Joel Ipe

Current

• Audit Manager / VP at Citigroup

Past

• Senior Auditor at New York Life Insurance Company
• Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC

Education

• Pace University-Pleasantville/Briarcliff Campus
• State University of New York at Albany
• Clarkstown High School North

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Connections

106 connections

Industry

Financial Services

Websites

• My Website

Joel Ipe’s Summary

Joel has over 8 years experience with IT audit, Windows NT4/2000 administration, information security reviews, and security solution implementations. He is currently an Audit Manager within Citi's North American distributed technology infrastructure audit team. He is responsible for, participating in, and managing various reviews of, distributed technology within Citi's consumer and investment bank, and global wealth management division.

Citi (formerly Citigroup, Inc) is a multibank holding company, providing various financial services to customers in the United States and internationally.

Joel Ipe’s Specialties:

Specializing in Wintel Infrastructure and Information Security. Joel currently holds a CISA certification, and is working towards his CISSP certification.

Joel Ipe’s Experience

• Audit Manager / VP

  Citigroup

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

  March 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  Audit assurance for Citi's distributed technology infrastructure in North America.

• Senior Auditor

  New York Life Insurance Company

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

  April 2002 — March 2005 (3 years)

  Senior Auditor in the Information Systems Audit group, with Domestic/International audit universe.
  
  • Identifying and evaluating internal control, as well as operational efficiency and effectiveness; policy, procedural, and regulatory compliance. Reviewed client operations, change management, business contingency, physical/logical access control, procurement.
  • Participated in individual and team domestic/international audits, from preliminary surveys through writing an audit report; developed and executed appropriate tests; prepared and reviewed workpapers; documented test results; interviewing clients and asking pertinent questions.
  • Develops and utilizes audit approaches and techniques appropriate to the circumstances.
  • Developing practical recommendations and suggestions for identified audit issues.
  • Uses good judgment and makes decisions based on sufficient facts, materiality, and analysis.
  • Specialization in Windows 2000 & Sun Solaris operating system security.

• Associate

  PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)

  August 1999 — January 2002 (2 years 6 months)

  Associate in the Assurance & Business Advisory Services group, Global Risk Management Services.
  
  • Reviewed security policies and procedures for large-scale healthcare and banking clients such as Cigna and Barclays.
  • Reviewed and assessed the controls over system and application level security within Windows NT/2000 and Sun Solaris environments, such as Goldman Sachs, Dow Jones, and Smith Barney.
  • Installed, configured, and maintained SiteMinder environments for large airline, healthcare, and automotive clients, such as DaimlerChrysler, American Airlines, and Hartford Life Insurance.
  • Wrote disaster recovery procedures for client’s SiteMinder-LDAP authorization directory server.

Joel Ipe’s Education

• Pace University-Pleasantville/Briarcliff Campus

  B.S. , Information Systems , 1997 — 1999

• State University of New York at Albany

• Clarkstown High School North

Additional Information

Joel Ipe’s Websites:

• My Website

Joel Ipe’s Interests:

Road cycling.

Joel Ipe’s Groups:

Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

•    Citi Network

Joel Ipe’s Honors:

IIA - NY Contributors Award, 2003
IIA - NY Volunteer Award, 2006
IIA - NY President's Award, 2007

Joel Ipe’s Contact Settings

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