Vijay Kumar Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

-> Setup, configure and use the cyber range for advanced cyber-attack and defence research.-> Investigate and create bespoke virtualized environments within the cyber range, to design and implement emulated future digital environments.-> Develop and conduct a range of cyber-attack scenarios on the cyber range.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

-> Work package lead ensuring the delivery of the ``Secure bY desigN End to end platfoRm for larGe scale resource constrained Iot Applications'' (SYNERGIA) project deliverable and integrating multiple collaborations results into the Toshiba's UMBRELLA testbed.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

- Took lectures for a unit titled "Computer Forensics and Security"

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

-> Worked as a teaching assistant for four subjects Design Computing, System Security, Database and Cloud Concepts and Further Computing Programming including lab demonstrations and Marking.-> Worked as support lecturer (took two lectures for Security – 101 – an undergraduate course).-> Supervised two master’s students for their dissertation. One worked on the localizing the Array of Things node data, and the other on visualization and providing an interactive platform for citizens for air pollution data from multiple sources (smart citizen kit, Array of things, Luftdaten, Bristol Open Data).-> Mentored four undergraduate students in the field of Cybersecurity (taking small group learning sessions).

Mumbai Area, India

->Identified critical vulnerabilities in an organization’s infrastructure which could result in compromise of the crown jewels of the organization’s business.->Identified vulnerabilities in different entry points such Web-Applications, Mobile Applications, Wireless Networks.->Performed security configuration review of network and systems components such as routers, switches, firewalls, operating systems, databases, active directory, remote access, host endpoints, email, antivirus servers etc.->Performed OT/SCADA Vulnerability Assessment, Network Review for a Cement/ Copper Mining Industry Organizations. Also, performed assessment of Remote Terminal Units (RTU), Programmable Logic Controller, Human Machine interface.-> Contributed to Enterprise Security Architecture Design Principle which serves a solid framework of implementing technical controls at every layer to containerize the risk involved in User to Data Journey and protecting the organization.

->My responsibilities include to set-up/design a secure infrastructure with email, DNS, Proxy Server in a DMZ, LDAP server and proper infrastructure with around 1000 users.-> Trained around 60 Students for Linux, Network Security and Penetration testing tools.Read the following books:->Official Guide To The SSCP CBK.->Basic Security Testing with Kali Linux.->Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide.->Offensive Security Metasploit Unleashed

Bristol, United Kingdom

--> Worked as a research assistant for the ForToo Project (Preventing Internet Abuse With Forensic Tools)(http://www.fortoo.eu/).--> Worked as a teaching assistant for the "Introduction to C Programming" for undergraduate students involving assisting students in labs, marking for the assessments and providing cafe drop-in sessions for students.-->Worked as a helper for the "System Security" course for the undergraduate and postgraduate students which involves labs on Format String, chroot sandbox, buffer overflow and other vulnerabilities.

Bristol, United Kingdom

-->Worked as a event helper in graduation ceremony, postgraduate registration, and career fairs guiding students, and helping employers with the various stuff.-->Worked as Steward leader for undergraduate open day managing a smaller part of the event, guiding prospective student, their parent and friends.--> Worked as a student chat advisor for postgraduate virtual open day answering prospective student queries on various topics.-->Was Student representative for the 2012 - 2013 MS53 Advance Computing: Internet Technologies with Security, which involves collecting and representing student views in Staff – Student Liaison Meetings.

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

System Engineer:-->Learnt the skills for customising the application installation as required by the individual clients, validating the media and defining the complexity.-->Found the best method among different methods for silent installation and customising the application for no upgrades and tooltips and other add ins.-->Learnt the troubleshooting skills using a variety of tools such as Regmon, FileMon and XCacls and worked on Application Packaging Tools such as Wise Package Studio, Install Shield and MSI Technology.Software Developer:--> Worked on COBOL, DB2, JCL and other mainframe technologies and programmed the host modules, logged and fixed the defects.-->Developed skills for analysing the requirement and designing the approach.-->Prepared High, Low Level Design Documents and Technical Specification Documents and maintained inventory, migration and gatekeeper request forms.-->Communicated with clients for status and resolution of issues/work while development cycle.-->Conducted induction training for new employees.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Engineering

First Year: -> Developed an Eclipse IoT Kura application to accept a specific topic from Kura Gateway (Eclipse IoT Gateway) and send that.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Internet Technologies With Security, 2:1

Activities and Societies: UoB InfoSec-> Developed a good understanding of modern cryptography and aspects of security of practical.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Information Technology, 68.75%

Modules Covered: Physics, Engineering Chemistry, Mathematics , Engineering Mechanics, Unix and C Programming, Basic Electronics.