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Prabhakar Chowdappa

Prabhakar Chowdappa

Director IT
Bangalore

Summary

Technology thought leader with 19+ years of experience in end-to-end IT infrastructure programs, operations, people management, vendor, business continuity, risk, across cross functions business. Skilled at building efficient teams from scratch and mentoring them to achieve organizational goals. Expert in leading change, process and quality improvements. A passionate, innovative, and results-driven professional with proven ability of People , process and technology deployment in dynamic agile, complex and global business environment

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director, Head Network Security, ODC, CI and Tools

Cognizant Technologies
Bangalore
03.2021 - Current
  • Leading and Transforming Enterprise Network, Network Security and Cloud globally, Strategy, technology, Engineering and operations for offices and customer connectivity and M&A.
  • Drive and enhance process and governance across functions and Programs.
  • Head Global 400+ ODC’s engineering function and connectivity
  • Head New office/ New Infra space build out and PM function for new office spaces and projects across the globe
  • Head CI services : Proxy, GSLB, LB, DNS, DHCP, SFTP and Certificate Management
  • Head Security tools team Skybox, Netbrain and thousand eyes
  • Responsible for escalation management, continuous improvement, internal & external stake holder management, vendor relations, up skill & mentor service delivery managers

AVP, Network Security

Standard Charted Bank GBS India
Bangalore
11.2018 - 03.2021
  • As member of Network Security Architecture team Managed large-scale Network security program focused on Regulatory compliance, SIEM uplift to provide intelligent analytics, threat detection and onboard customized solution to provide Visibility, Segmentation assurance for ACI Infrastructure
  • Instituting & executing high-level strategies, making high-stakes decisions, and overcoming complex business challenges using experience-backed judgment, strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity
  • Creating and sustaining dynamic environment that fosters development opportunities and motivates high performance amongst team members
  • Design and implementation of Infoblox Active trust, Zscaler along with Data connector for malware protection.

MANAGER NETWORK ENGINEERING

Fidelity Investments
Bangalore
03.2006 - 11.2018
  • Led team of experts for engineering capability and service delivery for FMRCo Asset management function
  • Responsible for Datacenter and Trading floors in US, Toronto, UK, HK and Tokyo
  • Handled entire FMCRCo Asset management Data centers and provided support trading floor
  • Coordinate with regional service providers for development of project charters and scope documentation as required for internally generated and business-generated project
  • Expertise on various data center technologies
  • Member of Computer Incident Response Team, responsible for incident response and investigation, including data forensics, interaction with external parties

Network Engineer

Thomson Reuters
Bangalore
09.2005 - 03.2006

Netwrok Engineer

Vinciti Networks
Bangalore
09.2004 - 09.2005

Network Engineer

Wipro ( Deputed from RCS Technologies)
Bangalore
01.2004 - 09.2004

Education

Bachelores of Engineering ( E&C) -

Bachelor of Engineering, VTU Belgaum, Karnataka
MVJCE, Whitefield Bangalore
06.1998 - 06.2003

Skills

People Development, Transformation

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Training and Certification

  

· Vital net-QIP-7.2 training from Alcatel-lucent (Orlando, Florida)

· Infoblox Training: NIOS 5.1 Configuration (Infoblox –Anapolis, MD)

· Infoblox Training: NIOS Configuration Class & Advanced Admin Package (Infoblox –Anapolis, MD)

· Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

· Cisco Certified Network Profession (CCNP Routing and Switching)

· Honors Diploma in Software Engineering (HDSE) from APTECH

· BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) -Essentials (Nexum Chicago) 

· BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) - Advanced Topics (Nexum Chicago)

· Technical Impact training form Mind Matters

· HP Comware Training

Timeline

Director, Head Network Security, ODC, CI and Tools

Cognizant Technologies
03.2021 - Current

AVP, Network Security

Standard Charted Bank GBS India
11.2018 - 03.2021

MANAGER NETWORK ENGINEERING

Fidelity Investments
03.2006 - 11.2018

Network Engineer

Thomson Reuters
09.2005 - 03.2006

Netwrok Engineer

Vinciti Networks
09.2004 - 09.2005

Network Engineer

Wipro ( Deputed from RCS Technologies)
01.2004 - 09.2004

Bachelores of Engineering ( E&C) -

Bachelor of Engineering, VTU Belgaum, Karnataka
06.1998 - 06.2003

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