Verizon Global Networks and Tech Org - VBIT - PSDBA – Cyber Security (CS) LeadReceived General Service Administration (GSA) Public Trust Clearance in 2022 to support Federal Projects.Completed GTS Application CS Maven Bronze Program in 2023, provided by the GTS Security Risk Management Team. Security Maven at the Portfolio level, in-portfolio risk practitioner, solution architect/remediation of complex vulnerabilities, providing action plans to achieve portfolio security objectives and involved in piloting new security controls.Led the Database team of thirty members (30+) by providing training, support, interviewing, onboarding, backing up managers, monitoring database upgrades, DR activities, migrations, patch schedules, performance monitoring, and database operationsDetailed processes and tabletop developed for the annual Ransomware exercise.Security Lead at the Portfolio level, enforcing security policies, standards, and best practices, monitoring security vulnerabilities, reviewing security scans across 120 applications, 1800 Production Database instances, and 600 Non-Production database instances, and providing timely mitigation/ remediation resolutions.Led the 7 members DBA team assigned to GSA and POD6 Federal projects to migrate the RHEL 7.9 to 8.9 OS platform including 29 Servers, 10 RAC clusters, and 30 database instances to comply with software licensing. Responsibilities include but are not limited to Responding to and Resolving Threat Management Center (TMC) alerts, security vulnerability scanning, identification, tracking, mitigation, remediation, monitoring, supporting Secured SDLC, review of Blackduck/Fortify/DAST/RASP/Pentesting results, OS/RDBMS patching, NewRelic Monitoring, RCA, preventive measures, DB security, internal/external SOX/FISMA/FEDRAMP audit, Disaster recovery, upgrades, business continuity solutions, performance diag and tuning, 24/7 support, documentation, sharing knowledge/expertise, and change/task/incident management.

Verizon Business Group (VBG) GTS SOX Focal Point - Security and Compliance, Global Clearance, and Vendor Management Team* Technical Solution Architect to gather Requirements, Design, set up, Configure, and, deploy the Production Infrastructure including Segregation of Duties (SOD) SOX RPA BOTs, and Web-based applications. * SOX Focal Point for the VBG Portfolio of SOX Applications to review, the SOX SOD, User Access Review (UAR), and coordinate with QA/Risk Mgmt/E&Y External Auditor Reviews.* Define the SOX control parameters based on the business/IT criteria and requirements and rollout to the vGRC. * Proactive timely support, training, documentation, and technical guidance to control performers for effective auditing.* Setup Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Dashboard for the Web-based applications to using NewRelic Queries.* Achieve 0 SOX findings.* Lead the technical efforts to investigate the security/threat vulnerabilities and apply remediation to all the application environments as per the company guidelines.Tools: Automation Anywhere, UiPath, G Suites, Excel, SQL Server, Putty, Cron, NewRelic SRE, Linux/Unix Scripting, KNIME, BlueZone Emulator, Oracle SQL Developer, GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Powerbroker, AYS, Jira, SDLC, CI/CD, WebTools, DevOps, SecOps, Java, vGRC, SailPoint, CISO Dashboard, OSS, Tenable Nessus, Threat Modeling, RASP, VZIDG, EIAM OneAccess, NetGroup, ADOM, Slack WorkflowKey Skills: SOX, Internal/External Auditing, Compliance, Completeness and Accuracy Validation, Server/Application/Database/Network/Information Security, Security Risk Management, Threat Intelligence, Robot Process Automation, Database Administration, Server Administration, Scripting, Data Science/Machine Learning, Scoping, CPI-810 Compliance, Vulnerability Management, Threat Analysis, Incident/Change Management, SDLC, Mitigation, Remediation, Quality Checks, Site Reliability Engineering, Tech Support, and Cloud Migration.

• The Macy's PMO Managed Network Systems and Operations provides 24/7 Network Operations Center, Network Engineering Design/Deployment, Project Management, Telecom Expense Management, Circuit Provisioning and Planning, and Governance.• Joined as a Senior Oracle DBA to support Remedy ARS and Telecom expense system. Acquired new network monitoring tools administration skills including NetScout NPM, IBM Netcool/Omnibus, HP/NNM Openview, Statseeker Network Infrastructure Monitor, CA/Broadcom WAN NPM Analysis tool, Solarwinds, and TeleMate Call Accounting Software. • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to maintain Solarwinds backend database and Oracle database for VMWare vCenter Database environment.• SAP Business Objects v4.1 Administration/Design/Reporting Tool to design and deliver reports for Change Management/Incident Management/Analytics. • Setup Oracle Dataguard Environment to sync up between production and disaster recovery environment at a remote location. • Consistently provided 24/7/365 support including Network monitoring tools to detect, analyze and restore the network/device/interface/circuit/site issues for NOC when needed. The Network performance monitoring tools are configured and optimized to provide reliable service, end-to-end network visibility, and view network elements which include SYSLOG, SNMP, and Traps. • Supported to achieve highest SLA, availability beyond 99.9%, and minimal MTTR. The network monitoring includes 800 routers, 1300 switches, and 2800 network circuits.• RedHat Linux / Oracle Solaris Operating system-based independent servers and virtual machines. The server management role includes Operating system installation, Server/Disk/Network/DNS configuration, Quarterly patch updates, Version/Release upgrades, Shell scripting, Cron, and alert monitoring/response.• Change management backup and monthly governance report for the executives.• Visual Basic script to load telephone expenses bills information onto Remedy database environment.

* Lead 5 member Database Administration Team that supports 37 Applications in various Database Management platforms (Oracle, DB2, Informix, SQL Server 2000). The end-to-end support includes Development, System Test, Unit Acceptance Test, Production Like, and Production environments.* Database Server / Application / SQL troubleshooting, Performance Monitoring, Query Optimization/Index selection, Vendor Escalation, Root cause Analysis and Action Item distribution.* Database Instance setup, Backup, Restore, Disaster Recovery setup, error monitoring, usage tracking, merge and migration.Accomplishments:• Implemented Oracle Partitioning for large tables based on application requirements to improve the query performance to 75%.• Implementation of complete BDT Data warehouse Reengineering and saved 1 Tera Byte of disk space ($200,000) with consistent planning and analysis and published white paper on it.• Usage of IBM/DB2 Design Advisor, Configuration Assistant, and Query Analyzer to tune the views and complex queries and saved 25% of CPU/Memory resources usage.• Implementation of Range Partitioning in DB2 using UNION ALL Views for 3 Tera byte database environment and saved 200 GB of disk space after data cleanup.• Completed data purge of large and medium size OLTP database Informix environment and saved 200 GB of disk space.• Coordinated Disaster Recovery planning and testing of 400 GB database environment for 4 years in a row consistently. (Alternate Site Restore Operation).• Performed weekly restore of production database environment to archive server by creating automated script. (Alternate Client Restore Operation).Trainings, Recognitions:* 5 Days boot camp on DB2/UDB advanced DB Administration, Performance Tuning and Backup/Recovery.* Oracle 10g workshop Part I/II.* Project Management/Choosing to Lead/Supervisory Skills Development/Diversity for Managers/Performance Coaching.* Verizon Excellence Award for the year 2004 & 2005.

Involved in Database Administration Activities at Jones Day Reeves and Pogue Law Firm. I was managing their Informix Database that was hosting their entire company accounting information.Informix 7.24 UC5 / 7.3x, HP-UX 10.20, OMNIBACK II GUI, ONWEB,ONBAR, and Ontape utility.

Worked as senior database consultant - setup and support Merck-Medco pharmaceuticals Database - Mail Order claims.

Worked for Sprint Healthcare Inc as part of Sprint Telecommunications (currently its called Sprint Nextel Inc). Involved in Design and Development of Clinical Information System for Naples community Hospital. Health Level 7 v2.3, Informix Database and Data General Unix/Sun Sparc Solaris 2.x, Sybase 11 Administration, DataGate Interface Engine v3 and Shell Scripting.

Design and Development of Data Center Monitoring System using SNMP v1 to monitor servers, database environments and network components. Extensively used SNMP v1 source code and customized for the banking environment.