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Mary Kay Braun
GRC - Product Owner
Appleton, WI, United States
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Education:
Associate's Degree
Computer Science
University of Wisconsin Fox Valley
1989 : 1992
Certification
Management
Fox Valley Technical College
1993 : 1993
Associates
MIS
University of Wisconsin - Center Fox Valley
1989 : 1992
Computer Science
University of Wisconsin Fox Valley
1989 : 1992
Certification
Management
Fox Valley Technical College
1993 : 1993
Associates
MIS
University of Wisconsin - Center Fox Valley
1989 : 1992
Experience:
2023 : Present
Thrivent
Product Owner
-Lead and mature organizational information security awareness.
-Assist in Audit, exam and Assessment execution and process design
-Assist in Control Management reviews
2022 :
Thrivent
Lead Information Security Analyst
Lead a highly effective team of 18 staff members until 2020, upon which my team has transformed to a team of 10 employees plus 186 associates with our Service provider.
- CI savings of over $50,000 yearly through contract negotiations/consolidation, since taking role.
- Lead the facilitation and management of infrastructure controls.
- Focus on all client needs and risk mitigation.
- Facilitation and participation in yearly audit and examination activities.
- Extensive work with General Console Office and Business Resiliency Office.
2019 : 2022
Thrivent
IT Manager
Drove efforts to refine Thrivent’s Disaster Recovery Program to increase the disaster response and readiness targets, as well as resolve many critical risk factors.
Implemented new processes and strategies to support the business and allow IT to meet the targets that they had set prior to 2015.
IT implementation lead for the installation and roll-out of MIR3 and Fusion.
Facilitate regular Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity tests, involving teams of up to 200 people.
2015 : 2019
Thrivent
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Drove efforts to redefine Thrivent’s Critical Situation, Incident and Problem Processes to reduce both the number of incidents, as well as, the age of incidents and problems.
Redesigned the Major Incident Process to reduce the user impact of incidents
Drove effort to redefine incident trending.
2010 : 2015
Thrivent
Lead Operations Analyst
Thrivent
Product Owner
-Lead and mature organizational information security awareness.
-Assist in Audit, exam and Assessment execution and process design
-Assist in Control Management reviews
2022 :
Thrivent
Lead Information Security Analyst
Lead a highly effective team of 18 staff members until 2020, upon which my team has transformed to a team of 10 employees plus 186 associates with our Service provider.
- CI savings of over $50,000 yearly through contract negotiations/consolidation, since taking role.
- Lead the facilitation and management of infrastructure controls.
- Focus on all client needs and risk mitigation.
- Facilitation and participation in yearly audit and examination activities.
- Extensive work with General Console Office and Business Resiliency Office.
2019 : 2022
Thrivent
IT Manager
Drove efforts to refine Thrivent’s Disaster Recovery Program to increase the disaster response and readiness targets, as well as resolve many critical risk factors.
Implemented new processes and strategies to support the business and allow IT to meet the targets that they had set prior to 2015.
IT implementation lead for the installation and roll-out of MIR3 and Fusion.
Facilitate regular Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity tests, involving teams of up to 200 people.
2015 : 2019
Thrivent
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Drove efforts to redefine Thrivent’s Critical Situation, Incident and Problem Processes to reduce both the number of incidents, as well as, the age of incidents and problems.
Redesigned the Major Incident Process to reduce the user impact of incidents
Drove effort to redefine incident trending.
2010 : 2015
Thrivent
Lead Operations Analyst
Company:
Thrivent
Years of Experience:
32
Skills
Business Analysis, Business Intelligence, ITIL, ITIL Certified, Leadership, Microsoft Excel, PMP, Process Improvement, Process Management, Project Management, Project Portfolio Management, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Gathering, SDLC, Software Documentation, Troubleshooting, Visio
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