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Vikas Kumar
Information Security Leader at Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN, United States
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Experience:
Senior Information Security Leader with strong background in Architecture, People Management, Customer Support, Security Engineering & Operation roles;
• Business Operations : Planning strategic roadmap; drive initiatives & operational goals; identify risks & gaps, proactively lead change, strategic agility; operational KPI reviews, cost-expense budgeting, corporate compliance, propose new sales opportunities; drive simplicity, continuous improvement & lean of processes, new tools & technologies;
• People Management : Resource planning, skill gap analysis, recruiting, training & development; performance management, coach the team & build trust; motivate team to achieve high SLAs & realistic goals; leading team on difficult technical and business issues; promote innovation with focus on employee engagement and retention through strong team building;
• Escalation Management : Point of contact for driving C-level customer’s critical incident situations to success & exceeding all stakeholder expectations;
• Program Management : Plan, estimate, schedule, execute, control, change, risk mitigation, delivery of multiple projects using SDLC and Agile methodologies;
• Coordination & Knowledge Sharing : Collaborates with multiple teams supporting client, including sales, R&D team, executives, partners, vendors and other delivery teams to drive with detailed strategies; and utilizing network to build brand reputation & knowledge sharing among all teams;
• Communication : Regularly articulate key topics to line staff, increase awareness & transparency of operations, and maintain a One Face approach with clients;
2022 : Present
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
Sr. Director - Information Security
Responsible for creating, testing, improving, and implementing cyber security technologies & policies.
2020 : 2022
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Director -Information Security
2017 : 2020
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
Sr. Information Security Engineer
Research,design & implement latest Cyber security technologies for APT, data protection & security incident response
Experience in designing & implementing technologies like FireEye, Bit9, Carbon Black, Data Loss prevention, SIEM, Vulnerability Management, Next Gen Firewalls, Fraud Management solution, Privileged Account Management, Wireless security etc.
2007 : 2017
Tata Consultancy Services
Information Security Consultant
2006 : 2007
Wipro Technologies
Presales Security solutions
• Business Operations : Planning strategic roadmap; drive initiatives & operational goals; identify risks & gaps, proactively lead change, strategic agility; operational KPI reviews, cost-expense budgeting, corporate compliance, propose new sales opportunities; drive simplicity, continuous improvement & lean of processes, new tools & technologies;
• People Management : Resource planning, skill gap analysis, recruiting, training & development; performance management, coach the team & build trust; motivate team to achieve high SLAs & realistic goals; leading team on difficult technical and business issues; promote innovation with focus on employee engagement and retention through strong team building;
• Escalation Management : Point of contact for driving C-level customer’s critical incident situations to success & exceeding all stakeholder expectations;
• Program Management : Plan, estimate, schedule, execute, control, change, risk mitigation, delivery of multiple projects using SDLC and Agile methodologies;
• Coordination & Knowledge Sharing : Collaborates with multiple teams supporting client, including sales, R&D team, executives, partners, vendors and other delivery teams to drive with detailed strategies; and utilizing network to build brand reputation & knowledge sharing among all teams;
• Communication : Regularly articulate key topics to line staff, increase awareness & transparency of operations, and maintain a One Face approach with clients;
2022 : Present
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
Sr. Director - Information Security
Responsible for creating, testing, improving, and implementing cyber security technologies & policies.
2020 : 2022
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Director -Information Security
2017 : 2020
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
Sr. Information Security Engineer
Research,design & implement latest Cyber security technologies for APT, data protection & security incident response
Experience in designing & implementing technologies like FireEye, Bit9, Carbon Black, Data Loss prevention, SIEM, Vulnerability Management, Next Gen Firewalls, Fraud Management solution, Privileged Account Management, Wireless security etc.
2007 : 2017
Tata Consultancy Services
Information Security Consultant
2006 : 2007
Wipro Technologies
Presales Security solutions
Company:
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
Years of Experience:
20
Skills
Application Security, ArcSight, ASA, Checkpoint, CISSP, Data Loss Prevention, DLP, Firewalls, IDS, Incident Management, Information Security, Information Security Management, IPS, IPSec, ISO 27001, ITIL, Network Security, PCI DSS, Penetration Testing, Pre-sales, Security, security information and event management (siem), Security Monitoring, SIEM, Solution Architecture, VPN, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Scanning, Wireless Security
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