• Possess 24 years of rich experience in leadership roles including collaborating with global teams. • Mentally hardwired towards achieving organizational goals within given budget and time constraints. • IT security specialist with a passion and talent for aligning security architecture, plans, controls, processes, policies and procedures with security standards and operational goals. • Experience ranges from hands-on work to conception and execution of security policies as part of top level management. • Steered various infosec projects from conception to delivery followed by lifecycle support and ensured correct balance between security and convenience to achieve customer satisfaction within defined risk appetite. • Expertise in data analytics for optimal decision making within a given set of inputs and constraints. • Motivated and successfully led by example, various teams of professionals and experts with conflicting proprities and varying skillsets as one unit towards successful achievement of organisational goals. • Handled training and development, security, administration, welfare and morale of teams of upto 200 personnel of different hierarchy.• Awarded Commander-in-Chief Commendation for excellence in achieving standardization of training. Awarded Best Instructor for IT/ Embedded System/ Infosec Training.• Proficient and broad knowledge in business continuity recovery processes concepts strategies and methodologies including risk assessment business impact analysis recovery procedures training metrics and crisis management.• Advanced customer service relationship management and interpersonal skills.• Hands on experience in setting up a Security Operations Centre (SOC) from ground up at two premier locations in Indian Navy.• CISSP certified, LA certified in ISO 27001:2013, M Tech in Computer Science from IIT Madras.