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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Lifeline Australia is an ISO 27001 certified Not-For-Profit organisation, and I was onboarded to drive information security initiatives as part of the addressing several minor non-conformances. Worked closely with key stakeholders across business, technology, risk, compliance and executive leadership team to shape up the Cybersecurity delivery programme. Supported by a team of vendors, internal SME's, I was able to drive significant progress within a short period of time. Below are the major initiatives I deliver upon & responsibilities held:• Implementation of Microsoft Purview to build Data Classification & Data Loss Prevention capabilities.• Data Migration from Legacy on-premise file servers to SharePoint to address several associated risks• Implementation of Data Retention & Data Lifecycle Management capabilities• Develop & execute Essential 8 Maturity Roadmap • Identity and Access Management solution and application onboarding (Entra ID)• Project reporting to EPMO and Executive sponsors• Drive the business cases, procurement, planning, execution, and rollout, complying to the organisational policies & processes.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Managed several exciting delivery initiatives across Digital enablement, Data Products, Cloud Migration & Data Remediations. These initiatives are associated with Collections, Credit Risk, Comprehensive Credit Reporting, Life Insurance Products, Claims & Pricing functional domains. Managed multiple DevOps squads simultaneously driving prioritizations of the features and its architecture, design, build, testing and release iterations of the products owned.Managed several complex activities in data modelling, building ETL Data pipeline, Master Data Management, Reference Data Management, Meta-data management & Data Migration.

Sydney, Australia

Delivered several critical projects and product developments across Cyber Security & Credit Risk Data Products with multiple cross-functional & dedicated DevOps Squads. Below given is a detail summary of my Data Delivery and Cybersecurity Delivery achievements in detail:Cybersecurity Experience:Responsible for several delivery initiatives to enable critical cyber security functions. These initiatives include: • Cyber Analytics Platform (Cloudera Big Data): Drove building the data-lake with telemetry logs and engineering activities to build real-time detection & response functions.• Endpoint Detection and Response solution: Managed end-to-end delivery from inception to operationalising EDR capability and onboard 50K endpoint devices.• Cloud Transformation of Cyber Security Centre: Drove the architecture, design, and build activities to transform several bespoke solutions to migrate to enterprise cloud. These includes solutions related to Malware Analysis, Intel & Threat hunting, eDiscovery & Forensics.• Identity & Access Management experience with SailpointAchievements: Delivered to strategic priorities, contributed to business cases, managed procurements, managed technology risks, managed the programme budgets & communicated project status & RAID updates to designated executive forumsData Product Delivery Experience:• Data Products Delivery such as Customer Income, Customer Savings, Customer Debt, Customer Liability, StepPay, Credit Risk• Planned and executed roadmaps with multiple high-performing DevOps Squads• Hands-On to decompose the data features into Epics, Stories and Tasks• Expertise in conducting sprint ceremonies, scrum of scrums to deliver towards OKR's • Driven complex data profiling with legacy datasets and transform & build strategic datasets.• Experience in driving Data Management activities to build Business Meta-Data, identify critical data elements, building the data catalogue, document data-lineage, etc.

Sydney, Australia

Delivered Data Loss Prevention capability uplift, driven by data protection strategies to comply with the regulatory needs and internal policies. The programme scope includes implementing technology solution, processes, and awareness programme to effectively prevent data leakage within and outside the organization. The programme incorporates the control needs across multiple egress network channels such as endpoints, emails, and proxy.My responsibilities briefly while at Westpac is as follows:• Primarily accountable for delivering the capability and service enablement• Develop funding business case, deliver security infrastructure, and operationalize detection & response process • Managed the delivery with a dedicated team comprising security architects, vendor consultants, business analyst and testers• Responsible for finance management, project reporting, issue/risk escalations, procurement management, etc.Achievements: Delivered DLP capability by driving activities such as business case, product selection, procurement, infrastructure build & engineering activities and operationalising solutions

Singapore

Successfully delivered several security infrastructures projects in accordance with bank’s PMO governance framework and within the approved scope, budget and timelines. Led the project team through the funding, solution architecture, design, implementation phases. My responsibilities briefly while at Bank of Singapore is as follows:• Programme Delivery to build and operationalize Cyber Security Capabilities such as Data Loss Prevention & and migration of Desktop Security Controls from Sophos to McAfee• Managed cross functional teams which consists of architects, service desk, facility management, operational and vendor team resources. • Managed vendor professional services through establishing and tracking comprehensive SOW with vendors. Vendors firms engaged includes Dimension Data, External Networks, Tenable, McAfee, Hewlett-Packard, Imperva and Symantec.

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

Master’S Degree, Finance

Masters in Finance and Investment

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics