Chris Arlott

Experience

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  Panasonic North America

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Panasonic Mechanical Test Engineer
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  Cognito iQ - A Totalmobile Company

  Nov 2005 - Oct 2021

  Working within the company across all functions, to maintain Cognito’s legal, ethical and regulatory integrity. - Responsible for drafting policies, creating and delivering training materials and undertaking risk assessments.- Monitoring and advising on compliance to ensure adherence to best practice through education and implementation of policies and controls.- Managing and advising the business on Risk Assessment and Treatment plans.- Conducting interviews, scrutinising details, and asking questions to ensure employees make every effort to stay compliant across a company's various departments.- Responsible for conducting or leading investigations to discover the root cause of non-compliance.- Managing appropriate relationships with external bodies, such as accreditation bodies, compliance partners, governmental and legal interested parties.- Providing consultation to ensure business areas remain compliant when introducing new policies and processes.- Assisting in the running of the office in support of the CFO for activities such as equipment maintenance, security provisions, physical perimeter etc. Show less - Responsible for all data security concerns and breaches.- Assuring and implementing organisational QMS, data security controls, process improvement frameworks, GDPR and other regulatory compliance requirements.- Maintaining effective relationships with external quality assurance bodies.- Managed the successful transition from ISO9001:2008 to ISO9001:2015 with zero non-conformances.- Renewed Microsoft gold certification saving significant licence fee costs.- Implemented a GDPR framework tied into existing ISO business processes.- Achieved 100% staff engagement in ISO and GDPR training.- Designed a framework to simplify the identification and prioritisation of improvement opportunities. Show less

  • Compliance Manager

    Jan 2020 - Oct 2021

  • Business Systems Manager

    Mar 2017 - Jan 2020

  • Change Manager

    Aug 2014 - Mar 2017

  • Solution Deployment Team Leader

    Mar 2013 - Aug 2014

  • Support Consultant / Team Leader

    Feb 2012 - Mar 2013

  • Support Analyst

    Jul 2007 - Feb 2012

  • Test Engineer

    Nov 2005 - Jul 2007
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  Fir Tree Primary School

  Sept 2009 - Sept 2015

  Board Director
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  Vodafone

  Nov 2021 - now

  Strengthening internal processes and controls to ensure the company is meeting its regulatory obligations. Assessing the UK business against a diverse range of regulatory requirements, contractual commitments, and internal policies. Evaluating the UK business for compliance, writing reports, and presenting findings to senior stakeholders.Providing senior management with independent assessments of regulatory compliance and control effectiveness.Identifying compliance gaps and control weaknesses, agreeing corrective actions, and holding senior management to account for delivery.Highlighting opportunities for process improvement and simplification. Show less

  • Senior Privacy Compliance Manager (Secondment)

    Nov 2023 - now

  • Privacy Compliance Manager

    Aug 2023 - Nov 2023

  • Compliance Monitoring Manager

    Nov 2021 - Aug 2023