Financial Services Project Manager

ASIM M. KHAN

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/khanasim email: **********@*****.*** - Ph.: 630-***-****

Results-driven Technical Lead with over 15 years of extensive experience in Consulting & Delivery. Proficient in Azure DevOps Boards, AWS Cloud, SaaS, Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence, Cloud Transformation, SOAR, ServiceNow, SAP Worksoft, Archer, GDPR, HP ALM, and QA. Proven track record of effectively leveraging technical expertise to drive successful project outcomes and deliver innovative solutions.

Years of progressive cloud technology consulting & leadership experience spanning diverse verticals including Financial Services, Insurance, and Energy.

Bridge the gap between technology and business, by leveraging the full measure of IT leadership acumen and expertise to design sophisticated enterprise solutions that help companies operate more efficiently, effectively, and profitably.

Selected over peers to lead high-impact, high-visibility technology projects and project teams, working under leadership direction.

Experience in architecting enterprise technology solutions and integration platforms, Cybersecurity intelligence platforms, analytical dashboards, and data integration solutions for insurance, financial services, consumer products & clients such as Zurich Insurance, Bank of America, DOW Chemical & Synchrony Financial.

10+ years of Agile project and program management.

EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Accenture - (CIO Tanium) 2021- Current

Led a Proof of Concept (POC) for the Tanium OnPrem move to the Cloud, culminating in a successful final product endorsed by leadership and stakeholders.

Created and executed Project plan and ensured adherence to requirements and scope.

Reported weekly status to leadership and managed project with daily standup calls with business/technical teams.

Managed resource allocation, including conducting semi-annual or annual reviews and delivering constructive feedback.

Architected a comprehensive roadmap post-POC for the Tanium WKS move to Cloud initiative, emphasizing technical design, business requirements, use cases, approach, and documentation, adhering to Accenture approved methodology.

Administered Tanium WKS Move to Cloud initiative, encompassing analysis, design, construction, testing, and deployment phases, meticulously documented via cutover and deployment procedures.

Developed project timelines delineating milestones, while delegating key deliverables and tasks to designated resources.

Oversaw intricate Tanium data and technical configurations for both development and production environments, ensuring mission-critical operations ran smoothly. Additionally, coordinated vendor technical aspects, including upgrades, bug fixes, and configurations.

Directed Technical integration/authentication with Splunk SOAR & SIEM, SMTP, and SSO/SAML.

Offered technical guidance across all project phases, encompassing application security assessment and approval processes.

Authorized sign-off on technical, architectural, design, and test documents to ensure alignment with project objectives and standards.

Tanium Project/Ops Manager

Accenture – (CIO Tanium) 2020- 2021

Operations Lead for US, BA (Buenos Aires) and PH (Philippines) teams for TANIUM cutting edge cybersecurity tool leveraged by various teams like (SOC) Security, endpoint management and IT operations teams with quick visibility and control to secure and manage endpoint on the network for Cyber threat discovery and response (~723803 Workstations and 50K plus Servers).

Facilitate the resolution of any issues that may arise, Develop and present cybersecurity program status reports to internal and external stakeholders.

Using Tanium and SPLUNK SOAR provided daily/weekly cyber security reports and threat intelligence data from live endpoints to stakeholders which included, SOC, Info Sec and Protect my Tech teams.

Applied compliance patch and tagging endpoints for various security team for software updates

Daily standup call with Leadership on compliance status via Dashboard

Resolved infrastructure/application incident tickets with ServiceNow related to Tanium.

Collaborated with DevOps Engineering team for application and platform upgrades and to manage bug fixes

into future releases, resulting in reduced downtime, improved service reliability, and effective issue resolution through communication and problem-solving skills.

Lead cybersecurity resilience plans in alignment with the project team (Initiatives for DR and PaaS solutions)

Closely work with Tanium Vendor for issues escalations and resolution for Sev 1 and Sev 2 outages including Triage and bridge calls.

GDPR Project Manager 2018- 2019

Accenture - (CIO Global Data Protection Regulation)

Project Manager assigned to lead the GDPR Protection by Design Control responses across ~430 in-scope applications.

Collaborated with business owners and application teams to facilitate the remediation of 24 Privacy by Design (PbyD) controls.

Ensured alignment between Privacy by Design (PbyD) controls and Archer controls, meticulously documenting evidence for each control.

Offered guidance to application teams regarding GDPR controls, collaborating with business stakeholders to update Archer compliance measures.

Conducted comprehensive quality assurance reviews to ensure all targeted applications remained in compliance with GDPR controls.

Conducted AIR (Accenture – Application information Repository) survey for 200+ applications and managed teams for completion.

QA Manager

Accenture - (CIO SAP S/4 Financial Impact Test) 2017- 2018

Provided hands-on support to CIO S/4 SAP upgrade pilot financial impact test program as well as for the Cycle 1, 2, and Cycle 2b phase

Worked with SAP finance teams to Design, Build, Test, Mock Cutover and Cutover activities.

Responsible for getting the S/4 SAP ECC/BR environment build and test readiness.

Coordinated all test activities (Data prep, provision users, sign off on Playbook)

Provided progress on Financial CLOSE testing reported to leadership.

Logged and escalated the P1 and P2 incidents and managed the bridge for issue triage.

Helped with Internal Audit to make sure that teams were uploading the test logs and execution logs to the

SharePoint

Created Worksoft Certify automated test scripts to eliminate manual validation of Transaction-codes.

Project Manager

Accenture – (DOW Chemical) 2016 - 2017

Created a roadmap for Enterprise applications Cybersecurity awareness and training targeted for employees to help promote a culture of security and mitigate risk and potential threats.

Strategized a plan to review the gaps and implement security controls across the organization.

Provided oversight to end-to-end project phases, monitoring and addressing quality, schedule, issues, budgets, and resources across the project.

Delivery Lead for Physical and social phishing simulation, website creation, development of e–learning courses, and Presentation for IS awareness.

Assisted the Change management team with a Change campaign for Security Awareness.

Participated in stage-gate reviews through the project life cycle as per ADM.

Completed 500 automation test scripts for SAP modules (OTC, PP, PTP & HR)

Project Test Manager 2006 - 2015

Accenture – Various Clients

Headed client portfolios for global accounts: Bank of America/State Farm/ Zurich

Lead Test Manager responsibilities utilizing Agile and waterfall methodologies.

Managed Testing of Prod and Lower Environment Smoke/Manual/Automation/Performance/UAT.

Facilitated testing across multiple applications, helped defect triaging and status reporting.

Lead End to End Test planning, Test execution, Test schedules, and project delivery.

EDUCATION

(Bachelor of Science) - Computer Information Systems

Emporia State University - Emporia, Kansas

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Agile Programming & Testing Accenture

Microsoft W2K Server, Active Directory Accenture

Worksoft Certify Accenture

Tanium Tanium Vendor

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Accenture

DevOps Testing and Delivery/Foundation Accenture

NATIONALITY - US Citizen

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