Professional Journey

Work Experience

A comprehensive timeline of my 18+ year career in cybersecurity, spanning multiple organizations and progressive leadership roles from Network Engineer to Cybersecurity Delivery Manager.

Cybersecurity Delivery Manager

HCL Technologies

Chennai, India

June 2021 - Current
  • •Service Management: Track daily security operations and meet target service goals
  • •Client Relations: Lead client meetings and report security performance status
  • •Team Leadership: Guide security engineers and assign project tasks
  • •Incident Oversight: Help teams resolve major security issues and risks
  • •Process Improvement: Update workflows to boost service speed and quality
  • •Compliance Checks: Make sure systems follow security rules and laws
  • •Metric Tracking: Build reports on threat detection and response times
  • •Tool Integration: Support rollout of new security software and updates
  • •Budget Support: Help plan resource costs and project pricing

Assistant Manager - IT Security

Virtusa Consulting Service

Chennai, India

April 2020 - June 2021
  • •Member of Security Incident Management team tasked with the investigation into possible security issues
  • •Participated in the planning and design of company security architecture
  • •Automatized the regular patching every week for Windows and Linux through HPSA by closely working with the team
  • •Implemented DevSecOps by integrating Qualys and Jenkins to automate the vulnerability management for web applications
  • •Reviewing the policy and procedure documents to get it approved
  • •Conducting phishing awareness within the organization randomly and automated the process with BOT to generate a report of success rate per campaigns
  • •Experience in integrating ServiceNow and Qualys for automating vulnerability management
  • •Prioritizing the vulnerability by integrating Qualys and Kenna for calculating the vulnerability risk score

Sr Executive — IT Security

Wabco India

Chennai, India

May 2018 - April 2020
  • •Established management control and communications processes to ensure IT Security Program is implemented consistent with current policies
  • •Ensured development and approval of IT security plans and procedures, continuity of operations plans and procedures, and information security baselines and controls
  • •Working closely with team to achieve the remediation target for both PCI and Non PCI Asset
  • •Preparing daily report with remediation count with projections and sharing with onsite team
  • •Analyzing new vulnerabilities and creating SOPs for remediation to technical teams
  • •Performing Adhoc scan for each remediation to check the vulnerability status
  • •Performed vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and security audits, produced reports of findings, and worked cooperatively with engineers to implement remedial measures
  • •Participated in the creation of IT security policies, procedures, guidelines, baselines, and standards
  • •Recommended security solutions and processes to improve overall company security
  • •Central point of contact for the configuration, integration, and deployment of all new or improved security solutions and processes in accordance with standard best practices and the company's security policies
  • •Monitored all existing security solutions for efficient and appropriate operations

Project Manager

Newt Global India (P) Ltd

Chennai, India

April 2016 - May 2018
  • •Managed vulnerability remediation projects for the client Verizon
  • •Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects
  • •Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety
  • •Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance
  • •Handling the manager role for managed devices group. Responsible for policies and procedures as well as day to day management activities
  • •Provide second and third level support for managed customer
  • •Provided weekly and monthly progress update to management with clear statistics of platform wise

Team Lead - System

Caresoft Global India Private Limited

Chennai, India

June 2013 - October 2015
  • •Preparing daily report with remediation count with projections and sharing with onsite team
  • •Analyzing new vulnerabilities and creating SOPs for remediation to technical teams
  • •Performing Adhoc scan for each remediation to check the vulnerability status
  • •Performed vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and security audits, produced reports of findings, and worked cooperatively with engineers to implement remedial measures
  • •Participated in the creation of IT security policies, procedures, guidelines, baselines, and standards. Recommended security solutions and processes to improve overall company security
  • •Central point of contact for the configuration, integration, and deployment of all new or improved security solutions and processes in accordance with standard best practices and the company's security policies

Support Engineer

InfinIT Infoserv Private Limited

Chennai, India

September 2011 - November 2012
  • •Managed Firewall and Antivirus Servers
  • •Managed and implemented IT requirements, standards, and business processes

Network Engineer

Comtel Network Technology

Chennai, India

October 2009 - September 2011
  • •Implementing passive network and configuring routers and firewall to customers