Prakhar Sood

Currently Working with Pramerica Systems as Sr Security Architect.

Past Employment CA Technologies as Principal Identity and Access Management Engineer, SDG Corporation & TCS (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)

Email : sood.prakhar@gmail.com, Phone : Contact # +353 (0) 894581105

Experience Summary

• Currently working with Pramerica Systems Ireland as a Senior Specialist Architect in their Architecture and Engineering team (AT&E), designing the CA Advanced Security & Identity Manager solution along with Tivoli FIM & Apigee Edge managing a team of 20+ Engineers within the IAM Architecture team in Ireland & US.

• Customization of the CA Advance Authentication Solution to fulfil client requirements.• Implementation of CA Privileged Access Manager (formerly Xceedium) in the

Infrastructure Security space.• Previously working with CA Technologies as a Principal Security Engineer / Architect

handling a team of 11 Engineers and handling critical escalations/issues of various clients on their Siteminder SSO, Federation, CA IDM ( Identity Minder ), PIM ( Access Control ), RCM, CloudMinder & Layer 7 Security Product Suite for 4+ years.

• Sr. Software Engineer past working with SDG Noida for GE SSO Integration Project for last 2+ years on CA Siteminder, Oracle Access Manager (OAM), ForgeRock OpenAM and Ping Federation .

• Associate with 1 years and 6 month of experience in development and maintenance with Tata Consultancy Services.

• IAM Architecture, Design, Implementation, Consulting, Development Security Management.

• Sun Certified Training on Oracle/SUN IDM and hands-on experience on same . • Strong and field of interest in Oracle , PL/SQL, Core Java, J2EE, Unix, Perl/Shell

Scripting. • Will be comfortable with any project with a little project specific training.

Technology:

Below is a list of important software products, tools and technologies that I have worked with.

Identity and Access Management Tools:

Softwares Tools

• CA Siteminder

• CA Strong Authentication

• CA Risk Authentication

• CA Identity Minder (IDM)

• CA Federation Manager

• Tivoli FIM

• CA Secure Proxy Server

• CA Layer 7 ( API Gateway )

• APIGEE Edge

• CA Cloudminder

• CA Access Control (PIM)

• CA PAM / Xceedium

• Oracle Access Manager (OAM)

• Ping Federate

• Forgerock OpenAM

• Oracle/Sun IDM

• OpenID Connect

• OAuth

• Linux, Solaris, Windows OS

• Webservers: Apache, IIS, Iplanet, Domino

• Application Servers: JBOSS, Servlet Exec, Tomcat

• LDAP: AD, AD LDS Oracle LDAP, Novell DS, CA DS, IBM DS

• DB: MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL, DB2

• Service Cloud• Fiddler 2• Wireshark• SAML Authn

Encoder/Decoder

• SQL Developer

• BMC Patrol

• Remedy

• Sitescope

• Keynote

• Kintana

• Star Client

• SOAPUI

• RESTMON

Qualifications

Degree and Date Institute Major and Specialization

Bachelor of Engineering, June 2008( 70.4%)Awarded First Class with Distinction

Sinhgad College of Engineering,Pune University

Information Technology

Intermediate,

June 2004 (77.8.0%)

Dewan Public School, Meerut , Uttar Pradesh

Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics

HSC May 2002 (74.4%) Dewan Public School, Meerut , Uttar Pradesh

All Streams

Other Technical Skills & certifications:

o Operating system: Linux, Solaris, Windows(2003, 2008, 2012)

o Special Software : Siteminder all versions, Federation, IDM, SPS, Layer 7o Programming Languages: Pl/Sql, C++, Java, J2EE, Shell scripting, Unix,

XML,HTML

Professional Memberships / Certifications

Professional Society / Certification

Internal ITIL V3 CertifiedCA Siteminder R12.5 CertifiedCA Federation R12.5 CertifiedCA Identity Manager R12.6 Certified

Assignments

The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed here.

Project Prudential Architecture & Engineering TeamClient Prudential FinancialDuration Nov-2015 – Till DateDescription - Designing current Security solution using CA products

- Implementation CA Strong Authentication from scratch for multiple Business Units at Prudential

- Implementation of CA Identity Manager from scratch for Prudential Users.- Self Service Configuration on Windows endpoint agents.- Implementation of CA Privileged Access Manager (formerly Xceedium) in

the Infrastructure Security space.- Upgrading Siteminder infrastructure from R12.0SP3 to R12.52- Implementation of new connections in TFIM with new Federated partners.- Creating policies and publishing APIs in APIGEE Edge- Integration of third-party products like Clickatell & Twilio for SMS

configuration to be used for OTP.- Creating Project Plans and Architecture Diagrams

Role Sr Specialist ArchitectSolution Environment CA Strong Authentication, CA Riskminder, CA Siteminder, CA Identity Manager,

Apigee Edge, TFIM, IBM DS, DB2, Visio, MPPProject Siteminder Support TeamClient CA Technologies WorldwideDuration Sep-2011 – Oct-2015Description - Working with the Global CA Security Team on handling critical client

escalations on all CA Security and API Management products.- Gold Partner for 2 major CA clients Shell EU (Cloudminder) & ANZ Bank

Australia (Siteminder).- Leading a strong team of 12 Security Support Engineers and providing

training on latest releases.- Active part of the Product Management team and providing suggestions

and feedback on product enhancements and supportability.- Handling issues and escalations on CA Layer 7 API Gateway.- Working on CA Siteminder, CA Federation, CA Secure Proxy Server, CA

Identity Manager (IDM), CA Strong Authentication, CA Risk Authentication, CA Cloudminder, CA Privileged Identity Manager (PIM) and handling critical escalations for the same.

- Conducting trainings for the CA Education team for customers on all the above mentioned products.

- Providing end to end Escalation support for all Siteminder customers worldwide on all flavors of CA Identity & Access Management & API Management.

Role Principal Software EngineerSolution Environment CA Siteminder, Federation Security Services, Federation Manager, SPS, Layer 7

SSG Gateway, API Portal, CA IDM, CA PIM, CA CloudMinder, CA Strong Authentication, CA Risk Authentication.

Project Single Sign On Integration Team, SDG Software

Client GE General Electric ,USA

Duration May-2010 – Sep-2011

Description This is for maintenance and support of SSO. This project can be used to access of all the application of GE by using only single user name and password. Single Sign-On (SSO) is a utility jointly developed by the Information Technologies (IT) and Interactive Enterprise Development (IED) groups. The SSO utility provides security to web based applications. In doing so, it enables the use of a single User ID for a customer to access all participating GE web sites

Role Team Member

Solution Environment

Sun Solaris, Unix ,Linux, iplanet, IIS, Windows Boxes,JAVA/J2EE,Shell scripting

Oracle,Siteminder 6.0, 12.0, SUN IDM, LDAP, Ping Federate, OpenAM & OAMTools

Currently handling installation of Siteminder Web Agents, Deploying Siteminder on various applications and different environments and troubleshooting SSO Issues.

Highlights Handling an Implementation Team of Siteminder/IDM and onboarding applications.

Responsibilities - Implementation of CA Siteminder R6 and R12 across the GE Corporate- Onboarding new applications on different webserver platforms- Integration of Siteminder with third-party products like Jira & Teamsite.- Creating new connections with third-party Federated applications using

Ping Federate- Test POC for Forgerock OpenAM & Oracle Access Manager- Resolve issues related to Siteminder with applications integrated with

SSO Involved in getting permanent fix.- Work with Global teams to collaborate and document best policies for

onboarding new applications.

Project Single Sign On, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)Client American Express Technologies, Phoenix, USADuration Nov-2008 – Apr-2010Description This is for maintenance and support of SSO. This project can be used to access of all

the application of American Express Bank by using only single user name and password. Single Sign-On (SSO) is a utility jointly developed by the Information Technologies (IT) and Interactive Enterprise Development (IED) groups. The SSO utility provides security to web based applications. In doing so, it enables the use of a

single User ID for a customer to access all participating American Express web sites Role Team MemberSolution Environment

Sun Solaris, Unix ,Linux Boxes, JAVA/J2EE,Shell scripting Oracle, Siteminder, SUN IDM,LDAP

Tools Eclipse, SQL Developer, BMC Patrol, SUN IDM, Sitescope, KeynoteHighlights Team Member of the IAM Support TeamResponsibilities - Estimation, Impact Analysis and Coding for various Change Requests

- Provided Backup lead maintenance from offshore- Maintaining Siteminder 6.0, SUN IDM, Policy servers, Web servers and

Application servers.- Managing all the day-to-day activities and to keep up the application

availability (99.91%) and performance(< 3.5 seconds) as per SLA- ITIL process mapping and SSO service catalogue development- To troubleshoot the issues related to Distributed Security Services (DSS) and

fix the same.

- Resolve issues related to Siteminder with applications integrated with SSO Involved in getting permanent fix done in order to reduce the number of sev3 category IMRs.

Career Profile

Dates Organization Role02/11/2015 - Till Date Pramerica Systems Technical Architect21/09/2011 - 16/10/2015 CA Technologies Sr. Team Lead01/05/2010 -10/09/2011 SDG Corporation Team Lead10/11/2008 -16/04/2010 TATA Consultancy Services Team Member ( Back up lead) of

SSO Project of American Express Bank

Training / Continuing Education Summary

Project Enhancement of CSS PortalCustomer American Express Technologies, Phoenix ,USADuration DoneDescription This is for enhancement of CSS Portal. This project can be used to get even a single

information of all the issues and details of project since started. Enhancement Done

o Added a number of application in the system by changing and enhancing the code at every tier.

o Added the functionality to get the availability of all applications in the CSS Portal.

Role CSS Portal Enhancement OwnerSolution Environment

JAVA/J2EE , Oracle

Tools Eclipse, SQL DeveloperHighlights Performed nicely and got couple of rewards for good work and became

owner of CSS Portal Enhancement

Program or Course Coverage DatesInitial Learning Program of TCS

Software Engineering, Operating System, Java 1.5, J2EE1.3,Oracle 10g

Nov 2008 to Feb 2009

SUN Certified Training in SUN Identity Manger.

SUN IDM( Identity Manager) Dec 2009

Trainings conducted

Program or Course Presented to LocationSingle Sign On Architecture American Express SSO Team BangaloreIdentity Manager American Express SSO Team BangaloreCA Siteminder SDG SSO Team NoidaCA Siteminder R12.5 CA Education for Customers HyderabadCA Federation Manager CA Siteminder Support Team USACA Secure Proxy Server CA Siteminder Support Team HyderabadCA Layer 7 CA Global Services Team HyderabadCA Riskminder Prudential Security Team IrelandCA IDM Integration Prudential Security Team IrelandCA Security Solution Integration Prudential Security Team Ireland

Achievements

Achievements • BVPA Award for rolling out CA Advanced Authentication successfully in Prudential within their GI BU.

• VIP Award for Implementation of Windows Password Reset using CA Identity Manager Credential Manager for Windows across Prudential and saving daily Customer Office calls for Password Resets significantly

• Promoted to Prinicipal IAM Security Engineer at CA Technologies• Got 2 Star award thrice in CA Technologies for Outstanding Project

Execution & Customer Service.• Awarded 2 Star Award for Delighting Customers• Awarded 2 Star Award for Imrpoving Customer Satisfaction• Awarded 1 Star Award for achieving High IRD• Awarded 2 Star Award for Reducing the EMEA Issue Backlog• Awarded 1 Star Award for Taking High load during Peak Issue

Volume• Awarded 1 Star Award for Training new joiners within the team• Awarded 1 Star Award for High CSAT in the month of Nov-2014• Also got awarded with lot of Team Competition prizes for reducing

the MTTR and Improving Customer Satisfaction as a Team (Ocean’s 16 & Falcons)

• Customer Service Excellence Award for Delighting CA’s customers.• Above and Beyond Award for handling Major Escalation worth a big

renewal deal worth $300 Million for CA• Best performer in the Stream Training Batch of Oracle-PL/SQL. • ILP Trivandrum Rating 4.9/5• BE-I.T from Pune University with Distinction.• Got Certificate of Appreciation from Project Senior Management for

doing good work in CSS Portal Enhancement and Capacity Planning initiative.

• Community Champion for CA Security Communities

Extra-Curricular

Extra-Curricular

• Headed Sponsorship for the event OSIRIS.• Event Organizer for TRANSCEND.• Arranged an Organization Level Event for Project Domain.• Basketball Team Player for CA Technologies team.• Badminton Team for Pramerica

Personal Details

Date of Birth 01-Nov-1986Nationality IndianHobby Playing Basket Ball, Watching Movies, Singing

Passport Details

Name as on Passport Passport NumberPrakhar Sood J8513911