Asif Parwez

Bentonville, AR ***** C: 614-***-**** ad2v87@r.postjobfree.com

Over 8 years of exceptional experience in various IT positions with a concentration in the Application Security domain. Highly skilled in gathering application and cyber security testing information, analyzing requirements, designing security test plans, executing technical test cases, and ensuring on time completion of project deliverables. An experienced leader and mentor, skilled in transferring invaluable knowledge, guiding cross-functional project teams through complex project engagements to apply security requirements, and encouraging the use and implementation of industry best practices for effective and efficient execution of detailed project plans.

Core Competencies:

OWASP Top 10

Software Development Life Cycle

Full Life Cycle Project Management

CRM

Application Penetration Testing

Data Warehousing & ETL Life Cycle

Software Testing

Quality Assurance & Testing

Web and API Security Assessment

Backup & Recovery Strategies

Problem Analysis & Resolution

End User Training and Support

Professional Experience

Cyber Security Analyst – Consultant, (10/2021 to Present)

BNSF Railway Fort Worth, TX

Key Contribution:

Conducted 10+ security inspections and surveillance operations with 10 team personal number.

Provided security protection to the companies, data documents, financial records and other relevant information and reduce security threats.

Coordinated with law enforcement agencies.

Conducted all wire 10 initial reviews of audit logs pertaining to critical information systems encompassing review of weekly generated reports and identifying suspicious activities.

Educated several employees on the procedure to be followed effaced with individual attacks.

Verified secure cryptography implementation across all applications.

Performed dynamic security analysis of web applications.

Analyzed systems for potential vulnerabilities that may result from improper system configuration, software development flaws, or flaws resulting from operational policies.

Conducted black/gray box penetration testing on the financial systems.

Reviewed security documentation and made recommendations.

Met with developers to discuss findings.

Port scanned servers using NMAP to find attack surface.

Attended monthly conference calls to discuss implementation and upgrade of critical infrastructure.

Intermediate level of understanding of concept SIEM (QRadar and Splunk).

Cyber Security Tester / Penetration Tester – Consultant, (3/2021 to 9/2021)

BNSF Railway Fort Worth, TX

Key Contribution:

Performed application and infrastructure penetration tests and physical security review.

Reviewed and defined requirements for information security solutions.

Performed security research, analysis and design for all client computing systems and the network infrastructure.

Coordinated with dev team to ensure closure of reported vulnerabilities by explaining the ease of exploitation and the impact of the issue.

Experienced in using Kali Linux to do web application assessment with tools like Dirbuster, Nikto, and NMap.

Established vulnerability assessment practice, proactively ensuring safety of client-facing applications and minimizing client audit findings.

Experienced in SQL Injection protection, XSS protection, script injection and major hacking protection techniques to address and integrate Security in SDLC by following techniques like Threat Modeling, Risk Management, Logging, Penetration Testing, etc.

Created detailed written reports on the assessment findings and recommendations.

Conducted penetration tests on systems and applications using automated and manual techniques with tools such as Burp Suite, Kali Linux etc.

Walmart Bentonville, AR

Provided Support to OBIEE/Tableau, ETL, Mainframe and several other applications, (10/2017 to 12/2020)

Key Contribution:

Worked under Operations team and provided ongoing support to several applications.

Supported thousands of mainframe jobs during the migration of Teradata Hardware/boxes.

Updated the virtual resources and mainframe code as needed for the hardware migration.

Worked on several ETL legacy applications migration.

Assisted my team seniors in Teradata to BigQuery migrations, started recently.

Walmart Bentonville, AR

OBIEE Developer/Technical Lead/Architect, (01/2014 to 09/2017)

An instrumental member of the OBIEE team. Performed as developer label to Architect label rolls during 6 years.

Key Contribution:

I used to work with the end users, collected the requirements, and converted into technical documents and helped team to develop the perfect products. Use to coordinate with ETL teams to make them understand the requirement, so they can develop the perfect solution for the customers.

Also played the multiple responsible roles during the Upgrade from OBIEE 10 to 11G.

Also involved during the hardware upgrade at time of increasing load by keep adding hundreds of thousands of users.

Technical Proficiencies

OBIEE:

OBIEE 10G, BI Apps, Oracle 10g, Informatica 8.6.1 and Windows 2003

RDBMS:

Oracle, SQL server7.0, DB2, SQL, Loader, MySQL

Programming:

C, C++, Visual Basic, COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, Windows.

Script Languages:

UNIX Shell script, DHTML, HTML, XML

Education:

MS: Computer Science Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi, INDIA

BS: Mathematics Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi, INDIA

Professional Development

Dale Carnegie Training @Walmart

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