The ARGOS Staffing Philosophy
The ARGOS Staffing Philosophy is designed to insure that our staff members bring a combination of rigorous academic training, relevant certifications, and real world experience to every engagement.
GCC practitioners are required to have a masters degree, extensive experience in IT/IS or operations at the Director or VP level, and a minimum of two years experience in formal audit work. We also require at least one relevant certification.
Practitioners in the IA Audit area are required to have an MBA, a CPA, at least one relevant certification, and a minimum of 3-5 years financial audit experience.
Following are the bio's for the two most senior leaders in the company:
Senior Argos Consultants
Roger J. Smith
CEO and Audit Supervisor
Roger has had a long and diversified career. Mr. Smith
worked at NASA’s Ames Research center for 15 years, making significant
contributions to projects such as the first successful Martian Lander
and the Lunar Prospector Satellite. From NASA Mr. Smith went on to three
very successful startups, the most notable of which was Napster, the
original online music company, where Mr. Smith was Executive Director of
Operations. In that role Mr. Smith took that company from 10 people to
250 in the space of just 6 months and also built out a world class data
center from a single T1 line to one that pushed a sustained 1Gigabit
24x7. Mr. Smith has been a student of IT Governance since the early days
at Ames, where various governance frameworks were practiced. Mr. Smith
holds a BSCS from Trinity University. He has worked extensively with
ITIL, ISO, and CobiT. Mr. Smith holds a CISSP Certification from ISC2
and a CISA Cert from ISACA.
Mr. Smith has Led GCC, Security, and Application Audit Teams at many companies. Following are some of the more prominent firms where extended or repeat engagements have been conducted:
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