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Denver, Colorado, Us

* Primary technical and strategic advisor managing delivered threat and application security services (Commercial - Global Clients). * Escalation point-of-contact to repair and grow relationships with clients, cross-functional teams and sales. * Advise, evaluate, and develop security bolstering initiatives that integrate planning, assessment, remediation, and response. * Leader for API initiative to develop discovery, governance, assessments and operations. * Support of AI initiatives for security assessments (threat modeling, LLM review, business integration) * Collaborate with teams at all levels to ensure consistent delivery of services, messaging, and knowledge sharing with the goal to improve services while increasing client satisfaction. * Demand – Partner with account teams for client development and consistency. Utilize diverse security background to build client trust. Create programs for strategic coverage and security posture maturity. * Business – Grow and expand business opportunities as a technical trusted advisor. * Partners – Built relationships with channel partners for organization support and initiatives.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

* Provide hands-on support to clients in conducting comprehensive penetration testing of infrastructure and applications.* Assist with the development and deployment of Red Team Program, which involve defining services, delivering up-front analytical targeting for the client, performing infrastructure reviews, and offering marketing support.* Initiate the development of an efficient sales training including cybersecurity services.* Lead the execution of key process improvement efforts within the contracting services.* Create strategic plans in support of company programs.

* Actively coordinated with clients throughout threat and vulnerability strategy development and implementation to determine and mitigate risks of exploitation and infiltration in their system and organization.* Helped and oversaw clients in defining, quantifying, rectifying, and constructing strategies and roadmaps to efficiently manage organizational threats and vulnerabilities.* Effectively addressed customer issues through accurate evaluations, gaps identification, and long-term solutions development and delivery.* Provided key inputs regarding current industry trends.* Formulated threat and vulnerability solutions for the challenges faced by organizations transitioning to digital and cloud-based operations.* Steered efforts in delivering Cognizant’s application security services, including static code reviews, penetration testing and assessments, as well as integrated governance, risk, and compliance solutions, which successfully reduced client security breach risks

Houston, Texas, Us

* Completed diverse security testing on infrastructure and applications, entailing network and host layer vulnerability analysis, web application assessment, attack and penetration testing, as well as physical security and wireless testing* Rendered specialist security testing services, security consultations, and social engineering to Fortune 500 clients across diverse industries.* Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of security architecture and systems development life cycle (SDLC) concepts and deployment procedure.* Ensured strict compliance with the established regulations in performing tasks and delivering services to clients.

San Jose, California, Us

* Exemplified efficiency in identifying and documenting all existing security risk postures.* Created security posture agreement within NIS, BAS, and Communications and Collaboration, including remediation prioritization and risk acceptance according to business model and potential impact.* Efficiently handled future security issues using in-depth understanding of business unit strategies, project or product road maps, timing, and environment.* Boosted general security awareness and knowledge of security services available to the business unit.* Offered first-rate support with intellectual property (IP) protection initiative, encompassing validation and remediation of key security controls across the source code repository systems.* Managed constant communication with the Software Security Group (SSG) in support of the enforcement of advance secure development practices across product teams and business application services through common methods and tools.* Drove initiatives in improving remediation management for audit and post-security incident findings.* Played a vital role in decreasing security risks through collaborative risk assessment, controls design and implementation, vulnerability remediation planning, and ongoing monitoring.

San Jose, California, Us

* Carried out risk analysis and security evaluation of client infrastructures and systems in adherence to industry standards involving International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001/17999, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).* Held accountability for security assessments and penetration testing across various operational networks and environments.* Provided technical leadership to government clients, such as the Federal Aviation Administration and multiple Fortune 500 companies.* Contributed in creating security countermeasures solution and devising security architecture.* Served as product expert on major IDS and firewall vendor devices, in charge of assisting with client access control as well as leading operations and generating security policies and procedures for a state-of-the-art security operations center.* Delivered systematic life-cycle device management services to large utilities and financial organizations.

M.S., Asian Studies

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, International Relations And Affairs