Maninder Woodwal Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto

- Responsible for daily management of the Vulnerability Management system and related documentation.- Main point of contact between security and operations team for anything related to security.- Performed Web Application and API Scanning using industry standards (OWASP top 10, CIS), and worked with operation teams to rectify any vulnerabilities or security shortcomings found.- Performed network scanning required for PCI-DSS compliance and completion of SAQ A questionnaires.- Advised operational teams on CIS hardening of operating systems, cloud and physical infrastructure.- Monitored and performed threat analysis for network IDS, EDR and threat detection systems.- Worked with external vendor for penetration testing, reporting and mitigation with internal teams.- Gathered and reviewed information for internal and external audits including ISO.- Heavily involved in incident management and response.- Responsible for monthly CSIRT presentations.- Provided security focused expertise for other company projects.

- Responsible for daily management of the Vulnerability Management system and related documentation.- Main point of contact between security and operations team for anything related to security.- Performed Web Application and API Scanning using industry standards (OWASP top 10, CIS), and worked with operation teams to rectify any vulnerabilities or security shortcomings found.- Advised operational teams on CIS hardening of operating systems, cloud and physical infrastructure.- Monitored and performed threat analysis for network IDS.- Helped head security analyst with review and mitigation of external penetration testing reports.- Gathered and reviewed information for internal and external audits including ISO.- Heavily involved in incident management and response.- Provided security focused expertise for other company projects.

- Team Lead for Systems Engineering team of a multi-national company.- Responsible for team management and interaction with other departments for daily work.- Managing a team of 9 people including 3 remote teammates, ensuring a friendly and open work environment.- Planning and implementing annual project and resource allocation.- Assist department manager with planning and implementing medium and long-term operational strategies.- Acting as Subject Matter Expert for all technical items relating to the team.- Providing technical and non-technical feedback to department manager and director on regular bases.- Implemented and encouraged adoption of OKR based KPI for team.- Leading on project management for small inter and intra team projects.- Acting as mentor for new teammates.- Research and suggest new technologies and improvements to existing technology stack.- Assist department manager with annual budgets and decisions for technical changes.- Coordinate with infrastructure vendors for procurement and support.- Lead and participated in a project for a physical move and complete IP structure overhaul for critical site.- Lead and participated in project for completely overhauling SAN system in 2 production sites without any downtime.- Lead a project for internal cloud implementation based on Openstack. Created training and trained other teams on use of internal cloud.- Worked on part of project to migration configuration management from puppet to Ansible.- All of the above in addition to technical responsibilities from previous Systems Administrator role.

- Supported production, pre-production, development and testing environments including but not limited to physical server and storage, virtualization hypervisor and operating system.- Responsible for proactive maintenance, support and reactive fixes for hardware, dealing with issues with critical infrastructure in timely manner ensuring high availability and low downtime.- Assumed role of interim team lead for short duration.- Documented and implemented new patch management policy for production operating systems, hypervisors and hardware firmwares.- Worked on operating system configuration management with Puppet.- Coached and guided new teammates on processes, policies and technical knowledge required.- Created and improved documentation regarding internal systems as needed.- Suggested improvements to enterprise infrastructure.- Created and implemented documentation for internal equipment tracking.- Created and implemented regular firmware upgrade procedures for UCS Cisco system, IBM Storewize system, vMware vSphere ecosystem and related infrastructure.- Implemented vSphere 5.0 on new hardware infrastructure.- Learned, designed and implemented Microsoft Active Directory using industry standard best practices- Migrated 2 mission critical Datacenters from old locations to new as part of the team in a time sensitive manner. - Including secure cleanup of storage. - Transportation of sensitive equipment and secure disposal of old inventory. - Setting up new hardware - Cisco UCS chassis and B series blades, IBM Storewize SAN including planning, physical setup, cabling, labelling and documentation - Planning and coordinating with application and database teams to migrate physical machine to virtual (VMware P2V) and related setup using vmware vConverter. Including automation required for new setup- Studied, handled and improved IBM TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager, currently known as IBM Spectrum Protect) backup system for critical enterprise data.

- Researched, developed and deployed linux imaging system for Ubuntu desktops based on netboot and kickstart. - Handled day to day helpdesk/supportdesk for office of about 150 people, including all desktop/laptop and phone system support.- Installed and documented new Xerox printer system for the office.- Assisted in migration of enterprise email to Google Apps including end user support for reconfiguration. - Assisted in documentation, cleanup, recabling and labelling for office server room of 20 racks.- Handled asset management, including migration to new Asset Management system.- Handled Procurement of major Enterprise equipment - including vendor management, getting quotes, Purchase Order preparation, vendor followup and warranty support management.- Documentation of enterprise processes and policies relating to team.- Help with internal and external security audits for the company.

Hbsc, Computer Science - Software Engineering Specialist

B.Ed., Comp. Sci. & Maths

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