Imran A. Qureshi Cissp,Cism,Cgrc Email & Phone Number

Spring, Texas, Us

OVERVIEW:Promoted to oversee a broad range of IT security functions, reporting to the VP of IT Security. Partner with upper management and HR stakeholders to create metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that help improve the organization’s security posture. Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on cyber security topics, IT trends/issues, and other areas in a joint effort with technical and functional stakeholders. HIGHLIGHTS:✅ Improved overall incident management and risk management by 85% through playing a critical role in developing and executing the cyber security strategic vision enterprise-wide, including a series of policies, procedures, and techniques.✅ Contributed to delivering 90% or better compliance with all policies and regulations by taking ownership over the organization’s security requirements and compliance strategy involving NIST, HIPAA, SOC1, SOC2, and PCI.✅ Served as a key catalyst in increasing average performance by 95% or greater through participating in knowledge sharing activities through security and privacy training for both new hires and existing team members.

Spring, Texas, Us

OVERVIEW:Managed short-term and long-term planning, driving prioritization and management of the IT Security portfolio that included applications, tools, and the overall infrastructure. Optimized value of IT investments by maintaining tight alignment between the overarching business strategy, technology capabilities, and organizational capacity. HIGHLIGHTS:✅ Improved overall regulatory compliance and policy adherence by collaborating with multiple business unit leaders, technical teams, and management stakeholders to develop consistent processes.✅ Stewarded multiple high-visibility projects through the entire lifecycle, including the implementation of DLP and EDR solutions to improve detection and mitigate data loss enterprise-wide.✅ Reduced the number of security incidents by continually exploring opportunities for process improvement, including a revamp of the Vulnerability Assessment program through a vulnerability management and exception policy.

OVERVIEW:Enabled rapid deployment of cloud computing services through advanced platform engineering support, including major contributions to the architectural design process. Planned and managed production applications and project budget of $1.8M.HIGHLIGHTS:✅ Cemented IT’s role as the primary driver of strategic business growth by optimizing infrastructure security and cloud solutions, as well as instilling a continuous growth mindset enterprise-wide, resulting in substantial, rapid organizational growth.✅ Established a new benchmark uptime of 99% through leveraging deep technical architecture expertise to facilitate adoption of operational efficiencies, cloud-based solutions, capacity planning, and virtualization.✅ Drove down IT costs from $2M to $1.5M during tenure by maximizing utilization of available resources and successfully enabling company acquisition, including capture of $180K in savings through favorable negotiation of cloud services.✅ Transformed ops functionality and efficiency through the development of an SAP business server (with ERP implementation) and connectivity environment. Streamlined ticketing and IT change management process, and significantly reduced errors, through the introduction of a Samanage help desk system.

Sugar Land, Texas, Us

OVERVIEW:Focused on development of a seamless, end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience, including new tech rollouts, improved system uptime and defense, and strategic planning to illuminate the path forward. Developed and maintained technical knowledge and documentation for business applications within UAT, QAT, and production environments. Created and executed short-term and long-term strategic plans to ensure network capacity fulfills existing and future requirements.HIGHLIGHTS:✅ Increased availability of networks, applications, and critical Help Desk support for 140 private physician practices.✅ Achieved zero production downtime level through creating and implementing after-hour production applications in a joint effort with offshore developers.** Prior positions with Healix as Network Administrator and Information Technology Administrator.

Sugar Land, Texas, Us

✓ Led rapid development of security and infrastructure programs. Saved $360K annually through streamlining system migration from frame relay to DSL infrastructure.

Sugar Land, Texas, Us