Gregory Duane Allen, PMP

858 NW Onyx Ave

Bethel Heights, AR 72764

Day Phone: 972-781-8330

Email: gallen0968@gmail.com

 

PROFILE:

·         Business Professional with over 15 years of IT, project, program management, management, consulting,

security and regulatory experience. 

·         Expert in presenting, planning, deploying, testing and training users of all skill levels on IT systems.

·         Rich background in project, program management, risk and configuration management and the software/system development lifecycle, using multiple methodologies and guidelines to include; ISO, Waterfall, AGILE and GAMP for IT systems

 

DeVry University

Bachelor of Science, Telecommunications Management

Kansas City, Missouri

 

Certifications and Associations:

ISACA Information-Systems Audit and Control Association, PMP Project Management Professional-PMI Project

Management Institute, SYSTEMATION-Project Management, Learning Tree International Unix/Linux Administration and Security, Microsoft Project Users Group (MPUP)

 

EXPERIENCE:

 

Compliance Manager - Strategy, Wal-Mart Corporate, Temporary

Bentonville, AR

September 2013 to Present

Develop long term strategy for compliance based objectives

Manage all aspects of Wal-Mart’s Supply Chain Transparency Program as it applies to food safety to comply with the Food Safety modernization Act of 2010

Work with the Compliance Operations Team for Compliance Team Member On-boarding

Develop presentations and status reports for senior management and all stakeholders

Plan and design the Compliance groups Sharepoint/Connect site for all teams within Compliance

Manage food vendors and food safety audits

 

Information Technology Specialist, Department of the Treasury Bureau of Public Debt, Full Time

Kansas City, MO

June 2012 to May 2013

Troubleshoot BPD and FMS zOS mainframe LPARS

Work with administrator and engineers in the operation and troubleshooting of data center device OS,

applications and hardware

Monitor activities, performance and availability on resources including distributed systems, mainframe,

gateways, routers and communication services

Make recommendations to management concerning process and implementations

Prepare and maintain operation documentation to include SOPs, process and procedures

Communication with both internal and external customers to include resources external to the Federal

Government

 

Consultant to Unbound IT Solutions, LLC., Contractor

Atlanta, GA, St. Joseph, MO

November 2011 to June 2012

Architected healthcare solutions to ensure HIPPA compliance

Conducted end to end testing to include; pen testing, load testing, log shipping and intrusion testing (ISD,

IPS) and user acceptance testing

Gathered business and functional and security requirements and built out flexible and intuitive workplans to

manage projects and communicate with management from inception, through deployment into production

Managed projects with multiple vendors on the deployment of new technologies involving just in time

pharmaceutical distributions and delivery methodologies such as FIFO

Integrated eMAR

systems with pharmaceutical structures and patient facesheets

Deployed secure wireless technologies to be accessed by associated handheld devices utilized by

healthcare professionals, while attending patients

 

Vice President, Bank Officer IT Security, SunTrust Bank, Full Time

Atlanta, GA

June 2010 to November 2011

Evaluated and selected all incoming software and planned schemas to test for system and software

vulnerabilities before deployment in a QA environment and final migration to Production

Performed ongoing security assessments of current applications, to ensure compliance with corporate,

state and Federal requirements under banking and financial policies

Managed day to day workload for my direct report to include mainframe, senior development staff, DBAs and

corporate IT security officers

Managed high level projects and programs for senior management with continuous evaluation of net present

value and earned value, ensuring at each phase that the programs under my control remained feasible

Guided IT security Governance and presented findings to senior management for approval before

implementation

Provided security design and support solutions for cloud based security and the use of OS agnostic

personally owned devices (POD)

Consulted with service providers of application on demand solutions to include Salesforce.com and IBM

Ensured corporate IT assets and process complied with current regulations such as FrankDodd;

while

strategically planning for additional regulations or changes to existing regulations to ensure a “first to

market” approach

Controlled, managed and actively monitored the internal corporate security information and event

management (SIEM) systems to include NetIQ and ArcSight and managed response to any internal threat

to include malicious email

Managed corporate Identity Management schema using Courion, CyberArk and Tivoli Identity Manager and

other COTS packages

Evaluated and deployed SAML 1.1, 2.0 compliant systems with Active Directory

Deployed and integrated Identity Manager for federated compliance with the Courion Access Control system

Managed the nonhuman

ID process in RACF

Secure logging and log shipping for Federal reviews and audits

 

Program Manager, ACS State Healthcare, Full Time

Atlanta, GA, Dallas, TX

June 2006 to June 2010

Created the approved and accepted methodology with the corporate Governance Team to present to

customers as a value added service offering

Championed internal compliance with change, quality, and risk management processes based on the

approved and accepted corporate methodology

Planned, managed and deployed multiple Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) on time and

under budget to include the sates of California and Texas

Acted as senior level “troubleshooter” for all problematic state level programs, providing conflict resolution for

internal and external customers saving one multibillion

dollar program and multiple multimillion dollar projects; bringing all in on budget and on time

Developed and deployed secure document repositories for HIPPA compliance in conjunction with strategic

partners IBM, Microsoft and Health and Human Services

Identified and managed high level risks, issues and resolutions to ensure a proactive approach to work

activities

Performed Vendor and offshore Resource Management to include contract negotiations and hiring and firing

of vendors

Managed all software selection, retirement and consolidation operations providing several million dollars of

cost savings in licensing and renewal expenses

Designed security methodology around IBM based IDS, IPS solutions around WebSphere to protect

personally identifiable information (PII) housed at the state level

 

Senior Business Consultant, PacificEdge Software, Full Time

Bellevue, WA

November 2004 to June 2006

Presented PacificEdge’s service offerings to client senior management recommending solutions to better

manage corporate IT portfolios

Gathered customer requirements and prepared SOW

Build workpaln for presentation to customer and organized work with customer and internal technical

resources for implementation

Acted as senior level “troubleshooter” for all problematic state level programs, providing conflict resolution for

internal and external customers saving one multibillion

dollar program and multiple multimillion

dollar

projects; bringing all in on budget and on time

Developed and deployed secure document repositories for HIPPA compliance in conjunction with strategic

partners IBM, Microsoft and Health and Human Services

Identified and managed high level risks, issues and resolutions to ensure a proactive approach to work

activities

Performed Vendor and offshore Resource Management to include contract negotiations and hiring and firing

of vendors

Managed all software selection, retirement and consolidation operations providing several million dollars of

cost savings in licensing and renewal expenses

 

SKILLS:

ISO 2000, Project, Program Management, Business Process Management, Technical and General

Management, Governance Management, Risk Management, ITSM/ITIL, Vendor Management, Change,

Compliance and Configuration Management, Requirements Gathering (JAD), Documentation Development SOP,

Process, Methodology and Governance, Federal Regulation and Audits Healthcare, Banking and Pharmaceutical, Technical Law to Include Regulatory, Waterfall, AGILE, GAMP, HIPPA, SEC and FTC, Microsoft Project, Project Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Unix, Linux System Administration and Security, Network Security, RACF and ACF2, MS Windows Administration and Security, Internally and Externally Hosted Secure Logging and Log Shipping, Testing User Acceptance, Penetration (Pen), Regression, QA, Integration, Load, Unit and Security (Application, System, Network), Federated Solutions, SAML