Security Analyst Project Manager

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SKILLS / COMPETENCIES

Project Management / Project Organization and Planning Skills/ Project Organization and Planning Skills/ Communication Skills/ IT Skills/ MS Project & SQL/Security Documentation/ Frameworks (ISO 27001, COBIT, PCI-DSS, NIST, HIPPA, GDPR)/ Vulnerability Management

(Testing/Assessment) /Patch Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan/Incident Prevention and Response documentation/ Report writing and recommendations PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COMPANY NAME: KGC TECHNOLOGY (DALLAS, TEXAS)

DESIGNATION: INFORMATION SECURITY ANALYST (FEB 2018- TILL DATE) Responsibilities:

Help clients identify IT risks and ensure controls implemented are well designed and working as intended. This includes the evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of IT General Controls, application controls, Security controls, and data analytics while leveraging on ISO 27001, NIST and COBIT frameworks.

Assisted in Policy development and PCI-DSS Compliance, ensuring IT Governance objectives set by senior management are efficient and working as intended

Assessing IT control elements to mitigate IT risks regarding the confidentiality, integrity, and the availability of business information.

Responsible for conducting walkthrough interviews, updating and documenting process flow charts. Identified and tested IT Control and reported issues to the IT Management of the company.

Reviewing user policies, job functions, permissions and authorization from time to time to ensure least privilege policy is enforced.

Proactively interacted with POC to gather evidence, resolve audit-related problems, and made recommendations for business and process improvements, document audit report and submit to Audit Supervisor.

Assist with the development and testing of effective remediation plans for control deficiencies in addition to identifying areas for improvement, and discuss findings and recommendations with the process owner/business.

Worked with third party application vendors/ clients to ensure appropriate security standard and compliance with regulations. Ensured all vendor patches are applied and up to date.

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Ensuring new vendor applications go through the required Information security review and any high findings remediated prior going into production.

Identifying with Data owners/custodians to determine the appropriate classification of data and proper security controls.

Conducting Threat assessments on findings to help business understand the appropriate risk rating

Perform Information Security Review of Applications in the cloud.

Ensure all applications are in compliance with regulatory security requirements/controls for Sensitive Information protection

Manage several application teams to ensure all their applications are scanned for software vulnerabilities, and all fixes applied as per schedule

Engaging in ongoing communication with cross-functional partners to ensure company- wide understanding of IT goals, soliciting feedback and fostering cooperation.

COMPANY NAME: BLUESEA CONSULTING (NIGERIA)

DESIGNATION: INFORMATION SECURITY ANLYST (FEB 2015- JAN 2018)

Ensure compliance with company’s policies, procedures and other frameworks / guidelines to ensure CIA is adequately enforced.

Monitored security infrastructure for policy violations or security events and participates in problem management activities.

Performed assessment of IT internal controls as part of the compliance and operational audits.

Work with the Vendor Management Office and Head Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Management to formulate holistic strategy around third party vendor security compliance

Reviewed SDLC, manual and automated controls, and oversaw the implementation of corrective action plans while maintaining communication with all levels of management.

Met with process owners and other point of contact to remediate findings/exceptions and as follow up to ensure system and process security.

Performed assessments of application controls and IT general controls such as access control, change management, operations, disaster recovery and job scheduling

Supported the development, implementation, and monitoring of data confidentiality, system integrity, system reliability, recovery methods and procedures COMPANY NAME: BLUESEA CONSULTING (NIGERIA)

DESIGNATION: PROJECT MANAGER AND IT SUPPORT (JULY 2011-JAN 2015) Responsibilities (Project Manager):

Lead planning and implementation of projects

Facilitate the definition of project mission, goals, task and resource requirements

Resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas

Respond to develop methods to monitor project or area progress and provide corrective supervision if necessary.

Manage project budget and resource allocation.

Prepare project reports

Gather and analyze information about the projects undertaken

Advise management on matters requiring attention, and implement management decisions on projects

Administration of the work undertaken by contractors

Assist in the review and development of administrative systems and procedures

Facilitate the definition of service level and customer requirements

Communicate between managers and different project workers

Interact regularly with existing or potential client to determine their needs and to develop plans for improving deliverable

Advocate on behalf of client and represent client’ needs as appropriate to senior management

Work cross-functionally to solve problem and Implement

Monitoring project deadlines

Responsibilities (IT Support)

Monitor computer networks for security issues

Install security measures and operate software to protect systems and information infrastructure, including firewalls and data encryption programs

Work with the security team to perform tests and uncover network vulnerabilities

Stay up-to-date on information technology trends and security standards. CERTIFICATIONS

Nigerian Institute of Management (N.I.M)

Project In Control Management (PRINCE 2) UK

CompTIA Security +

EDUCATION

1997 – 2001 University of Ado-Ekiti. (UNAD) Ekiti State, Nigeria

B.Sc. Banking and Finance.

Second Class Upper Division

2007 – 2008 University of East London, United Kingdom

PGD Business Information System

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