Cyber Security Business Analyst
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
Total des années d'expérience :14 years, 8 Mois
•Gathered business requirements applicable to current state asymmetric and symmetric cryptography and/or encryption on applications used within RBC.
•Performed exploratory analysis on various external connections data sources to identify current encryption used to improve the detection of potential cyber threats.
•Analyzed large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns.
•Presented information using data visualization techniques.
•Undertook preprocessing of structured and unstructured data from RSA Archer and IIPM.
•Shared intelligence findings and reports with communities of interest and partners.
•Created complex spreadsheets and templates to track informational data sources and followed-up with resources within the company to ensure accuracy.
•Created, modified, and maintained materials to be presented to third-party vendor.
•Developed and maintained process and procedure documentation to stay current with the threat landscape.
•Provided rigorous analysis of the current state encryption/cryptography metrics and support for the business to understand and optimize potential threats.
•Created weekly and monthly status update reports with a dashboard view that included defining milestones, tasks, and timelines for executive level to review and analyze Quantum Safe Program project.
•Monitored project progress and success including assess risks and issues and took appropriate measures ensuring project organization and conflict recognition were clearly communicated to the team.
• Documented business requirements in the format applicable to the project (user stories, requirements documents, use cases) for fraud technologies.
• Facilitated sessions with small to medium sized groups and lead meetings effectively, including with external vendors.
• Created and executed requirements management plans.
• Leads the development of requirements documentation for the project while managing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Built and maintained productive relationships with project team and external stakeholders, working well in a team environment and managing conflict even in challenging situations.
• Worked closely with solution architect to prepare Bank of the West fraud technologies and data integration with BMO systems.
• Participated in the design, development and implementation of security strategy and initiatives to ensure the best possible measures are in place to enhance application security, including processes, procedures, and policies.
• Articulated and documented technical concepts on many levels - modified approach as required for differing audiences.
• Conducted requirements gathering tasks and supported implementation of vulnerability and configuration management tool integration (Wiz) to ServiceNow to identify and access network and security monitoring.
• Performed comprehensive validation and testing along with building and documenting all processes related to the focus areas at BMO.
• Clearly identified and articulated problems and potential impacts to scope, solution design, downstream systems, and other projects.
Participated in RFP process from creation to completion and provide vendor selection recommendations.
•Provided general support to Procurement Team and Managers with regard to program administration and analyses.
•Worked closely with our Cybersecurity vendor to manage TRA/PIA/Pen Tests (Threat Risk Assessments, Privacy Impact Assessment and Penetration Tests) on each platform and application internal to Elections Ontario.
•Managed and mitigated cybersecurity risks by verifying with Vendors and/or Architect's on mitigation plans identified for each cybersecurity risk recommendation raised.
•Produced and presented status and dashboards reports to ensure project vendor progress is on schedule and within prescribed budget and expected results.
•Collaborated with the product owner to clarify project objectives, scope, project benefits and expectations.
•Drove enhancements and new requirements based on business needs & input from the internal/external business client.
•Documented User Stories in JIRA as well as managing Stories in Sprints throughout the Agile Life Cycle.
•Interact & communicated with colleagues, vendors and clients of all demographics and professional levels.
•Developed and managed scope, timeline, quality, goals and deliverables that supported business goal of migration to Azure Cloud.
Documented and assisted in credit card three-year road map which consisted of gathering requirements from credit card and personal banking business units.
•Worked on the development of Costco-Amex co-brand large initiative and received an internal award for the work excellency on this one-year project.
•Led small and large requirements gathering sessions with the business to identify the needs and translate them to the developers, tech leads and architects.
•Created diagrams and flow charts for the business to help them visualize new and existing product lines.
•Led meetings with compliance and legal teams to review processes and procedures for new products and enhancements to existing products.
•Prepared Project Analysis Design and Requirements documents for Waterfall Methodology.
•Developed User Stories in Rally and managed Sprints for Agile Methodology
•Led the planning sessions to identify all Applications/Servers and developed a schedule for the migration of infrastructure equipment out of Greensboro (GSO)
•Supported and led the implementation of several high-profile projects within Amex and external clients. Example: Data migration project into new data center
•Partly responsible for a team of Business and Systems analysts and outside vendors IBM, HP, AT&T & CISCO, tasked to decommission the old infrastructure and migrate onto new infrastructure (9 physical servers and 3 web-app servers)
•Began as a Business System Analyst on the data migration project but once PM left the organization, transitioned to PM role for the remainder of the 2-year project.
•Support the use of the Project Management Ofice (PMO) tools and applications for end users and resolves PMO related inquiries.
•Create complex spreadsheets and templates to track financial budgets and followed-up with resources within the company to ensure accuracy.
•Managed the Clarity/SDLC PM Tool Time Entry system to set up user accounts, enter/update project and work requests, user data, execute program interfaces and create several weekly and period end reports.
•Extracts data around budgets & time entry from various sources to analyze & create departmental reports.
•Create weekly and monthly status update reports with a dashboard view for executive level to review and analysis projects.
•As a Scrum Master, lead and monitored the scrum processes and scrum meetings. By doing so, I increased team eficiency, motivated his team, spins, argued for changes that will ensure quality and meet timelines.
•Preparation of communications, progress reporting and meeting agendas and minutes.
•Managed project financials ($5 mil budget): Forecast vs. Actual
•Developed state of the art new data center in PHX, Arizona that helped in achieving the company objectives.
•Relocated business infrastructure to reduce cost and maintain service level (no downtime) for all card members.
•Successful completion of the GSO closure facility which saved the business $200, 000 per month.
•Assisted in creation of test plans and execution of test scripts while reviewing the test results with a broader audience including business partners.