•With over ** years of experience as a Technology Advisor/Architect, I've had the privilege of working with various technologies and platforms across diverse industries. These include EY (Global Consulting Big-4), Microsoft Technology Consulting, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Federal Healthcare (CMS), Utilities (Water, Energy, Oil & Gas), Retail, Real Estate, Education, and State and Federal sectors, among others.

•As a forward-thinking technical advisor, I've been at the vanguard of Digital Transformation and Enterprise Multi-Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI) Infrastructure Architecture.

•I've played a pivotal role in advocating for infrastructure and application automation best practices and security posture for cloud platform services and cloud solutions frameworks using CI/CD (DevOps/DevSecOps /IaC) Practices for Azure, AWS, Google, Big Data, Data Lakes Azure, Analytics, AI, ML, NLP, BI, Robotics, Block Chain, and Crypto Currency platform digital transformation domain at global scale deployments.

•Experience in AWS services EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, CMS, KMS, Secret Manager, WAF, Guard Duty, Security Hub, Inspector, Cloud Checker, Load Balancers, Cloud Watch, and IAM policies

•Experience developing the Security Reference Architecture for enterprise-wide Cloud Applications and Infrastructure, including Layered security strategic frameworks such as SOC, ATP, ASC, Identity, SEIM, SDL, SAAS, Hybrid, AIP, Network, Physical Layer, Shadow IT/MDM/MAM, and Data Layers.

•Experience in multi-cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, Google) Service Deployment models such as IAAS/PASS/ SAAS, hybrid environments, and Well-Architected framework principles.

•Experience Implementing and architecting Identity Directory Infrastructure Platforms such as Active Directory Services, Azure AD, Oka, Oracle OUD, Sun One LDAP, Schemas, and Hybrid Integration.

•Experience Enterprise-Wide Networking TLS, TCP/IP, UDP, Route 53 DNS, Load Balancer, API Gateway, Firewalls, and deployments. Azure WAF, Application Gateways, Palo Alto Firewall (Prisma), Layer7, Tibco, PKI Infrastructure at a global scale.

•Good Experience in Load Balancers, Next-Generation firewalls (NGFW), Application Gateways, Application Proxy distributed denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation, web application firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), network segregation, Micro-segmentation, Landing zone, etc.

•Experience implementing Azure Entra MFA (Multifactor Authentication), Oauth, Ping Identity, SSO, SAML, ADFS, FBA, and Azure PIM. AD PAM, MIM, and Claims at the enterprise level B2B, B2C scenarios.

•Responsible for developing Architecture, Strategy, Roadmap, Governance, Security, Design Cloud Services, Planning, and implementing container technologies and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes-AKS, EKS, GKE), Azure Key Vault, and security tools.

•I've also been instrumental in identifying security gaps, conducting Cybersecurity Risk Assessments, and implementing Directory integration, IAM implementations, etc., against multi-cloud merger and acquisition scenarios.

•Experience leveraging the SDLC for Waterfall and the DevOps Agile/SCRUM framework sprint planning, daily Agile/SCRUM meeting, product/sprint backlog, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

•Experience setting up Agile CI/CD for IaC using Azure /AWS DevOps tools such as Azure VSS, VSC, TFS server, Jenkins, GitHub, Git, Azure Boards, Code Deploy, Code Commit, etc.

•Experience in understanding alerts, suspicious activities, WASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, potential data infiltration, brute force attack anomalies, SSRF, BAC, and Secure Miss Configurations in the access pattern to catch privilege escalations and breached credentials use.

•Experience in Enterprise SEIM tools like SPLUNK/SENTINEL and 3rd-party cloud monitoring tools such as Datadog, Sysdig, and Dynatrace SaaS with cloud platforms, container orchestration tools,

•Experience in Cloud Security and cybersecurity architecture, assessment, and recommended control frameworks such as NIST, FISMA, FedRamp, NIST 800-53, NIST Cybersecurity, RMF, GRC, ISO 2700, PCI-DSS, GDPR, CISA, CSA, CIS Controls MITRE, HIPAA, HITRUST, FFIEC, CCPA, implemented across the global cloud security frameworks.

Educational Qualifications:

•B. (Electronics & Communications) Osmania University CBIT Hyderabad, India

•M.Tech (Systems & Signal Processing) JNTU College of Engineering Hyderabad, India.

•MBA/MSL (Strategic Leadership) E-Town College, PA, USA (Expecting 2024)

Certifications:

•MCSE, CCNA, MCTS, VSTP, VTSP, DCIS, DCES, DCIE, ITIL Foundation and

•Business Management Executive Foundation Certification (TBM Counsel)

•Cybersecurity for Managers Playbook from “Harvard MIT Sloan”

•John Maxwell Leadership Certified Trainer

•i) AWS Certified Developer Associate ii) AWS Solutions Architect Associate

•CISA-ICS Cybersecurity Landscape for Managers, Dept of Homeland Security

•CISA-ICS Cybersecurity Risk Accredited Department of Homeland Security

•TOGAF (Level 1 & 2) and CISSP exams are scheduled for July 25th and June 28th.2024

Academic Research Paper submitted and awarded:

Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML) & Robotics Process Automation in Organizational Change

Organizational Design and Design and Development

Ethical Leadership Dimensions

Information Management Strategic Decision Making

Leading Individuals & Teams

Leading Innovation & Change

Foundations of Leadership

Strategic Communications

Design Thinking for Leaders

Core Leadership Strengths

•Excellent Presentation skills, written and oral communication, collaboration, team building, and comfortable working with Clients, Stakeholders, Executives, cross-functional technical Experts, Partners, audiences, etc.

•Key leadership characteristics include effective communication, oral and written, active listening, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

•Technical professional ability to communicate with cross-functional teams who strive for innovation and continuous improvement for learning and adopting the modern digital age transformation era.

Professional Experience

AI CyberSec Research Associate SolomonsInt, PA Dec 2024-Feb 2024

•Responsible for Developing a Strategy for sophisticated cybersecurity threat inventory

•Responsible for Researching the new methodologies and technologies that will influence cybersecurity in AI Models, co-authoring research proposals, executing studies, and presenting findings, etc.

•Responsible for Developing state-of-the-art approaches for analyzing systems' robustness and how attackers adapt their tradecraft to exploit them.

•Research the study and influence the AI security and vulnerability trends and mitigations

•Responsible for Evaluate the effectiveness of tools, techniques, and processes developed by industry and the AI security research community.

•Responsible for Developing models, tools, and data sets that can be used to characterize the threats to, and vulnerabilities in, AI systems and publish those results

•Knowledge of AI/ML software packages and working with cutting-edge technologies and dedicated experts to solve challenging problems for the government and the nation.

Client Technical Advisor /Manage Ernst & Young, Texas. Oct2021-Aug2022

A Global Technology Consulting Company:

•Responsible for reviewing Enterprise architecture, governance, roadmap, security control frameworks, security gaps, security benchmarks, and current controls and recommending best practices for a Financial Domain multi-cloud environment.

•Responsible for facilitating client meetings, identifying the broad range of stakeholders, building conscious relationships, and gathering customer/partner insights from broad technologies of enterprise portfolios of infrastructure and application architectures.

•Recommended several frameworks and controls using the security and privacy control frameworks such as NIST cybersecurity frameworks (CSF), CISA, CCPA, FedRamp, FISMA, FFIEC, PCI-DSS, HIPPA, HITRUST, MITRE, ISO9001/ 27001/ 27018, GDPR, etc.

•Responsible for leading global teams and collaborating with internal executives and partners on multi-cloud Azure, AWS, Google SAP, and Oracle projects for security and digital transformation.

•Experiences multiple Server Operating systems, such as Linux/Unix/Windows. Includes schema, Hardening, Networking, Domain policies, and Administration.

•Responsible for engaging stakeholders, cross-functional teams, application owners, and DBA experts to review application security gaps, compatibility, and risk assessments before migration to the cloud.

•Responsible for evaluating and providing assessments for current-state to future-state security mappings, Cloud center migrations that include (Infrastructure& Applications) readiness and assessing security gaps, Cybersecurity Risk Assessments, etc., against the multi-cloud cloud services IAAS, SASS, PASS, and Hybrid environments.

•Experience in Azure Monitor, Event Hubs, Cloud Defender, Penetration Testing, Advanced Threat Protection, and Threat Modeling frameworks such as STRIDE, VAST, and PASTA.

Cloud Migration Lead/Strategist, CTS, Texas. April 2021-Jan 2022

•Experience planning and implementing Application & Infrastructure Automation using DevOps Standards & practices, IAM, security, and governance strategy for Enterprise systems in a Distributed Data Center at a global scale infrastructure.

•Experience drafting and reviewing the technical runbooks for Infrastructure, Applications, Architecture Governance, and Security while collaborating with product vendors, stakeholders, application, infrastructure portfolio managers, and DevOps Managers.

•Experience in DevOps Configuration and Automation tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, JASON, XML, YAML, Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM Templates, Azure Blueprints, etc.

•Experience in Azure Services such as ExpressRoute, VPN, VNet Gateway, App Gateway, Reverse Proxy, Availability Set, Azure Key Vault, Azure AD, ARM Templates, Azure Monitor, and Azure Policy troubleshooting.

•Good experience in AWS services EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, LB, API Gateway, CloudWatch & IAM polices etc.

•Experience in Cloud Virtual infrastructure, containerization, orchestration, Monitoring, and Management technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes Architecture, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Azure Monitor, etc.

•Knowledge and experience in setting up the Azure Cloud App Service and leveraging the DevOps environment for CNCF, SPFx, Jscript, and Net Framework during the cloud migrations.

•Experience in Analysis, Design, Build, and Development of.net application Architecture, applied Security standards recommended vital design decisions for technology, infrastructure, and system configurations to ensure scalability and capacity.

•Responsible for setting up AWS WAF protection against frequent TOP 10 OWASP vulnerability attacks and followed the logging.

Technical Architect (Digital Advisor) Microsoft, MD May 2019-Dec 2019

•Azure Cloud Platform / On-Premises AD hardening, Cloud POC for Multitenant (Azure and Office 365 suite, SharePoint, One Drive Business) Implementation, SharePoint Migration to Azure. Hybrid, SQL Database Consolidation Migration

•Led the digital advisory services practice for clients and provided solutions for identity planning, Integration implementation, architecting, and deployment of Federation Authentication Solutions such as CA-SSO, Secure-Auth, Okta SAML Claims, ADFS, FBA, Pass-through, etc.

•Experience implementing and Architecting Multiple Directory Services such as AD-Multi forest Active Directory infrastructure, Azure AD Sun-One LDAP Directory services, and Oracle user Directory.

•Experiences in Identity platforms such as Identity, OAuth, OpenID, AWS IAM, Azure PIM, AD PAM, MIM, MDM, and SSO Claims Federation between enterprise Systems-Partner Organizations.

•Responsible for Infrastructure Implementing the critical IAM, Security, governance strategy, Planning, and implementation for Enterprise systems in a Distributed Data Center at Global Infrastructure

•Experience planning and architecting the MDM (Mobile Device Management); Mobile app integration to Azure, Oracle Cloud, and Azure MIM Access policies infrastructure.

Enterprise Client Technical Advisor CMS (Division of HHS Jan 2018-Dec 2019

•Responsible for recommending the Azure and Office 365 tenant POC Strategies for cloud migration, integration, architecture, and design of Microsoft best practices to the stakeholders and technical leaders.

•Revised the CMS' existing governance and recommended guidelines and best practices for technical and non-technical processes.

•Digital-age cloud solutions expert for designing and developing enterprise software applications at a global scale, cloud infrastructure, and Cloud Gov EA Frameworks, recommended cloud security frameworks such as NIST, Fed Ramp FISMA, etc.

•Experience in setting up Cloud DevOps standards and practices for Azure, AWS, Google, and GitHub, and recommended Cloud Gov EA Frameworks, cloud security frameworks such as NIST, Fed Ramp FISMA

•Strong Experience in AWS infrastructure services, such as EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Load Balancers, Cloud Watch, and IAM policies,

Enterprise Solutions Architect Exelon Corporation, MD Apr 2017-Nov 2018

•Responsible for leading the Application Developer teams for setting POCs, application migrations, a DevOps Environment for SharePoint, and Mobile App API development using the AWS DevOps methodology, reviewing the coding standards, Performance Deployment, etc.

•Responsible for Planning Architectural Designs, documenting, and maintaining cloud and on-premises Architectural Strategies for Azure, Oracle OUD Identity, and Oracle Mobile Cloud.

•Developed architecture roadmap, strategy for deployment, and technological enhancement of enterprise Solutions applications using REST/SOAP API for On-Prem and Cloud Infrastructure

•Responsible for building the Docker container images using the DevOps practices to deploy IaC for POC infrastructure.

•Experience in the Enterprise Mobile Security Suite, Application and Device Management, Identity Management, Mobile MFA, Office 365(GDPR) Compliance policies, etc.

•Experience in Multi-Cloud Services and models, including Azure, AWS, GCP services EC2, Storage, Networking VNet/VPC, S3, Azure SQL/RDS, Azure Key Vault CMS, KMS, Secret Manager, App Fabric/Azure Functions/Microservices / WAF, Guard Duty, Security Hub, Inspector, Cloud Checker, Load Balancers, Cloud Watch, and IAM policies, etc.

•Responsible for deploying the Docker, K8S, Azure VSTS, Jenkins, and Build and release pipelines; Azure Repos, Azure Key Vault, Azure Container Registry; ARM templates; Terraform; and Cloud Formation, among other things.

•Experience initiating project scopes and conducting review meetings with stakeholders, Architects Application owners for WCAG and ADA. Mobile architecture, App development, Application Migration, IAAS PASS infrastructure scaling goals, etc.

Engineering Architect Freddie Mac, Reston, VA Feb 2016–Feb 2017

•Responsible for Project implementations of Azure AD, Office365, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, CRMSF, Secure Library, DocAve, 6.6, Backup & Governance Blob Cache Externalization, ADFS, etc.

•Experience in Analysis, Design, Build, and Development of .net application Architectural and Security standards; recommended vital design decisions for technology, infrastructure, and system configuration for scalability and capacity.

•Consulted on complex projects such as hybrid IASS, PASS, and SAAS as top-level contributors to most phases of systems analysis and the business implications of technology application to the current and future business environment.

•Responsible for architecting and deploying infrastructure for SharePoint, Office365, DocAve, CRMSF, Secure Library, OneDrive, and Yammer, using the IAM with ADFS, Okta Cloud, SSO, MFA, and authentication scenarios,

•Responsible for implementing, installing, and configuring seamless identity integration for MFA, VPN, ADConnect, and AD user mappings for Azure IAM services, on-premise AD, and Azure AD, among other services of FreddieMac infrastructure.

•Responsible for leading the efforts to build Prod and Non-Prod POCs for DevOps (Azure/VSTS) setup, Yammer, OneDrive, SharePoint 2016, AD to Office 365 (Azure AD) using AD Connect, synchronizing users and groups, configuring passwords with # and group mappings, etc.

On-Premises Infra & Application Environments Experiences:

Client

Location

Role/Contract

Date Engagements

AM Water

Hershey, PA

Infrastructure Specialist

July 2015-Feb 2016

DOC

Mechanicsburg, PA

Systems Architect

Mar 2014-Jun'2015

City of Phila

Philadelphia (OIT)

Systems Architect

Mar’2013-Jun'2014

MetLife

Clarsksumitt-PA

SharePoint Architect

Apr2012-Feb2013

McGraw-Hill

NY, NY

Application-Administrator

Apr2010-Apr2012

DHS

Trenton, NJ

Systems Architect

Oct2008–April2010

NICT INC

Hummelstown-PA

Free Lancer/Owner

Dec2002-Sept2008

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