February Dinner Meeting

Topic: Project Auditing/Project Risk Management
Speaker: Frank Obermeyer and Dan Driscoll
Time: February 2, 2010; 5:30 Networking, 6-6:15 Chapter Update, 6:15-7:05 presentation, 7-8 dinner
Location: Montgomery Inn, Montgomery

Overview
When a company wants to take on something big, expensive, and risky, it forms a project. Unfortunately, the majority of large IT projects continue to miss expectations or fail outright. Frank and Dan will 1) discuss potential red flags that may indicate the need for improved project governance, and 2) share their perspectives on how to effectively structure a project risk management approach that significantly increases the odds of project success.

Bios:
Frank Obermeyer, CISA, PMP, CPA, CITP:
Frank has over 15 years of experience working with systems, processes, and controls, including over 11 years with Deloitte. During that span, he has provided project risk management, control assurance, and data quality services for a wide variety of regional middle market to large multinational organizations in the United States and Europe. Frank has spent over half his career working with companies in the Financial Services industry.

As a Project Risk Services specialist, Frank focuses on evaluating risks and controls related to information technology projects. These services help clients assess their information technology projects risks, develop action plans to mitigate risks, and assist in enhancing system development processes, procedures and project management.

Frank is a member several professional and charitable organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, and the United Way’s Emerging Leaders Society.

Dan Driscoll, CISA:
Dan is an experienced manager at Deloitte, specializing in Business Risk, Technology Risk, and Project Risk Services.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Dan had seven years experience in custom application development, technical architecture, and vendor software selection and implementation. A majority of his time was spent developing and supporting personnel, payroll, time reporting, tax, expense compliance, and treasury applications in support of a global service center. During this time, he gained extensive experience in application development methodologies, such as CMMI® and XTreme Programming, and data modeling for both transactional and data warehouse based applications.

Since joining Deloitte, Dan has focused on performing independent project risk assessments on large-scale IT implementation projects, providing information technology and business process auditing and controls consulting services, and providing data quality and integrity services in support of financial statement audits.

Registration:

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