President
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| Jayaraman Swaminathan is a manager in the IT practice of SOAProjects. Jay, as part SOAProjects’ Oracle practice, collaborates with his clients to efficiently leverage Oracle applications. He primarily helps his clients on compliance projects and focuses on optimizing the overall cost of compliance. Prior to SOAProjects, Jay was with the Risk Advisory Services in Ernst & Young. He was responsible for managing and executing review of IT systems as part of financial and Sarbanes-Oxley 404 audits of major corporations like Seagate, Spansion, and Copart. Jay was an Oracle Subject Matter Resource (SMR) in Ernst & Young’s PNW area practice and instructed various Oracle training sessions. Jay earlier worked for the Oracle Corporation, validating business designs and systems for the Oracle E-business Suite. He has also practiced as a Chartered Accountant in India, providing assurance and other services. |
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Vice President
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Greg Edwards CISSP, CISA®, CISM®, IAM, GCIH, CWNA is an amateur historian of cryptography for over 30 years. He works full time in computer security. He has a BS degree in Physics from UCD and teaches computer/network/wireless security part time at UC Santa Cruz extension. Greg has been involved with Information Security for over 15 years, mostly working on analysis of virus attacks and vulnerability assessments for various operating systems. He has also worked on wireless security, security awareness training, penetration testing, etc. |
Secretary
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Larry Halme is a security consultant with over twenty years of industry experience focused in the area of IT security. He has worked closely with financial firms, credit card companies, service providers, global enterprise clients, branches of the military, and government agencies to plan, assess, remediate, and maintain robust security postures. By supporting a wide spectrum of consulting engagements, Mr. Halme has gained a broad knowledge of corporate security and Government INFOSEC issues. He has extensive experience in the areas of cross-discipline security assessments, compliance audits, enterprise operations security, penetration testing, intrusion detection, government criteria evaluation support, security policy and policy model development, formal proof methods, MLS systems, and development and integration of trusted DBMSs. Mr. Halme was a founding member of pioneer information security consulting/training company Arca Systems, Inc., its transition to a subsidiary of Exodus Communications, and Exodus’ acquisition by Cable & Wireless, and finally Cable & Wireless America’s acquisition by SAVVIS. Mr. Halme holds CISM and CISA certifications from ISACA; ISSMP, ISSAP, and CISSP certifications from (ISC)2; IEM and IAM certifications from NSA; and a BS-EECS from UC Berkeley. Mr. Halme has served on ISACA-SV’s Board previously six years. |
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Treasurer
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Jessie Chew is an Accounting Systems Analyst at Otis Spunkmeyer. She has 10 years of experience in ERP system sales, channel marketing and sales. Her past work experience includes EDS, Singapore Technologies, Ingram Micro Asia plus a Silicon Valley software start-up. She holds a BS degree in Accounting Information Systems from San Jose State University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing in UK. |
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Program Director
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Russ Walsh is Senior Manager of IT Services at SOAProjects. Russ has 22 years of industry experience and has performed roles ranging from Acting CIO to SAP Project Manager. Russ has worked on more than 50 client engagements and has been a key team lead on projects with budgets ranging from $20k to $200M. He assists clients in semi-conductor, biotech, software, retail, and other technology sectors with complex IT projects and compliance work. Russ also is a Certified SAP Basis Administrator and has extensive experience with IT audit and IT management including hands-on IT technical roles. He has been an advisor to many organizations and startup companies and frequently speaks at global conferences and forums. His prior work experience includes working for companies such as IBM, E&Y, International Paper, NCR, plus Silicon Valley startup companies.
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Academic Relations Director
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Robert Ikeoka is an independent associate specializing in employee benefits with Pre-Paid Legal Services. Robert has 5 years of experience in the areas of risk management, information security, and incident response. Robert currently informs employees and employers about identity theft and provides voluntary employee benefits to companies seeking to offer their employees access to their legal rights and protecting their identity. Robert holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Future projects include creation of a blog educating the public of identity theft beyond the popular belief that it is credit theft.
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Conference Director
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Kimberly Harbin is a consultant specializing in IT General Controls and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. She also conducts ISO compliance audits. Kimberly has over 11 years of experience in IT, including change control management, information security, and wide area network engineering at a major financial institution. |
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Marketing and Communications Director
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Navarasu Dhanasekar is Senior Manager IT Services at SOAProjects. He has over 14 years of experience in information systems audit and assurance, enterprise and IT risk assessments, information security, ERP implementations, data analytics, internal audits, operational audits, financial audits and business process studies. His prior experience includes working in the Technology and Security Risk Services (TSRS) practice at E&Y. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and BS7799 (Implementer). |
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Membership Director
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(Ana) Minel Diaz is a Manager of Internal Audit at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California, and her experience includes: Internal Audit/Compliance, ERM, export control, FCPA, IT Security. Previously, she was an audit manager at J.H. Cohn, LLP, located in San Diego, California. She has over 10 years experience in providing accounting, audit, and business advisory services to clients. Her industry experience includes manufacturing, services, distributors, and non-profit organizations. Prior to joining J.H.Cohn, she was a manager at Good Swartz Brown & Berns LLP, a division of J.H. Cohn, in West Los Angeles.
Ms. Diaz earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California. She is a member of CalCPA, the AICPA, the IIA, and ISACA. |
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Certification Director
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Mike Jordan is a Principal at CSO Compass. Mike has spent decades working with the latest cutting-edge technology in a number of fields. He most recently managed educational software product development at seven sites for Cengage Learning, introducing the Scrum framework and agile development practices as well as structured security methods. These Cengage SaaS products included homework, assessment, outcomes management and reference material applications for higher education. Mike has managed software development, documentation, QA, testing, SaaS operations and security at a number of companies in such diverse fields as SaaS (Cengage Learning and PlaceWare), game systems (3DO), high-performance systems (Ridge Computers) and embedded systems (Network Computing Devices).
Mike has provided security expertise for companies ranging from large financial services companies to online game startups. These reviews have dealt with topics including security architecture, risk analysis, code review and third-party suppliers. Mike has held the position of CISO for a major SaaS company. His SaaS and Security experience has included Forensics, Incident Response and Security Planning.
Mike is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Mike is a current member of the Scrum Alliance, IEEE Computer Society, ISACA, OWASP, ISSA and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). You can find out more about Mike at LinkedIn or on the Multicians web site. He graduated from Arizona State University with a BSEE degree.
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Past President
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Balakrishnan Natarajan is a Manager in the Technology and Security Risk Management practice at SOAProjects, Inc. Before that, he worked in the Enterprise Security Solutions (ESS) Consulting Practice at Wipro Technologies. He has over 9 years of experience in audit and consulting. His areas of specialization include Internal controls assessment, Information Security, Operational, Management and Financial audits. His past work experience includes Infosys Technologies and PricewaterhouseCoopers in India. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Accounting, is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) from India, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from the US, a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), an ISO27001 Lead Auditor, a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). |
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