Security Engineering

Tarun Kalra

U S Citizen Telephone: 301-***-****

Open to relocation Email: ***********@*****.***

Education

M.S. Computer Engineering Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

B.E. Electrical Engineering PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India

Senior IT executive with track record of successfully adding business focus to design, development and exploitation of IT systems. Lead enterprise wide digital transformation & deliver high impact IT solutions to accelerate business strategy and improve quality, productivity and profitability of fortune 80 firms.

Expertise

Vision / Strategic Planning IT Security / Risk Mgmt Consulting / P&L / M&A

Enterprise Architecture Emerging Technologies Process and Quality

System/Solution Engineering Infrastructure & Service Mgmt Contracts & Negotiations

Highlights

At Telephonics, as Vice President, integrate joint ventures, accelerate IT led business transformation, build cyber security programs for 2 sister firms and automate E2E manufacturing at 10 sites in US, India

At General Dynamics, as chief architect, drive IT strategy, architecture, solutions, integration, continuous technology migration to improve productivity of 10K users, 59 sites. Guide $89M/yr budget, 3 M&A

At AG Edwards, now Wells Fargo Advisors conceive & deploy RDTP development model to merge 50 labs, fast track projects and infuse quality-service delivery principles across SDLC - save $49M/yr. CIO Award

At General Motors manage multi vendor teams to support 7x24, 5000 CADEM users at 15 sites ($100M/yr)

At ECON, establish US-India IT consulting practice. Make $5M sales, 33% profit in 1st yr CIO Award

Expertise in leading technologies – cyber security, data center, hybrid cloud migrations, mobility, BI

Experience

Vice President, GDICS (Management and IT consulting firm) Jun 2014 – Dec 2020

GDICS helps clients design business and IT strategy, forge joint ventures, penetrate new industry verticals and diversify products and services to increase growth and profitability.

Advise/work with 20+ CxO’s to accelerate business strategy, innovation and value creation. Spearhead initiatives for BI, cloud, emerging technologies, optimization and digital transformation.

At Titan ($2B Tata firm) work with CXO’s, functional and IT team to new start aerospace vertical. Build vision for IT systems and services and design strategy to scale/support 100% business growth/yr for 5 yrs. Lead initiatives to select-deploy technologies – Oracle ERP, on premise infrastructure, AWS IaaS cloud, BI, analytics and cyber security program to address unique needs and make data driven decisions.

At Rockman Industries ($5B Hero group) Work with CxO’s and IT team to start new aerospace vertical, add 4 new auto parts manufacturing plants and integrate Moldex – new acquisition. Assess client/strategy, business need and lead - restructuring, cloud migration, automation, supplier integration, turnaround IT operations, modernize infrastructure, applications, datacenter and deploy in/outsourced, cloud services

Vice President-IT, Telephonics (Aerospace & Defense Firm) Jan 2012 – May 2014

Telephonics ($0.5B) and its 2 subsidiaries make radars, software, communication systems & provide MRO services

Provide IT vision and leadership and guide design, delivery and transformation of IT products & services to enable business goals and improve profitability and productivity across 10 sites in US, China and India.

Work with business leaders to design IT strategy with focus on digital transformation, integration of suppliers and new joint venture, cloud computing, mobility, predictive analytics and collaboration.

Turnaround IT operations – enhance service architecture, service catalog, help desk, standards, self help, process and optimize mix of on/offshore, cloud services - save 40% cost, meet 99.999% uptime, 95% SLA

Lead major transformation – embed IT and business organization, modernize datacenter, Oracle ERP/BI, quality and end user computing systems, start on/offshore Dev/Test and cyber security as service.

Lead cross company effort at Telephonics and 2 sister firms to build security program including policy, controls and training to secure data, applications and infrastructure and meet contract and PCI, ITAR, SOX.

Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering, General Dynamics-AIS (report to CIO) Jul 2005 – Jan 2012

General Dynamics ($10B, $89M IT budget) is an aerospace and defense firm. Responsible for IT strategy, architecture, innovation, application and infrastructure modernization and services to support business growth, reduce cost and improve productivity of 10K user at 59 sites.

Bring in-house & lead enterprise architecture & system engineering function. Continually assess business need, industry/technology trends and build IT strategy, roadmap and cost and usage aware solutions

Execute major programs – integrate 3 acquisitions, reduce 30 sites, modernize/rationalize applications, build hybrid cloud, I/P/SaaS, merge 3 ERP, mobility, digital workplace, unified comm., collaboration

Direct R&D and design enterprise solutions for – end user computing, server, storage, virtualization, MPLS WAN, backup, de-duplication, replication, encryption, acceleration, BYOD, HA, load balancing

Build organization, mentor staff, define training plan, career goals and set standards for performance.

Enhance data architecture and analytics to improve financial, operations and contract performance, bid rates, purchasing, innovate warranty products, optimize programs/mix of contract vs. employees etc

Build enterprise cyber security program including policy, control and training to secure all layers of network computing. Deploy tools, standards, 2 factor, encryption, SOC/threat analytics. Present new, internal/APT threats and solutions to security board, meet ITAR compliance and pass NIST 800-53 audits

Consultant – IT Quality & Productivity, AG Edwards (now Wells Fargo) Nov 2003 – Jul 2005

Conceive and deploy RDTP development model to improve quality, fast track projects and infuse security and service delivery principles across SDLC. Lead 60 architects/engineers to merge 50 labs, standardize Dev-Test-Prod environments and institute TOGAF, Agile and ITIL practices. Results – 80% projects on time, at cost, deliver expected value vs. $46M write off, 54% failed projects in prior year. CIO Award

Director, IT Managed Services, E-CON (startup firm) at General Motors Aug 2000 – Nov. 2003

Establish 50 members $5M P&L US-India IT practice & work with clients to define IT projects. Form/lead on/offshore teams through presales, solution design, contract & financial engineering. Forge partnerships, manage cost, schedule and quality and execute contracts to build web system for warranty/claims, B2B/C, T&L, integrate legacy systems and deliver CMM3 software center and 50 CSR contact center. CIO Award

Many roles- IT Service Mgr, Unix System Adm., EDS at General Motors Aug 95 – Aug 2000

Lead teams to design 7x24 mission critical workstation, server, storage, backup systems and support daily operations of 5000 users, 200 CADM systems at 15 sites ($100M/yr). Build sites, 99.995HA datacenter, compute farm, helpdesk, virtual reality center, 7-subnet Fast/GigE/FDDI LAN, deploy ITIL shared services.

Technology

Platform Vmware, AWS Cloud, Dell-EMC, IBM, HP, Unix/Linux, MS-Win, NAS/SAN Network: Cisco, Brocade, Riverbed, Software Containers, Microservices, 3-Tier, SOA, REST, SQL, Oracle ERP, PVCS Security LDAP, NIS, AD, RSA, PKI, Firewall, IPS/IDS, SIEM, DLP, NAC Backup, Framework CMM3, ISO 27000, ITIL4, ToGAF, OCTAVE, NIST800-53

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