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Veem Inc, is a San Francisco based Global Payments company that offers simple, fast, secure, seamless payments on the Veem network in over 110 countries making it easy for businesses to pay and get paid. Hired to serve as the first Chief Security Officer as well as Chief Information Officer in an underinvested IT & Security space, with legacy of fragmented accountabilities, I gained buy-in for the Technology and Security Vision, Strategy, Execution roadmap to achieve 3X business expansion in 2021 with incremental investment to accelerate growth. The payments business is all about building trust - established a sustainable, responsible, resilient, risk driven Cybersecurity practice at Veem that balances the business risk - reward decisions to meet business objectives while being compliance driven to fulfill regulatory requirements such as Money Transmitter Licensing, industry requirements such as SOC2, GDPR and PCI-DSS, founded on strong core security capabilities and controls to defend against evolving and dynamic threats.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Gather information security evidence from Third- Parties on behalf of ClientsSupport business strategy development for the services teams and manage mapping, documenting and implementing CS processesDrive business process efficiency and workflow automationIdentify business requirements and translate them into system requirementsCreate and Deliver online information risk surveys to Client’s third–party vendorsMonitor, Technical support and final provisioning of reviewed results Demonstrate basic project management and documentation skills to manage multiple parallel tasks Explain and articulate technical concepts to non–technical stakeholdersRe-implement and optimize Gainsight for existing customers

Milton, Ontario, Canada

Scanned the web Application for finding OWASP top 10 Vulnerabilities using Nessus , OpenVAS, QualysGuard , InsightAppSec , VEGA, Burp Suite, Metasploit Framework etc.Generated, reviewed, and analyzed security reports, discussed with Security Managers and System Administrator’s and provided Remediation options in a timely manner. Worked with Security information & Event Management system to Monitor Alerts and logs .Cloned Python scripts in Linux to Audit the Network and Application security on daily basis.

Punjab, Pakistan

Managed client computers remotely, monitored applications and Troubleshooted their issues.Troubleshooted, Installed, and rebuilt systems, hardware and other related peripherals.Associated in risk & security analysis and reported to senior cyber security Analyst. Administrated Company Syslog server and Monitored logs from managed network devices.Configured Switches, Routers and troubleshooted Layer 1, 2, and 3 issues in an excellent manner. Provided end user support on variety of issue on Multiple Platform on phone, email and on site.Developed and documented several procedures currently utilized by the organizations.

Cyber Security Analyst

Key Courses: CompTIA A+ Computing Hardware and Host based Security CompTIA Network+ Network Architecture Design and Operations Windows.

Mscs (Masters In Computer Science), Computer Science

Key Courses: Computer Networks Web Engineering Digital Logic & Design Computer Architecture Fundamentals of Algorithm Operating System.