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Meron Demissie, MSc, PMP

Toronto,ON

Summary

Results-driven and versatile business administration and management professional with experience in business planning, operations management, system process design, and program/project management. Possess a valuable blending of creativity, and analytical abilities that combine efficiency with imagination to produce bottom-line results. Fluent in English and proficiency level in French. Areas of effectiveness include: Cyber Security Operations, Client Relationship Management, Business Requirement Analysis, Business Process Optimization , Change Control Management, Project Planning/Management, System Design & Development, Team Building & Leadership, Knowledge Management, Policy / Procedure Formulation, Vendor Relations.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager, Cyber Shared Services

Deloitte Global
01.2022 - Current
  • Helped developed and implemented strategies to increase Member Firms satisfaction
  • Conducted interviews for potential candidates
  • Manage 3 analysts while training, coaching and mentoring
  • Continue managing various pen test requests while building relationships with our Americas regions

Senior Consultant, Cyber Risk Assessement

Deloitte Global
02.2020 - 01.2022

As part of the Deloitte Global’s Cyber Risk Assessment team:

  • Organized and managed hundreds of penetration tests for various Deloitte Member Firms globally.
  • Acted as a point of contact for Deloitte technical teams representing Global Security Shared Services.
  • Collaborated with a number of Global and US cyber security and developer teams to perform enterprise-wide penetration testing and finding remediation.
  • Provided strategic guidance, documentation for penetration services and provided project management support to various cyber related projects such as Contrast, Saltminer, Onapsis SAP and ransomeware projects on Deloitte’s applications deemed as critical.

Manager, Content Governance

KPMG Global
Toronto, ON
10.2015 - 12.2018
  • Support the Content Architecture Project to create over-arching governance, lifecycle principles and taxonomy architecture to manage content consistency across functions and member firms, enabling the integration of content hosted in multiple repositories into future products developed by Global Collaboration and Knowledge (GC&K) for firm-wide sharing.

Project Manager

Moody's Corporation
Toronto, ON
07.2014 - 09.2015
  • Worked in a project management capacity in the Non-Retail Credit Risk Program at ScotiaBank
  • This is a large scale 120 million-dollar project which consists of implementing Moody's RiskOrigins solution to meet RRDAR (Risk Reporting and Data Aggregation) requirements set out by OSFI and BCBS 289
  • Helped manage 40 million of the budget, with additional responsibilities including planning, budgeting, forecasting, client relationship and resource management.

Content Migration Support Manager

KPMG Global
Toronto, ON
07.2011 - 07.2014
  • Brought in as a secondee and retained as a full-time resource to support the Global Advisory Portal, a SharePoint 2007 enterprise-wide implementation that combines the Global, ELLP, Canada, and US sites into a single, central knowledge management Advisory Portal, promoting KPMG's global strategy through a consistent, dynamic, branded user experience
  • Oversaw content migration, working with Knowledge Managers to streamline the cleansing process of their content, monitoring progress, and performing follow-up and the production of status report on migration effort and monthly data quality report
  • Periodically monitored data quality work on content migrated which covered over 30,000 documents.

Systems Manager

KPMG
Toronto, ON
03.2008 - 07.2011
  • Led the design, development, and implementation of new systems and programs, providing project leadership, training, and technical support for multi-phased projects simultaneously
  • Ensured the effective operation of the firm's systems at the highest standards of performance and availability to maximize productivity
  • Acted as Subject Matter Expert of various internal applications and enterprise systems.

Education

Msc. International of Business -

IESEG of School of Management
01.2019

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Information Systems

University of District of Columbia

Professional Development

  • PMP Certified -2024
  • CRISC in-progress

Timeline

Manager, Cyber Shared Services

Deloitte Global
01.2022 - Current

Senior Consultant, Cyber Risk Assessement

Deloitte Global
02.2020 - 01.2022

Manager, Content Governance

KPMG Global
10.2015 - 12.2018

Project Manager

Moody's Corporation
07.2014 - 09.2015

Content Migration Support Manager

KPMG Global
07.2011 - 07.2014

Systems Manager

KPMG
03.2008 - 07.2011

Msc. International of Business -

IESEG of School of Management

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Information Systems

University of District of Columbia
Meron Demissie, MSc, PMP