Summary

CONFIDENTAIL. I have over 20 years of experience in IT industry. I am currently a senior technical architect in the Enterprise Security and Risk Management Division at Infosys Technologies. Prior to that, I performed management consulting with a company focusing in Smart Grid field in areas of security. My past employers include IBM, HP, Unisys and an IT services company I founded. At IBM, I managed and provided leadership role in security projects related to IBM's prestigious customers. I held CISSP, CISA and PMP certificates. I developed numerous proposals and worked with pre-sales work in the security space. I delivered assessments of as-is and to-be security environments, and specified the security controls and the risks involved. I also worked with products from various security vendors and provided the cost benefit analysis of deploying solutions from these vendors. I was part of the architecture governing and steering teams that developed security policies. I worked with architects of other domains of Enterprise Architecture such as data, application and infrastructure. I used standards such as FISMA, SOX, NIST, NERC, and ISO 27001. Communicated with C-level executives and executed projects using globally distributed teams and cross-functional groups. I hold multiple graduate degrees including an MBA in High Technology Management. In the past, I had performed strategic planning and product competitive analysis.

Employment

CONFIDENTAIL Sr Technology Architect

Architected security solutions in the Enterprise Security and Risk management group. Designed and developed Identity management systems for clients from energy, utilities, and finance sector clients Gathered client security requirements with steps: asset and goal identification, develop artifacts, risk assessment, requirements collection, categorize the requirements, and prioritize the requirements. Architected Role Engineering solutions to the customers based on the risk management process of identifying, assessing, prioritizing and mitigating the risks. Team member for Infosys's proposal and business development teams CONFIDENTAIL Founder Member of NIST Cyber Security standards development team for Smart Grids as part of Smart Grid Interoperability Panel. Nominated to be the lead for several NIST Cyber Security subgroups. Interacted with SGIP team who developed the Smart Grid Reference Architecture. Contributed to the NIST Cyber security work group in smart grid security controls using NIST Risk Management Frame Work. Developed a market research report on Cyber Security of Smart Grids to a client. During this process, interviewed the executives and managers at utility companies and their vendors. CONFIDENTAIL Management Consultant Project Manager and security architect at a large Federal agency. Managed a group of IBM consultants operating their security infrastructure. Supervised the tasks to secure their applications using Access Manager, WebSphere, Federated Identity Manager, and secure web services architecture. Member of Information Security Advisor team for the Ameriprise account. Worked with the IBM security delivery teams and client information security teams in the areas of security compliance management, threat monitoring, risk management and IBM security standards. Participated in IBM's proposal efforts to its clients. Leadership role in developing 1 Billion worth of proposal effort to the FEMA in the area application development and security. Developed security solutions related to North American Reliability Corp Critical Infrastructure Protection NERC-CIP and Advanced Metering Infrastructure AMI system security requirements. Developed Service-Oriented Architecture skills related to SOA life cycle, reference architecture and scenarios. Completed the IBM SOA certification requirements. Delivered a strategy and change project deliverable at a Japanese transportation and logistics firm. Performed a gap analysis and risk assessment in view of ITIL standards. European assignment experience with one of the largest national banks. It is a 2-year business transformation project at the bank and its goal is to move the bank's IT platform to web services environment with multiple work streams. Designed and evaluated the controls and remedial gaps related to IT domains and processes to verify the compliance with COBIT control objectives. Assessed the effectiveness of SOX controls. CONFIDENTAIL Managing Consultant Analyzed the security configuration of the FAA invoice comparison system and developed a plan to install the IBM TAM components. CONFIDENTAIL Process Specialist Architected the datacenter security process flow for a federal agency CONFIDENTAIL Technical consultant Consulted on infrastructure projects using IBM Tivoli and On Demand products. Worked with their technical teams to execute the IT projects at their customer sites. CONFIDENTAIL Founder projects engagement and delivery manager Founded and operated a Professional IT services firm, CONFIDENTAIL that has operated in the horizontal markets of e-business, security, client server, legacy systems, databases, workflow, web services, business intelligence, and application integration and the vertical markets - Pharma, Dept of Defense, insurance, finance, government, and education. Delivered engagement proposals to key decision makers including CIOs, CTOs and Sr managers. Interacted with cross-functional teams including marketing, sales, eng, and finance. Managed the 2-year DARPA SBIR Phase 1 and Phase 2 contract. Developed and delivered a business process flow and performance modeling system. Marketed the system to various Federal agencies and firms. CONFIDENTAIL Project Supervisor and systems architect Developed CAD software strategies for the design of Alpha machines. Designed the SMP Machines using Alpha chips. Comparison designs with HP PA-Risc technology. Managed the HP Product Life Cycle of Vax models. Supervised teams of software engineers to develop VAX system configuration tools Architected the data center configurations for the company's clustering and operating systems. CONFIDENTAIL Software engineer Worked in the corporate research and development department in Blue Bell, PA. Interacted with the development and production teams in Minnesota. Worked with the marketing dept to promote the product ideas in their plans and proposals. Designed VLSI chips by using CAD software related to the design tasks layout, placement, routing, logic design, simulation and testing. Worked with the architects who designed Unisys mainframe systems to promote the developed software. Developed scripts to automate the software development tasks.