Monroe, New Jersey, United States
Technically sophisticated and business-savvy IT security professional with a pioneering career reflecting strong leadership qualities coupled with “hands-on” Information Technology and Network Security expertise. Maintain focus on achieving bottom-line results while formulating and implementing/managing advanced network security technologies to meet a diversity of needs. Individual as well as team based working style along with excellent interpersonal skills.
Worked as a Director- Network Security Architect for L'OREAL USA.
Worked as a Network Security Architect for L’Oreal Americas representing TenFour. L'Oréal is world's largest cosmetics and Beauty Company. It has offices all over the world and has their global data centers in USA, France and Singapore. As a Network Security Architect for L’Oreal Americas Zone, I have been involved in below projects. Next Generation Internet Access – Zscaler: This project scope is to migrate all LOREAL remote office internet access from Cisco CWS solution to Zscaler solution. Technologies and H/W involved: Zscaler, Zscaler Zapp, Bluecoat SG Proxies, Cisco ASA, Proxy PAC file. L’Oreal USA User VPN Solution: This project replaced the old legacy Cisco VPN client, Cisco Security Agent solutions with the next generation Cisco AnyConnect Web Security solution along with Bit9 as the end-point security client. Technologies and H/W involved: Cisco CWS, Bluecoat SG Proxies, Cisco ASA, Proxy PAC file, Cisco AnyConnect VPN and Web Security modules. Next Generation Data Center redesign: This project consolidated L’Oreal data center firewalls with Palo Alto and CheckPoint Firewalls. It also migrated Bluecoat and Web sense based URL filtering with Cisco Ironport Web security appliances. Technologies and H/W involved: Cisco IronPort WSA, Palo Alto 5050, CheckPoint 12607 and 12200, CWS, Cisco CAT6880, Cisco Nexus 56128. F5 Load Balancer: This project is to replace the legacy Cisco ACE 4700 series load balancers with F5 BIG-IP4200v appliances with LTM and APM modules. Technologies and H/W involved: F5 BIG-IP 4200, Viprion 2400, Cisco Nexus 56128 3rd Party IPSEC Site-to-Site VPN Tunnels L’Oreal uses CheckPoint Firewalls to connect with various 3rd party vendors that provides application support, application hosting etc. Primarily responsible for the design and implementation of all IPSEC VPN tunnels with other 3rd Party vendors.
Worked as a Security Engineer (Consultant) in L’Oreal USA representing Garret Sayer Group LLC and Alliant Technologies. Roles and Responsibilities: • Responsible for any security related changes/ modification in their 2 data centers. • Managing the perimeter Nokia Checkpoint Firewalls and Intranet Cisco ASA Firewalls. • Managing Cisco ASA based remote access VPN solution. • Managing the 20 Bluecoat branch level proxies and 2 central proxies. • Managing 5000 Cisco Security Agents and Cisco NAC clients. • Responsible for each week’s FW change control process/review/ implementation
Worked as a Security Engineer representing SolveIT Inc in Ernst & Young. Ernst & Young is one of the largest professional services firms in the world. It has offices all over the world and their global data centers in Germany, Singapore and USA. I also involved in their Data Center migration project, which had more than 1000 servers and various financial applications. Roles and Responsibilities: • Member of the perimeter security team, which carried out the redesigning of overall network/security architecture. • Managing of Nokia based (IP2255, IP1260, IP1220, IP390) Checkpoint NGX Firewalls and configuration of security policies. • Monitoring of Firewall logs. • Working with Network and other development team to ensure about the proper dataflow. • Reviewing data flows from applications owners prior to application move. • Configuring perimeter firewall(s) with corrected dataflow • Oversee movement of applications during move weekends. • Resolving firewall related problems should an application fail to operate after the move.