Served as one of the Innovation Awards judges at CES Las Vegas . The CES Innovation Awards program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products. The program recognizes honorees in a multitude of consumer technology product categories and distinguishes the highest rated in each.

- Performed penetration testing to identify security vulnerabilities in various systems, networks, and applications.- Developed and executed various ethical hacking methodologies, including vulnerability assessments and security audits.- Analyzed digital evidence and performed forensic investigations to support security breach cases.- Researched and formulated comprehensive Disaster Recovery (DR) plans to ensure business continuity and data integrity.- Utilized Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques to gather and analyze publicly available information for security purposes.- Conducted risk assessments and security testing to evaluate the effectiveness of security controls.- Developed mitigation strategies and provided recommendations to enhance security postures.- Published findings in journals - Collaborated with professionals in the field to stay updated on the latest trends and techniques.

Served as a mentor at a leading collegiate hackathon, providing technical guidance and support to student teams as they developed innovative projects. Responsibilities included advising on technical challenges, offering insights into best practices, and fostering creative problem-solving. Worked closely with participants to help them build impactful solutions, while also engaging with fellow industry experts and professionals.

Used tools offered by CIMax and features like application entry, policy status results, reporting actual production history, acreage reporting.Uploaded GPS-based planting data directly into CIMax AR Mapping systems for accurate acreage reporting, saving time and maximizing efficiency.Understood the standards set by USDA for Crop Insurance. Gathered business and technical requirements from the stakeholders and end users. Participating in meetings and conversations about requirements and development.Acted as a liaison between business and technical team, between developers and manager.Analyzed and documented Business requirements and Business Process Models to create the BRD for better understanding of the business process.Understood the system backlogs and found the respective business rules.Conducted demo sessions to allow stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with one another, resolving any issues and reaching an agreement quickly.Maintained and updated the HEAT tickets and collaborated with the QA and Dev team. Conducted analysis of a given system based on the HEAT database as well as analyzed ad hoc reports.Also analyzed Aging HEAT tickets and logged bugs into the given system as required. Tested the functionalities/ features of various web applications.Focused and understood multiple applications, analyzed applications and business processes to help in redesigning the current applications to better serve business needs.Performed Root Cause Analysis on issues found in production, tracking the data flow to identify where the issue is occurring.Performed end-to-end testing and UAT through each layer. Mapped data elements and data flow across all systems.Analyzed production defects on a daily basis and provided feedback to the Production Support team.

Analyzed feasibility of business requirements and defined scope, identified dependencies by interacting with Management, Business Analysts, Product Owner and Technical Leads.Interviewed Traders, Analysts and Portfolio Managers to create a list of Functional and Non-Functional Specifications.Conducted Joint Application development (JAD) sessions with the Business Stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts to further elicit and analyze the RequirementsPerformed Cost & Benefit Analysis, Feasibility Analysis to understand the net benefit and the feasibility.Supported the Product owner by assisting in creating project plans, developing the project workflows, creating scope documents along with the process of scheduling and tracking project timelines. Identified and documented Business Process Workflows and UML diagrams such as Use Case and Sequence diagrams.Extensively used JIRA to capture and manage User stories and actively participated in all the Scrum Ceremonies.Maintained a Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure that all Functional Requirements are addressed at the Use Case Level and matched with the Business Requirements. Assisted the Scrum Master to create and document deliverables like burn-up, burn-down charts to transparently communicate with all the stakeholders and also to track team progress. Worked closely with business stakeholders, BI analysts, developers and SAS users to establish SLAs and acceptable key performance metrics. Used PowerBI and Collaborated with the Scrum team in preparing test data for positive and negative test scenarios as per application specifications.Developed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts to assist the testing team in System Integration and Performance Tests.Kept track of bugs and defects using JIRA, maintained issue logs and handled the change requests efficiently.Conducted User Acceptance Testing (both Alpha & Beta) along with Portfolio Managers and registered representatives.

● Worked with the business users to define business requirements and analyze the possible technicalsolutions.● Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzed, and documented business requirementsbased on the analysis of process workflow model.● Modeled AS IS and TO BE processes using MS Visio.● Conducted Workflow, Process diagram and Gap analysis to derive requirements for existing systemsenhancements.● Created User stories for selecting products, shopping cart, checkout, payment modes, and member● Worked with an information architect to create and develop Wireframes and Mock-up screens for the UI on Web, Android Phone/Pad and iPhone/iPad platform. Co-author business requirements documentwith project teams. Extracted, discussed, and refined business requirements from business users andteam members.● Assisted the testing team in developing the Test plans for quality assurance based on functionalrequirements.● Assisted daily scrum meetings, Bi-weekly sprint review meeting, Sprint Retrospective meeting withScrum-master.● Analyzed user problems, including automated and manual business processes and identified,researched, investigated, defined and documented business processes.● Work closely with Project Managers and decision makers to understand business requirements thatdrive the analysis, design and implementation of quality POS solutions.● Made Screen Mockup, Wireframes and screenshots for the application to easily communicate it to thedevelopers, and testers.● Made sure that implemented POS system aligns with the objective of the company and enhanced thefunctionalities of POS (Point of Sale)● Managed online content, performed editing and proofreading of all content and also coordinated withthe marketing department to upgrade the CMS● Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for various web based and database related applications.● Gained expertise on Change Management by performing Impact Analysis for Change Requests.

RTD Smart Cards – Transit Card Application and System Migration ProjectsI worked as a liaison with the IT project management team, the business units who request technology, and software development teams. I was a team member for web portal testing and the SMART CARD projects along with OBIEE Migration of Crystal Reports created requirement documentation. Prepared Logical Process and Data Models that contained a set of diagrams and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document Business Data Requirements.Worked in SCRUM/AGILE methodology extensively using JIRA to do storyboards, user-storiesCreated SQL Queries using SQL Server to do data mapping and data analysis with OBIEE Migration of Crystal Reports .Performed discussions with vendor/partner teams to reinforce and document processes for ongoing growth or any system impactsDid data mapping, crosswalk analysis and GAP analysis for the processes.Tracked the requested enhancements and changes by the stakeholders to convey Technical and Functional specifications to reinforce and document processes for ongoing growth or any system impactsFollowed the UML based methods using MS Visio to create Use Case Diagrams.Detailed understanding of business functionality and preparing the Functionality Test Plan Interacted with Product Manager and Domain Experts to understand various process plans, business process, and functionality in detail. Responsible for conducting walkthrough sessions to get Business Sign off .Meetings with Developers, Team Leads to help them understand the requirements.Interacted with the Testing and Development team to resolve and follow up on development issues.