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 Metricsundefined
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
PMI - PMP
ISACA – CISM
ISACA – CGEIT
CISCO - CCIE Security
CompTIA Security
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