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Reeshah Mitchell
Senior Director: M&A Strategy & Transactions - Cybersecurity at EY-Parthenon
Ft. Washington, MD, United States
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Education:
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Business Administration and Management
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2014 : 2015
BS
Management
Park University
2010 : 2013
Associate of Arts; Bachelors of Science
Korean
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
2003 : 2005
Business Administration and Management
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2014 : 2015
BS
Management
Park University
2010 : 2013
Associate of Arts; Bachelors of Science
Korean
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
2003 : 2005
Experience:
Cybersecurity Transaction Services (M&A)
Lead and manage cybersecurity projects including :
• Chief of Staff to CISO
• Cyber risk assessments for buy and sell side diligence efforts;
• Enterprise cyber risk management before, during, and after M&A process;
• Enterprise cyber maturity assessments using NIST, ISO27001, CSC Top 20;
• Regulatory compliance including SEC and PCI
• Security operations management
• Budget management to include operations expenditures (OPEX) as well as capital expenditures (CAPEX)
• Assess data privacy risk and regulatory risk including people, process, and technology which help support compliance including issues such as : EU GDPR, NY DFS, PCI, and SEC cyber reporting guidance.
• Interview senior cybersecurity leaders, including C-suite, to assess effectiveness of governance and cyber risk management strategy
• Translate cybersecurity risk for clients into one time and recurring costs and help shape company valuation efforts.
• Identify and assess potential cybersecurity risks and select acquisition targets based on risk, cost, and impact to expected deal ROI.
2018 : Present
EY-Parthenon
Senior Director : M&A Strategy & Transactions - Cybersecurity
• Led architecture team charged with system integration across a highly complex and interdependent enterprise : evaluating and challenging new design, architecture, and security models for application transition to an API based micro-service model
• Performed cyber security assessment of security findings across the enterprise, informing the client of much larger potential exposure and requirement to remediate severe security issues on healthcare systems
• Prepared recommendations and strategies for application and data migration to commercial cloud; ensuring Public Sector governance, policy, and regulatory compliance for Personally identifiable information (PII), Protected health information (PHI), and Federal Tax Information (FTI)
• Evaluated disaster recovery posture of organization; providing feedback and recommendations on future state cloud based high availability/self-healing applications architecture
• Engaged with clients and stakeholders to gather requirements, generate process maps, conduct systems analysis, and delivering business process reengineering.
• Identified programmatic needs, instituted communication plans, and developed templates and project scope documents to increase collaboration amongst team members and external partners, manage client expectations, and improve the efficiency of the task team.
• Provided direct feedback on proposed software/system design, architecture, and data migration strategies to CMS Leadership and contractor partners; ensuring alignment with CMS technical and architectural standards and strategies per Expedited Life Cycle (XLC).
2015 : 2018
Booz Allen Hamilton
Senior Lead Technologist
Contractor to Capital One
• Led efforts to improve data quality, metrics reporting, and data automation utilizing business intelligence tools, SQL and Tableau, within Capital One’s Commercial Operations Quality Improvement Team.
• Responsible for monitoring and analyzing data reporting and quality, comparing key data elements between multiple systems and processes, while establishing relationships with strategic stakeholders and establishing well developed data manipulation and modeling techniques to display a much clearer depiction of data elements.
• Met with representatives from front line associates to executive level management within Commercial Operations to establish goals and metrics requirements. Gained an understanding of what questions each level of associate desires, and promoted an authentic view of data through manipulation. Identified requirements and developed Tableau workbooks which automated data reporting, and allow for much more human analysis for data meaning.
2014 : 2015
nextSource
Data Quality Process Analyst
• Charged with researching, and aggregating DoD healthcare program information from multiple sources and addressing information gaps.
• Guided senior level officials in evaluating DoD program protocols, and to promote a higher level of care across existing mental health programs.
2014 : 2014
Engility Corporation
Management Analyst
• Team Lead for Booz Allen Hamilton’s advanced analytics training development program entitled Fundamentals of Data Science course. Responsible for implementing a variety of data science analytic concepts, to include developing methods for advanced predictive analysis and big data management capabilities, using Python, MySQL, and R Group.
• Provided project oversight; conducting knowledge gap analytical assessment of workforce, establishing target areas of development opportunities, organizing course materials, and meeting budgetary constraints. Additionally, provided website administration and logistics management support.
• Exclusively managed team to develop relational databases (MySQL) course; authored numerous training modules, capturing methods to extract qualitative and quantitative relationships from large datasets.
2013 : 2014
Booz Allen Hamilton
Curriculum Developer Project Lead, Data Analyst
Lead and manage cybersecurity projects including :
• Chief of Staff to CISO
• Cyber risk assessments for buy and sell side diligence efforts;
• Enterprise cyber risk management before, during, and after M&A process;
• Enterprise cyber maturity assessments using NIST, ISO27001, CSC Top 20;
• Regulatory compliance including SEC and PCI
• Security operations management
• Budget management to include operations expenditures (OPEX) as well as capital expenditures (CAPEX)
• Assess data privacy risk and regulatory risk including people, process, and technology which help support compliance including issues such as : EU GDPR, NY DFS, PCI, and SEC cyber reporting guidance.
• Interview senior cybersecurity leaders, including C-suite, to assess effectiveness of governance and cyber risk management strategy
• Translate cybersecurity risk for clients into one time and recurring costs and help shape company valuation efforts.
• Identify and assess potential cybersecurity risks and select acquisition targets based on risk, cost, and impact to expected deal ROI.
2018 : Present
EY-Parthenon
Senior Director : M&A Strategy & Transactions - Cybersecurity
• Led architecture team charged with system integration across a highly complex and interdependent enterprise : evaluating and challenging new design, architecture, and security models for application transition to an API based micro-service model
• Performed cyber security assessment of security findings across the enterprise, informing the client of much larger potential exposure and requirement to remediate severe security issues on healthcare systems
• Prepared recommendations and strategies for application and data migration to commercial cloud; ensuring Public Sector governance, policy, and regulatory compliance for Personally identifiable information (PII), Protected health information (PHI), and Federal Tax Information (FTI)
• Evaluated disaster recovery posture of organization; providing feedback and recommendations on future state cloud based high availability/self-healing applications architecture
• Engaged with clients and stakeholders to gather requirements, generate process maps, conduct systems analysis, and delivering business process reengineering.
• Identified programmatic needs, instituted communication plans, and developed templates and project scope documents to increase collaboration amongst team members and external partners, manage client expectations, and improve the efficiency of the task team.
• Provided direct feedback on proposed software/system design, architecture, and data migration strategies to CMS Leadership and contractor partners; ensuring alignment with CMS technical and architectural standards and strategies per Expedited Life Cycle (XLC).
2015 : 2018
Booz Allen Hamilton
Senior Lead Technologist
Contractor to Capital One
• Led efforts to improve data quality, metrics reporting, and data automation utilizing business intelligence tools, SQL and Tableau, within Capital One’s Commercial Operations Quality Improvement Team.
• Responsible for monitoring and analyzing data reporting and quality, comparing key data elements between multiple systems and processes, while establishing relationships with strategic stakeholders and establishing well developed data manipulation and modeling techniques to display a much clearer depiction of data elements.
• Met with representatives from front line associates to executive level management within Commercial Operations to establish goals and metrics requirements. Gained an understanding of what questions each level of associate desires, and promoted an authentic view of data through manipulation. Identified requirements and developed Tableau workbooks which automated data reporting, and allow for much more human analysis for data meaning.
2014 : 2015
nextSource
Data Quality Process Analyst
• Charged with researching, and aggregating DoD healthcare program information from multiple sources and addressing information gaps.
• Guided senior level officials in evaluating DoD program protocols, and to promote a higher level of care across existing mental health programs.
2014 : 2014
Engility Corporation
Management Analyst
• Team Lead for Booz Allen Hamilton’s advanced analytics training development program entitled Fundamentals of Data Science course. Responsible for implementing a variety of data science analytic concepts, to include developing methods for advanced predictive analysis and big data management capabilities, using Python, MySQL, and R Group.
• Provided project oversight; conducting knowledge gap analytical assessment of workforce, establishing target areas of development opportunities, organizing course materials, and meeting budgetary constraints. Additionally, provided website administration and logistics management support.
• Exclusively managed team to develop relational databases (MySQL) course; authored numerous training modules, capturing methods to extract qualitative and quantitative relationships from large datasets.
2013 : 2014
Booz Allen Hamilton
Curriculum Developer Project Lead, Data Analyst
Company:
EY-Parthenon
Years of Experience:
20
Spoken Language:
Korean
Skills
Analysis, Analytical Skills, CDMA2000, CompTIA Network+ Certified, Computer Security, Counterterrorism, CRM, Databases, Defense, DoD, Government, GSM, Human Resources, Intelligence, Intelligence Analysis, Korean, Leadership, Military, Military Operations, Mobile Devices, MySQL, National Security, Operational Planning, Policy, Program Management, Project Management, Security, Security Clearance, SIGINT, Special Operations, Systems Analysis, Tableau, Tactics, Top Secret, U.S. Department of Defense, Veterans
About
• Experience advising and supporting organizations to assess current cybersecurity capabilities, identifying gaps, developing strategies, and implement a fit for purpose cybersecurity program.
• Support private equity and publicly traded companies; conducting cybersecurity assessments, identified requirements, people, processes, and technology required for the organization to maintain acceptable risk during an M&A transaction.
• Ability to evaluate enterprise system architecture, flows of data, and provide recommendations for fault tolerant, highly available cloud based applications.
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