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Conal Gallagher MBA, CISSP, PMP Executive Summary Educated and experienced hands-on IT Professional with a 12 year background and proven track record in providing leadership, vision, innovation, strategic planning and execution to IT organizations in high-growth global companies
Qualifications w Manager of large-scale IT projects consistently producing quality deliverables on schedule and within budget. w Possess exceptional critical analysis, problem resolution, budget administration, time management and technical skills. w Leverage proactive management methodologies to develop and maintain proficient work environments, conducive to excellent interpersonal and interdepartmental communications w Excel in introducing organizational change and implementing innovative technical solutions to facilitate business excellence and competitive advantage. w Dynamic and creative, hands on entrepreneur who enjoys straddling various roles.
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Supervisory and budget experience
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drive focused w Proven effectiveness in consensus building, partnering with senior business leaders and working collaboratively at all levels to assess, plan, and implement IT solutions. w Life-long learner dedicated to the pursuit of self-improvement and excellence, as demonstrated by a recent MBA attainment and professional certifications. Experience Name Withheld Schaumburg, IL 60173 Director of Information Security January 2007 to Present
Promoted into a Director role and built a security
organization where none had previously existed for this $270 million
software company with significant operations in Europe, Asia, and the
US. Scope included regulatory compliance, information security, and IT
risk management for all business units globally. Implemented appropriate safeguards to manage information security risks in line with the value of the corporate information assets and business objectives. Key Projects & Results w Compliance Efforts: Assessed the Sarbanes Oxley IT and PCI-DSS control requirements and spearheaded the implementation of new security/privacy policies and standardization for meeting legislative controls. w Risk Management: Developed and initiated a risk management process that included a global self assessment, risk mitigation procedures, risk acceptance process and reporting mechanisms. Created the methodology and procedures of the risk management process and marketed the new function to other organizations and upper management. w Intelligent Content Protection: Deployed Internet content filtering and information leakage protection solution which resulted in increased productivity and security, as well as decreased risk and liability. w Vulnerability Assessment: Deployed vulnerability management solution which provided immediate visibility of existing security vulnerabilities and achieved corrective action for over 50% of the identified vulnerabilities within 6 months.
Name Withheld Schaumburg, IL 60173 Senior Manager of InformationTechnology July 2004 to December 2006 Managed activities related to IT operations in the US, EMEA and APAC facilities including telecommunication, network management, data centers operation and helpdesks. Responsibilities included budgeting, staffing, delivery of projects and validation of the ROI at the end of the project. Significantly reduced TCO and operating costs through the implementation of strategic plans that focused IT efforts on reducing complexity, standardizing methodologies and the vigilant management of all systems and resources. Established a reputation for getting things done, and was therefore provided additional responsibilities for lifecycle planning, execution, and completion of multifarious high profile IT projects. Examples would include championing the IT merger and acquisition (M&A) team responsible for due diligence and integration activities, in addition to managing the company's initial IT SOX compliance efforts. President Club winner in 2006, awarded by the executive team to a select group of individuals for their dedication to teamwork, customer focus, and execution in helping driving sales success, revenue opportunities and customer satisfaction within the company. Key Projects & Results w M&A Integrations: Spearheaded the IT integration efforts for three successful corporate M&A initiatives, involving managing the due diligence phase, identifying risks/synergy-opportunities and building a plan with clear priorities, resources, and timelines. w Sarbanes-Oxley: Charged with heading up ITGC SOX activities, developing, updating and managing the project plan and remediating any IT SOX issues or findings. w Virtualization: Implemented the company’s first virtualized environment, dramatically accelerating server provisioning time, increasing uptime by 10%, and reducing the TCO of the Data Center by an estimated 25%. w Business Enhancements: Implemented multiple solutions to enhance employee productivity such as a secured wireless system, a secured instant messaging system, a SSLVPN solution with 2 factor authentication, and a global video-conferencing system. Name Withheld Schaumburg, IL 60173 Director of Information Technology January 2001 to July 2004 Reporting to the CEO and CFO, directed worldwide IT operations in a rapid-growth software company. Developed all long and short-term technology strategies for the firm, and built an agile, scalable organization in very short timeframe. Evaluated and implemented processes and procedures necessary to align IT systems with strategic organizational goals and objectives. Developed and maintained the departmental and project budgets, applying successful cost control measures to reduce expenditures and increase profit margins. Key Projects & Results w Internal Operations: Managed and led team responsible for the administration and upkeep of 45 servers and 640 desktop workstations running Windows XP & Windows 2000/2003. Introduced a desktop deployment solution to reduce TCO by $200,000 and reduce time-to-provisioning from 1 week to 1 day. w WWW Infrastructure: Engineered the company’s Internet ecommerce platform, based on a highly available, scalable, load balanced infrastructure accounting for 25% of the company’s revenue for FY 2003. w Download Platform: Implemented a redundant internal T3 circuit to serve product downloads saving $500,000 annually in outsourced charges. w Mobile Connectivity: Designed and provisioned a Blackberry Enterprise Server solution to enable a mobile workforce with secured access to email. Education
Regis University
Denver, CO 80221
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Boston, MA 02115
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Co. Louth, Ireland Professional Certifications
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - September
2003 Professional Affiliations
Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) |
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