by performing walk

through with process owners.

. Created and completed comprehensive test plan and all tests, covering

most of the domains of the COBIT framework.

. Tested effectiveness of IT controls, including accuracy of company

documentation, efficiency of IT operations, and effectiveness of change

control and problem tracking systems.

. Organized and maintained all related documentation; updated test plans as

necessary.

2 ChoicePoint Atlanta, Georgia

ChoicePoint (choicepoint.com) with earnings of $980M provides risk

management and fraud prevention information, primarily to the insurance

industry.

. Interviewed application owners and documented the applied security of any

SPII contained therein.

. This audit was based on ISO 17799 standards and was designed to assist

the company with their government mandated yearly audits.

3 Knology Atlanta, Georgia

Knology (knology.com) is a communications provider based in western Georgia

with annual sales of $347M.

. Wrote and implemented test scripts based on customer generated controls

in a SOX year one audit.

2 2000 - 2005 Cumulus Media Inc. Atlanta, Georgia

Cumulus Media (cumulus.com) is the #2 radio station ownership group in the

US (behind Clear Channel) with more than 300 owned or operated stations in

more than 60 mid-sized markets throughout the country with sales of $328m.

1 Manager, Network and Telecommunications

. Responsible for day-to-day management of corporate Windows 2000/2003/XP

LAN/WAN in an HP, DELL, CISCO environment..

. Responsible for user support for 3500 users. Duties included

responsibility for Circuit procurements, Network management and all

Network and Telecom related projects.

. Technical consultant to all remote office IT staff.

. Planned consolidation and moves of multiple corporate data centers into

one Atlanta area facility while maintaining access to critical systems.

An additional benefit was the $1M yearly savings from eliminating an

underutilized frame relay network.

. Introduced thin client technology through Citrix, Terminal services and a

Netilla SSL VPN appliance, reducing application rollout costs by 80%.

. Implemented new corporate Exchange 2000 mail system, later upgrading to

Exchange 2003. This change resulted in a 75% reduction of mail servers,

giving all users a common email system with multiple access methods.

. Moved Data Centers from Chicago and Milwaukee and Atlanta to new Atlanta

facility. Project encompassed 50 people and 10 servers - plus phone

system and over 100 data circuits. Completed project with no unscheduled

outages.

3 1986 - 2000 Siemens Electromechanical Components Inc. Peachtree

City, Georgia

Siemens Electromechanical Components made products used in the control,

distribution, and utilization of electricity.

1 Manager, Network and Telecommunications / Manager Network Systems

. Responsible for operations and support of all PC Servers and Unix

computers, including backup and restore, job scheduling and

modifications, job documentation, physical and environmental security,

and operations staffing.

. Managed up to 12 technicians in a distributed corporate helpdesk

environment.

. Planned and executed move of corporate data center from Indiana to

Atlanta area facility while maintaining access to critical systems.

. Elimination of three shifts of 24 hour coverage. Reduced Operations

Support staff by five full time employees as a result of the move.

. Moved Data Center from Princeton, Indiana to Peachtree City. Move

involved over 300 workstations 50+ servers with no unscheduled downtime.

. Managed Corporate wide phone system.

. Developed rollout plans for corporate wide desktop and server upgrades.

3 Education

M.S., Management Oakland City University Oakland City, Indiana

1998

B.S., Organizational Management Oakland City University Oakland

City, Indiana 1997

4 Additional Keywords

These are words and phrases within my experience and skill set, used here

to complete this document.

. Knowledge management: decision support, content management system,

document management, tacit, explicit, communities of practice,

communities of interest, taxonomy, change management, culture

. Knowledge systems: expert systems, data mining, neural networks, decision

trees, genetic algorithms, market basket

. Collaboration tools: web conferencing, webinar, podcast, forum,

discussion group, message board, bulletin board, instant messaging,

wikis, blogs, application sharing, file sharing, whiteboard, awareness,

text chat, video, audio, teleconference, VoIP, polls, surveys

. Project management: integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human

resources, communications, risk, procurement, work breakdown schedule,

critical path, metrics, service level agreement

. Security: information assurance, access control, firewall, anti-virus,

patch management, backup, encryption, public key infrastructure (PKI),

SSL, VPN, IPSEC.

. Software development lifecycle (SDLC): analysis, design, implementation,

testing, deployment, maintenance

. Network management: administer, install, maintain, upgrade, benchmark,

testing and tuning, troubleshoot

. Network architecture: topology, Internet, Intranet, Extranet, local area

network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), TCP/IP, 802.3, 802.11, copper,

fiber, wireless, mobile, remote access dial-up server (RADIUS), T1, DSL,

ISDN

. Hardware: desktop, laptop, blade, storage arrays, RAID, NAS, SAN, router,

switch, hub, firewalls

. Database: SQL, Oracle, Access,

. Servers: Windows, IIS, Exchange, DNS, Active Directory, DHCP, LDAP, Unix,

Linux, SQL, clustering, load balancing, Blackberry Enterprise server

. Client: Windows, XP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, Visio,

Blackberry Devices

. Knowledge of: ERP, CRM, SCM, MIS, TPS, data warehousing, business

intelligence systems, disaster recovery

. Compliance: Sarbanes Oxley (SOX 404), ISO 9000, ISO 17799, COBIT, ITIL,

PCAOB, best practices, control objectives, management assertions

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