In my recent role, I worked as a Senior Security Engineer with Rimini Street, Inc in the Global Security Risk and Compliance Team seeking a suitable Management or Technical position in your organization.

Primary profile involved securing Rimini’s data on a litigation lawsuit filed by Oracle. Which entailed setting up meetings with customers and aiding them in releasing compliant data. In addition, looking at many aspects of data security and vulnerabilities, AUP violations of the organization.

As the role evolved, I have been entrusted with the responsibilities to secure compliance related fine searches involving cloud data, mails, hard drives, data within files, mobile assets. On the security domain participate in company decisions on securing the environment. Logs archival, reporting have been automated to name a few.

Have considerable experience in managing small to moderate Teams. Interact across teams in working on multi team projects. Generate status of projects to senior management. Excellent interpersonal skills in communications, implement and manage all aspects of the project from start to finish including building systems and configuration. Automation of redundant work. I am 50-60% hands on and 40-50% addressing customer escalations. Interacting with customers and resolving their concerns as required.

I have a solid technical background and widespread knowledge of Windows and UNIX based Enterprise Systems at large corporations. I have a wealth of experience in distributed architectures, with an emphasis on web-based applications.

I have a fair exposure to CISSP concepts of Security operations, Security and Risk Management, Asset Security, AUP violations, Data Security, cloud and cloud concepts and have a sound understanding of Cloud Network. Additionally attended GCP-A and AWS courses earlier.

Technical History:

Cloud: Saas, Paas, Iaas, AWS, GCP

OS: Linux Flavors, Red Hat Linux, Cent OS, Solaris, AIX, win 10/7, Win 2016

Software: Shell, Sed, Awk, Perl, Power Shell, Python.

Tools: Bitdefender Gravity Zone, Cellebrite, Blacklight, Mobikin, Burp Suite, Tenable Nessus,ZAP, Wireshark, CWP, Padre, Agent Ransack, Karen’s Directory Printer, File locator Pro, Eclipse, CVS, notepad++, ppm, Radmin, PCAnywhere, Carbon copy, Secure Crt, Exceed, Putty, Cisco VPN, WinSCP, FileZilla, Digital safe, Audit Center, MS Project, Exchange, Outlook 365, Office, Excel, Power point, Visio

Databases: MySQL, DB2UDB, ORACLE, MS SQL Server, ODBC

Experience Summary:

Rimini Street, CA Mar 2017 – Jan 2023

Sr. Security Engineer (Global Security Risk and Compliance)

Primarily responsible for Security operations, Data security, Asset Security within the company, which included securing emails, files, install files, hard drives, unapproved software etc. from a legal and compliance perspective.

Additional responsibilities on the security domain. Automating many aspects of the daily routine tasks which are performed manually

Clean up of Kiwi Sys Logs

Probe and generate daily SCEP database logs

Precise and concise report for Bitdefender for use within the team

worked on a user data password change conducted annually

Design and automated the environment on compliance searches

One Drive scans

C Drive Scans

Profile Scans

VDI scans

Mobile devices backup and archival of data

Backup of sensitive mobile data of key personnel per legal departments advice into an archive for review using Blacklight and Mobikin software

Primarily responsible for securing on boarding data residual on customer sites. This is a technical position aiding collection of sensitive data for the legal department.

The scope of the project involved setting up GOTO meetings

Co-ordination amongst customers and their technical team

Helping collect data over a secure portal. Data collection was performed across multiple environments viz) Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows etc.

Providing periodic updates to upper management and legal department.

Was involved in scripting, logging and QA for a (DRH) data retention and hold project wherein about 400 Tb of data was transported from two datacenters onto a central storage network.

Scripting was performed using Shell (Linux and Cygwin platforms) and Power Shell scripts for the windows platform.

Final QA was performed in addition against the LOGS to validate the overall migration transfer using MD5 checksums.

Running monthly reports using Agent Ransack tool to scan for files violating Acceptable User Policy within the company network with specific keywords and upon finding a match quarantine the same.

This work again involved scripting to look for specific files within the network, collect and move the same onto a safe house for future review.

Additional periodical Work were performed as well.

Catalog and secure HDD’s of employees that no longer work within the company in a fire safe.

Uninstall unapproved Cloud software, applications installed on employee’s systems

Hewlett Packard, CA 2011 - 2015

Sr. Project Manager (Data Engineering, eDiscovery)

Worked as Sr. Project Manager/Data Engineering with the Software Engineering tape department. Involved in complete turnaround and co-ordination of the initial stages of the project through life cycle of project including but not limited to analysis, design and development, testing, implementation and production support

Meet customer deliverable in a timely manner

Co-ordinate scope and technical requirements

Conduct meetings to carry out projects in a seamless manner

Generate and broadcast periodic status reports

Many successful implementations for various customers in large financial industries

Currently involved in restoration of data for a very large financial institution, Size of data is of the order of many terabytes

Completed a successful implementation of a large scale restore for a customer in health care industry.

Involved in the technical aspects of work which revolves around writing scripts, gathering information from databases for various requirements for each project.

Scripted using active Perl to inventory, read tapes and restore data from HP tapes from scratch

Design, create and populate tables as required on MySQL

The code updates the database with restored tapes based on custodian names, session id, backupdate. Complete logging of all tasks performed

Used ODBC connection into MySQL database.

Have written many shell scripts for day-to-day automation, requirements.

Tweak windows scripts and customize for specific projects

Scripts to find, tar, untar, zip, unzip and identify if list of files meets certain conditions and then move the files into appropriate directory as required.

Setup of Processing machines in windows, installation of exchange 2003

Installation of Samba, nfs, set up of encfs and related packages

Have used Xen Management to setup logical volumes, allocated, change size per requirement

Setup of Linux Hardware and release the same to Engineering

Monitoring using SQL database on status of queues and assigning new queues, trouble shoot as necessary.

Transfer terabytes of data through SMAPs to drain data into the Safe.

Troubleshooting and resolving issues on SMAP.

Autonomy, Inc, CA 2007 - 2011

Sr. Project Manager [Software Engineering]

Worked as Sr. Project Manager in the Audit services group. Primary responsibility included retrieval of data to the tune of hundreds of gigabytes from a large storage known as Digital safe.

Supervised, lead and trained a team of five members in the audit department.

Have handled many large financial customers in the litigation industry

Communicate with customer on a daily, as required basis with regards to the status of the queries and other issues revolving around the product

Train, guide Customers on application use

Transfer of knowledge, Systems knowledge, Application Boolean logic within group and to customers.

Config and Setup of Linux, windows systems.

Run queries to retrieve emails from the different safes

Compress and encrypt using PGP/GPG with AES encryption or SDA

Compile, package the same and deliver results via Ftp, media

Review, edit, application manual and recommend changes as required for Audit Center, Digital safe application on new releases.

Zantaz, Inc 2002 – 2007

Sr. Lead Engineer [ Audit Services]

In Charge of a major financial account.

Instrumental in performing litigation lawsuits related searches from within evolving db2udb databases

Training new members and on-board them into the team.

Writing process documents on an on-going basis.

Train colleagues on scripting techniques and automation skills.

Crystal Technologies, 2001 – 2002

Worked as a Computer consultant with Crystal Technologies in the following projects.

Growing Net inc., CA

Systems administrator for Solaris Machines. Involved in Setting up of Machines Ultra 20 and 420 R for a lab setup. Setting up of Software and Hardware. Training users about UNIX. Documentation of environment using Visio and Power Point presentation.

Installation and configuration of Solaris 8 and AIX 4.3.3.

Design, Planning for future expansion

Training UNIX Solaris 8 within the Organization for other departments.

Setting up of user accounts.

Monitoring Windows Boxes (services, Task manager, Event Viewer)

Script work for Automation of tasks.

Setup Cron Jobs for regular weekly test for performance monitoring and tuning.

Installation of Apache Web Server.

Installation of Oracle Database 8.

Used Eco Tools for performance monitoring

Using Visio created the environment

IBM Global Services, CT

Systems administrator for the USF IBM web hosting team. Responsibilities include trouble shooting of web servers and other related problems. The environment consisted of over 400 servers with a blend of Solaris, AIX, NT systems. Most accounts were load balanced using Network dispatcher. All accounts were clustered. Other duties include implementing regular changes within the environment as and when a ticket is assigned. Worked with IBM WebSphere 3.5, IBM HTTP Server and also IIS.

Installed and configured AIX 4.3.3, Solaris 7,8

Production support and maintenance

Upgrade, test and trouble shoot and update team regarding changes

Checking system performances and trouble shoot, diagnose

Installed and configured IBM Web servers

Write scripts for performance monitoring, start shutdown processes etc.,

Trouble shooting of Web server involved checking for Http services, Daemons, Java processes, pattern not matching etc.

Other tools used are Secure CRT, Carbon Copy, and Exceed 7.

Verizon Communications, MA

Part of a team Responsible for building Enterprise 6500 SUN machine with Solaris 7. Installed Veritas 3.1 and also created Disk Group, Volumes for various applications using Veritas. Also involved in porting user accounts from a running production machine to the newly built machine. Involved in trouble shooting and performing general system administration tasks on a weekly basis.

Installation, configuration, maintenance, and upgrade of Solaris OS and allied software, third-party applications.

Configuration, and maintenance of Network IP services on UNIX servers

Management of file systems using Veritas Volume Manager

Tuning and troubleshooting the system for performance problems

Written Test Scripts to automate tasks

Early Career 1992-1999

Began my career into the marketing field and have worked in managerial and executive positions and have contributed to the success of each organization

Sr. Marketing Executive at Global Tele-Systems Ltd, Sales Manager at Al-Najim Saudi International Co. Ltd, KSA in the elevator and crane division. Sr. Marketing Executive with Bee-Canon, Chennai, India working with Government contracts. Manager at Acer Telecom, Delhi, India in charge of the entire organization. Sales manager at Gestetner Ltd, Chennai, India in the cyclostyling department.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication, University of Madras, India

Certifications

Course

Year of Completion

Conducted By

GCP Architect

2022

EPIC IT Training

Cloud Computing Security

2022

FedVTE

Preventing Business Email Attacks

2022

FedVTE

AWS Cloud Computing

2017

TACT

Programming in Java

2013

SCAE

Perl CGI scripting

2002

SCAE

Cisco Certified Network Associate

2001

ITI, Newera, San Jose

UNIX, C, C++ Programming

1997

Orchid Soft systems

Other Courses

Cyber security Phishing awareness

Security Training

Creating Secure Code

HP Ethics and Compliance Training

HP U.S Public Sector Customers 2012

10 Commandments of Professional Service

Acceptable Use Policy and Inunction Compliance Training

Secret Server User Training

Transformation (& Leading) During Disruption

Personal Data Protection Policy

Status References

US Citizen Available on request

Contact this candidate