M. Bret Blackford
Profile
Technology, risk, and finance leader with experience spanning IT governance and compliance, PMO and change management, IT audit, commodity trading risk, quantitative valuation, and software development. Combines accounting and finance credentials with computer science and programming education; additional experience includes expert-witness engagements.
Core Expertise
- Project & Program Management
- IT Governance & Compliance
- Change Management
- IT Audit
- SOX / HIPAA / PCI
- ISO 27001 / ITIL
- Financial Modeling & Derivatives
- C++ / Java
Professional Experience
- Built and led the IT project management office; oversaw project governance, change-management controls, and IT compliance.
- Coordinated priorities, risk, documentation, and control execution across enterprise IT initiatives.
- Quantified aggregate trading exposure; performed financial-instrument valuation and scenario analysis for Trading and Accounting; led deal-capture system upgrades.
- Managed derivatives systems and controls and reported trading status and associated risks to senior management and the monthly Risk Committee.
- Owned the annual IT risk assessment and audit plan; evaluated internal controls, compliance, and safeguards; presented findings and recommendations to management and the Audit Committee.
- Developed UNIX C++ and Java/J2EE server-side services supporting DSL qualification, provisioning, and billing, including WebSphere-based integrations.
Credentials & Education
Selected Technical Work
Black-Scholes / Black 76 option valuation: Java and JavaScript implementations combining quantitative finance and software development.
The Java implementation is linked from Wikipedia's Black-Scholes model article under “Computer implementations.” View project.