KIMBERLY LA MANTIA

Website: www.kimberlymantia.com

Phone: +1-301-***-****

Email: ad0vjh@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Wall Street Banking veteran of Global Markets and Trading, plus Emerging Technology, Defense and Energy.

Experience working for organizations in/and or with all global centers, majority of worldwide business and offshore centers for private sector businesses. Extensive experience working with cross-functional and cross-border

relationships; and global and transnational project development and deployment. Managed budgets up to

$138M, worked within budgets up to $700M and

contributed efforts to $1.7T joint venture. Managed functions encompassing 1300+ employees, dealt with all levels of management and led teams of up to 60 persons. Experience with North America, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe, United Kingdom and South America.

2019-2022: Energy, Technology and Security (Cyber

Defense); including Threat Intelligence, Cloud, Strategic Planning, Systems Engineering, Operational Technology Governance, Capital Investments and more. Also engaged in Military Technology, Counterintelligence and Threat Reduction efforts. Dedicated full time since 2019 working and living in the Washington DC - Baltimore area focused on Cyber Defense and Cyber Security, managing and

participating in teams consisting of most all former and active duty military.

Currently completing Solutions Architect Expert

requirements plus additional training in building next generation security operations powered by the cloud, hybrid solutions and AI enabling me to further simplify security operations with intelligent security analytics and scale business growth; additional training includes Threat Hunting, Defender and Endpoint.

Seeking full-time or consultancy roles in New York City, Washington DC, Germany, other top EU locations, UAE, Saudi Arabia, remote or dependent upon opportunity. FOCUS

Strategy Risk Management Change Management

Cyber Negotiation Project Management

Technology Global Markets Program Management

Security Governance Defense

Energy Client Service Business Development

EDUCATION

Harvard Business School

Executive Program 2017

Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen

Class Rank: 4/400

University of Pennsylvania Wharton School

Certificate 2015

Global Trends for Business and Society

Harvard Kennedy School

Executive Program 2012

Mastering Negotiation & Building Agreements

Class Rank: 1/55

New York University

Master of Science in Global Affairs 2006-7

(Candidate)

Chatham University

Master of Business Administration 2001

Concentration: Management

Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame

Bachelor of Arts 1996

Majors: English/Writing & Sociology

EXPERIENCE

CEO, Bova Falcone LLC 2007-Present

Legally incorporated LLC most focused on Global Financial Markets, Emerging Technology, Defense and Energy. Owned and operated as a solo-entrepreneur, adding additional staff as needed per project parameters. Senior Managing Consultant; NAVSEA & NAVAIR - US Navy, Various locations 2019-2022 Senior Project Management Consultant - Exelon, Washington, DC 2019-2022 Corporation best in their industry, the United States leading competitive energy provider and ranks in the top 10 globally, known for operational excellence; conducting business in 48 states and Canada. Senior Project Manager, Cyber Defense Operations (2020-2022)

• Member of Cyber Security Operations Center and Cyber Defense team, worked with Joint Special Operations Command and Information Security Operations Center. Most focused on cyber defense combatting advanced global threats, Nation-State and professional criminal organizations from critical information networks.

• Team member for Microsoft Azure Cloud initiatives for group from pre-design strategy to full development and implementation of large data platform, including M365 Defender Antivirus, Data Loss Prevention and Microsoft Azure (Combined Identity Management and Networking, Azure Government Cloud Security compliant with US Department of Defense) including Identity, Security, Management and Protection, Advanced Compute, Advanced Data, Development, Networking, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics.

• Managed Capital Refresh initiative; a five year project with a $6.1M cyber hardware capital investment budget and the largest project in the business division. Managed short term and long term budgets, completes budget forecasting and reporting, change management issues, logistics and external project resources.

• Managed and developed strategy for Operational Technology Governance initiative, a five year plan, which is the first of it’s kind in the industry; work streams include Intelligence and Threat Analysis, Asset Inventory, OT Threat Visualization, Splunk/Logging and Monitoring Infrastructure, Security Baseline Configuration, Intrusion Prevention System, OT Architecture Engagement Form, Cyber Vulnerability Detection and Management.

• Managed Data Center Consolidation for Security. Consolidation of 19 data centers from companies acquired during the past 20 years to two enterprise and four real-time data centers as part of cost optimization program. Redesigned cost allocation methology to incentivize data center usage, improved governance process for effective operations and maintenance of the data centers and aligned with real time data center strategy. Three year project to migrate applications from non-strategic to strategic data center.

• Project Manager for Domain Monitoring and Incident Response initiatives. Participated in full lifecycle of new ransomware protection, secure access, threat intel and cloud-naive vendors and software.

• Managed multiple full cycle vendor management relationship lifecycles and completes all associated activities.

• Managed the process of closing several secret service accounts which considerably tightened up the company’s security posture. Led cross functional teams and directed work to be completed and execution.

• Developed design of Spunk Cloud architecture, an enterprise-ready cloud service for machine data, divided into ten Cloud environments and four facilities. Included data sources in, data sources out and key customer bases. Senior Project Manager, Cyber Security Vulnerability Management (2019-2020)

• Managed major cybersecurity vulnerability detection and management initiative. Managed vulnerabilities utilizing threat intelligence and tenable data science; operated in Tenable Security Center, Nessus and CyberArk. Led and managed team of 25 contributors. Streamlined project design, schedule, and execution. Managed strategic alignment to business goals, optimized resource allocation, ensured continuous improvement and led problem resolution. Designed risk management architecture. Created and managed KRI's and metrics; employed advanced analytics. Exercised operational risk management to ensure security, compliance, encryption, identity and access management. Maintained relationships with technical leaders. Negotiated with vendors; negotiated vendor to 40% less asking price. Managed both Linux and Windows/Active Directory server environments. Leadership Candidate & Strategic Advisor - United Nations, New York, NY 2008-2018 Most influential intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

Leadership Candidate, Country Manager (2018)

• Spent 2018 recruited by United Nations and building a global profile; shortlisted four times and placed 3/15,000 resumes for UNOPS Indonesia Country & Fund Manager role. Invited, attended and included in the following:

• United Nations General Assembly - Attendee & Participant. Events included Concordia Annual Summit, Bloomberg Global Business Forum, UN Global Compact Leaders Summit, Africa: Open for Business, HSBC Finance for Global Change Forum, World Benchmarking Alliance, Clean Capitalist Leadership Council.

• United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development - Attendee & Participant Events included UN Global Compact Business Forum, Implementing the SDGs in Latin America, UNICEF

“Every Child Alive," Civil Society participation in the Lower Mekong Region, Looking Beyond Hallelujah to Access & Renewable Energy”.

• Sustainable Investing Conference at the United Nations. Convening of those deemed best positioned to move meaningful capital into the Sustainable Investing space. Discussion of the alignment of investor capital with the UN SDGs.

Strategic Advisor, Economic Development (2008-2013)

• Contributor, Association of African Entrepreneurs Contributed efforts toward a book focused on Africa’s economy and business environment; business sectors, business impetus, risk factors and small business development/process per each country.

• Global Manager, Goodness & Mercy Mission of Cameron Led globally dispersed team and developed project proposal providing $20,000 in corporate funding for widows starting an income generative soap-making business.

• Executive Board Member, 21st Century African Youth Movement, Sierra Leone. Developed job fair for Sierra Leonean youth, focusing on local career training and job opportunities utilizing country’s infrastructure and natural resources.

Director of Finance at Gateway Health Plan, an affiliate of Highmark Health, Pittsburgh, PA 2016-17 The Medicare/Medicaid arm of Highmark Health, the 8th largest national health insurer by market share. Recruited by CFO who created a new role for me to join organization. Hired to aid taking the department and organization “to the next level”.

• Developed $138M Small Business spend for successful RFP resulting in the company being awarded all zones in state for the first time in the business’ history; increasing annual revenue 40%. Selected by CEO to attend Governor’s Winter Gala in place of the CEO, discussed pending RFP results with Governor. Organized successful Small Business Symposium, obtained keynote speaker US Congressional Representative. Maintained relationships with state capital contacts, oversaw quarterly reporting process. Managed staff.

• Managed Enterprise Risk Management, including threat assessments, risk assessment statements and metrics, key performance indicators and stress scenarios. Linked strategy, financial plan and risk management of issues. Managed revenue and profit optimization, infrastructure development, operational excellence and expansion and growth.

• COO to CFO; planned and directed administrative, financial and operational activities. Demonstrated strong program management skills. Point of contact between CFO and employees or other stakeholders. Provided oversight and guidance of high importance and confidential projects. Managed and worked with external consultants to ensure execution and issue resolution of major improvement initiatives. Developed department leadership sessions.

• Significantly improved performance of Audit function, inherited a failing program and bought it to a perfect status. Managed External Audits and relationships. Managed cross-functional teams. Achieved resolution of all identified issues. Managed Audit Committee and all associated activities, maintained relationship with Committee members. Managed staff.

Strategic Planning Consultant - Duquesne Light, Pittsburgh, PA 2016 Top regional energy company: Developed high-level cybersecurity strategic plan for CIO. Created transition plan strategy for project to next stage and next version. Monitored and maintained integration points of project efforts and projects coordinated with non-regulatory projects, reviewed regulations and identified technology projects to be implemented, created project plans to comply with regulations, reviewed/assessed risks identified within projects, monitored compliance of regulatory projects within corporate and regulatory guidelines. Senior Strategy Consultant - AIG, New York, NY 2013 Global insurance company: Managed lean planning, increased efficiency and drove growth of European portfolio while focused on competition, target markets, sales channels and revenue enhancement. Business Performance Consultant - PSEG, Newark, NJ 2011-12 Top energy company in state: Drove strategy down and across the organization, transformed strategies into actionable metrics and used analytics to expose the cause-and-effect relationships that provided insight into decision making. Assigned to 67% of revenue and $16.9B asset management portfolio. Recommended value added solutions to enhance reporting process. Completed monthly and quarterly performance/scorecard measures contributing to strategic objectives and strategic business model. Developed dashboards, metrics, scorecards and analytics.

Transition Management Consultant – Morgan Stanley, New York, NY 2011 Top global bank: Provided consultative services to $1.7T conversion and integration. Developed effective and innovative strategies, conducted due diligence, identified new solutions, key opportunities, potential risks and key nuances. Analyzed business strategy, participated in product meetings determining go-forwards and participated in technology change releases.

Program Management Consultant – Deutsche Bank, New York, NY 2010 Top global bank: Member of Chief Operating Officer’s team. Maintained projects within allocated budgets, achieved targets, improved organizational performance, managed associated strategy, finance, governance, sourcing and resource management issues for group of 400, 100+ programs, 400+ projects and $100M budget within IT space. Worked with the global team, consolidated work streams to provide centralized view. Established appropriate governance structures and mechanisms. Actively managed issue resolution across programs in real time.

Regulatory Integration Consultant - BNY Mellon, New York, NY 2009 Top global bank: Participated in reporting system integration that increased profitability, reduced complexity and incorporated regulations. Managed volatility while creating and maintaining sustainable business advantages. Managed project issues escalated by individual work stream project managers. Identified, assessed and solved complex business issues. Conducted in-depth valuation of variable factors, analyzed situations and data. Strategic Planning Consultant - Pfizer, New York, NY 2008-9 Top global pharmaceutical company: Lowered operating costs and determined best allocation of $700MM+ capital budget and provisions of recommended projects based on fiscal parameters and business need in preparation for acquisition. Ensured assets utilized to fullest potential and formed capital investment decisions. Enterprise Risk Management Consultant - Ichan Enterprises, New York, NY 2008 Top global venture capital firm: Managed risks and seized opportunities related to enhancing shareholder value. Conducted due diligence, evaluated, assessed impact of globally dispersed corporate-wide controls and risks for

$227M diversified holding company owning subsidiaries in Investment Management, Real Estate and Textiles; determined remediation to protect and create value. Change Management Consultant – Deutsche Bank, New York, NY 2007 Top global bank: Outsourced function from New York to Bangalore, India. Developed strategic implementation plan, conducted due diligence, lowered costs, redirected resources at the competencies of the business and made more efficient use of labor, capital, technology and resources. Vice President, Operational Risk Manager for the Americas at Credit Agricole CIB, New York, NY 2006-7 Prominent French bank headquartered in Paris, France; 11th largest global bank by asset size. Recruited to aid New York location in escalating from being an “Office” to a “Global Hub” for the organization.

• Managed Operational Risk in the United States, Canada, Latin and South Americas. Spearheaded and developed global relationships and cooperated with external partners to develop ideas, communicate, launch plans internally and to a global team. Direct report to Managing Director.

• Identified, managed and quantified governance breakdowns for $56MM in assets and over 1300 employees by evaluating loss amounts associated with risks and losses, assessed their overall capital adequacy. Recorded loss events, event severity, distribution and optimized the allocation of capital. Identified and set enhancement strategies within analytical framework, internal and external loss event data, analyzing historical performance, business trends and scenario analysis. Developed suite of risk reports synthesizing data from inter alias risk assessments, risk event data, audits and regulatory reviews.

• Developed Business Continuity/contingency plans against IT system failures and disaster events. Cooperated with external partners to develop ideas, communicate, launched plans internally and to a global team regarding implementation of new management database system. Managed vendor relationships and network data correspondents across all lines of business.

Vice President, Compliance & Control Officer at Morgan Stanley, New York NY 2005 Ranked as one of the top five global investment banks, headquartered in New York, NY. Recruited for newly created role resulting from strong industry demand and regulator focus.

• Managed Compliance and Control for 400 employees; then selected to manage function for 1300 employees and $5MM operation after two months on job. Direct report to Managing Director. Developed action plan enhancing and improving compliance and control procedures; implemented change and intensive/demanding oversight function. Drove initiatives supporting business and operational needs via engaging stakeholders and building relationships. Conducted due diligence of compliance and control issues. Established priorities and objectives, managed execution and enforcement, member of Process Risk Sub-Committee. Governance Consultant, New York, NY 2004-5

The US Congress Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 protects investors from fraudulent accounting activities by corporations; it mandates strict reforms to improve financial disclosures and requires management and auditors establish internal controls and reporting methods on the adequacy of those controls. Project Manager, Technology Sarbanes-Oxley Review – Merrill Lynch, New York, NY Top global bank: Managed 30 Consultants for Sarbanes-Oxley review for AsiaPac region; Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong.

US Headquarters Sarbanes-Oxley Review – HSBC, Barclays & Bear Stearns, New York, NY All top global banks: Reviewed financial and operational deficiencies and exposure for products, including front- to-back trading activities.

Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, NY 2003-4 Prominent global consulting firm headquartered in London, England; top firm by revenue and market share. Recruited to organization for New York office and newly created Financial Services FORCe Advisory practice.

(Finance, Operations, Risk, and Compliance excellence.) Bond Trading & Risk Management - Bear Stearns, New York, NY Top global bank: Completed risk and compliance review of bond trading activity focused on credit risk and market risk.

SWAP Options Trading & Risk Management - Bank of America, Charlotte, NC Top global bank: Conducted sophisticated SWAP calculations for requested client portfolios. Financial Restatement - Freddie Mac, Washington DC Government sponsored enterprise: Selected for team assigned to high profile financial reinstatement and SOX review for client.

Assistant Vice President at PNC Financial Services Group, Pittsburgh, PA 1997-2003 Prominent US Bank headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA; 8th largest US bank by asset size. Received All-Star Employee Award three out of six years of tenure. Achieved Corporate Officer title at age 24, the youngest of 26,000 to possess the title.

Quality Control Manager, Mortgage (2002-2003)

• First Quality Control Manager hired for Mortgage Sub-Prime Servicing operation, during interest rate record low. Constructed program. Managed both regulatory and business initiatives. Reduced error rates from 90% to 5%. Compliance Officer, Corporate Risk Management (1999-2002)

• Ascertained and assessed risk factors, performed moderate complex research, analysis and monitoring of consumer deposit and lending issues, policies and procedures and AML/KYC/BSA issues. Selected to manage reputation risk for corporate re-branding. Contributed to bank-wide OFAC reviews after 9/11 terrorist attacks. Senior Associate, Private Bank (1998-1999)

• Achieved highest customer resolution rating of 95%, outperforming peers by 15%; rating based on profit retention levels and customer satisfaction.

Management Trainee (1997-1998)

• Reported to Senior Vice President; completed work for SVP and VP-level reports.

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