Summary
Maria Kennedy is a Vendor Risk Analyst and Computer Science graduate with a decade of cross-functional experience bridging IT compliance, software development, and small-business entrepreneurship. At UMRF Ventures she partners directly with Raymond James to run vendor risk assessments, support SOX and PCI DSS audits, and improve enterprise controls while maintaining audit-ready documentation. She has built full-stack projects with Ruby on Rails and React Native, taught programming and data structures, and leverages that teaching experience to communicate complex technical risks to non-technical stakeholders. Running a successful Etsy shop designing and marketing custom stickers has sharpened her product sense, SEO/data analysis skills, and end-to-end operational discipline. Maria thrives at the intersection of technology, risk, and user-centered design, bringing analytical rigor and practical delivery to compliance and engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Memphis