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Sebastian VanDyke

Director of Third Party Risk Management

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  • Name: Sebastian VanDyke
  • Email: sebastian@twinpros.com
  • Phone: (678) 680-3468
  • Address: 5509 Grammercy Drive SW, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Professional Profile

Accomplished professional with over 25 years of corporate, enterprise experience. Offers a unique combination of GRC exposure, cyber security experience, technical expertise, and proven IT leadership to consistently deliver to plan and bring value to the organization. On track to obtain CISSP and CISA certifications along with the current CTPRP obtained in 2019.

Governance, Risk and Compliance. Experience with enterprise risk management boards and executing the policy governance approvals and procedures. Experience working with IT and Healthcare teams to maintain compliance with PCI DSS & HIPAA which are critical to selling gift cards dealing with PII and PHI data. Experience due diligence efforts with third party auditors and performing risk assessments with vendors and partners identified as critical to the business.

Third Party Risk Management. Formed new program from beginning stages by developing policy & standards, implementing SaaS solution, and executing third party risk assessments. Responsible for risk assessments of over 2000 third parties and handling over 900 partner requests annually ranging from third party audits, partner assessments, questionnaires, contract review, RFP reviews and other service delivery.

Project Management Experience. Experience as a project manager and part of the project team as a line manager in both agile and waterfall environments for various infrastructure projects and releases.

IT Infrastructure. Hands-on executive leader with over 20 years’ experience managing and supporting multi-million-dollar storage and server equipment in an ITIL and PCI compliant environment.

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Skills

Cyber Security & IT Skills

Third Party Risk Management

Advanced, 3 years

Security Audit and Risk Assessment

Moderate, 3 years

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Moderate, 5 years

Infrastructure Information Technology

Expert, 25 years

Executive Management Skills

Overall Cyber Security and Information Technology skills working for enterprise class corporations.

Governance, Risk and Compliance
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
Vendor Management
Project Management

Knowledge

  • Third Party Risk Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Policy Governance
  • Risk Audit & Assessment
  • Business Continuity
  • Disaster Recovery
  • HIPAA Compliance
  • PCI DSS Compliance
  • Colocation Datacenter Services
  • VMware Virtualization
  • Enterprise Storage
  • Project Management

Experience

Over 25 Years of Experience!

After spending the majority of my career in IT Infrastructure I've shifted to Cyber Security beginning with Third Party Management.

InComm

Director of Third Party Risk Management

2019 - 2020
As director of the newly formed Third Party Risk program we were responsible for assessing the financial and security risk of over 2500 vendors, partners, and financial institutions. Managed Incomm audits and assessments from major Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, American Express, Well Fargo, Walmart, Target, Walgreens, CVS and many others.
InComm

Director of IT Infrastructure

2011 - 2019
Provided leadership, maintenance, installation, and support for over 7000 enterprise open systems along with over 20 modular and monolithic storage arrays. Managed an on-premises datacenter in Atlanta as well as a disaster recovery datacenter in Denver. Over 95% of the environment has been virtualized using VMware ESX providing failover flexibility and redundancy for outages and maintenance activities.
LPS

Senior Storage Engineer

2004 - 2011
Provided administrative and hardware support for EMC Symmetrix, EMC VNX/Clariion andEMC Centera storage arrays. Also, provided administrative and hardware support for McData, Brocade DCX and Cisco MDS switches.
PRGX

Technical Services Manager

1998 - 2004
Provided direction and managed the NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 enterprise domain environment for 3000+ servers. Managed multi-million dollar budget for IT expenses and salaries for a team of six tech support analysts.

Education and Training

Western Governors University

Bachelor Science - Business Management

2016 - 2017
Transferred various college credits and completed the Bachelors in Business Management. Looking to earn a Masters degree in the future.
Kemper Military Junior College

Associates in Arts

1990 - 1992
Earned Associates degree and earned a commission in the United State Army Reserves.

Training and Certifications

Shared Assessments

Certified Third Party Risk Professional

2019
ISC2

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

In Progess
ISC2

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

In Progress
Dell EMC

VCE™ Certified Converged Infrastructure Associate

2016
CompTIA

Project+ Certified

2016
Dell EMC

EMC Proven Professional

2014
Microsoft

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE)

2008
United States Army Reserves

Trained as an Army Corps of Engineer Officer

2014

Contact

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I am currently looking for new opportunities with a company that can leverage my skills, integrity and work ethic. If you can recommend hiring companies that value their employees please contact me ASAP.

Sebastian VanDyke
5509 Grammercy Drive SW
Atlanta, Georgia, 30349
United States
Phone
(678)-680-3468
Email
sebastian@twinpros.com

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