Kevin O. Woghiren-Shames

Chicago, IL 312-***-**** adex9g@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwoghiren IT Program Manager Cyber Security Process Improvement Leader Accomplished high energy, creative, multilingual technology and cybersecurity professional, with in-depth background in IT risk management, Internal auditing, IT strategy development, and project program management. Innovation focused leader that achieves sustainable business outcomes through team guidance, strategic thinking, and execution. Strategic planner skilled at quickly connecting corporate vision to tactical plans to make immediate impact on bottom-line results. Flourish in dynamic, demanding environments. Areas of Expertise

IT Security Risk and Compliance Data Analytics

Project Program Management Internal Audit Leadership and Development Data Governance and Privacy Software Development Executive Presentations Core Technical Competencies

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Content Management, QuickBase, Agile, ITIL, ITSM Database Management, SAP Project Systems, ERP, Agile (Scrum Product Owner), Six Sigma Green Belt Professional Experience

GE CURRENT, A DAINTREE COMPANY Chicago, IL 04 2019 – 06 2020 Commercial Operations—Projects IT Leader

Partner with business solution engineering and project management teams to define IT strategy and execution plan for customer projects. Manage software development team to execute IT projects with business alignment, strong focus on planning, budgeting, tracking, identifying and resolving risks across projects and programs.

● Support digital efforts to improve revenue recognition process on customer projects and increase visibility into in-transit inventory with 3rd-party partners.

● Managed 10-member team to maintain a portfolio of project management tools and ensure IT operational excellence for customer lighting and digital installations.

● Increased overall team efficiency via decreased IT run rate spend for project management tools by 68% via reduced development spend and tools consolidation.

● Improved time-to-install metric from 5 days to 2 days via installation life cycle process redesign enabling increased uptime at customer sites and project revenue to be recognized in a timely manner. GENERAL ELECTRIC—GE Boston, MA 02 2016 – 04 2019 Senior Information Security Program Manager

Owned the technical, secure cloud, and connectivity product delivery for multiple teams within GE Lighting’s Intelligent Environments portfolio while driving team velocity. Led successful implementation of company's first-ever digital rights management (DRM) program.

● Provided IT risk and product management support to commercial teams. Managed team of contingent workers to maintain the secure cloud operations of a Software as a Service (SaaS) product.

● Partnered with legal and compliance teams to implement a next-gen encryption system to secure over

$1.5B worth of most critical intellectual property. Kevin O. Woghiren-Shames adex9g@r.postjobfree.com Page Two GENERAL ELECTRIC—GE, Cont.

● Led IT risk and security elements of RFP responses and pre-sales activities that enabled digital opportunities of $80M+.

● Served as the IT liaison and subject matter expert on Export Control, EU General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), USCAN Privacy, and Ombuds processes tools. Senior IT Internal Auditor, 01 2014 – 02 2016

Conducted large-scale comprehensive IT risk assessments and audits, gap analysis assessments against industry standards, and supported implementation of recommended solutions. Identified audit and advisory matters and proposed continuous improvement initiatives to senior managers and executive leaders.

● Mentored junior auditors and relied upon as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for e.g. NIST, ISO, SOC, HIPAA, by business teams.

● Contributed to the creation of a continuous risk assessment framework to enable greater coverage of scoped IT and Finance controls by factor of at least 1.5x and streamline risk communication with senior leadership.

● Developed mechanism to semi-automate software vulnerability discovery in industrial product install base, resulting in decreased overall manual-hours around security research. IT Project Manager and Software Developer, 06 2010 – 01 2014 Contributed software development and project management expertise in development of solutions that enabled cost simplification opportunities for corporate, global operations, and facilities teams.

● Developed hands-on expertise in key technologies, including Javascript, jQuery, Python, SQL, HTML, Web Services, Network Security, Google Analytics, Data Visualization, and Hadoop.

● Led development of internal analytics platform for GE’s private aircraft fleet maintenance team that resulted in 100% paperwork elimination.

Education

Bachelor of Science, (BS)—Computer Science (Networks and Security) Loyola University, Chicago, IL Postgraduate Certificate—Mandarin Chinese and Management Science Peking University, Beijing, CHINA Test of Chinese As A Foreign Language (TOCFL)—Ministry of Education, Republic of CHINA EMC Proven Professional Data Scientist Associate (EMCDSA)—Big Data Training Publications

Publication—"A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Three-Dimensional Loading Constraints" Cambridge University Press - RAIRO Operations Research April 2012 Co-Author Additional Information

Multilingual—English, Nigerian Edo, Mandarin (intermediate), Russian (beginner)

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