Director, Program Management

• Jan 2022 - Present

Engineering Program Manager

• Jul 2020 - Feb 2022

Helping Engineering in delivery of the innovative Virsec Security Platform (VSP) to protect business-critical applications of Enterprises and MSSPs from sophisticated cyber-attacks such as zero-day threats, file-less attacks and memory corruption exploits. Organizing teams and execution of projects to scale the agile delivery model.

Engineering Program Manager

• 2017 - Jun 2020

Served the Engineering and PM teams and Program managed the development and delivery of multiple Payment Security projects in a SaaS model with $70M+ revenue effectively implementing SAFe agile methodology and processes. ● Accountable for the planning and to effectively execute backlog grooming, release planning, identify Risks and impediments to manage across the program ● Managed the life-cycle of industry leading product’s large-scale program in Payment security and compliance domain ● Effectively and efficiently performed Scrum Mastering and managed the programs in distributed teams to provide a tight control over the processes and the timelines. ● Worked closely with Professional Services and Support teams in bridging the gap with development teams to bring in less implementation overheads at the end of SDLC ● Championed the Security, compliance, Vulnerability management and Audit processes delivering R&D products & services ● Worked with third party vendors to drive certification processes for payment security division on Penetration testing, secure code analysis and security trainings ● Adoption of CI/CD practices with Dockerization of the apps and leveraging Openshift solution for deployment via Jenkins integration Show less

Senior Consultant working full time @ Cisco Systems

• 2015 - 2017

● Have worked as Project management and Scaled Agile transformation consultant at client place Cisco Systems for one of their Smart Services Digital solution agile transformation ● Worked with PMO on new contract validation projects ● Working as Consultant my responsibilities included: ○ Initial training for teams and leadership, coaching of change agents, Monitored metrics for better outcomes from the investments in technology. Implementation leader for Agile methods. ○ Ensure continuity of projects’ delivery without impacting business of $120M+ revenue during Agile transformation ○ Update transformation roadmap, ensure readiness of implementation waves, and monitor/report on progress and success of transformation Show less

Technical Expert and Scrum Master

• 2012 - 2015

● Managing Design, Develop, Run (DDR) across projects that simplifies and standardizes the processes and optimize cost ● Consistent delivery with Agile scrum to deliver value early and with quality ● Adoption of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CICD) practices involving TFS, Nolio● Review significant or major incidents & manage escalations ● Identifying and sharing project specific innovations, best practices, tools or other lessons learnt that may be of broader interest ● Working thru the legacy systems in Data migration, Service Introduction ● Provides inputs for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans ● Effective Risk Management by Risk Definition, Risk Analysis & Risk mitigation and timely escalation of project relates issues/solution/recommendations Show less

Principal Software Engineer

• 2007 - 2012

Software Engineer

• 2005 - 2007