Experience

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  Microsoft

  • Redmond, WA

  • Information Technology System Engineer

    • Nov 2019 - May 2020
    • Redmond, WA

    •Working with Microsoft stakeholders on MCIO and cloud adoption framework (CAF) projects.

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  People Tech Group Inc

  • Redmond, Washington, United States

  • Principal Security Engineer (Project Management)

    • Nov 2019 - May 2020
    • Redmond, Washington, United States

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  Premera Blue Cross

  • WA

  • Sr. Cyber Security Engineer

    • Jun 2017 - Sep 2019
    • WA

    Skills:•Technical Project Management using DevOps and agile methodology •Cybersecurity tools like SailPoint IIQ, BeyondTrust Privileged Identity, PKI /Venafi•IT Service Engineering and Technical Project Management Responsibilities: •Build Engineering and enterprise solutions to lay the groundwork for continued maturity in the cybersecurity space. •Participate in architectural reviews and break down the vision to technologies and services needed for protecting customer data and enabling internal and external users to do their work more accurately and efficiently.•Work across IT and the business to understand the coming needs for the users so solutions can be developed proactively•Design, Implement and maintain Identity and Access Management tools like Sailpoint, RED (ERPM), Venafi, etc.

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  HCL America

  • Redmond, WA USA

  • Group Project Manager

    • Nov 2016 - May 2017
    • Redmond, WA USA

    •Participate in delivery improvements and risks mitigation and process improvements projects.•Responsible for managing customer satisfaction by supporting cutting edge IT Services using DevOps principles.

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  Microsoft

  • Service Design Engineer

    • May 2011 - Sep 2016

    •Service Design Engineer with HR IT Service Engineering. Handled HR Core (headcount) and Retain Talent (Benefits) service lines. •Service Design Engineer with Finance IT Service Engineering handled Tax, Treasury and Audit and Domestic and international Payroll service lines. •Worked with SaaS providers and managed service engineering resources from partner teams (like engineers from Infosys, TCS, HCL and Tech Mahindra)•Involved in requirement analysis, use case development, design and architecture, prototypes development and incubation, design and technical specification writing. •Involved in new tools/technology onboarding, supplier selection and engagements tasks like RFP reviews.•Detailed incident reviews working with managed outcome service engineering partner teams and internal IT teams, Issue and risk prioritization, issue resolution documentation for service lines. •Driving and contributing to MBRs, QBRs and other scorecard reviews.•Review Functional Specifications, architecture design, master test plans, provide technical guidance to the project teams.

  • Development Lead

    • Jul 2008 - May 2011

    •Lead developer with Microsoft IT in Business Intelligence and Finance IT departments•Responsible for resource, scope and schedule planning with ITLC/SDLC/ DevOps methodology to achieve continuous improvement goals.•Handled security and performance audits, unit testing plans, project communication and status updates.•Involved in various version 1 (incubation projects) and delivered technical innovations and delivery goals,•Published MSIT Think week paper on MS product early adoption and received great comments and from Microsoft IT Chief Architect. •Awards received ‘Gold ticket winner’, IT Pro, Deliver IT, Project Evergreen (Nokia integration) recognition from CIO.•Developed SQL Server Analysis Services Metadata Documenter of the SQL Server Metadata Documenter suite tool, which has got great feedback from the SQL Product group and MCS professionals. Tool got shipped on CD with Microsoft press ‘Inside SQL Server tools’ book.

  • Senior Operations Architecture and deployment Analyst

    • Jul 2007 - Jul 2008

    •Part of new OAD (Operations Architect and Deployment) functional special purpose team in finance IT, helped initiate this presence in India in collaboration with global team.•Responsibilities includes infrastructure and other architectural projects oversight and escalations handling for finance and BI IT and handling release management across and production environments for 80+ line of business applications.•Work with various development teams, IT management stakeholders and other Microsoft wide partner teams

  • Support Analyst

    • Oct 2003 - Jul 2007

    •Production Support for multiple business critical applications in Tax & Audit product group portfolio; Tax Data Warehouse, Audit Manager, Audit Planner, etc.•Lead India IT Operations team cross group collaboration with global teams. Operation stakeholder for TAPG SDLC cycle and high-quality SLAs metrics.•Primarily accountable for warehouse Tax Data Warehouse (4 TB) ETL processes and application maintenance in production. •Part of major pre-release internal product adoption and alpha version functionality testing •Implemented number of process automation initiatives using out of the box and self-developed tools.

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  Maestros Mediline Systems Ltd.

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Support Engineer

    • Mar 2003 - Oct 2003
    • Mumbai Area, India

    Role - Technology Consultant, Microsoft Products for corporate customers •Database consultant for break/fix telephonic\onsite support (performance & configuration issues) •Handled fixed bid application performance tuning and code audit projects •Specialization in Microsoft SQL Server RDBMS and Data Warehousing architecture

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  Global Offsite Management Systems Ltd

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Jr.Analyst

    • Jun 2000 - Feb 2003
    • Mumbai Area, India

    Role - IT Systems Lead for Oil and Gas, refinery automation systems product startup company•Successfully performed systems analyst role, worked as a SQL Server DBA, Developer, Network administrator and Data Center manager, Product beta tester for refinery automation product development company.

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  Mechem Projects (I) Pvt., Ltd

  • Asst. Project Engineer

    • Aug 1996 - Feb 1998

    Role – Assistant Project Engineer for turn-key mechanical projects Paper Machines and steel plant setups•Turn-key project erection for paper and steel industry projects. Handled projects across different sites in India. Responsible for people and project management (team size 10-70). On site stakeholder for Mechanical Project Design and implementation consultancy team.