Lisa Bedbak
Ann Arbor,MI
Summary
- Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies.
- Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
- Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives.
- Experienced in coordinating, negotiating and motivating outside vendors and off-shore resources in support of timeline and project deliverables.
- Experience in process improvement implementations, business operations, and resource & relationship management.
- Strong leadership skills with proven ability to lead local and virtual cross-functional teams.
- Accomplished leader, capable of motivating a staff to its full potential and proven ability to communicate complex information clearly to individuals at all levels.
- Led cross-functional teams of up to 10 members, ensuring effective communication and collaboration
- Developed and implemented project plans, strategies, and timelines to meet organizational objectives
- Established strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
President and Founder
Big Blue Staffing
03.2016 - 01.2018
- Trained project managers to be scrum masters
- Understood the scrum framework and how projects can be expedited with higher delivery rate
- Implemented project management methodologies for successful completion of the project
- Improved the team communications using Agile techniques
- These reporting techniques were effective for a small team like ours
- Train project managers and product owners in SOX compliance and corporate governance
- Facilitate stakeholder engagement and communication
- Help team members understand scrum and remove obstacles
- Facilitate meetings.
Project Manager
Samson Software Solutions
04.2015 - 03.2016
- One of the greatest achievements I had while being in this company is that I trained candidates for SOX and my team placed them
- Implemented Kanban with Jira Software to streamline task tracking and enable better transparency within the team
- Collaborated with UX/UI designers to gather feedback from end users, resulting in iterative design improvements
- Maintained project budgets
- Maintained project timelines
- Created project plans for customer needs
- Managed and supported all efforts of 4 development teams to simplify and enhance the customer experience Supported 7 stakeholders to ensure the highest quality products to customers
- Developed and maintained technical documentation and user guides to reduce support inquiries
- Collaborated with the development team to troubleshoot and resolve defects for a decrease in post-release issues
- Provided technical support to internal teams and resolved an average of 13 tickets per day
- Monitored and analyzed system performance metrics and identified and resolved performance bottlenecks
- Led a team of 6 people and implemented scrum methodology
- Managed a team working in India
- Agile coach for my team
- Streamlined the processes and worked on lean Agile principles
- Directed daily scrums with 6 Scrum teams (comprised of various pods, including developers, QA testers, and product managers).
Project Manager
Infinitous Global Services
08.2008 - 12.2011
- Chaired the weekly meetings
- Talk to both direct and indirect team members
- Train the members of the team in corporate governance and compliance
- Coordinated with 20+ business stakeholders, product managers, and development and testing lead to prioritize deliverables
- Coached 4 teams to develop project charters by identifying key resource needs and complexities required before beginning new projects
- Guided teams through delivery by managing scope, risks, and issues, resolving at the lowest level.
SOX Compliance Manager
Fannie Mae
05.2005 - 03.2007
- The focus was on using new processes and technologies required to manage the increased workload and documentation requirements associated with Sarbanes Oxley corporate governance activities
- Provided SOX status reports daily to Upper Management
- Worked with Management Testers
- Management Testing is the same as Internal Auditing in Fannie Mae
- Prepared the Audit Reports for CIO every week as part of the Management Reporting
- Was involved a great deal with deep dives for application owners for Deloitte Testing
- Designed and implemented process controls necessary for compliance with the Sarbanes and Oxley Act
- I have a strong understanding of internal controls in order to identify control objectives and assess control risk for review and testing
- I have in-depth knowledge of the different sections of Sarbanes-Oxley law and the different forms required, like 8K, 10Q, 10K
- Worked extensively on the COSO, COBiT and Sox 404 regulations
- Worked extensively with an internally developed system of Fannie Mae, called ADAMS
- ADAMS stands for Application Data Access Management System
- It provides a comprehensive view of users who have access to Class 1, HR, Financial Reporting Control and Restatement Fannie Mae applications/EUCs
- It Contains key individual identity components such as user ID, username, employee status, manager name plus relevant access control indicators as directly related to applications/EUCs and resources to which the individual has access, includes individual IDs (people), System and Application IDs, contains internal access accounts only, helps user address SOX compliance/Audit issues
- I have been thoroughly involved in the Business Process Reengineering for ADAMS
- Worked on the Anti-fraud policies and making the certifications online rather than hard copies
- Data could be viewed via ADAMS VIEW to access User ID, User’s full name, Highest access level, Employee status, User status, Job Title, Manager assigned to, Asset Information like Platform, Directories, Group IDs, Database
- ADAMS is a Quarterly Review Process in Fannie Mae
- Reported the current and planning activities of SOX and ADAMS to Upper Management (upto the CIO of Fannie Mae)
- Worked extensively on Audit issues related to Control inefficiencies, segregation of duties
- Worked intensively around the different controls for Applications, EUCs and DBMods
- Worked on End User Computing (EUC) Remediation procedures
- Worked with the various management segments related to Access Management, Change Management and Logging & Monitoring segments of the control activities and Remediations
- Developed corporate wide policies and local procedures around Access Management, Change Management and Logging & Monitoring
- For Access Change, have written a complete enterprise-wide procedure whether the user-manager (Manager/Director/VP) or the designate should login to the system and perform the Review Process or should the designate send the list in an excel spreadsheet to the user-manager
- Brainstormed many discussions related to these Controls
- Worked on different procedures/sub procedures in different areas of Access management, Change Management and Logging & Monitoring that encompasses ESO policies, standards, regulations and operating requirements
- Worked in FAPT (Financial and Portfolio Technology) PMO and done Management Reporting with all the recent SOX activities
- Worked on PMO process and procedures and keep the Portfolio Program Manager updated on issues
- Developed Communication Plan for communicating the dates for ADAMS Review
- Worked in the Project Management Office (PMO) for Financial and Portfolio Technology (FAPT) in Fannie Mae
- Trained Project Managers to follow ELSIF (ELSIF is a framework created in response to Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) and Internal Audit findings) in Fannie Mae
- Worked extensively with Price Water House Coopers (PwC)
- PwC is in the advisory services of Fannie Mae
- Worked on the documentations of the Risk Control Matrices (RCMs)
- The matrix provides internal auditors with an excellent risk assessment tool, processes, risks, controls, and monitoring methods management uses in ensuring accurate financial statements
- Reported the Audit, SOX and ADAMS important topics to the CIO of Fannie Mae every week
- Chaired the Weekly-Information Sharing sessions of SOX updates every week.
Education
Master’s degree - Computer Science and Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Bachelor’s degree - Electronics and Telecommunications
Orissa Engineering College, India
Skills
- Microsoft Visio
- Microsoft PPT
- Word Document
- Microsoft Excel and macro
- Jira
Certification
- CSM, 04/01/24
- PMP Certified
Timeline
President and Founder
Big Blue Staffing
03.2016 - 01.2018
Project Manager
Samson Software Solutions
04.2015 - 03.2016
Project Manager
Infinitous Global Services
08.2008 - 12.2011
SOX Compliance Manager
Fannie Mae
05.2005 - 03.2007
Master’s degree - Computer Science and Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Bachelor’s degree - Electronics and Telecommunications
Orissa Engineering College, India
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