Project Manager Management

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July 25, 2012

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Calvin Eddie Salone, **** Ramona Drive, Santa Ana, CA 92707, 770-***-****

Calvin has extensive experience with Financial Transformation, Risk Management and Information Technology. Calvin is decisive and effective Executive with a passion for strategy development, business system optimization, and solution implementation. Proven experience in large-scale process improvement with proficiency in identifying and resolving organizational inefficiencies and implementing best practice solutions. He has lead large-scale business transformation for ERP, Finance, Financial Services, Hi-Tech, Manufacturing, and other business processes and systems. Creative problem-solver with the ability to assess situations quickly, think strategically and implement tactically. He is proficient in conceptualization, design and leadership of innovative pragmatic solutions. He is an accomplished leader with a focus on financial and strategic planning, finance operations and system controls, and decision support. He has extensive experience with SOX, PCI, BASEL, ISO 27001, AML, GLBA, SAS70 and HIPPA Compliance. He has excellent working knowledge on databases oracle 11i and 11g and SQL. Oracle versions: 11i, 11g, 10g and Oracle E-Business Suite. Oracle Applications: GL, AP, AR, and HFM. He has provided HFM support financial accounting processes controls and oversight knowledge of IFRS (GAAP) reporting and acted as the Chairman of Disclosure Committee responsible for SEC Reporting requirements (e.g., forms 10-Q, 10-K, and 20-F), and (e.g., forms S-1 and S-3) executing independent SAS 70 reviews.

Education Qualification:

• Master of Business Administration, International Business, May 2003

Mercer University - Executive Master Business Administration, GPA: 3.692/4.0

• Bachelor of Science, Accounting, 1987

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, GPA: 3.2/4.0, Cum Laude; National Dean's List

Certifications

Completed three parts CPA and CIA Exams.

Technical Skills:

Khalix, Everest, Oracle Financial 11i, Co2o, Rumba, MaRS, AS400, UNIX, HFM, Imperva, Hyperion Essbase, SAP, SQL, M&D, D&B, PeopleSoft, Dynamics AX

Professional Experience:

Rose International Consulting Inc. Los Angeles, CA 07/12 – Present

Senior Compliance Project Manager, Client: Kaiser Permanente, Burbank, CA

• Collects and researches specific client requirements for projects, identifies requirements, and gathers workflow data and basic system and reporting specifications.

• Develops, implements, and supports common business processes and tools.

• Recommends basic alternatives to address problems.

• Project planning and execution: participates in project management process, including participating in project meetings.

• Documented issues, action items, user requirements, or deliverables from project meetings.

• Performed a variety of project related activities, including analysis or preparation of documentation and presentations.

• Accomplished all work within established methodologies and standards.

• Researched and resolved technical and functional issues according to defined prioritization/severity scheme.

• Account Management: Managed relationships with assigned customers/internal clients.

• Identified opportunities for business or process improvement.

• Made associated recommendations and implemented as appropriate.

• Responsibilities impacted the achievement of department objectives, including project deliverables and project timelines at the team level.

• Exercised independent judgment to make decisions for less defined issues and develops methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

Mindseeker, Inc. Charlotte, NC 05/12 – 06/12

Project Business Analyst, Client: Bank of America, ECM (Basel 2 Compliance), Charlotte, NC

• Developed a comprehensive Guidebook to document Basel E2E process Basel 2 Final Views through to filing reports for all Basel 2 Calculators.

• Developed a pseudo-technical document aimed at informing regulators, audit, compliance, QA on Bank of America’s E2E Basel reporting. It was designed to answer basic questions around methodology and logic with reference to technical documentation in appendix.

• Designed Guidebook to discuss Basel 2 Calculator features such as sourcing of positions, transformation (VAP Logic), Factor models and Calculation processes, establishing aggregation hierarchies, change control/UAT, and Consolidation and Reporting

Forward Think Group, Inc. New York, NY 05/11 – 11/11

Project Manager/Senior Management Consultant, Client: Citizens Financial Group (Dodd-Frank Regulatory Compliance), Providence, RI

Project lead, planning and implementation for Dodd-Frank Regulatory projects for Compliance.

Reviewed new products and services to ensure appropriate consideration of key compliance risks and any necessary mitigating controls

Assisted financial services clients to assess and comply with banking and other applicable regulations, such as Basel II and Dodd Frank, and understand the changing regulatory landscape

Provided technical knowledge with respect to the application of complex regulatory requirements related to market, liquidity, and interest risk.

Advised clients on improvement opportunities and help to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of internal controls and related processes; assess the processes and controls.

Assisted clients to leverage technologies, analytics, and data sources to solve a myriad of business issues.

Provided Senior Management with ad-hoc reporting of project deliverables and milestones for key strategic decisions.

Managed banking compliance related to consumer lending regulations, bank operations regulations, anti-money laundering (AML) requirements and trust operations and administration

Problem solved key operational risk/issues, evaluated the current state of processes, identified the critical path to solutions, and developed and executed plans to achieve success.

Managed the management of Service Delivery reporting, forecasting, variance analysis, and other performance management processes and practices. Identified performance requirements and accountability for results through the development of measures and monitoring of performance results.

Provided HFM support financial accounting processes controls and oversight knowledge of IFRS (GAAP) reporting.

Collaborated with the Service Delivery and leveraged stakeholders resources to collect KPI's, metrics and scorecard measurements to drive continuous improvement process and compliance leadership

Reviewed new third-party relationships to ensure appropriate due diligence related to applicable compliance issues

Consulted and advised senior management and business unit personnel in implementing new or modified regulations or industry guidelines

Performed oversight of the development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of compliance-related policies and procedures. Monitored and reported on trends with regard to consumer complaints and recommended appropriate actions to address potential issues

Conducted risk assessments to assess inherent and residual risks related to key compliance obligations

Developed and conducted monitoring and testing programs to ensure ongoing compliance with consumer laws and regulations and adherence to established policies and procedures

Facilitated the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables by defining project tasks and resource requirements to develop full scale project plans, and assembled and coordinated project staff SME, Business Analyst, Project Managers, managed project budget, manage project resource allocation, planned and scheduled project timelines, tracked project deliverables using appropriate tools, provided direction and support to project team, performed quality assurance. Presented reports defining project progress, problems and solutions and implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs and project evaluations and assessment of results.

RBS WorldPay US Atlanta, GA 11/08 – 02/11

Senior Project Manager/Analyst – Head of SOX, Operational Risk (Position down-sized)

• Responsible for Enterprise-wide Risk Strategy framework working with risk leadership company-wide to set risk appetite. Maintained delegation of authority levels and a strong system of risk governance in operations and IT.

• BPM Experience:

o Utilized BPM performance software to perform Business Process Improvements and to Identify and implement process improvement opportunities (cost cutting, revenue capture, risk reduction, etc.)

o Experience using advanced BPM and Business Rules Engine technology to reduce time to market, improve quality, ensure regulatory compliance, maximize revenues and cut costs.

o Solid experience leading all phases of full SDLC lifecycle enterprise development, planning, analyzing, designing, building and testing new Web and Client/Server applications.

• Responsible for Enterprise-wide IT Governance and Risk Management Managing and conducting assurance reviews based on risk frameworks (e.g., ISO17799/27001, COBIT, COSO, etc.) and assisted with internal, external, and regulatory audits initiatives. Knowledge and experience in security and regulatory frameworks including ISO 27001, GLBA, SOX, PCI, FFIEC etc.

• Served as SME on Enterprise AML Compliance to ensure policies and procedures adequately address the BSA/AML risks inherent in the line of business and OFAC Compliance programs to develop solutions to deficiencies..

• Facilitating training and sharing best practices across the organization in risk and AML. Quantifying and researching emerging risk issues.

• Managed an effective, risk based AML compliance program ensuring compliance with customer due diligence (KYC) and enhanced due diligence standards and compliance with OFAC requirements and other government sanctions Federal Reserve, SEC, FDIC and OCC. Manage and develop an Operational & Regulatory Risk governance framework to monitor Global Payments operations risk assessment quarterly.

• Proficient in translating regulatory requirements (e.g., FCRA, PCI, GLBA, etc.) into specific and sustainable IT controls and solutions that enable compliance. Ensured compliance with quality standards and methods as defined by Quality Management/Assurance.

• Performed evaluation on Level 1, 2, 3 and 4 Merchants for PCI DSS compliance utilizing DSS 1.2.1 standard. Identified scope impacts to applications, performed risk analysis of PCI exposure utilizing Vontu scanning results. Performed evaluation of mature PCI DSS existing internal compliance efforts and to partner with Amazon teams toward improving the security with/of external vendors and associated sensitive data storage and transmission

• Extensive experience in Finance and Reporting Operations Reviews to improve the effectiveness of current processes and develop new processes to support business innovation.

• Ability to evaluate progress of a project during the System Development Life Cycle and to make directional correction changes that mitigate risks and cost overrun issues and to satisfy customers.

• Established targets via benchmarking, ad-hoc reporting, business and Service Delivery leadership input, and through interfacing with Service Delivery service providers to Senior Management.

• Performed detail cost benefit analysis reviews of project costs and estimates presented to Senior Management.

• Conducted IT Risk reviews based on knowledge of IT infrastructure (e.g., firewalls, operating systems, databases, etc.) and on-line applications design and architecture, operations, and security

• Coordinated Basel II analytical reviews, modeling and General Computer Control risk reviews for IT. Coordinated with auditors (i.e. SAS70, RBS WorldPay Internal Audit Group, D&T Auditors) to perform SOX audit efficiently and effectively. Demonstrated proficiency in PCAOB, SEC and SOX regulations compliance.

• Oracle Experience:

o Working on the implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 system. Involved in the following business analyst tasks: (a) performing configurations, (b) writing up functional specifications for reports/alerts/customizations (including working with users on requirements) and creating high-level technical design documents, (c) generating test scripts, (d) performing quality assurance tests (prior to user testing), and (e) producing training materials, etc.. This project phase focused on implementing a set of the Oracle Service/CRM modules such as Tele-Service/Case Management (CS) and Install Base (CSI).

o Components designed and tested include: (i) Customer conversion into TCA; (ii) Invoice conversion into AR; (iii) Install Base instance conversion into IB; (iv) Service Request and Task conversion into CS; (v) interfaces to and from IB; (vi) customization to auto-generate service requests; and (vii) various reports.

IBM Global Business Services Atlanta, GA 11/05 – 11/07

Project Manager/ Senior Manager/ - Finance Transformation Consultant

• BPM Experience:

• Utilized BPM performance software (Lombardi) to perform Business Process Improvements and to Identify and implement process improvement opportunities (cost cutting, revenue capture, risk reduction, etc.)

• Strong knowledge implementing business processes using Lambordi and Blueworks Live including mapping business requirements into process/screen-flows, component design and integration, setting up of interconnection between Lambordi and Blueworks and External interfaces like Java, Mail Server, RDBMS, and Web Services components etc.

• Extensive experience in developing Finance Vision & Strategy, Value Proposition, Transformation Roadmap and Business Case

• Experience in Predictive Analytics, Performance Measurement and Scorecard (definition of KPI’s for all level of the organization)

• Extensive experience in redesigning Capital Planning, Pricing Support, Budgeting Forecasting and Planning and Corporate Performance Management processes

• Extensive experience in redesigning Order To Cash, Procure To Pay, Record To Report processes, including the design and implementation of large complex ERP programs Organized and facilitated process workshops in one or more core finance areas: Record-to-Report (RtR), Procure-to-Pay (PtP), Order-to-Cash (OtC) to solicit business and process requirements. Developing and maintaining business processes, written policies, and controls from order receipt through shipping with the exception of manufacturing.

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing Shared Services business models and Outsourcing Advisory

• Process Consulting Experience

a)Process Reengineering & Best Practices

b)Process Measurement including the Balanced Scorecard

c)Cycle Time Analysis

• Created and executed project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. Worked with the SOX Business Consultant to develop and manage the database SOX processes, standard procedures, and enforcement of processes to enable compliance with SOX control requirements. Reviewed internal procedures to ensure compliance under SOX, PCI, and HIPAA policies.

• Worked with Senior Management teams to develop Ad-hoc reporting to gather, define and design strategic objectives for finance as defined and planned. Identified Risk control solutions for each business process; which may include configuration controls, access controls, manual and/or management reporting controls. Evaluated interface and conversation process risk from an operational and systems perspective.

• Facilitating training and sharing best practices across the organization in risk and AML. Quantifying and researching emerging risk issues.

Manager – Business Transformation Consultant (Clients: T-Mobile, Yellow Pages of Canada, Columbia Gas, Huawei –Shenzhen, China)

• Lead project teams in client current state Enterprise Risk assessments of strategic business processes. IT General Application controls and finance processes across business units. Coordinated with senior management to define future state technology to be implemented. Identified and prioritized key issues and pain points for the organization. Experienced in analyzing performance metrics, risks and controls. Cost budget management experience. Demonstrated project management experience. Ensured compliance, standardization, and global consistency with internal policy, and regulations relating to Order Management

• Reviewed application systems to assess their completeness, accuracy, validity, efficiency, security of data, and control procedures to identify potential internal control issues and/or efficiency improvements.

IT Risk Management Consultant

• Lead project team implementations through all phases of System Development Life Cycle of Hyperion HFM, and Oracle Financials. Project lead with project planning of the team in implementation of budgeting, planning and forecasting business objects design for an Oil and Gas company in Ohio.

• Managed and conducted assurance reviews based on risk frameworks (e.g., ISO17799/27001, COBIT, COSO, etc.) and professional certification (e.g., CISSP, CIPP, CISA, etc.)

• Performed change management activities using enterprise tools.

• Evaluated and performed cost benefit analysis, for recommendations to maintain database compliance tools to monitor, track and, measure compliance and remediate any issues.

• Managed Fortune 500 companies SOX programs and other governance compliance efforts. Completed test work in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley S404 on IT General and IT Application controls identified for Internal Control over Financial Reporting, and reviewing and revising existing audit programs as appropriate.

• Conducted regular IT General Controls activity reviews, which require general technical knowledge in the areas of user access reviews and privileges, audit and logging, service and change management.

Environment: PCI standards, Sarbanes-Oxley S404 Compliance, PCI DSS Standards, SDLC methodology, Oracle Financial 11i, Co2o, Rumba, PeopleSoft, HFM, MaRS, AS400, UNIX, Hyperion Essbase, SAP, SQL Project Management: Microsoft Project and Clarity

Proxy Med, Incorporated, Norcross, Georgia 04/04 – 02/05

Director of Internal Audit (company filed bankruptcy)

• Built internal audit department, developed policies, methodologies and procedures in the development of annual audit plan. Supervised operational and financial audits and managed the internal Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and operational risk environment.

• Acted as the Chairman of Disclosure Committee responsible for SEC Reporting requirements and disclosure of financial information setting parameters for disclosure for • all SEC filings, (e.g., forms 10-Q, 10-K, and 20-F), and (e.g., forms S-1 and S-3) executing independent SAS 70 review

• Conducted audits of existing data processing applications to ensure that systems produce desired information. Ensured compliance with PCI DSS standards. Conducted COBIT reviews of IT Infrastructure, providing in-depth analysis of governance framework and SDLC methodology. Mapped COBIT objectives to control points in IT processes to ensure adequate control environment exists. Evaluated processes to ensure infrastructure is being managed correctly

• Provided leadership and overall coordination for delivery of Database Services SOX initiatives, remediation and sustainability. Oracle Applications: (11i, 11g, 10g and Oracle E-Business Suite)

• Purchase to Pay

• Order to Cash

• Record to Report

• General Ledger

• Allocated and managed several DBA across multiple SOX initiatives, remediation and sustainability processes.

• Performed Cost Benefits analysis on installation of new ERP system for financial reporting.

• Defined and created database compliance solutions and governance policies

• Developed database remediation strategy for the SOX findings

• Reviewed internal procedures to ensure compliance under SOX, PCI, and HIPAA policies.

BellSouth Corporation/ Cingular Wireless 05/99 – 05/02

Sr. Finance Manager, SE Region (position downsized from merger)

• Performed monthly close consolidation financial reporting, analysis and interpretation of key financial drivers through Oracle 11i and development of Access Pivot tables and ad-hoc reporting of Hyperion and business objects based systems.

• Performed quarterly SEC filing requirements for 10K, 10Q and MDA sections of financial statements. Also, performed monthly and quarterly closing reviews utilizing MaRS and Hyperion Essbase ad-hoc reporting and Access database.

• Performed strategic business plan analysis and assessment of M&A projects, evaluation and integration planning.

BellSouth Telecommunications - Regional Trapper Center

Budget Manager

• Developed and strategically analyzed annual $6.1 million budget and capital requirements for all aspects of financial operations. Performed monthly, quarterly and annual closing and financial analysis and evaluation of critical expense area.

• Provided cost savings of $2.1 million, through development of comprehensive transformation recommendations utilizing various tools to change the factors that effected performance and execution of operational objects and utilized reporting models in Hyperion Essbase. Provided performance measurements for new savings initiatives and projected cost savings.

BellSouth Telecommunications, Network Carrier Services

Finance Manager

• Coordinated and developed recommendations of financial goals, objectives and policies to senior management regarding Net Income, Return on Equity, Cash Flow, Capital Structure, and expense and accounting issues for BST, its state profit centers and its departmental units. Performed financial and cash flow analysis and evaluated each profit center’s operating and financial plans on SAP financials. Developed methodologies to improve financial performance.

Environment: Hyperion Essbase, Oracle 11i Financial 11i, Co2o, Rumba, MaRS, AS400, UNIX, Hyperion Essbase, SAP, SQL, Project Management: Microsoft Project

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