• Joined Tenet Healthcare to mature the Threat and Vulnerability Management program within the Cybersecurity space. Responsible and accountable for streamlining vulnerability lifecycle functions to keep the company's infrastructure, facilities, and markets secure against emerging security threats and cyberattacks.• Collaborate with the teams and Rapid7 vendor to establish VM best practices to discover, scan, and report vulnerabilities to patch management teams, business partners, and stakeholders to remediate vulnerabilities proactively to reduce risk and secure the environment.• Work with legal and finance to review vendor engagements and tool renewal contracts to ensure that the organization meets compliance and develop policies and procedures with laws and regulations.• Engage with SOC, incident management, Network/Firewall, AppSec, IAM, and other cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to build working relationships, review existing processes, and help enhance work functions.• Work with the leadership team to review and discuss company goals to drive initiatives to mature VM processes by enhancing VM infrastructure and patch management practices across the organization.• Keep ELT and the board updated on the progress, develop and share monthly operational board metrics and dashboards to show KPIs, KRIs, and trends on open, fixed, and new vulnerabilities.

• Manages the Vulnerability Management Operations team within the CyberSecurity space at The Home Depot. Performs critical functions to keep the company's infrastructure and stores secure by remediating security vulnerabilities and protecting systems against security threats. It helps minimize/avoid the risk and protects the company against financial, reputational, compliance, and operational risk.• Supports critical functions to secure the store systems by ensuring adequate and effective IT controls to meet current and future security compliance requirements by local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Maintains PCI DSS compliance by remediating vulnerabilities to keep the customer data secure and meet security governance, risk, and PCI DSS compliance requirements.• Works with IT Operations partners to drive remediation efforts related to information security by performing vulnerability scans, evaluating internal and external security vulnerabilities and weaknesses, and directing security upgrades and improvements. • Performs IT Security risk assessments and reports to minimize threats and ransomware attacks. Provide the necessary information to derive risk acceptance and risk mitigation decisions by supplying risk analysis on IT security that enables business leaders to make informed risk management decisions.• Manages relationships with vendors and partners to ensure that the organization receives the latest information security updates and complies with/meets all service level agreements by working with business units to secure the infrastructure.• Drives results, vision & purpose by managing and completing assigned initiatives while maintaining an impeccable level of success. Demonstrated continued development, growth, and success of the CyberSecurity and vulnerability management space at The Home Depot to meet the significant management responsibility for crucial IT Security components and functions.

• Led the vulnerability and patch management team and continuously advanced security patching process resulting in efficiency gain and reduction in vulnerabilities by identifying and remediating security patches on 13,000+ assets following established standardize monthly patching schedule.• Participated in security risk assessment to review and enhance security policies and controls to meet compliance with legal and regulatory (SOX/PCI/MAS/OCC/PIPEDA, etc.) requirements. Educate business to effectively follow outlined processes to protect information, achieve compliance, avoid financial and/or reputational penalties and audit finding.• To ensure security and patching standards are met, participated in design review meetings with architects, design leads and IT project teams as new and existing applications/tools gets implemented.• Worked with security team, engineering, operations and business partners to optimize end-to-end security and build standards (VMC/Cloud/Azure) to ensure systems are secure and compliant at deployment and thereafter during the lifecycle of the system.• Participated in enterprise security architecture review to assess current maturity score/state and helped develop roadmap and define target maturity score to align with NIST framework and meet business goal.• Participated in incident and problem review meetings to perform root-cause analysis with incident/problem teams on incidents caused by vulnerability remediation and take proactive action to prevent repeat incidents.• Developed and shared balanced scorecard and metric to show KPIs/KRIs and monthly operational report with senior management on vulnerability trends, remediation progress, incidents, resources requirement and security posture on a monthly basis and as needed.• Managed team of talented IT professionals, both fulltime and contractors (Onshore and Offshore).

• Built and led a new dedicated Windows patching team of 7 talented IT professionals responsible for establishing and standardizing patching schedule in order to meet the evolving business needs and directives from the CIOs.• Advanced Windows patching process and established new standard patching schedule that enabled application support teams to perform timely validation resulting in 40% reduction in incidents.• Developed and streamlined intake process through automation to add new servers to patching tool that resulted in avoidance of manual errors and missed servers from the monthly schedule. • Communicated effectively with senior leadership on ROI and achievements of the team resulting in high level of confidence and promotion to IT Manager.

• Worked on major Migration and Integration projects:NT Migration: • Implemented 1200+ servers to migrate NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 and upgrade applications.• Following the success of this high-profile project was tasked with two major integration projectsBankNorth Integration:• Hand picked to work on Bank’s first US Bank acquisition integration project as Windows Engineering Technical Lead to migrate 300+ Windows servers to Canadian datacenters.Commerce Bank Integration:• Based on the proven track record and success of BankNorth project, was selected as a Technical Lead on this integration project to migrate 600+ Windows servers to Canadian datacenters.• Hired, trained and managed a team of contractors to meet the aggressive project timeline.• Enabled smooth transition of workload between design and build teams, developed templates to build servers based on the requirements.Infrastructure Projects: • Worked in a rapidly growing Windows environment to design, implement and support over 5000+ Wintel servers at different datacenters in North America (Canada/USA and Other locations).• Worked with Architecture team to review and approve complex design patterns before implementation. • Participated in design and technical decision-making that helped clients achieve strategic goals.• Developed, documented and shared Windows Engineering standards and processes with Project Management, Operations, Architecture, Datacenter, Currency, SQL, AD and Network teams.

• Provided IT Consulting services to small/medium businesses in tri-state area. Prepared and delivered project plans as per client requirements and implemented with high satisfaction.• Installed, configured & maintained Hardware, Software, Windows OS, Active Directory, GPOs, SQL, mail servers and backup software. Provided 24x7 technical support to end users.• Implemented and configured network devices, CISCO routers, firewall and Manageable switch.