Bruce C. Taylor 3126 Lions Club Lane Lithonia, GA 30038 (404) 787-9844 bt12b1a3e@westpost.

net Management Role in IT Audit * Project Management * Systems Optimization * Process Optimization Over 20 years of successful experience working for Fortune 500 companies and Bi g 4 CPA Firms providing IT Audits and improving systems implementation and utili zation in manufacturing, energy, aerospace, health care, insurance, transportati on and financial services industries. * Adept in IT Audit Cobit, information security, Quality Assurance and Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) strategies * Proven ability to manage international technology audits * Expertise in IT Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) strategies, software development, start-u p operations, process improvement, policy/procedure development and client relat ions * Proficiency in auditing Enterprise Wide Systems/ERP systems QUALIFICATIONS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Systems Lifecycle Management Process Engineering Market Feasibility Analysis Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Controls Management Systems Change Management Market Penetration Analysis Financial Forecasting Computer Based Solutions Benchmarking/Prototyping Budget Administration Vendor Management Performance Improvement Training & Mentoring Contract Negotiations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CIGNA Director-IS Audit TaylorMade Consulting Services, LLC 2001 to 2007 Managing Partner Deloitte & Touche Senior Manager Prudential 1999 Director, IT Audit 1998 to 1999 to 2001 2007 to 2009

Aetna Services, Inc. Assistant Vice President, IT Audit CSX Corporation Director, IT Audit LTV Corporation Corporate Audit Manager, IT

1995 to 1998 1993 to 1995 1990 to 1993

EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Detroit Colleg e Professional Coursework: * Extensive training on Management skills with Deloitte, Cigna and Aet na * Professional Certifications * Projected Date of CISA in June 2011 * ACHIEVEMENTS IT Audit Eliminated areas of major concern to Audit Committee Board of Directors and seni or management through creation of audit programs/reports and presented informati on. Enhanced information security policies, procedures, training and awareness. Formalized IT recovery strategy and planning; developed QA process, including metrics to validate SDLC testing processes. Developed manual detective change c ontrol procedures to enhance systems change controls. Results: Developed cost effective solutions for two year project in nine months with minimal amount of i nvestment. Identified and remediated flaws in mid-frame distribution system resulting in co st avoidance in excess of $1M per month. First assignment with company was lead for large project that had been in place for over two years and was 90% complet ed; examination of documents found project was 70% complete and used outdated sy stems; conducted due diligence that dug deeply into issues; President of Divisio n and CFO solicited help to resolve issues; assigned to head project team; worke d with Big 4 CPA/Consulting Firm to integrate new plan. Results: Revision of p roject plan and new course of direction saved over $6M for company. Improved processes and eliminated costly procedures through proactively managing project that provided outside vendor assessment/recommendation for Business Con tinuity/Disaster Recovery improvements. Executive management was concerned that Disaster Recovery Plan at Data Center had become outdated; recognized that prob lem centered around identification of assessment against benchmark, Best in Clas s; coordinated efforts with outside consultant; discovered number of processes s uch as testing were not cost effective; prioritized data and eliminated unnecess ary testing. Results: Cost avoidance had diminished utilization of expensive t ests at company. Remedied major drain on company revenue through incisive investigation of overpa yments in payroll system. Established agenda for auditing team that was assigne d since Payroll Department uncovered discrepancies in overpayments to employees who had been terminated; identified problem and magnitude of that problem; assi gned rated/scheduled meetings; solutions involved requirement directing managers

to follow defined steps at time of termination of employees (i.e. put steps int o system); created training material to support changes. Results: Process was very successful and recovered $1M+ annually. Systems Optimization Developed/implemented/managed strategy used for evaluating and auditing top ten new and existing system implementations resulting in built-in application contro ls and improved systems implementation. High level of new systems failures were occurring; determined that situation needed immediate improvement; provided rec ommendations to design that was implemented to be consistent with original direc tion; audited and recommended changes that were implemented to methodology of ho w systems were designed and implemented. Results: Stopped new systems projects in failure mode to correct project management process, as well as controls that needed to be in place. Enhanced information security policies, procedures, training, and awareness for company that improved efficiency of operation and reduced operating costs. As h ead of IT Audit and subsequently Information Security, discovered minimum emphas is had been placed on information security in past; gathered input from all area s of organization for Fortune 200 companies data and hardware after complete au dit of system, expanded security processes; critical information and application security were protected; created staff development initiative to increase secur ity of information. Results: Company financial assets were preserved. Secured company assets through establishment of internal audit control functiona lity. Discovered international areas of vulnerability that needed remediation; established Cobit-based tool to audit international IT functions in Asian divisi on that validated appropriate controls; utilized internationally recognized audi ting processes; visited major Asian countries, returned and established basis fo r self auditing; sent questionnaire and managers to sites to address control wea knesses. Results: Utilization of Cobit to control major areas of weakness and established processes that identified major compliance issues. Quality Assurance/Process Optimization Developed Pre-SAS 70 Audits that resulted in improvements from qualified to unqu alified opinions. Company needed to prove controls were in place to protect sen sitive information in order to satisfy concerns of potential clients; team was b rought together to identify control failures and recommend changes that were sub sequently implemented; coordinated preparation for pending audits from outside C PA firms to ensure compliance. Results: All SAS70 audits met standards with no exceptions after preparation. Developed QA process, including metrics, to validate testing processes that form alized IT recovery strategy and planning. Discovered that issues existed regard ing company's ability to respond to disaster recovery crises; coordinated all ac tivities of outside vendor especially in areas to identify issues dealing with c apability of company to recover critical information during emergency situations ; collected findings and put together goals for company to resolve potential cri ses. Results: Established metrics to indicate level of success in assurance th at files could be recovered in emergency situations; ability to get information in case of disaster was greatly improved. Constructed aggressive business development strategy that successfully brought s tart up business into marketplace. Began start up business operation from groun d up with minimal investment; conducted due diligence to create business plan an d marketing plans that were basis for establishment of business operations; face d typical challenges of small businesses competing with larger, established busi nesses; realized early that to be competitive, operations would have to be very

efficient to have price advantage over similar business operations. Results: D evelopment of startup business brought in over $.75M in revenue in first year an d revenues growth to over $1.2M in succeeding years.