Ike Okpu

About Ike Okpu

High-achieving Senior Compliance Analyst with 6+ years of experience leading enterprise-wide compliance programs, specializing in FedRAMP, ISO 27001. NIST 800-53, HIPAA, and SOC 2 frameworks. Accomplished in executing risk assessments and compliance gap analyses, mitigating high-impact control deficiencies, and decreasing organizational risk scores. Posses a history of success mentoring compliance teams to increase certification success rates by 70% while fostering a culture of continuous security improvement aligned with business goals. Sought-after for expertise in interpreting and operationalizing complex regulatory requirements across multiple frameworks to design controls that reduced audit findings by 40+ and accelerated compliance project timelines.

Experience

1. Senior Compliance Analyst

   Uber

   Jul 2023 — Present

   Directed SOC 2 Type II audit readiness, managing evidence collection across 8 departments, resulting in zero critical findings and a 30% decrease in remediation time.• Led quarterly risk assessment with stakeholders, identifying high-risk gaps and driving remediation plans that cut overall compliance risk on the risk heatmap.• Designed control implementation standards used by 8 engineering teams, improving cross-team alignment and reducing control exceptions by 28% during audits.• Coordinated internal training sessions for 25+ compliance analysts on FedRAMP and SOC2 control implementation, increasing team efficiency in audit readiness tasks.• Authored 40+ detailed compliance control specifications that became standard references for product teams, accelerating control adoption timelines by 35%• Conducted compliance impact analysis for 15 new business initiatives, enabling informed decision-making that avoided $12 million in potential regulatory penalties.• Developed new IT security policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with HIPPA and GDPR, thereby reducing policy violations by 60%

Education

• University of Bamenda

  Bachelor of Science - BS