Dirk J. Bal CISA CBRM

Current

• Associated Partner at Big Five Consulting (B5C)
• IT GRC manager (Governance, Risk and Compliance) at

Past

• Interim auditor / audit manager at Philips International B.V.
• Manager Offshoring Services at Philips do Brasil Ltda
• IT-Manager at Philips do Brasil Ltda

• Senior Datacom Engineer at Philips International
• Datacomm Engineer at Philips International
• Radio & Electronics Officer at Koraal Scheepvaart Maatschappij

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Education

• Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing
• Philips internal training
• Hogere Zeevaartschool Vlissingen

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company

Dirk J. Bal CISA CBRM’s Summary

Dirk Johannes Bal is a business executive with vast experience as IT-manager in a multinational company. Responsible for managing and setting up of IT services, including off-shoring services out of Brazil.
Has developed exceptional interpersonal skills, business development acumen, gravitas, bearing & presence.

Furthermore he, as a free-lance and interim manager, has developed up-to-date skills and experience in managing SoX oriented EDP-audits, IT compliance and Business Risk projects and in setting up Business Continuity Planning.

He is a certified IT-auditor (CISA) and certified Business Resilience Manager (CBRM), which certifications and knowledge are recent and are being kept up-to-date. Also proficient in several process oriented methodologies and frameworks, such as COBIT, ISO38500, ISO27001, ITIL, Balanced Score Card and PST (Process Survey Tool)..

Specialized in IT GRC-management (Governance, Risk and Compliance) and Business Risk Management, he has the ability to articulate value at tactical and strategic level, identifying improvements in business processes resulting in reduced costs and enhanced level of control.

Dirk Johannes Bal is Dutch with Brazilian citizenship.

Dirk J. Bal CISA CBRM’s Specialties:

IT leadership initiatives
IT operational management
IT Risk management / ISO27000
IT Governance / ISO38500
Business Continuity Planning
Disaster Recovery Planning
Business Resilience Management (certified)
SOX related audits
internal audit
IT due dilligence
contract management / benchmarking
project management
PRINCE2 project management
ITIL framework
ISO 27001 / 38500

Dirk J. Bal CISA CBRM’s Experience

• Associated Partner

  Big Five Consulting (B5C)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Strategic consulting including business development in the Governance, Risk & Compliance area.

• IT GRC manager (Governance, Risk and Compliance)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Specialized in ICT-management, EDP Audit according SoX, COBIT ISO38500, COSO, ITIL and ISO-27000 standards.
  
  Specialized in Business Risk Management by setting up Business Continuity Planning and/or Disaster Recovery Plans. (BCP/DRP)
  
  - Certified Business Resilience Manager (CBRM)
  - Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  - COBIT certified

• Interim auditor / audit manager

  Philips International B.V.

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  May 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  I was invited to work for the Corporate Internal Audit department at Philips International in order to give support to the SoX certification process for Philips in general and carrying out SoX-related audits and follow-up on remediation for the global datacenters in specific.
  
  This job was very interesting and took place under significant time constraints, with a hard dead-line.
  
  This job was both managerial, including reporting to higher management, as well as hands-on as auditor. Many parties were involved, like KPMG as external auditor, E&Y as support to Corporate Internal Audit and Corporate IT and external service providers to make the picture complete.
  
  The job included, audit scoping, audit planning, audit execution, audit reporting and audit remediation.
  
  I enjoyed this job so much, that I decided to specialize myself in IT Audit and IT Risk Management, and obtained certification as an IT auditor (CISA) and Certified Business Resilience Manager (CBRM)

• Manager Offshoring Services

  Philips do Brasil Ltda

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PHG; Consumer Electronics industry)

  October 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  Engaged in Service development and service creation projects for the Corporate Datacenters program.
  Setting up Offshoring services out of Brazil, based on local available competences.
  Negotiated outsourcing services contracts with key customers.

• IT-Manager

  Philips do Brasil Ltda

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PHG; Consumer Electronics industry)

  February 1995 — October 2005 (10 years 9 months)

  Responsible for iniatiating and setting up of Regional IT-services, such as data networks, telecom services, e-mail, desktop computing and data center services, based on a shared services concept.
  Liaison towards the Global IT community within Philips.
  Main responsibilities; service creation, service delivery, benchmarking, contract negotiations, project-management

• Senior Datacom Engineer

  Philips International

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PHG; Consumer Electronics industry)

  June 1990 — February 1995 (4 years 9 months)

  Responsible for the international data networks within Philips.

• Datacomm Engineer

  Philips International

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  May 1986 — June 1990 (4 years 2 months)

  Responsible for design, implementation and operations of the international datanetworks at Philips Electronics

• Radio & Electronics Officer

  Koraal Scheepvaart Maatschappij

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Maritime industry)

  October 1978 — May 1986 (7 years 8 months)

  responsible as a merchant marine ship's officer for all electronics, navigation and telecommunication equipment on-board ocean going vessels.

Dirk J. Bal CISA CBRM’s Education

• Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing

  administração financeira 2003 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  financial training course for none-financial managers

• Philips internal training

  BK-I, BK-II , business administration , 1990 — 1992

  This training BK-I and BK-II was specifically set-up for young managers to learn more about business administration.
  It can be considered as a forerunner to the actual MBA´s

  Activities and Societies:

  leadership training, negotiations, HR, social behaviour, business administration, factory management, IT-management, legal, F&A etc.

• Hogere Zeevaartschool Vlissingen

  bachelor , Telecommunications , 1975 — 1978

Additional Information

Dirk J. Bal CISA CBRM’s Websites:

• My Company

Dirk J. Bal CISA CBRM’s Interests:

Golf

Dirk J. Bal CISA CBRM’s Groups:

ISACA

•    TEN - Top Executives Net
•    Philips
•    ITSM (ITIL) Professionals
•    Internal Audit Professionals
•    Certified ISO27000 Lead Auditor
•    IT Governance
•    Information Security Community
•    Consultants Network
•    Certified Information Systems Auditor
•    Expat Network
•    Dutch ICT professionals
•    IT SECURITY EXPERT
•    ISACA Professionals
•    ITIL v2 / v3 Service Management (ITSM) and ISO 20000 + Subgroups
•    COBIT 4.1
•    IT audit
•    Executive Interim Network
•    Freelance IT Professionals (3000+)
•    Risk Managers
•    ISO 38500 for IT Governance
•    Former and current Philips employees
•    Latin America Telecom Specialists
•    Certified Information System Auditors
•    Audit Professionals Group
•    Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (GRC)
•    Vereniging oud leerlingen Vlissingen
•    Dutch Interim-management / Freelance network
•    Chief Audit Executives Group
•    Tecnologia da Informação - TI Brasil
•    Governança, Riscos e Conformidade em TI
•    Information Security - Risk Management - Compliance Jobs (www.myinfosecjob.com)
•    TI Especialistas - Brasil
•    BRASIL: VAGAS EXECUTIVAS
•    Leaders & Thinkers
•    Careers in Audit
•    SP.Networking
•    Oil & Gas Outlook Brasil
•    GolfclubNL
•    Linked:Golfers

Dirk J. Bal CISA CBRM’s Honors:

CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor certification)
CBRM (Certified Business Resilience Manager Certification)
COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology certification)
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library certified)
PRINCE-II (IT project management certified)

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