Headline

Business Continuity professional

About

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle A dynamic information technology professional with a rapidly progressive career span of 15+ years, I have gained exposure and cross cultural experience in handling information security, Disaster Recovery/ Business Continuity Program, archer administration, middle ware administration, production support, change and release management Proficient in testing and auditing DR programs, disaster recovery planning, strategy, business impact analysis. Expert in site planning, testing strategy and coordinating the enterprise site testing activities with the business units. Strong execution capabilities with focus on customer engagement, risk mitigation, continuous stakeholder management with ability to adapt rapidly changing requirements and environment. Demonstrated ability in Splunk Administration and implementation in large environment, Vivisimo deployment and troubleshooting and analysing service issues and initiate proactive communication with client functions, stakeholders and business units on service issues and challenges come across during implementation of change. Ability to nurture superior customer relationships that delivers significant project growth. Strong orientation to provide value to customers and satisfaction to partners. Efficient Team Leader & Player possessing demonstrable leadership capabilities in managing complex business challenges, mentoring & driving results through active engagement of employees in line with organization's vision and goals. Certified in Cloud Security Alliance (CCSK), ITIL V3 Foundation, ISO 22301 Lead Auditor, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor and IT Disaster Recovery Specialist.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Business Continuity Manager at Wipro, Dec 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Consultant at Wipro, Dec 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Business Continuity Manager (BRE): • Working with various accounts/business and teams to ensure Crisis management and business continuity plan are in place. • Assist and monitor BCP and Crisis management implementation across various accounts/projects • Develop and maintain a corporate wide and customer specific business continuity program / framework that cover Business Continuity across all supported customers. • Prepare BCP/DR documentation (e.g., plans, emergency response procedures, call tree lists, test results, etc.) • Develop, maintain and track the DR and BCP test calendar by business functions • Support in Accounts in BCP Program implementation • Work with Business units/Accounts to conduct exercise to validate business continuity plans. • Design, coordinate and conduct business continuity/disaster recovery testing/exercise. • Report on exercise result and follow-up on issue resolution. • Monitor the business continuity/disaster program as it relates to audit and regulatory compliances. • Crisis management in the event of a business interruption.

Lead Information Security at Fidelity Investments, Jul 2011 - Jul 2016 · 5 yrs 1 mo, In my current role managing enterprise Disaster Recovery Services team and leading site planning, testing strategy and coordinating the enterprise site testing activities with the business units in the enterprise and auditing the disaster recovery plan & strategy and evidence of control documents. Spearheading DR planning, strategy, business impact analysis and other technical aspect of Disaster Recovery process. BIA assessment, work with team to define critical time sensitive systems and business functions. Responsible for managing DR program oversight and operation and DR testing program, auditing DR plans and evidence of control documents. Conducted and coordinate annual table top DR/BCP exercises for operational areas to validate, and update plans as necessary. Design, develop, and document Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans and ad hoc presentations for senior management. Collaborating with archer development team to develop a business continuity plan implementing & administrating RSA’s Archer eGRC and Developed BCP/DR plans and participated in migrating from a legacy BCP module in Archer. Created additional 'on-demand' applications, questionnaires and custom authoritative source content for clients in Archer v5 and handling access control modelling for RSA Archer implementations and also responsible for Setting up vendor, and BCP/DR management dashboard

Lead System Engineer at Fidelity Investments, Mar 2005 - Jul 2011 · 6 yrs 5 mos, Under this role, I supported Fidelity.com on 24X7, handling incident management, change and release management process on UNIX platform. Provided middle ware and application support in production to all customers/partners and business units and managed integration of middle ware & web standards and Managed day to day activity planning, coordination between the stakeholders, businesses and different teams. Managed & pushed contents using Akamai, Vignette, Interwoven and CDS and monitored performance and benchmark using third party applications like Gomez, Keynote, Akamai, Splunk, True sight and Adlex APM. Implemented and administered SPLUNK and managed configuration of log files, created dashboards and analysed application, system and event logs. Responsible for incident management and working as a crisis and tech escalation manager during high severity issue and represented the offshore side of the problem management meeting.

Project Engineer at WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, Oct 2004 - Mar 2005 · 6 mos, In this role, I was responsible for managing application server administration (IBM Websphere), iPlanet, SiteMinder on Solaris, AIX, Windows 2000.

Sr. System Engineer at Covansys, Feb 2004 - Oct 2004 · 9 mos, Worked as a Sr. System Engineer for PeopleSoft (PeopleSoft and JDEdward) - Now Oracle.

Team Leader at Comsoft Infotech Pvt. Ltd, Nov 2000 - Feb 2004 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Education

Master in Cyber Security and Cyber Law, Cyber Security and Cyber Law, National Law University and IMT

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology, General, Barkatullah Vishwavidyalaya