
IT Specialist, Internal Control at Callaway Golf
Greater San Diego Area

IT Specialist, Internal Control at Callaway Golf
Greater San Diego Area
(Public Company; ELY; Sporting Goods industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Lead in charge of the design and performance of seasonal Sarbanes Oxley 404 IT Audits and key stakeholder in IT Compliance initiatives, including PCI Compliance and IT/Network Security related projects.
(Partnership; Accounting industry)
June 2005 — July 2008 (3 years 2 months)
Information Risk Management, Audit and Advisory Overview - Sarbanes Oxley 404, SAS 70 Attestation, Business Process Analysis, Internal and External IT Audit, Disaster Recovery and IT/ Network Security.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
December 2002 — September 2003 (10 months)
- Managed and administered technical advertising campaigns for large e-commerce companies across the USA
- Developed and executed online advertising campaigns with budgets over $25,000 per month; initiated contact with existing customers to develop ad copy, identified and translated customers' needs into creative internet-based solutions
(Entertainment industry)
August 2001 — December 2001 (5 months)
- Created, designed, and wrote copy for brochures, flyers and display ads; developed high-impact multi-media and promotional packages; web design; created direct-mail campaigns; represented company at trade-show exhibits
- Presented products through formal multi-media presentations to groups of 30-50
Masters , Communications Culture & Technology , 2003 — 2005
Masters Thesis: Gaming In Cyberspace: How Interactive Entertainment Is Changing Communication & Identity On The Net
Awarded High Pass Masters Thesis Honor Award 2005.
(Download a copy @ http://cct.georgetown.edu/7010.html)
Coursework included, but not limited to, the following:
- Privacy Rights In Communications
- Politics Public Policy & The Public Interest
- Broadband Proliferation Project (Independent Study)
- Technology, Culture & Development
- Statistical Methodology
- Cryptographic Methods
- Children and Technology (Developmental Psychology)
- Modern Media, Politics and Persuasive Communication
- Multimodal Interaction and Virtual Environements (Thesis Research)
Teaching Assistantships in 3 Graduate Level Courses:
- Privacy Rights In Communications
- Politics Public Policy & The Public Interest
- Introduction to Communications Culture and Technology
BSBA , Management Information Systems , 1998 — 2002
International Internship Program - Sydney, Australia (2001)
H.S. , 1994 — 1998
Member of ISACA, Boston and San Diego Chapters, since 2006. (CISA obtained in 2008)