Omkhar Arasaratnam Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, CA, US

I'm LinkedIn's first Distinguished Engineer for Information Security - stay tuned.

Brooklyn, NY, US

I am a guest lecturer for CS-GY 6903 Applied Cryptography

Brooklyn, NY, US

I am a capstone mentor for the MS Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy programhttps://cybersecurity-strategy-masters.nyu.edu/academics/cyber-experts-from-law-technology-and-business/

Brooklyn, NY, US

Various advisory and research activities in conjunction with the NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS). Sponsor of the S&K Scholarshiphttps://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/programs/industry-partner-programs/scholarship-programshttps://engineering.nyu.edu/advisory-council/omkhar-arasaratnamhttp://cyber.nyu.edu/team-member/omkhar-arasaratnam/

San Francisco, CA, US

Mountain View, CA, US

* Led the Regulated Cloud Solutions organization of ~100 software engineers and ~200 extended team members across the US, EU and India.* Delivered over 150 Assured Workloads products to general availability, unlocking over $200b in Total Addressable Market (TAM) globally across global public sector and sovereign customers.* Led the development of Sovereign.

New York, NY, US

* Established technical direction and engineering of JPMC’s inhouse next generation data protection technology: Data Trust.*Data Trust was used in critical customer facing applications, such as Online Credit Card Dispute resolution, protecting the data of over 150 million Chase Credit Card customers.* Built a team of more than 100 software engineers, site.

Zurich, CH

* Served as Global Head of Product Management and Engineering for Cyber Security, and created the Cybersecurity Product Management, Engineering, Secure System Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) and Security Analytics functions.* Technology Security Services Executive for Credit Suisse Consolidated US Operations (CUSO) and Americas region, and the Americas.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, DE

• Re-established the Security Architecture Board as a 2LoD governance board.
• Rebuilt the Security Architecture team, providing security support to major projects.
• Established the Security Solution Architecture team, providing solution architecture support to CISO Cyber Security projects.
• Realigned CISO Cyber Security projects to adhere to SDLC principles, deliverables and methods to improve delivery and quality.
• Appointed as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for CISO, member of the CTO Council.
• Led innovation through partnering with universities, VCs and startups to incubate and improve new security technologies.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Led the Enterprise Security Architecture team at the bank.
• Provided strategic security architecture decision support for the bank.
• Led development of the Security Reference Architecture Model (SRAM) – An enterprise architecture designed to support the risk posture of the bank.
• Developed a management and continuous improvement system to govern usage and quality of SRAM assets.
• Provided security architecture guidance for key projects at the bank, such as: o Payment Card Industry (PCI)o Data Loss Prevention (DLP)o Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)o Fraud Analyticso Cyber.
• Adviser on key information security topics to senior executive management.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Responsible for bringing cross IBM (Software, Hardware, Services, Research) capabilities to address business challenges within the pension industry - covering both plan administration and investment.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Led the overall security architecture for the design, development and deployment of IBM’s SmartCloud Enterprise+ (SCE+), a managed Infrastructure as a Service offering.
• Led development of the security architecture, principles, policies, procedures and standards used globally for SCE+
• Led ground breaking work in the application of SCE+ to IBM’s Deep Analytics engine (Watson)
• Coordinated multiple global development work streams from IBM Research, Software, Hardware and Services divisions to provide a secure enterprise grade Cloud offering
• Co-led projects jointly with IBM Research regarding Cloud security
• Responsible for overall compliance and risk posture with SCE+, including external regulatory compliance (PCI, HIPAA, SSAE16)

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Thought leader, architect and trusted advisor to CIO, CTO and CISO regarding information security and risk management
• Led an organization of presales architects and security delivery personnel for Canadian security services
• Had profit and loss responsibilities for business development and delivery of security services in IBM Canada
• Led architecture and development of the largest security deals in Canada, including Government of Alberta ($19m) and Project Phoenix ($30m)
• Canadian Cloud security thought leader, presented at several conferences, universities and customer briefings
• Developed cloud security assessments and training for IBM worldwide

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Performed infrastructure assessments and roadmap planning aligned to client strategic business needs using CIR (Component Infrastructure Roadmap) technique.
• Developed solution architectures which assisted IBM clients with realizing business goals through use of IBM products and services
• Led organizational change management and adoption of strategic roadmaps
• Created IT Service Management improvement plan for a Large US Financial Institution, projected to reduce operational expense by 35% over 5 years
• Lead a $20 million dual data center / IT Service Management improvement project with Large US Retailer
• Assisted a large US Energy and Utility company with converging Operations Technology and Information Technology objectives into a 5-year Smart Grid convergence plan.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Acted as Chief Information Security Officer for key government and financial clients
• Developed Security Program Offices for several financial and government clients
• Assisted several clients with regulatory compliance projects (Sarbanes Oxley, Bill 198)
• Developed and augmented policies, procedures and standards for clients based on ISO 17799-2005 and ISO 27001
• Created Enterprise Security Architecture for several key clients
• Member of the Open Group SOA Security Architecture working group

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Contributed to IBM global internal security standards for LinuxActed as Linux Architect for several large account customers.
• Conducted coaching sessions and root cause analysis when service outages occurred.
• Actively participated in process improvement exercises to ensure optimal team performance.
• Lead study of patch automation tools, which reduced security workload by 60% across the business unit.
• Reduced server build time by 30% using unattended build process for Windows.
• Architected server consolidation plan, reducing 32 Intel servers to two pSeries. Saved over 73% in operating costs.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Performed System Administration duties for Intel based servers supporting internal and IGS Canada customers.
• Served as Linux technical lead for service delivery center.
• Worked with Account teams to migrate outsourced legacy Windows servers to Linux.
• Successfully maintained Internal Security compliance for over 30 Linux servers.
• Lead successful migration of all servers from Red Hat consumer distribution to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a timely manner.
• Developed web based on call paging system. Implemented using PHP and MySQL.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Provided second level and supervisory support for technical support call center.
• Coached and mentored agents to improve customer satisfaction metrics.
• Addressed customer escalations.