Project Manager

DANIEL JARDO

Address: *** **** *** ******,

North Vancouver, V7L 1J3 BC - Canada

Home Phone: 778-***-**** Mobile: 778-***-****

E-mail: ******@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technology District Coordinator

Government of City of Buenos Aires, Apr 2011 – Jan 2013

Ministry of Economic Development

Government Administration 1,000-5,000 Employees

Provided assessment to potential candidate companies focused on Information and Communication

Technologies (ICT) for their establishment within the Technology and Audiovisual Districts.

Managed the analysis and design of the Technology District system administration.

Tracked progress candidate companies to register within the Technology and Audiovisual Districts once

the assessment was positively concluded.

Project Manager Design Datacenter

Apotex Inc. (Canada) Feb 2012 – Jul 2012

Canadian Pharmaceutical Company – 5,000-10,000 Employees

Managed the design and implementation of the new Datacenter for the Argentina branch, including

network and electrical layout.

Developed and managed budget (ranging from $150K-$400K), project plans and schedules

Managed implementation of HP Servers, Microsoft Windows Packages, Ad Hoc company applications

(SharePoint app, intranet access, W i-Fi, etc) aligned with corporate standards from Headquarters.

Increased security and operations measures like biometric access, UPS APC, Wi-Fi controlled access

and backups procedures.

Managed the design and implementation of IP Telephony (CISCO Express) and documented for

maintenance purposes.

Reported to corporate headquarters in Toronto (GIS) and managed the communication between them

and the General Manager in Argentina on project progress, issues and solutions.

Selection and training of the contracted IT support, aligned with corporate standards.

Created and coordinated the user’s documentation and personnel training.

Project Manager Design and Moving Datacenter

Chubb Insurance Company (Argentina) May 2010 – Nov 2010

Insurance Company – 10,000+ Employees

Managed the design, moving, logistics and implementation of Datacenter.

Developed and managed the budget ($ 400K), planning the projects and testing documentation for

technical environment and applications.

Responsible for the selection of vendors, coordinated 20 suppliers and lead project teams from 5 to 20

members.

Managed the design and implementation of IP Telephony (CISCO 150 users + 20 wireless devices),

including pricing, budget, follow ups, testing and docume ntation.

Reported to Project Management Officer (PMO), IT Director and to the Head Office manager of

Datacenter Operations.

Optimized security and operations measures like refrigeration systems (redundancy), new fire detection

and extinguishing systems, redundancy UPS (APC), new CCTV, technical floor, new processes for

datacenter operations and documentation of network layouts.

IT National Director

Financial Information Unit Oct 2008 – Feb 2010

Ministry of Justice and Human Resources (Argentina)

Government Administration – 5.000+ Employees

Maintained the application systems, communication platforms (LAN / WAN / Telephony and Internet

connections) and technology infrastructure.

Responsible for the IT Budget ($350K-500K), led project teams of 5-10 members and external

resources for specific projects.

Managed the design, development, documentation and implementation of Anti-Terrorist application

through web access (.NET), included in the W eb access and the technical infrastructure (Microsoft

windows) for PKI Project for the Fraud Analysis Area (around 90 users).

Coordinated Cross Functional Project Teams of Business Analysts, Software Developers, Business

Users, and QA Analysts, focused on the new systems to analyze the information of the fraud reports

and created the balance scorecard for Presidency.

Responsible for I2 Tools information, analysis of fraud items, reporting directly to the President of the

organization and maintained update the Egmont Group network.

Supervised the real-time upgrade of the Unique Registry Information database, comprised of data

provided by multiple government organizations.

IT Risk and Assurance Manager, RAS

Ernst & Young (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Oct 2005 – Aug 2008

Accounting – 10,000+ Employees

Leader of the IT SOX (Sarbanes Oxley 404) International Project in Athens, at Ethniki Hellenic General

Insurance S.A of the National Bank of Greece, managing 20 people from different E&Y branches

(countries).

Evaluated, analyzed and recommended on the Information Security and Strategic IT Plans across

different industries, by identifying and evaluating business and technology risks, internal controls to

mitigate risks, and related opportunities for clients ’ internal control improvement.

Supervised the Data Analysis team, who used ACL software.

Directed team for the development and implementation of Business Continuity Planning and Disaster

Recovery Planning.

Provided assessment and competitive analysis (market trends, products, services competitors,

activities) to potential customers.

Responsible for the development and communication of Marketing Plans, Public and Media Relations.

Coordinated the Annual Global Information Security Survey for E&Y branch.

Managed and followed up of the RAS budget (Business Risk Services and Technology and Security

Risk Services), through balanced scorecards and other ad hoc metrics.

IT Consultant (SOX)

Chubb Insurance Company (Argentina) Aug 2005 – Oct 2005

Insurance Company – 10,000+ Employees

Reviewed the development process, testing process, and implementation of security plans, products

and control techniques; development of auditable security processes in compliance with Section 404 of

Sarbanes-Oxley Act for the insurance industry.

Tested the Contingency plans and upgraded the documentation

Reviewed and optimized IT policies and procedures for the different technology platforms .

IT Business Analyst and Audit / Security

Long Regent Group (Argentina-United States) Jul 2001 – Aug 2005

Consultant Company – 20-100 Employees

Advisor for Information Technology and Security in diverse companies in the gambling industry, with

participation at the Expo Global Gaming in Las Vegas – Nevada.

Obtained the Nevada Commission certificate for a new game of Virtual Game, located in San Diego,

USA, by managing the technical team that designed the security platform.

Participated in the design and development of the on line betting together with San Diego based Digital

Orchid.

IT Consultant for bids and tenders in online real time data processing of several games for the National

Lottery in Argentina.

Reviewed and optimized the supervision process of the slots machines in gambling companies, on

behalf of the National Lottery.

Managed the development and implementation of the Net contr ol system.

Audited gambling companies, creating executive reports with the issues, risks and recommendations.

Reviewed the processes of IT operations in Datacenters of gaming industry related companies.

Developed the business plans, consulting proposals an d pre-qualification documents for several

gambling projects, like sportbooks.

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

OSDE Group (Argentina) Feb 2000 – Jul 2001

Hospital & Health Care – 1,001-5,000 Employees

Created a new IT Security division, including the process of selection, hiring, development, and

management of 8 people. Managed budget for salaries and project around $ 600K.

Responsible for the Security Strategy Plan for the different companies owned by the OSDE group.

Implemented the Logi cal Security of the SAP R/3 (all landscape) and responsible for the Logical

Security Legacy System (Ad Hoc).

Implemented the logical security in IBM OS/400 system in around 30 separate branch of group, around

the country.

Developed and implemented security policies, norms and procedures for the group.

Conducted digital investigations of access attempts and in different business process.

Increased the security of Datacenter by optimized measures in development process and in quality

assurance, including the change management of applications.

Responsible for physical and logic security updating of data procedures environments regarding

Microsoft Windows NT, Novell Netware, and IBM AS/400.

Created documentation of security for end user and design a contingency plan for the Datacenter.

Managed the relationship with the internal and external auditors, including the issues detected, risks

and recommendations.

Chief Security Officer (CSO)

Consolidar Argentina, part of the BBVA Group Jan 1997 – Jan 2000

Insurance & Health Care – 1,001-5,000 Employees

Created a new IT Security division, including the process of selection, hiring, development, and

management of 6 people. Managed budget for salaries and project around $500K.

Managed the definition of Security policies, norms and procedures for the company with the

participation of personal of Arthur Andersen LLC.

Designed and implemented the Security Strategy Plan and followed up the issues and

recommendations to the management.

Implemented logical security for Oracle Finnacial application and trained in security and best practices

to development and quality assurance areas in all IT Division projects.

Managed the launch and setup of Firewalls for different IT platforms (Linux, UNIX, Microsoft Windows,

Novell Netware), Proxies, Corporate Intranet, Anti -Spam products (Trend), Internet navigation control

and remote safe links (virtual office).

Responsible for the Appli cation systems logic security, including databases access control, auditing,

authentication and integrity.

Managed the relationship with the internal and external auditors, including the issues detected, risks

and recommendations.

Directed the development, design, implementation and monitoring of corporate -wide security

awareness programs to assist the education and training of all employees regarding information

security issues, policies, standards and guidelines.

Senior IT Auditor, ISA

Ernst & Young (Argentina) Apr 1994 – Jan 1997

Accounting – 10,000+ Employees

Evaluated the effectiveness of the IT controls in system applications, such as Oracle Financial and JDE

among others. Including logical access (application, database, operating system and network).

Participated in the external Accounting Audits by re-processing financial information using tools like

ACL or SQL.

Analyzed Security Policies, IT Strategic plans, contingency plans according to best practices.

Audited different Operating Systems and applications ERP across clients, such as: IBM AS/400, HP-

UX, RISC 6000, W indows NT, VAX, RACF, Mainframe, Novell Netware, Windows, Oracle Financial and

code checking in: FoxPro, Clipper, Visual Basic, MS Access, Pascal, Cobol.

Reviewed application controls that support significant process of general ledger, account payables,

account receivables, material management, payroll and logistic operations.

EDUCATION

University of Salvador, (USAL Argentina) and University of Deusto (Spain)

Master of Business Administration, 2000

University Of Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bachelor of Information T echnology, 1994

OTHER

IT Audit Teacher at the University del Salvador (USAL Argentina) 1996

Registered IT Security Expert for the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires,

since 2008 and conducted several investigations process.

Contact this candidate