RABINDRA PANDA
Program Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Over 12 years of professional experience in Networking, Security, Risk Assessment, Vulnerability Management & Program management in Enterprise system & solution Testing. Expert Technical Manager accomplished in coordinating department activities and supporting fast-paced production work. Consistently maintains schedule targets and completes error-free work. Easy to get along with and always ready with ideas to improve production with better strategies or equipment recommendations.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certificates
Work History
Technical Program Manager
HP PPS India Operations Pvt. Ltd
02.2016 - Current
- Responsible for driving Security & Compliance roadmaps in following focus areas: Vulnerability assessment & management, Internal Audits, Exceptions to Policy, Security Engagement, Policy Standards & Specifications, and/or Business Continuity
- Manage initiation, planning, monitoring, and closure of NPI & CPE Product releases
- Ensure on time delivery with acceptable quality levels of all NPI and CPE releases and field escalations
- Work closely with all the development and QA project managers & their engineering teams to ensure adherence to program milestones & schedule
- Scope Management (Requirements/enhancements) for a release & during release execution
- Responsible for Conversion of marketing requirements to technical requirements
- Manage stakeholders across globe (US, China, Singapore, Korea, India) and their expectations in various aspects from requirements management to addressing field escalations
- Responsible for conducting PMTs to keep stakeholders informed about weekly status & updates
- Risk management of releases for adherence to planned schedule & scope
- Contribute towards processes to improve overall quality of program
- Use Data and metrics definition to define quality of releases
- Conduct structured release retrospective meetings to identify learnings and act on same
- Mentor new members of PMO team to get them on board quickly on program management responsibilities
- Build awareness in engineering teams on new HP products in release
- Defined and managed feedback loop, integrating customer complaints and suggestions into future programmatic changes.
Senior Network Security Engineer
TEKsystems Pvt. Ltd, Client - HP Inc
04.2015 - 02.2016
- Applied Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks to verify performance of ongoing security measures.
- Created policies and procedures for emerging security technologies and proposals.
- Engaged business and technology stakeholders to gather goals and requirements.
- Worked with business partners to balance requirements, security and risk reduction.
- Implemented necessary controls and procedures to protect information system assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure or destruction
Senior Network Security Engineer
IAP Company Pvt. Ltd, Client - CDOT
05.2012 - 09.2014
- Planning, Designing and Implementation of Network Infrastructure for C- DOT Head and Branch Offices
- Coordinated with third-party security information and event management (SIEM) providers to maintain protections and predict threats.
- Installed and maintained commercial firewall solution, working with security vendors to consistently apply best practices and software updates
- Authored security and vulnerability reports, detailing logged incursions and suggesting remediation efforts
NOC Engineer
Tulip Telecom Ltd
05.2011 - 05.2012
- Delivered tier-3 support for co-location, customer backup networks, and ISP services.
- Supported global network users with connectivity, VPN, and access issues
- Coordinated with technical support, service provisioning and sales teams to deliver network services at or above SLA requirements
Network Engineer
Reno vision Automation Services Pvt. Ltd
Kolkata
02.2010 - 05.2011
- Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco, and packet analysis.
- Monitored network capacity and performance to diagnose and resolve complex network problems.
- Provided complete end-to-end engineering and installation of route-based IP network solutions
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
NIST, B.P.U.T University
Berhampur, Odisha 07.2004 - 07.2008
Skills
KPI/KRI MetricsMITRE framework
Agile methodologies
Reliability Engineering
Cloud Computing
Technical Roadmap Design
Developing project strategy
CIS Compliance
Incident Response Management
Security vulnerability assessment
Risk mitigation strategies
Firewall Installation
Network Security Management
Continuous process improvements
Work Process Optimization
Certification
PMI - PMP
Work Availability
monday
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Timeline
Technical Program Manager
HP PPS India Operations Pvt. Ltd
02.2016 - Current
Senior Network Security Engineer
TEKsystems Pvt. Ltd, Client - HP Inc
04.2015 - 02.2016
Senior Network Security Engineer
IAP Company Pvt. Ltd, Client - CDOT
05.2012 - 09.2014
NOC Engineer
Tulip Telecom Ltd
05.2011 - 05.2012
Network Engineer
Reno vision Automation Services Pvt. Ltd
02.2010 - 05.2011
B.Tech - Computer Science
NIST, B.P.U.T University
07.2004 - 07.2008