Jitendra Chandna Email & Phone Number

Athens, Ga, Us

Co-Founder at InversAI focused on developing real world application using Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) AI. IRL focuses on simplifying the task of coding complex decision making by observing and adopting expert human behavior to understand their objectives, values and/or intentions. Currently developing a Collaborative Robot (Cobot) solution under an NSF Grant in the Agtech sector to reduce food waste.

As the Chief Information Security and Privacy Office for the $ 500M MD THINK Cloud Platform I led the agencies Digital Transformation to AWS Cloud. Responsible for Security Strategy and Architecture, Security Engineering and Operations, Vulnerability Management, Identity and Access Management, Data Protection, Cloud Service Posture Management, Security Assessment, Application Security, Business Resiliency, Policy and Procedures, Endpoint Security, Pen testing, Red team assessment, Security Incident and Event Monitoring (SIEM) and Incident Response of the platform and the applications running on the platform. Made all Executive decisions regarding budgeting, finance, procurement for Security, Privacy and Governance Risk and Compliance functions.• Successfully migrated multiple agencies onto the platform including all applications from Department of Human Services, Maryland Health Benefits Exchange, pilot applications for Maryland Department of Health with an M&A mindset• Completed ATO for 10 major business applications on the platform supported by 50 other applications maintaining compliance with NIST 800-53, FISMA, IRS PUB 1075, MARS E 2.0, HIPPA,ISO, NACHA, and Maryland DOIT IT Security frameworks• Instituted the Governance, Risk and Compliance program, setup the Security Operations Center, Incident Response program and Continuous Monitoring program focused on Business Risk• Serve as a Trusted Advisor to the CTO and the Executive Committees for all security related decisions

Provided thought leadership and strategy services to several small business CXOs for Information Security & Privacy, GRC, and Cloud Computing. Helped evaluate, improve and develop security processes, policies, frameworks and architectures for organizations, applications, network, infrastructure, and data security operations. Guided clients on their FISMA, NIST, CSF, PCI DSS, HIPPA, ISO, IRS, GLBA and other compliance and regulatory requirements.As an Engagement Director for a small business led the reorganization of its information security team into a high performing security management organization that won plaudits for its clients CISO and led to a more than $50 Million contract win for the company

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Developed and led Threat Intelligence and Cyber Analytics practice to provide advisory and analytics driven solutions in the Cyber Security, Insider Threat and Critical Infrastructure Protection domains. Architected a cyber-analytics solution offering that employed big data analytics with visualization techniques to exhibit holistic cyber and business risks to key decision makers in an actionable manner using intuitive dashboards and scorecards. Grew the practice 100%+ annually to attain top line revenue of $12M in 3 yearsServed as Engagement Manager and Director for several multi-million-dollar cyber engagements for Federal and Fortune 100 Commercial clients. Engagement duties ranged from Security Assessments, GRC Management, Security Operations, Security Engineering, Vulnerability Management.