Working as a CISO for Cairn Oil & Gas, Vedanta Limited.Managing Information Security, GRC, SOC, DLP, VAPT, Threat Management, ISO 27001 Compliance. Designing Policy and Procedures as per the Organization requirement.

• Spearheading the IT Infra Operations and SOC team of all the locations of Aptara and 5 Datacenters in India & US for the following:• Managing 800 Mbps of total internet bandwidth across all DCs, including MPLS 330 Mbps bandwidth• Handling footprint of 140+ Physical and 180+ Virtual Servers (VMWare) spread across DCs• Leading a team size of 50 members and motivating them to deliver efficient results • As CISO, Managing Information Security, GRC and SOC.• Created Vulnerability Management Framework, conducting IT security risk assessments, and formulating security risk plans for Business Units as per the client’s requirement• Managing Compliance for ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 9001, and Assessment of SOC2 Type2 for the Organization’s Security Resiliency• Strategizing, forecasting, drafting, and executing the IT budget and infrastructure plan for the company• Contributed to developing & implementing policies, procedures, & systems, initiating long-range strategic plans, and maintaining the overall technology strategy and goals• Profound experience in ramping up IT and Information Security projects on multiple platforms.

• Managed and set up IT Infrastructure operations of Times Internet Limited across PAN India offices•Overseeing the administration and Project initiation/implementation of WIFI/LAN/WAN for PAN India offices. • Automation of Monitoring systems for LAN, WAN and Servers for proactive monitoring. Managing the O365 platform this include Mail, Lync, Sharepoint and Yammer.• Developed and implemented the company’s IT budget and infrastructure plan from the scratch• Introducing and installing new system upgrades and security backups for hardware and software systems. Ensured the smooth running of all the systems, including anti-virus software, print services and e-mail provision.• Overseeing all help desk activities at the regional level, along with troubleshooting, system backups, archiving, and disaster recovery and providing expert support whenever necessary.• Building and maintaining vendor relationships. Also, managed the purchase of hardware and software products, along with other IT supplies to ensure that company assets are well maintained. Updating and upgrading the latest Technologies.• Possess strong leadership and successful team building capabilities and excellent technical, communication, presentation, and customer service skills.• Broad competence in strategic management of technical areas with the distinction of launching and driving new IT & business development initiatives, generating profitable business and contributing towards the achievement of organizational objectives during the career span.

• Management of Travel Booking Engine.• Management of IT Infra operations• Led the team to deploy MS Exchange 2007, Squid Proxy and IP Table based Firewall.• Led the team for the deployment of Financial Software (ITQFinancial)