STEPHANIE POPE
Elkhorn
Summary
Security professional well-versed in developing and maintaining robust security frameworks for large-scale organizations. Highly regarded for team collaboration and delivering results in dynamic environments. Skilled in risk management, network security, and incident response, with reliable and adaptable approach.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Security Architect
U.S. Bank
07.2019 - Current
- Ability to communicate solution architectures to a highly technical audience business value to decision makers.
- Optimized resource allocation by prioritizing investments in high-impact security initiatives based on risk assessments.
- Provided expert guidance on best practices for maintaining compliance with industry regulations and standards.
- Evaluated emerging technologies and trends, proactively adjusting security strategies to meet evolving challenges.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of security measures into existing infrastructure.
- Worked with business partners to balance requirements, security and risk reduction.
- Researches and provides risk-based analysis on innovative security technologies, as well as defensive techniques to ensure security technologies are improving security at the bank
- Streamlined incident response processes, enabling rapid identification and mitigation of potential security breaches.
- Developed comprehensive security architecture, incorporating various layers of protection for critical assets.
Senior Threat Protection Engineer
U.S. Bank
01.2017 - 07.2019
- Development and implementation of data security technologies within U.S
- Banks' infrastructure, such as network, cloud, and endpoints
- Serves as an SME for Azure, Office365, Salesforce, AWS, and GCP
- Provides analysis of false-positive rates and overall effectiveness of data security technologies
- Designs and implements regexes, proximity, and keywords to provide data compliance and stop data exfiltration
- Collaborate with various teams across the bank to integrate data security technologies with other security technologies
- Documents engineering designs, along with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to mature and operationalize data security technologies
Team Lead of Special Investigations Unit
Blue Cross Blue Shield
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Provide case management, data analysis, and audit of fraud, waste, and abuse from professional, ancillary, and hospital services
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with federal, state, and local law enforcement
- Assist in education of employees, consumers, brokers, and provider regarding healthcare fraud issues
- Develop and present training programs on fraud awareness, detection, and prevention
- Research and analyze irregular activity to identify a wide range of abusive practices, perform accurate and detailed audits of processes, billing, clinical, and other records
- Perform data mining and statistical analysis of data to generate proactive leads
- Assemble observations and prepare detailed investigative reports that present the findings and recommend corrective actions
- Implement procedures to track and recover overpayments through claim adjustments, court order restitution, settlement agreements, and voluntary refunds
Statistician
Worker's Compensation Center subcontracting for AdvanceMed (CMS)
01.2015 - 12.2015
- Provide statistical analysis of Medicare and Medicaid claims records from professional, ancillary, and hospital services
- Preforming proactive research of Medicare and Medicaid data on Part A, Part B, DME, and HHS for the purpose of making referrals for providers that are overbilling, upcoding, and fraudulently charging Medicare and/or Medicaid
- Generate and maintain scripts to automate the analysis of data
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with federal, state, and local law enforcement
- Provide reviews of peer's analysis to perform quality assurance and education
- Audit RAC to review data pulls to ensure data quality assurance
Data Analytics
Bank of the West
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Analysis of bank data to optimize the performance of the business, develop and prevent external and internal fraud, and provide analysis of defensive strategies to protect the bank
- Importing, cleaning, transforming, researching, validating, or model-making data with the purpose of understanding or making conclusions from the data for decision making purposes
- Working with various financial databases to design models and/or create algorithms to provide predictive data
- Presenting data in charts, graphs, and tables to provide informative results based on data analysis
- Data mining to find internal fraud and other form of control gaps
- Providing key metrics to senior leadership to provide strategically guided decisions
Digital Forensics Examiner
Consultant EDis
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Preservation, examination, and analysis of digital evidence
- Uses forensically sound hardware and software to extract, preserve, recover, analyze, and present digital evidence for investigative purposes
- Works collaboratively with Private Investigators to assist in investigative efforts
- Provides detailed reports on forensic analysis of digital evidence
Crime Analyst
Bellevue Police Department
01.2004 - 01.2012
- Collection and analysis of crime data to help law enforcement solve and prevent crimes
- Geo-spatial and statistical analysis of crime data
- Creation of intelligence reports, hot-spot analysis, mapping, case timelines, bulletins, etc
- Call Detail Record analysis
- Forensic examination of digital evidence using forensically sound hardware and software to extract, preserve, recover, analyze, and present digital evidence for investigative purposes
- Testifies in court to forensics examination of evidence
- Documents reports for court purposes
- Collaborative work efforts with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies
Education
M.A. - CRIMINAL JUSTICE WITH EMPHASIS IN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRAKSA AT OMAHA
OMAHA, NE01.2004
B.S. - SOCIOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE
SIOUX CITY, IA01.2002
Skills
- Data security
- Encryption technologies
- Forensic analysis
- Threat intelligence
- Cloud security expertise
- Zero trust architecture
- Security audits
- Incident response
Activities
- Mentoring at U.S. Bank
- Philanthropist Chair of Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Epsilon Chapter, National Sorority
- Volunteer work at Ronald McDonald House and Special Olympics.
Timeline
Principal Security Architect
U.S. Bank
07.2019 - Current
Senior Threat Protection Engineer
U.S. Bank
01.2017 - 07.2019
Team Lead of Special Investigations Unit
Blue Cross Blue Shield
01.2016 - 01.2017
Statistician
Worker's Compensation Center subcontracting for AdvanceMed (CMS)
01.2015 - 12.2015
Data Analytics
Bank of the West
01.2014 - 01.2015
Digital Forensics Examiner
Consultant EDis
01.2013 - 01.2014
Crime Analyst
Bellevue Police Department
01.2004 - 01.2012
B.S. - SOCIOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE
M.A. - CRIMINAL JUSTICE WITH EMPHASIS IN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRAKSA AT OMAHA
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