Abid Rasheed Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

- Extensive experience in Federal Govt Cyber security and/or Cyber risk management with a focus on ISM, IRAP, Essential8 compliance- Experienced team manager- Leading roll out of ACSC's Essential 8 compliance program in ASIC- Acted as CISO on two 5 week terms leading assurance, application architecture and Cyber SoC operations- Managing a team of security architects and responsible for reviewing/approving security components or solutions- Conducting security reviews based on ACSC's ISM, SOC and ISO standards- Extensive experience in AWS and Azure security compliance against ISM controls- Solid understanding of infrastructure architecture, application integration architecture, security protocols, cryptography and authentication, authorisation - Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel to explain and enforce security measures- Involved in user behaviour and improving user cyber understanding initiatives- Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as business acumen and a commercial outlook- Excellent understanding of Cyber Security investigations and review of existing IT system- Scoping and leading penetration testing with external vendors- Worked as Acting CISO

Sydney, Nsw, Au

- Point of contact for all cyber escalations- Assessed cyber requests- Providing advice to senior leadership- Represented cyber teams in senior management meetings

Sydney, Nsw, Au

- Point of contact for all cyber escalations- Assessed cyber requests- Providing advice to senior leadership- Represented cyber teams in senior management meetings

Sydney, Nsw, Au

- Leading team of operational engineers to build and manage solutions on AWS, Azure, VMWare and CI/CD (DevOps)- Promoting and building automation pipelines- Defining and verifying architectural standards for cloud and devops platforms- Working with infrastructure, cloud and application architects to build solution following ASIC standards- Making sure projects closely follow strategic directions during adoption of cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) platforms- Ensuring ACSC's ISM guidelines are following and helped AWS & AZure achieve IRAP certification.- Improvements in build pipelines for IaaS and PaaS- Team comprises of Microsoft Azure, AWS, VMWare and DevOps engineers- Helped design and build Azure and AWS following ACSC ISM Standards- Currently working on DevOps and Automation using Puppet, Azure DevOps, Octopus, VMWare vRealise and other tools.- Adopting and implementing CI/CD tools across different development team. Assisting teams to adopt CI/CD methodology- Heading team which provides BAU support for all AWS, Azure, DevOps and VMware relating technologies- People's leader for team performance management, day to day activities and planning for team skills improvements - Pushing cultural and technical change across IT Operations and improving business processes- Special interest and focus on automation of build and operational tasks.- Monitoring and manage all initiatives for process improvements in AWS, Azure, DevOps and VMware space.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

ASIC is Australia’s corporate, markets and financial services regulator. I am working in Infrastructure Design and Analysis division responsible for infrastructure improvements and technology direction.Main projects recently finished:- Designed, procured and implemented Data Science LAB on Amazon Web Services (AWS) utilising EC2, Cloudwatch, S3, VPC, VPN, DirectConnect and other technologies- Designed, procured and implemented on premises Data Science Lab using VMWare NSX with HP hardware- Next generation Enterprise CA design and implementation - WiFi design as part of Activity Based Working initiative- Social media analysis, Deep and dark web analysis- Setup of Project online as part of Office 365 setupOther technologies and work completed:- Comprehensive work on designing new data centre and data centre migration- Technologies regularly used include Oracle Middleware, Oracle SOA, Cisco networking, F5 application delivery, VMWare Horizon product suite, IPSec/SSL VPNs, etc.Main Responsibilities include:- Working with business architect and business analysts to deliver business solutions.- Working with operation in continuous improvement and act as solution review authority- People management of team as part of projects and architecture team- Cost and budget preparation for new proposals.

Providing support and architectural services in following:- Hosting Solution Design and implementation- Email gateways- Security, firewall, DLP, VPN and associated services- Monitoring and support- Linux, VMWare, Solaris and Windows support

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Macquarie Telecom is one of the top hosting companies in Australia. My Responsibilities were to:• Manage a team of engineers for resources.• Review and approve solution designs from pre-sales consultants• Provisioning, Infrastructure Architectural advise to customer and sales in complex projects.• Working as technical lead and managing the project till the handover for complex projects.• Primarily working on Federal government complex projects. These include some well known federail govt. departments .• Management of EMC CX serial disk arrays & SorageTek disk arrays with Brocade Director grade switches. • Designing security solutions based on Cisco PIX/ASA, Sidewinder and Juniper Netscreen firewalls.• Prvisioning and managing Highly Protected government customers • Liaising with customers for new provisions and providing technical leadership to sales and pre-sales

FrontLine systems is one of the leading SUN and HP resellers in Australia. HarbourMSP was established as a Managed Service Provider (MSP) arm of FrontLine systems. HarbourMSP is using Global Switch’s state of the art data center in Ultimo. At the moment HarbourMSP is managing around 70 racks and more than 200 servers in its facility. My Responsibilities include:• Managing SUN Solaris, Linux and Windows servers• Built ‘Hosted Exchange’ solution based on Microsoft Exchange server 2004• Working on Cisco PIX firewall to give customer server secure access• Managing customer DNS, internal and external Mail and host/service monitoring software• Manage switches to allocate ports and VLANs for customers• Managing backups on Veritas Netbackup Datacentre• Provide support, advice and solutions to customers • Overall manage and arrange customer visits to site and provide assistance

ADI is the leading contractor for defense forces. It is partly owned by Thales (France) and Transfield. Thales has worldwide 40,000 employees and it currently has 20 sites on different locations in Australia. Main Responsibilities are:• Infrastructure Design and defining future road map for ADI • Project Management (building project schedules and making sure the deadlines are met) • Project Definition, Identify Requirements, Solution Definition and Budget Preparation• Systems Architecture, Design and Implementation (includes Detail Design, Build, Test, Implementation and Support Warranty)• Identify and suggest improvements in the current IT infrastructure

Cissp, Cyber Security

Togaf Certification, Architecture

Microsoft Azure Architecture, Cloud

Architectring With Aws

Big Data On Aws, Cloud

Education record

Itil V3 Foundation

Sun Certified, Unix/Solaris

Ccna, Cisco

Mcse, Windows Nt

Mcs, Computer Science