BHANU P SURYADEVARA

5G Casco Drive, Nashua, NH 03062

svbp@yahoo.com

A CISA, CISSP and Chartered Accountant by qualification, has extensive experience in the field of Information Technology Risk Management in addition to business process and accounting.

EXPERIENCE

Philips Electronics North America: Since July 2001

Audit Manager

Managing Business Process, Financial & Information Systems Audits

Frontier Systems, Inc / RedSalsa (New Jersey): June 2000 to June 2001

Incharge – Consulting & Risk Management

Responsible for the delivery of consulting and risk management services to clients that included the following initiatives:

· Development of a plan to start IT Security and IT Audit service offering to clients

· Development of the project management methodologies for both on site and off shore development

· The integration of risk management and quality assurance programs into the project development life cycle

· Multiple project requirement studies with recommendations for business solutions in the manufacturing, finance, broadcasting, and e-commerce markets

KPMG Peat Marwick (India) May 1998 to May 2000

Assistant Manager – Information Risk Management

Managed large client delivery assignments and was also involved in business development. Some of the clients involved include Siemens, Hongkong Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Escort Yamaha, Citicorp/Citibank, ANZ Grindlays Bank, Matrix Information Services Ltd. (e-commerce venture), and many other national and multinational clients. Served as the product champion for IT Risk Mangement Benchmarking services. Responsible for directing and reviewing the work on assignments, managing client relationship and review/finalization of reports:

· IT Control Reviews

At many large multinational companies (as part of the audit support engagements and consulting assignments)

· Business Process Analysis

Review of the Bills Finance, Direct Finance and Refinance systems for a institutional bank, Review of the entire business process from receipt of Raw content to publishing on the web, including security considerations (firewalls, server security) for a pay per usage web site

· Computer Assisted Audit Techniques

Trained in ACL (including creation of batches)

· Security policy manuals and procedures

Development of security policies for a Bank and a pharmaceutical company and assisting in implementation

· Year 2000 Reviews

Health check reviews the adequacy of the methodology adopted to deal with the Year 2000 problem as it affects the particular organization for various manufacturing clients and one very large multinational bank

· Preparation of presentations

Year 2000 presentations for addressing at seminars, Security related presentations to be delivered to large audience by the Partners of the firm

· Training programs

Computer audit and CAATs (ACL) for Corporate Internal Audit cell of a large group of companies, have conducted day long workshops for senior and middle management on IT Risk Management

· Specific reviews

Review of trial balance generation procedures at a multinational client (New Delhi), review of data conversion procedures during migration of a SAP R/3 environment

S.B.Billimoria & Co. : January 1997 to May 1998

(Member firm of Deloitte & Touche International)

Qualified Chartered Accountant

· Consulting assignments

Valuation of divisions

Determination of exchange ratio for mergers

Financial Projection workings - To facilitate restructuring under BIFR scheme ( Spinning Mill).

· Financial Audits

Audit Senior - Clients include Eveready India Industries Ltd., Sirpur Paper Mills Ltd. and other large companies

· Systems study and development of manuals

Developing an Approvals Manual/Review of Functional specifications of proposed accounting software/Internal control evaluation for a Rs. 200 Crore turnover company involved in manufacture of Renewable energy systems.

· Use of Computers in audit assignments

Building of Database and generation of exception reports - in investigative audit assignments

Developed software programs - to scrutinize inventory data to achieve audit objectives at a client whose inventory value was about Rs.40 Crores.

Satyam Group of Companies : July 1996 to Nov 1996

Consultant

· Development of Financial models for evaluation of Power projects and for quoting tariff structure in bids for Liquid Fuel Power Projects. Models were developed in Excel using LP models to facilitate responsive decision making.

Prasad & Co. : September 1992 to September 1995

Articled with Sri. P.L.N.Prasad B.Com, F.C.A

· Handled Audits (Statutory & Tax)

· Involved in taxation work (Income Tax)

EDUCATION

Academic

Honors Graduate in Commerce (B.Com. - Hons): March 1992

From Indian Institute of Management & Commerce, Osmania University

Passed in First Division with 74 % in aggregate

Functional

Chartered Accountant: May 1996

From The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Certified Information Systems Auditor Examination: June 1997

From Information Systems Audit & Control Association, Illinois, U.S.A

Passed with scaled score of 83

Certified Information Systems Security Professional: July 2001

From ISC2, U.S.A

Cost & Works Accountant: Dec 1993

From The Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India

Company Secretary Examination:

Intermediate Level - Dec 1995

From The Institute of Company Secretaries of India

Valuation & Strategic Financial Management:

Professional Education programmes by Dr. Prasanna Chandra

Conducted over five weekends each (Oct’96 and Jan’97)

Computers

MRP-II/ERP Course: Baan IV

With Software Technology Parks of India (March 1997), Hyderabad.

Overview of Tools, Manufacturing & Distribution modules with specialization in Finance

P.G Diploma in Computers: 1993

From Lan Eseda Software Services Ltd.

Course included DOS, BASIC/COBOL, DBMS, Basics of C, and Systems design and project work.

Attended Diploma course in RDBMS: June 1996

Oracle 7.1 with Developer 2000

At Software Solutions Integrated Ltd.

Training/Seminars/Certifications

SAP R/3 Security: November 1999

At KPMG

Unix Administration/Security: April 2000

At Computer Maintenance Corporation, India (‘CMC’)

Web Security Summit: July 2000

Five-day series of sessions at Boston organized by DCI

Webmaster 101: November 2000

On Vertical Alliance web building tools

Master in Internet Security: October 2000

From BrainBench online testing service (97 percentile score)

Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator: April 2001

Checkpoint Software Technologies (Firewall-1)

PROJECTS

Zephyre (January 1995 to March 1995)

Actively involved in the Simulation of National Stock Exchange(Online Trading) conducted by organization of a group of professionals called Zephyre (I am one of the founder-members). My role in the project was event management and complete systems design and software development. It was a successful event involving over 120 professionals from the financial market.

Prasad & Co. (August 1993)

Developed software (in Foxpro) to facilitate portfolio management of securities. The software handles the purchase and sale of securities (shares/debentures) and to generate reports (status of stock/financial position with brokers) for an individual.

Others

· Real time project involving development of integrated student management and financial accounting software (in Dbase) at Lan Eseda Software Services (training centre).

ACHIEVEMENTS

· Ranked fourth in Osmania University in Graduation

· Awarded the National Merit Scholarship in Intermediate and Graduation Levels from the Government of India

OTHERS

· Faculty at ICFAI - Centre for Information Technology, for the CISA course

· Organized PANAROMA, an interactive seminar on Marketing & Advertising at college

· Has been a key member of CRUSADERS - Organizers of Bizzique, the biggest business quiz ever held in Hyderabad, with a participation of over 325 teams for 3 consecutive years.