Mehul K Joshi

Riverside California
Phone:(951)732-7089
EMAIL: mehulyo@yahoo.com

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Career Summary

Education

Certificate of Completion

Accomplishments

  • Nominated for “ doing the right thing ” in Customer Service
  • Recognized as a “ Go to Person” to remediate any IT SOX Issue findings
  • Outstanding leader with the ability to motivate people and stimulate creativity
  • Immediate problem solver with demonstrated success at setting and achieving goals
  • Having a spirit with acute business development skills
  • Being adept at organizing, directions and implementing programs
  • Managing multiple projects and establishing strong clients’ relationship
  • Generated production, sales, accounting, inventory, quality control, payment & collection reports
  • Marketing of computers and software’s, resulting in major sales to key clients
  • Plant management and regional office management with full authority

Work Experience

  • Senior Compliance Analyst at SOX Solutions Corporation (07/2007- 12/2008)

    • Managed and performed IT Advisory and IT Assurance services for 11+ clients in Southern California
    • Played integral role during key process re-engineering efforts within various business cycles
    • Ensured SOX and internal control and process compliance
    • Evaluated any known deficiencies and/or functional areas needing improvement
    • Helped implement changes, while working closely with business process owners and management
    • Played a key role in the Company’s SOX compliance efforts including process documentation
    • Assessed in design and refining documentation during process re-engineering efforts
    • Performed process walkthroughs; performing internal controls testing
    • Evaluated the adequacy of the company’s systems and related internal controls
    • Assisted in developing remediation plans with key process owners
    • Tracked remediation plans and performing follow-up procedures; and provided timely reporting to the management
    • Effectively conducts periodic audits of Information Technology and Business areas as per audit plans
    • Conducts interviews, documents client processes and procedures, reviews documents, and prepares work papers
    • Performed audit procedures, including reviewing and analyzing evidence
    • Identified and documents audit issues and develops recommendations using independent judgment
    • Communicated or assisted in communicating the results of audit and consulting projects
    • Demonstrated a high level of professionalism and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
    • Developed and maintained productive relationships through individual contacts and group meetings
    • Interacted with various process owners and multiple levels of management
    • Exercised excellent judgment and initiative in handling business issues of significance to appropriate management
    • Worked independently under general supervision with considerable latitude for initiative and independent judgment
    • Pursued professional development opportunities, like training and professional association memberships.
    • Experience with business process and Information technology process and procedures re-engineering
    • Performed IT Risk Assessment and IT scoping based on COSO and COBIT frameworks for SOX
    • Recommend and coordinated IT SOX requirements and supported Implementation
    • Plan and scope the internal audit process pertaining to Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002.
    • Identified key ITGC Controls for Change Management, Physical and logical security and Operations domains
    • Created flowcharts, process narratives, risk control matrices for change management, physical & logical security
    • Created flowcharts, process narratives, risk control matrices for Operations and Configuration Management
    • Identified Key Controls for User Access Management, SDLC and Entity level Controls
    • Created flowcharts process narratives, risk control matrices for HR/Payroll, CD, Revenue, Inventory & FSCP
    • Performed Analysis on current environment and business functions systems impacting financial statements
    • Prepared planning memo, audit plans test scripts, sampling, implement testing of controls and audit report
    • Identified gaps suggest and recommend the remediation of the issue findings
    • Assist in creating sustainability models for compliance with SOX using COSO, COBIT and ITGI latest guidance
  • Senior Information Security Analyst, Programmer/Analyst at ACC Capital Holdings /AMC Mortgage Services (December 2004 – June 2007)

    • Interacted with CIO, VP of Information Security and Business heads for IT Audits and Issues Remediation
    • Coordinated company-wide both internal & external audits between IT, ERM and Business
    • Lead company to sustain compliance by optimizing ITGC Controls and process improvement
    • Lead Automated and Manual monitoring control using Automated Systems and Quarterly reviews
    • Planed and lead the SOX compliance activities for organization to Sustain SOX Compliance
    • Participated with various IT teams during internal and external audits
    • Coordinated and assisted in timely remediation of ITGC and application controls
    • Involved in IT Design Effectiveness and Operational Effectiveness Testing
    • Involved in development of SDLC, Change Management and IT Operations Compliance projects for Financial Services
    • Implemented appropriate segregation of duties between various team members to sustain compliance
    • Involved in development, review, execution and maintenance of disaster recovery plans.
    • Coordinated remediation of issue findings for over 30+ Loan Servicing applications and infrastructure
    • Coordinated server and database violations and vulnerability assessments on a quarterly basis
    • Implemented ITGC controls related to user access management, change management, backup and restore
    • Coordinated Database management, configuration management, and operating systems configuration
    • Managed and documented multiple policies, procedures, standards and guidelines using MS SharePoint and MS Office
    • Created, recommended, ensured implementation of appropriate policies, standards and procedures
    • Responsible to Develop and provide weekly reports to CIO, VP, BRM and Directors using MS Excel pivot tables
    • Coordinated NPI Project to maintain scrambled data in development and test environment of applications
    • Assisted owners and IT staff in understanding and responding to audits reported by internal and external auditors
    • Conducted quarterly user access management for 30+ applications
    • Recommended and reviewed user access management, program change process and procedures
    • Implemented appropriate segregation of duties between various team members to sustain compliance
    • Managed and enhanced multiple applications during production application support
    • Onsite production support for end users and business customers
    • Resolved multiple problem and request tickets and updated peregrine ticket system
    • Supported enhancements of existing systems, including business and system workflow analysis
    • Meet frequently with business partners to develop requirements and project plans
    • Perform all duties in accordance with AMC policies and procedures and all State and Federal regulations
    • Supported small to medium size development projects or as a member of specific area in large project
    • Perform required administrative functions associated with production application support
    • Participate in strategic planning for helpdesk request and problem ticket management
    • Develop documentation for production support and escalation procedures for multiple applications
    • Managed and completed multiple projects with critical deadlines
    • Coordinating SOX and NON SOX issue remediation and security standard implementation with following teams:
    • Application Architecture
    • Application Security
    • Application Technology
    • Cashiering Applications
    • Contact Center
    • Customer support
    • Desktop Engineering
    • Helpdesk
    • Identity Management
    • Network & Systems Engineering
    • Operations
    • Oracle Database Management
    • Customer support
    • Privacy Assessment
    • Product Development
    • Production Application Support
    • Project Management
    • Special Servicing
    • SQL Database management
    • Third party/ Vendor Management
    • Web Assessments

  • Programmer Analyst and SOX Coordinator at AMC Mortgage Services(08/04 - 12/04)

    • Managed and enhanced multiple applications during production application support.
    • Onsite production support for end users and business customers
    • resolved multiple problem and request tickets and updated peregrine ticket system
    • Supported enhancements of existing systems, including business and system workflow analysis and design
    • Meet frequently with business partners to develop requirements and project plans.
    • Assist project manager or director in planning and support activities.
    • Perform all duties in accordance with AMC policies and procedures and all state and federal regulations.
    • Conduct quarterly application user access reviews of systems
    • Develop proposals and project plans.
    • Created and analyzed business requirements and develop system requirements using AMC SDLC Process.
    • Supported small to medium size development projects or as a member of specific areas in large projects.
    • Perform required administrative functions associated with production application support.
    • Participate in strategic planning for Helpdesk Request and Problem Ticket Management.
    • Analyzed all AMC Applications and make sure that proper Process and Procedures are created for SOX Compliance.
    • Develop documentation for production support and escalation procedures for multiple applications
    • Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for application support needs

  • Helpdesk Tech Support, Damage Claims & Credit Agent at CTX Technology Inc (4/02 to 08/04)

    • Reduced abandon calls to 1%, Increased the profit by providing excellent Tech support and customer service.
    • Perform preliminary diagnostic on the problem determine the severity of the problem and suggest the solution
    • Assist customers to troubleshoot hardware and software problems related to Monitors, Projectors and LCD'S
    • Update customer Information and issue the RMA number for the units to be repaired or replaced
    • Keep in touch with customers through phone emails and fax
    • Took care of the damaged units by informing customers about damages and procedure for filing the claims
    • Issued credit to the distributors on the condition of the monitors and LCD’s received
    • Increased the profit for the company by providing tech support, handling damage claims and credits

  • Faculty Assistant & Repair Tech At DeVry University in Information Technology (09/01 - 10/02)

    • Responsible for 400 + windows 2000 workstations connected to Novell Netware servers, and two Unix servers
    • Kept the down time to less than 1%.
    • Using process of elimination repaired all the computers, fixed and replaced the computers parts to keep it up and running.
    • Assist students and faculty to troubleshoot hardware and software related problems
    • Train students by debugging and compiling their programs
    • Perform preliminary diagnostic tests on PC's and printers
    • Duties Include Hardware and network upgrade and maintenance, software installation, windows and Internet support
    • New user training and performed daily operations of an automated tracking system
    • Completed daily processing task, report generation, and code maintenance needed
    • Record grades, developed spreadsheet and important documents for the professor

  • Plant Manager at Siddhi Vinayak Syntax Pvt. Ltd, (03/94 - 03/97)

    • Worked as a plant manager, while supervising 25 employees increased production by 18% and 30% in profits
    • Took care of all mechanical and technical settings of machinery for production
    • Reviewed and tested the quality of the produced material using various testing equipments
    • Reviewed and managed clerical records of daily production and shipment of products
    • Reviewed Statement of cash flows and balance sheet and fulfilled all taxes and duties to be paid with each sale
    • Managed and fulfilled all legal process and procedures with attestations of upper management
    • Created and reported daily, weekly and monthly reports for Managing Director and Chairman of the company
    • Reviewed Production Assets, Inventory, Waste Management, Quality Control, Accounting and Financial reports
    • Administrated quarterly and yearly documents at the regional office for yearly financial statements
    • Made critical decisions with Managing Director and kept good credit standings with various Financial Institutes and Banks
    • Did Inventory Management, Production Planning, Quality Assurance, and Machine Maintenance review and reports
    • Reviewed and discussed the status of monthly financial rotation by purchasing raw material for production and collection of funds from various customers

  • Projects

  • Project Manager on Senior Project for IDD corporation (10/2002)

    • Managed and Developed a front and back-end applications accessing a single MySQL database backend located on a third party server with the team of four.
    • The two front-end applications were composed of an administrator side and a driver side.
    • The administrator side front-end application was coded in Visual Basic, which would run on the local client machines while accessing the back-end database through the local Internet.
    • The Driver side front-end Internet application was coded in Perl and run on the same third party server that hosts the database
    • Managed project plan, created business charter and requirements, developed flowcharts, Entity Relationship diagrams, Use Case Diagrams
    • Did process analysis and information analysis using business core values
    • Development costs for this solution was approximately $14,720
    • The new system required three months to implement and will have a payback period of six months
    • The projected Net Present Value was $421,829 given a six-year projection
    • Based on operational, technical, economic, and schedule feasibility, system achieved a total of ninety-four (94) in the feasibility analysis matrix.

  • Account Manager at CompUSA (7/98 to 8/99)

    • Started with five accounts, opened twenty new accounts, and changed the overall performance of the corporate sales.
    • Did monthly sales of 150k to 200k, while maintaining 25 government and corporate accounts.
    • Full filled the requirements of hardware, software, networking, training and technical support
    • Provide full tech support as well as customer service over the phone and on site
    • Issued quotes and turned prospective leads to sales. Maintained the future sales pipeline

  • Computer User in Research and Development Department at Avery Dennison (3/97 to 6/98)

    • Worked in IBM environment with Windows 95 and Microsoft Office
    • Worked on different software’s to test the products and analyze the output
    • Qualify the best output for further process Product used to go for the production after the approval of several other associates

  • Marketing Executive at HCL-Hewlett Packard Ltd (1/97 to 3/97)

    • Marketing of computers and its peripherals
    • Made sales of 250 computers in 60 days at The Ahmedabad Stock Exchange brokers
    • Took care of all legal as well as transaction documents
    • Closed sales by collecting their payments on time

  • Computer Hardware & Software Skills

    • Operating Systems
    • Windows 9x/2000/Xp
    • Unix/Linux
    • Novell Netware
    • Os/Jcl
    • Ms Dos 6.22
    • Upgrades & Repairs
    • Programming Applications
    • Html, Cgi, Perl
    • Visual Basic
    • C, C++
    • Cobol
    • Ms Access
    • Asp
    • Databases & Scripts
    • Oracle 8i
    • Oracle 6i Forms
    • Sql* Plus
    • Pl/Sql
    • MySQL
    • Java Script
    • Relevant Courses
    • Systems Analysis
    • Clients Controls & Security
    • e-Commerce & Networks
    • Online Systems
    • Small Business Management
    • Managerial Accounting

    *Includes over 800 hours of laboratory work

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