Speaker Profile

Stuart Gardner

Executive Director, Auspicium

Stuart Gardner CPFA, CISSP, CISA, CCA has more than 20 years of audit and corporate experience in a variety of sectors and industries, including government, publishing, and financial services.

His experience combines audit of numerous largescale construction projects, internal controls and audit reviews, information security, relocation planning, and project risk management. He was director of risk assessment for the McGraw-Hill companies. Gardner is a Chartered Public Finance Accountant (UK government and healthcare), Certified Construction Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, and Certified Information Systems Security Professional. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Swansea.



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Auditing Third Party Agreements - Common Pitfalls from IT to Construction

Third party agreements cover everything from cleaning to the provision and operation of strategic information technology systems. From the simplest of services to the most complex, such agreements can bring significant benefits including economies, more effective services than could be delivered in house and expert knowledge and skills. However, this comes at a price: strategic risks and new uncertainties can hide within such agreements.

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Project Management - Auditing Problem Projects

Every project undertaken is not a guaranteed success; there are many things that can and do go wrong. Overly optimistic budgets or underfunded projects can result in shortcuts or unrealistic pressures on those working on the project. Staff or resources lacking the skills to work on the project see the assignment as a fast track to promotion and may not be willing to admit they can not handle the project, projects escalated to be done quickly may result in shoddy workmanship, resources pulling on time constraints can stretch employees to thin, opposition may even exist that is looking to have the project fail - yes sabotage is more common than many will admit to.

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