Tessy Ann Thomas's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Sr. Security Engineer @ U.S. Cellular (logon britton & US tech) DLP, network design, firewalls, network segmentation, IPS/IDS, SIEM, EPO, compliance - CPNI and PCI controls and Incident response. From 2016 to 2017 (1 year) ILIT Officer @ Madras Stock Exchange Limited Handled complete Network, security and system infrastructure. From 2006 to 2008 (2 years) MadrasIT Sr. Manager (Head of department) @ ISE Securities and Services Ltd ( Interconnected Stock Exchange) Managed team of over 14 technical staff.Maintained highly standards in hiring staffs and following with employee development objective,work allocation,timely review,conduct weekly status meeting.Conducted training to internals,externals,technical and non-technical audience.Managed the IT budgets.Handled the situations that require judgment, analytical, decision making and complete the project independently as well as with team work.Managed and Maintained entire IT infrastructure. Administrate,maintained,troubleshoot & new implementations Cisco Routers, Switches modems of corporate and branches, decentralized DC site and DR Site.Responsible for IT Security: Firewall, NAT, Web filtering, SIEM, DLP, IDS/IPS, Packet capturing, Security tools, vulnerability/Threat scanning, Antivirus.Dealt with monitoring tools. Developed and implemented IT Policies.Responsible for day to day Security maintenance activities and Risk assessment.Designed, Implemented administered and troubleshoot Active Directory configuration and maintenance, SCCM, Mail Servers, Application servers,Storage Data Servers, Web servers, DNS servers, DHCP servers,throughout the network for the entire group.Conduct in-depth technical analysis,governance framework, architecture, and disaster recovery and business continuity, Capacity planning, delivered gap analysis and recommendations, attaining 99% up time.Managed hardware and monitored logs.Reviewed the backup data regularly participated in the back up recovery drill.Implemented and administered VoIP.Responsible for change management Process.Lead and direct all the IT purchasing. Performed routine audits.Strengthening the IT infrastructure by implementing new technologies. Main Projects:Data center shifting.Implementation of IT Security and strengthening the IT infrastructure.Document and implement IT Security policies. Migrated all the WAN connectivity to IPSec VPN.New back office software implementation.Online trading and Mobile trading implementation. From 2009 to 2013 (4 years) Sr. Information security specialist @ TracFone Wireless, Inc. Data Loss Prevention, DATA Classification, Data insight, Risk analysis, Incident response, IT Documentation, OIM Access Management, sailpoint IIQ, VPN, security strategy, AWS cloud management, CASB, MFA(centrify). AWS Macie, AWS IAM, Symantec CloudSOC, mcafee webproxy, Mcafee dlp/casb Miami, FloridaNetwork Security Engineer @ State Farm (Artec Information system) • Proficient with Symantec DLP for preventing confidential data loss. • Responsible for DLP Lifecycle (monitor, remediation, notification, prevention), DLP Procedure documentation, DCM, EDM & IDM implementation, monitor the alert message, make report about the incidents, escalate reports, archive for audits and fine tune the policies.Responsible for incident response.• Assisting business areas with the resolution of data loss prevention events and Educate them regarding handling sensitive and confidential information appropriately.• Maintaining and modifying of DLP reports and metrics.• Develop and implements infrastructure policies, strategies, guidelines, standards, and procedures.• Responsible for checking systems and servers logs and health on a regular basis.• Responsible for troubleshooting IPS/IDS, SIEM system and firewall.• Responsible for troubleshooting Network Connectivity issues in LAN using Packet Capturing Methods (Wireshark) and technical support with migrations and network connectivity.• Developing incident response workflow for DLP, SIEM, IPS/IDS incidents as raised through tools.• Responsible for prioritization of policy implementation (risk assessment) PCI, SSN, GLBA,HIPPA,SIN.• Consulting with business areas, Systems, and legal counsel on data leakage protection process development and continual improvement• Responsible for quarterly auditing. From 2015 to 2016 (1 year) IT Assistant Manager @ Muthoot Securities Ltd Implement complete network Infrastructure (Network, security, systems & Servers and software) from scratch - Planning, Documentation, Budgeting, Design, configured Implement, testing, maintain. Managed a team of over 5 technical staff and responsible for work allocation for team, timely review, conduct weekly status meeting, conduct training and motivating them.Managing , configuring, update, support and maintaining the network infrastructure of corporate office including: IT Security products(Firewall, Application firewall, Content Filtering, Web filtering, IPS/IDS, SIEM DLP, EPO, Cloud Email, loadbalancing, network sniffer, packet analysis antivirus etc), Networking products (switches, routers, modem), Systems like (Servers, workstations ). Microsoft products like Active directory, sccm, all operating systems, virtualization). Web based application. Handled LAN/WAN connectivity's.conduct training.trouble shoot all issues related to network system securities and software and provide support. Performing audits and create report.Writing IT Policies and procedures.creating statistical and trending metrics reports for senior management.Responsible for change management Process, patch management, incident response management, configuration management.Managed IT Budget.Build good relationship with vendors and other departments. Analyzes business/system requirements and develops specifications for department projectDesigning project, Priorities the work and organize work load executing and implementing plans & complete all project ahead of schedule and under budget.Identify new practices in the industry and strengthening our infrastructure by implementing new technologies. From 2008 to 2009 (1 year)