John Gore
Lead Governance Accountability Specialist - Governance and Controls @Wells Fargo
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WORK HISTORY
Lead Governance Accountability Specialist - Governance and Controls @Wells Fargo
Charlotte, NC, US
Lead Technology Risk Governance oversight for Chief Data Office (CDO) and Technology organizations, covering 100+ vendor End-of-Life (EOL) and End-of-Support products.• Own governance for enterprise technology controls, ensuring compliance with internal policy, regulatory expectations, and risk frameworks.• Produce and present weekly and monthly executive risk reporting highlights EOL, vendor risk, cyber vulnerabilities, and remediation trends.• Chair weekly risk review sessions with engineering leaders to surface critical/high-risk issues and drive remediation accountability.• Designed and implemented a standardized exception management process, improving consistency, audit readiness, and timeliness of approvals.• Launched a department-wide Jira Service Desk to track policy exceptions, control gaps, and remediation efforts end-to-end.• Developed enterprise training materials and exception-handling governance documentation, deployed via Confluence knowledge base.• Established cyber vulnerability tracking and oversight processes, reducing escalations tied to the Consequence Model.• Maintain end-to-end executive oversight of escalated technology risks, ensuring proper documentation, ownership, and closure.• Conduct resource capacity and workload analysis to optimize staffing and delivery efficiency.• Analyze third-party vendor contracts to identify cost optimization and risk exposure reduction opportunities.• Built Power BI dashboards for real-time risk visibility and improved senior leadership decision-making.
EDUCATION
AMA
Developing Executive Leadership , Management Information Systems, General
Nortel Global Knowledge
Sl100 PBX complex translations
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
BA, English
ABOUT JOHN GORE
At Wells Fargo, my role as Lead Governance Accountability Specialist centers around ensuring the stringent governance and control of technology projects. With a focus on vendor management, I have successfully provided oversight for approximately 100 End of Life Server Products, while managing technology controls to track progress, identify gaps, and resolve issues.My expertise in policy exception handling and process improvement has been instrumental in aligning product managers and engineers with company policy and expectations. The team and I have excelled in tracking the life cycle of policy exceptions from initiation to completion, which is a testament to our dedication to success in the ever-evolving landscape of Credit Risk Technology and Operational Risk Leadership.
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