AI Governance · Cybersecurity · Enterprise GRC · Data Engineering

Enterprise AI Governance at Scale.

There is a version of AI governance that satisfies the examination. And a version that actually works. After 18 years inside Fortune 100 financial services, I have built both — and the difference between them is always architecture, not intention.

18+ Years Fortune 100 Financial Services OCC · Fed · SOX · NIST AI RMF Dallas–Fort Worth, TX · US Citizen Past President, ISACA Iowa Chapter

Thesis

Most AI governance programs are designed to look complete. Not to be complete.

The pattern I keep seeing: policies that exist but are not operational. Lifecycle documentation that is current on paper and stale in practice. Audit-readiness that holds through the scheduled examination and breaks under the follow-up. These are not technology failures. They are architecture failures.

The programs that survive regulatory scrutiny share one characteristic: they were built as operational infrastructure, not documentation layers. Lifecycle controls that actually run between model deployments. Continuous monitoring that does not depend on a scheduled review cycle. Board reporting that reflects what the program is doing this week, not what it looked like six months ago when the deck was built.

That kind of governance does not happen by accident. It requires someone who has already built it and knows where the gaps form before the examiner finds them.

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Operating Domains

Where the depth is specific.

01
AI Governance & Model Risk
Lifecycle controls from identification through retirement. Evaluation protocols, prompt governance standards, and audit-defensible evidence infrastructure aligned to NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and SR 11-7.
02
Enterprise GRC & Regulatory Execution
OCC, Fed, SOX, GDPR, and ISO 42001 mandates translated into operational controls — not policy documents. The difference is what holds under examination.
03
Cybersecurity & Control Assurance
End-to-end technology control assurance across Cyber, IAM, and Operations. Clean audit posture is a design outcome, not a pre-examination scramble.
04
Data Engineering & Intelligent Automation
API-first control platforms, NLP and OCR automation, and data lineage pipelines that make compliance a data problem — and therefore a solvable one.
05
Continuous Control Monitoring
KRI frameworks and automated dashboards that replace point-in-time audit cycles with real-time control health visibility. Assurance that runs between reviews, not only during them.
06
Board & Audit Committee Reporting
Technical risk posture synthesized into board-ready narratives. The kind of reporting that enables genuine oversight — not compliance theater at the highest level of the organization.
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Proof

Specific, measurable, and cleared for context.

AI Governance at Scale
Enterprise AI Governance Framework
Engineered an enterprise AI governance framework at a Tier-1 Fortune 100 financial institution — lifecycle controls, evaluation protocols, and prompt governance standards across AI, Payments, and IAM portfolios. Regulatory escalations down 30%+. GenAI coverage at 100% audit-defensible across high-visibility regulatory programs. Regulatory program coverage expanded 20% without additional headcount through automated metadata and analytics pipelines.
Control Intelligence
Automation-Driven Assurance Platform
Architected a Control Intelligence layer using NLP and OCR automation that reduced manual audit effort 30% while improving accuracy. Converted quarterly compliance reviews into continuous assurance across Cyber, IAM, and Operations. The platform also handles automated evidence handling and real-time control health visibility — the kind of monitoring that finds gaps before the examiner does.
Global GRC Programs
Fortune 100 GRC Transformation
Led GRC transformation programs for Fortune 100 financial institutions across the US, Europe and South Asia. Operating costs down 20%. Audit readiness accelerated 40%. The work included cloud-native governance frameworks, automated control infrastructure, and the kind of multi-regulatory consistency that only comes from having operated inside those frameworks, not having advised on them from the outside.
Quantitative Governance
Risk ROI & Predictive Intelligence
Built a Quantitative Value Framework measuring AI and automation ROI against defined risk reduction KPIs — giving the organization a defensible basis for investment decisions in governance programs. Separately, engineered forecasting models that provided 60-day predictive visibility into project milestones across 10+ concurrent enterprise risk programs.

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MBA · Xavier Institute of Management · Gold Medalist B.E. Computer Science · Assam Engineering College · Gold Medalist CRISC · CISA · CISM · CCSP · CDPSE