This year, we’re pleased to offer a dinner meeting workshop on finding, selecting and leveraging mentors taught by Thomas and Phuong Quach, Manager, Southern California Edison. The workshop will include a panel of executives and managers who will provide their perspectives. This includes:

• Dee Dee Owens, Managing Director, KPMG
  
• Andrew Tinseth, VP of Internal Audit (Chief Audit Executive), Western Digital Corporation
  
• David Son, Director of IT Risk and Compliance, DIRECTV

These days, hard work and dedication alone are not enough to be successful in one’s career. Many people know that having mentors to provide insights and career guidance will help with their professional development and career growth. Yet, many professionals and students are not likely to have formal mentors or sponsors.

How do you find a mentor? What type of mentor is the best for you? And, how do you get the most out of the mentoring relationship–for both the mentor and mentee? You will learn practical techniques to add the sizzle and spice when identifying and engaging the right mentors for your career development and advancement.

This year, we’re pleased to offer a dinner meeting workshop on finding, selecting and leveraging mentors taught by Thomas and Phuong Quach, Manager, Southern California Edison. The workshop will include a panel of executives and managers who will provide their perspectives. This includes:

• Dee Dee Owens, Managing Director, KPMG
  
• Andrew Tinseth, VP of Internal Audit (Chief Audit Executive), Western Digital Corporation
  
• David Son, Director of IT Risk and Compliance, DIRECTV

These days, hard work and dedication alone are not enough to be successful in one’s career. Many people know that having mentors to provide insights and career guidance will help with their professional development and career growth. Yet, many professionals and students are not likely to have formal mentors or sponsors.

How do you find a mentor? What type of mentor is the best for you? And, how do you get the most out of the mentoring relationship–for both the mentor and mentee? You will learn practical techniques to add the sizzle and spice when identifying and engaging the right mentors for your career development and advancement.

Moderators

Thomas Phelps IV is a director in PwC’s IT Security, Privacy & Risk national practice focused on the Entertainment, Media and Communications sector. Thomas has created new practice capabilities, and worked with Fortune 500 clients to assess, design and implement enterprise security programs. He has a diverse background in leading engagements involving information security, privacy, supply chain risks, IT effectiveness, and business continuity management. Recently, Thomas led the effort to innovate the digital/physical security standards used worldwide in the motion picture industry. He has spoken at national and regional security-related conferences, and co-authored books and white papers.

As a technology recruiting champion, Thomas leads PwC’s security recruiting activities at USC, UCLA and Cal Poly Pomona. Thomas has instructed sessions on business etiquette, interviewing techniques and relevant leadership for PwC’s Office of Diversity at three Ascend National Conventions in New York and Los Angeles, which was attended by over 2,000 individuals. In his role as the President of the Ascend Los Angeles Metro Chapter (www.ascendleadership.org)–the premier national organization dedicated to enabling the leadership of Pan-Asians, Thomas mentored high performing professionals to become leaders. He launched student chapters at USC and UCLA to provide engineering, business and accounting students with leadership opportunities and connectivity with prospective hiring managers and companies.

Thomas is a mentor for the Asian American Professional Organization (www.aapamentoring.org) and has led workshops on mentoring and negotiation skills. He is the Chief Operations Officer & Past President of ISACA Los Angeles, instructs the CISA Review Course, and served for over five years on the ISACA International Chapter Support Committee.

Phuong is an Audit Manager at Southern California Edison and has been an active mentor to many professionals there. She joined Edison 15 years ago as an Auditor and then moved on to various management positions within the company. Prior to joining Edison, Phuong worked as an Auditor for the Defense Contract Audit Agency, Home Savings of America, and NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her career expands across utility, banking, defense, and aerospace industries.

Phuong holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Master’s degree in business with an emphasis in IT auditing. She is a certified project manager, CISA, CIA, and CPA. She has two daughters and enjoys traveling with her family.

Panelists (includes both Dinner and Pre-Meeting)

Max Mayotte is a manager in KPMG’s Los Angeles Risk and Advisory Services (RAS) practice with more than 14 years of business experience including the implementation of financial systems, and policies and procedures; managing IT security, program change management, and computer operations; and testing, evaluating, and documenting internal controls over financial systems. His primary focus at KPMG has been on the audit of business processes, and business systems, including financial systems and the testing of the general IT controls over them; and the testing of controls in place over the processing of transactions by service organizations. He works on clients of varying sizes, including those publicly traded, private, and in government.

Prior to joining KPMG, he was a program manager for an Internet software company, and the system administrator for a biomedical research institute. As the system administrator, he participated in the implementation of a mid-tier financial reporting application and was responsible for implementing the policies and procedures over business transaction cycles, IT Security, Change Management and Computer Operations.

Ms Owens is a Managing Director in Los Angeles with more than 15 years of audit and advisory experience. Dee Dee focuses on advising her clients on highly technical skills related to third-party reporting, privacy and security, financial statement audit support, risk management and internal audit advisory, and internal audit and co-sourcing engagements.

Prior to joining KPMG, Dee Dee implemented ERP and clinical systems for large healthcare organizations and worked with numerous end-users to understand their needs and the complexities of moving from manual to automated processes.

She also previously worked for the PCAOB as an IT Inspector and was responsible for inspecting IT audit efforts on client engagements.

David Son is currently managing DIRECTV’s IT Compliance and Risk Management program from IT SOX, PCI DSS, Privacy and 3rd Party Assessment. David has joined DIRECTV in 1999 and has been involved various Governance, Risk and Compliance projects for the company.

David holds a MBA with emphasis on International Business and a Bachelors degree in from CSU Northridge. He is accredited as a CISA and a PCI ISA. He frequently speaks at ISACA conferences in PCI, Data Security and GRC topics.

Prior to joining DIRECTV, he has extensive experience in global trading business, finance and business continuity.

Andrew Tinseth is the Vice President of Internal Audit (Chief Audit Executive) at Western Digital Corporation (a Fortune 250 storage solutions manufacturer with over $15 billion in annual revenues and employer of 85,000 people around the globe). His role includes responsibility for the traditional Internal Audit function (i.e. financial, operational, compliance and IT audits), enterprise risk management, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance, sales channel compliance, MOFCOM (China Ministry of Commerce) compliance and investigations.

Prior to Western Digital, Mr. Tinseth was Vice President of Internal Audit (Chief Audit Executive) for Corinthian Colleges (a publicly traded for profit education company with approximately $1 billion in annual revenues and over 120 schools across North America). He has also held a senior Internal Audit management position at Union Bank of California (subsidiary of the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi) and consulted for numerous Fortune 100 companies while working for Ernst & Young and Deloitte. Mr. Tinseth is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the State of California, a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and has a Certificate in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA). He has received a Masters of Business Administration degree (MBA) and a Bachelor’s degree (BS) in Accounting, both from the University of Southern California (USC).