A qualified accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor(R) and Certified ScrumMaster, Chris has more than 30 years' experience of providing financial and IT advisory and risk management services. He worked for 16 years at a Big 4 accounting firm, where he managed a number of major IS audit and risk assignments. These included project risk and business control reviews. He was head of information risk training in the UK and also ran training courses overseas including India and Iceland. He has worked in a wide range of industry sectors including oil and gas, public sector, and aviation and travel. For the past 14 years, Chris has been an independent consultant specialising in financial, SOX and operational controls for major enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations at oil and gas enterprises. He has seen a significant change from traditional to Agile project management. He has developed a number of techniques and tools to provide fit-for-purpose controls and governance frameworks within these revised approaches. Chris is now semi-retired but is still active as an author, book reviewer, trainer and international speaker.
