Welcome
Germán
(GMán)
Rodríguez, CFE
President
/ CEO
Biography....
Technical Knowledge
Founded in September
1997,
Way2Go
Consulting
is
a professional consulting firm providing technical and business analyses
and management solutions in the area of information technology security
and fraud prevention. With over twenty-two years of experience in
the area of information technology audit, security assessments, and fraud
detection and investigation, Way2Go
Consulting
understands the critical factors and exposures of today's business technology
and we provide our clients with proactive assessments, education and practical
solutions.
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Germán (GMán)
Rodríguez, CFE
President / CEO
Mission Statement:
"Addressing
Technology Security and Fraud Exposures Through Proactive
Assessments and Education"
Company
Commitment:
Is our commitment
to assess the integrity, reliability, accuracy and efficiency of components
of automated systems and ensure that are in conformity with organization's
policies, standards and procedures,, applicable statutory and legal provisions
and acceptable business practices.
Is our commitment
to identify control issues, fraud exposures and recommend internal controls,
productivity enhancements, loss prevention and cost reductions wherever
possible.
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Biography
On
May 1977, obtained a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and Accounting
from the University of Turabo, Caguas, Puerto Rico. On March 1977,
he was hired by the Office of the Comptroller of Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, and assigned to a newest and just established EDP audit division.
At the Office of the Comptroller, he assisted in the establishment of the
EDP audit functions and guidelines for the government sector, prepared
and documented audit programs and questionnaires and performed technical
audits and evaluations on the various agencies, corporations, departments
and municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. On December
1981, obtained a CE/MIS certification from the University of Puerto Rico,
Rio Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico. In June 1984, moved to the
United
States where he have been providing technical
knowledge and expertise in the area of
information technology audit, security and fraud prevention, detection
and awareness to a number of organizations including:
The City
of Orlando - Orlando, Florida (2001)
OCS Consulting
Services, Inc. - Orlando, Florida (1992)
General
Electric Co - Lakeland, Florida (1992)
The Bank
of New York - New York City (1991)
The Bank
of Tokyo - New York City (1986)
American
Savings Bank - New York City (1984)
In November
1989, he obtained the Certified Fraud Examiner designation from the National
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
In
October 2000, hisprofessional
profile was published in the 2001 Products
and Services Catalog, issued by The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
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Technical
Knowledge Summary
Vast
experience in Information Technology audits, security, procedures and
controls
and fraud investigations including:
General
and detailed analysis and evaluations of :
Computer
installations operations and management.
Physical,
logical and environmental security controls.
Computer
hardware and software access and security
controls
Financial
and non financial application systems.
Local/wide
area networks and Inter/Intranet administration and security.
Disaster
recovery and contingency planning.
Strategic
planning and support on existing and emerging technologies.
Analysis,
development, testing and installation of governmental and banking application
systems.
Drafting
System Development Methodologies and project management plans.
Electronic
Data Interchange analyses:
Automated
Clearing House (ACH);
Clearing
House Interbank Payment System (CHIPS);
Electronic
Fund Transfer (EFT);
Global
Security Processing (GSP);
Other
local and worldwide financial networks' systems.
Software,
hardware and consultative services research, evaluation, selection and
contract reviews.
Knowledge
of federal/state laws and regulations governing financial institutions.
IT resources
utilization cost analyses.
Analysis,
detection and investigation of control weakness that could lead to a fraud
situation.
Vulnerability
assessment of physical logical and internal security controls.
Research,
evaluate and recommend solutions to correct and prevent misuse of computer
resources and information.
National
and international assignments
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Hardware,
Software & PC Tools
Hardware:
AS/400,
RS/6000, IBM/AMDAHL, 4340's, 4380's, 3090's, 390's UNISYS,
DEC
System 5900/260, DEC/VAX 8X's & 6X's Series, VAX/VMS, DEC/ULTRIX,
DEC/UNIX;
PC IBM Compatible, Pentium, Compaq, SGI Server, NT Server, Novell
Server.
PC
Tools: MS/DOS (6.2), MS Office Professional 95, 97, MS Word 97
(8.0), Word
Perfect
for Windows (5.2), Access 97 8.0, LOTUS Notes (5.0), EXCEL (8.0),
VISIO Flow (3.2), Harvard Graphics, PowerPoint 97 (8.0), MS Schedule (7.5),
TestBridge OCR/Picture Publisher, Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0, KeyView Pro,
Iomega Zip, MS Access, MS Projects.
Network/Internet:DECnet,
LAT, TCP/IP, NOVEL LAN/SERVER, ETHERNET (IPX,
TCP/IP),
CISCO, Token Ring, VitaLink, Gandolf, Netscape Navigator/Communicator,
MS
IE (5.0), Front Page, MS Outlook 97 (8.0), Exchange Client (5.0), Elron,
FTP Tools, NT Network
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