Manager Management

VALERIE DREW…

www.linkedin.com/in/valeriedrew

862-***-**** ****.*******@*****.***

Innovative Global IT Director

Optimize company potential with visionary technology leadership through relentless innovation and teambuilding to transform organizations.

Global security, infrastructure, and financial application development thought leader catapulting teams, and exceeding expectations in complex environment. Propel MM revenue savings, utilizing predictive analysis, reducing redundancy in code base and implementing best practices in the international market. Identify business needs, organizing cross-functional teams, delivering time saving solutions during critical incident outages.

Develop methodologies, supporting migration and transformation of applications. Drive high sustainable growth through innovation, assuming additional responsibility without growing team size. Mitigate IT risk and compliance, working across organization, identifying cyber risk threats, and formulating viable solutions. Continuous improvement advocate, defining methodologies, migrating, and transforming legacy applications to cloud solution.

Areas of expertise:

Strategic Planning and Execution

IT Risk Mitigation / Complexity reduction

Data Analytics

Vendor management

CISSP Candidate

Data Center Transformation

Program Management

Large budget acumen

Technical capabilities

Cultivating Relationships and Business Development

Executive Cybersecurity and Risk Strategist 2017 – Present

KPMG (2017 – Present)

Designing the proactive cybersecurity strategy for KPMG CISO organization. Creating the process which will proactively identify security weakness and risks and work with the subject matter experts in the mitigation strategy to eliminate or minimize the risk. Creating the security and risk linkage strategy by creating algorithms to calculate the probability of cyber risk.

Assist with direction and execution of a cyber security roadmap that meets requirements including, but not limited to, security for hybrid cloud deployment, B2B web services, mobile computing, fine grained access control, policy driven security, Identity Governance, Access Management, and Privileged access management, user provisioning/de-provisioning, and federation focusing on multiple protocols, such as Java and BeanShell coding.

Oversee the design and development of security solutions that adhere to applicable policies and comply with information security requirements.

Provide oversight for building, configuring, and architecture of Identity platforms.

Identify emerging threat tactics, techniques and procedures used by cyber fraud actors and identify those actors for investigation referral.

Develop and use predictive analytics to counter threats by tracking attack campaigns and pursuing strategic and tactical efforts to mitigate threats.

Deliver expert cyber intelligence services and material to fraud, information technology and business leaders. Prepare appropriate threat intelligence content for customer and executive presentations.

Identify and evaluate tools and processes to ensure the cyber fraud technical intelligence team can perform analytic tasks.

Global IT Risk Director 2010 – 2017

MetLife Investments (2007 – 2017) (Investments organization of Global Insurance Company)

Advised C-Level executives on audit inquire responses through evaluation of infrastructure and process control strengths and weaknesses. Partnered with CISO organization on cyber security risk, threats, planned mitigation, incident response of business processes and artifacts. Designed cyber security table top scenarios and mock simulations. Established guidance and led team in vendor onboarding assessment process.

Established security best practices for application development design reducing high-level risk findings in Archer 10%.

Led investments IT organization through regulatory audits including FINRA, SEC, SOX, SSAE16, cyber security and external audits resulting in no high-level risk findings for organization.

Recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars for organization, resolving vendor SLA breaches.

Managed inbound audits from corporate compliance for the investments it organization, ensuring all audit work performed in accordance with department and professional standards.

Assisted in development of investments audit procedures, improving and reducing timeline.

Global IT Infrastructure Director 2015 – 2017

Provided guidance to team to ensure global operational efficiency, scalability and integrity for IT infrastructure and applications across Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions. Managed requirements for infrastructure delivery and configuration for investments organization including: documentation, presentations, training and contributed to development, testing and delivery.

Designed investments innovation initiative strategy, working with enterprise strategic initiatives and continuously improving organization, defining IT policies, standards and procedures, and providing advice and best practices.

Negotiated with vendors, improving efficiency, and reducing cost 20%.

Global Change and Environments Director 2010 - 2016

Set vision which drove continuous improvement of resource availability, performance, infrastructure services, collision management and DR / continuity testing. Directed full life cycle of technical platforms, including software, integrations, and infrastructure upgrades. Defined, negotiated, and administered over $200M budget for vendor contracts and service agreements for application and infrastructure support.

Established change management process, complimenting software development cycle, and adhering to ITIL release and change methodology.

Partnered with operations, ensuring infrastructure decision consistency between locations, aligning to enterprise architecture, and leveraging common approach opportunities.

Assisted with migration of investments infrastructure from enterprise data center to independent data center reducing infrastructure changes 40%.

Designed and wrote target operating model, establishing governance model for process management between MetLife organization and external data centers, adhering to regulatory requirements.

Defined Key Performance and Operating Indicators (KPI / KOI), measuring vendor performance in comparison to SLA objectives.

Global Trading and Analytics IT Director 2009 - 2016

Led full life cycle development for multiple Trading systems and financial applications (fixed income, capital markets, analytics, market data services feed, trade clearances, fund accounting and budget management).

Led global trading and analytics support teams in 46 countries reducing IT trading errors.

Worked closely with business and technology partners on investment trading platform features definition, roadmap, business case development and Trade floor support to deliver quality service.

Assisted with migration from Charles River to BlackRock, dark side and pool trading.

Assisted IT leadership in transformation of AIG applications into the MetLife environment which eliminated application redundancy.

Led and designed predictive analytics, improving trading data availability in global regions.

Provided operational expertise through 24 x 7 leadership, managing vendor feeds, and reducing number of incidents.

Senior Technical Program Manager 2007 - 2009

Managed projects for CRTS long term strategic projects ranging from system upgrades, new product development, and data reduction complexity with other downstream systems. Worked as subject matter expert to gather requirements, architect solutions and led team in solution development.

Maintained business continuity, providing “Project Management on Call Support” of batch process.

Led team, increasing improvements and reducing complexity, removing redundant and / or obsolete code from business lifecycle via CRTS application.

Worked with international CRTS, business and other IT teams resulted in batch cycle process improvement.

Continually trained staff in “best practices” for project engagement, implementation, and post launch support which resulted in the team taking on more responsibility without increasing staff.

Led technical calls with Cutter Associates “CutterCast” in Trading System project upgrades Best Practices resulted in client companies’ ability to upgrade in a reduced time frame.

Senior Program Manager 2001 - 2007

Held various positions in financial firms (Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Shearson, etc.)

Deployed 2 trading systems as trading system deployment program manager, supporting Fixed Income and Equity / Derivatives trading.

Designed and deployed real-time trade application that was coded in JAVA / J2EE (EJB and JSP pages) using BEA-Weblogic 8.1 as middleware and both Sybase and Oracle as back-end. This application took large block Institutional Equity trades and attempted to match purchases and sales internally before hitting open market.

Led team of 10 and managed implementation of enterprise-reporting portal, integrating Crystal Enterprise with Plumtree and using Sybase / Oracle as backend data repository.

Performed as project manager for full life cycle development of multiple trading systems and financial applications, development projects, and requirements gathering via object oriented design methodologies at various accounts, delivering budge applications on time, while producing error free expandable applications capable of integrating into legacy (COBOL2, DB2, CICS) and not yet built applications.

Established firms overall project management “Best Practices” process methodologies per PMI-PMBOK and American Quality Assurance Society’s Six Sigma Black Belt processes. Planned, designed, and wrote project engagement and development methodology, conducting training, ensuring methodologies properly implemented.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

CERTIFICATIONS

& TRAINING:

OS/NETWORKS/

SCRIPTING

Understanding:

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SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE:

EDUCATION:

Building Exceptional Leadership 2012

5 Dysfunctions of an Organization 2011

Contract Management Principals Practice and Communications 2008

ITIL Release, Control and Validation Certification 2015

Mongo DB Administrator 2014

ITIL Foundation Certification 2013

PMP Certification training – AlphaNet, New Jersey 2004

EMC VMAX, VCS, Fiber and iSCSI SAN - Hitachi USP-v, EMC VNX, HP P4500, 3Parv800, AS400, Windows (2016, 2013, 2010, …2003) Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Mageia, Fedora, OpenSUSE, PC Linux OS, Manjaro, ARCH), Webservers (IIS), FTP, Microsoft SQL, PowerShell, MS Hyper-V, VMWare, MS ForeFront, MS InTune, MS Lync, Active Directory and Group policy, DNS, Firewall, Load balancing, WideIP, Wireless, VMware ESX 2.01,2.5,3.0 & 3.5, ESXi4.0/4.1/5.0, Visio, Citrix MetaframeXP/3.0/4.0/4.5 Citrix Xenapp4.5/5.0/6.0/6.5, Citrix Edgesight 5.2/5.3/5.4, Citrix Netscaler, Citrix Access Gateway, XenDesktop5.6 sp2, XenServer5.6 sp2, XenCenter 5.6 sp2, Provisioning Server 5.6 sp2

Mongo DB, SQL 2016, DB2, Oracle, SYBASE, Access

BlackRock, Electronfie, YieldBook, Murex, Calypso, Splunk, Numerix, Charles River, Tableau, UML/Rational Rose, OOD, Tableau, VBA/Excel, VBA/Access, C#, VB, RUP, J2EE, Java, JavaScript, JSP, XML, JSON, DOM, C, C++, HTML, Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Studio .Net Enterprise Architect, Clarity

Executive MBA (EMBA), Mergers and Acquisitions, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 2017

Master of Science (MS), Cyber Security, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 2015

Bachelor of Science (BS), Engineering Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, 2009

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