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Joel Vincent

Senior Technical Speclist
Chennai,TN

Summary

Experienced Technical Speclist focused on maintaining highly secure IT environments for semi-conductor companies. Skilled in network development, configuration and patching. Leads IT teams in executing company-wide data protection protocols and security training.

Overview

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1
Certification
6
6
years of post-secondary education
14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Security Specialist

HCL Technologies
Chennai, TamilNadu
12.2016 - Current
  • Provided safety reports and data analysis to building managers to inform security processes.
  • Time mostly spent of Rapid7 Tool fro scanning ,configuration and patching
  • Handling both Infrastructure and application vulnerability scanning team
  • Guided periodic property safety inspections and oversaw remedial action for potential hazards.
  • Completed vulnerability scans to identify at-risk systems and remediate issues.
  • Established company-wide security best practices and protocols to mitigate risk of data breach.
  • Oversaw credentialing activities for all employees, contractors and consultants.
  • Scanned computer networks for vulnerabilities, surfacing and addressing potential holes at program and firewall level.
  • Consulted with team members to assess flawed root causes and plan for remediation.
  • Outlined and maintained security patching schedule to efficiently address ongoing system issues.
  • Gathered information, identified and implemented resolution, planned follow-up and logged and filed incident report to successfully manage complaints.
  • Managed information system regulatory compliance to meet updated guidelines.

Senior Engineer

Virtusa Polaris Software Pvt.Ltd
Chennai, TamilNadu
08.2014 - 08.2016

§ Worked on both infrastructure and application scanning.

§ To deal with windows server, WAF, firewall and Perimeter devices.

§ Conducting weekly, Monthly, quarterly and on demand vulnerability assessment.

§ Working on vulnerability mitigation activities.

§ Identified and evaluated potential threats and vulnerabilities.

§ Creating trend reports and educating user on different vulnerabilities which needs attention.

§ Providing technical snapshots or evidences to user as well as remediation steps.

§ Conducting test on servers within test environment to find best possible solution.

§ Assessed incoming threats and developed plans to close loopholes.

§ Performed risk assessments to help create optimal prevention and management plans.

§ Maintained and tested corporate response plans.

§ Actively worked in both Infrastructure and application vulnerability scanning.

§ Worked on mitigation or remediation of discovered vulnerabilities rather than passing on scan report.

§ Performing manual assessments, identifying root cause & fix recommendations.

§ Identifying & recommendations to fix the vulnerabilities.

§ Verification of false positives reported by automated tool.

Network /Vulnerability Management Specialist

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai, TamilNadu
06.2009 - 07.2014
  • Carried out day-day-day duties accurately and efficiently.

§ Actively worked in network security, Infrastructure security and application security.

§ Monitoring various tools and alerts and respond with defined SLA.

§ Monitoring support of Infrastructure devices like network device and servers, applications and other operations.

§ Incident, Alert Management and Outage handling.

§ Worked on vulnerability assessment for network devices.

§ Coordination with the vendors during network planned maintenance.

§ Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability.

§ Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.

§ Facilitate technical/crisis management conference calls during production outages, providing written and verbal updates in timely and consistent manner.

§ Rapidly respond to all alerts, restoring or escalating service/applications issues as per established SLA.

§ Actively participated in risk analysis and mitigation plan based on review of IT Infra setup.

§ Worked on OWASP Top 10 and different attack vectors. Hands-on experience in different vulnerability scanning tools such as Nexpose, Nessus Qualys Guard, Appscan.

§ Performing application vulnerability assessments.

§ Performing assessments of SDLC processes.

§ Compliance monitoring to Information security policies and standards and assists the information security risk manager.

§ Assisting other teams and customers with vulnerability research and impact analysis of breaking issues.

CSO

HCL Technologies Ltd
Chennai, TamilNadu
01.2007 - 06.2009
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
  • Completed daily work report sheets and delegated tasks to employees.
  • Prepared a variety of different written communications, reports and documents to ensure smooth operations.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology Project Management

Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai
05.2004 - 06.2006

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

The American College
Madurai
04.2001 - 06.2004

High School Diploma -

YWCA
Madurai
05.2000 - 05.2001

Skills

    Vulnerability Assessment

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Certification

CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker)

Timeline

Senior Security Specialist

HCL Technologies
12.2016 - Current

CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker)

04-2016

Senior Engineer

Virtusa Polaris Software Pvt.Ltd
08.2014 - 08.2016

Network /Vulnerability Management Specialist

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2009 - 07.2014

CSO

HCL Technologies Ltd
01.2007 - 06.2009

Master of Science - Information Technology Project Management

Madurai Kamaraj University
05.2004 - 06.2006

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

The American College
04.2001 - 06.2004

High School Diploma -

YWCA
05.2000 - 05.2001
Joel VincentSenior Technical Speclist