Pranitha Penta
Bridgewater
Summary
To obtain an opportunity with an organization which would enable continuous career growth through maximum improvisation of acquired knowledge and technical and to achieve professional satisfaction by meeting higher responsibilities and involving in competent work areas.
Over 8 years of Versatile experience in IT industry with experience in various environments like Identity Access management, Active Directory, PowerShell scripting, Windows and Masters in Cybersecurity.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
IAM Engineer
Bausch Health Companies
03.2018 - Current
- Design, develop, test, implement, integrate IAM systems solutions like PAM, Provisioning workflow engine and Customer IAM tools.
- Work on creating automation workflow scripts in ServiceNow for onboarding, offboarding, Privileged access management, sync errors and AD attribute updates from SuccessFactors reducing manual work.
- Work on creating AD runbooks in Entra, conditional access policies for user restrictions, updating runbook versions, creating scheduled jobs, certificate renewals etc.
- Developed and executed an enterprise IAM strategy and roadmap, delivering key milestones for access governance, identity lifecycle management, and role-based access control (RBAC) in different Productivity and OT domains.
- Planned and deployed directory synchronization systems across Windows-based environments, integrating with Azure AD Connect and hybrid AD infrastructures to streamline identity provisioning.
- Worked on creating PowerShell scripts to automate Active Directory attribute modifications, daily reports for attributes errors to different DLs, group management, and policy enforcement.
- Worked on CyberArk PAM administration, onboarding privileged accounts, cleaning up unused accounts, automatic password rotation of service accounts.
- Worked on IAM compliance efforts, ensuring adherence to standards and internal audit requirements through continuous monitoring and documentation.
- Worked on Risk Assessment and threat detection through Qradar, MS Purview, Defender. Google chronicles etc, Information Security strategy, technologies and tools, identity lifecycle management of user identities ensuring adherence to security policies and compliance requirements, access issues troubleshooting.
- Worked on drive management and security, Active directory Operations, Workflow Creation, Desktop Services, Enterprise information management for end users.
- Worked on security incident response related to IAM security incidents, investigating and remediating security breaches or unauthorized access attempts or suspicious activities, security applications/tools administration support.
- Review and triage information security alerts, provide analysis, determine, and track remediation, and escalate as appropriate.
- Provide technical leadership for the vulnerability management program, ensure authorized access by investigating improper access; revoking access; reporting violations; monitors information requests; recommend improvements.
- Manage, update, and implement the Info-security policy, procedures, standards, and guidelines to ensure information assets and related updates are secure.
- Provide training on bulk scripting and conduct lunch and learn sessions with other non-IT members to practice safe measurements of login and access.
- Customizing, reporting options for auditing, incident response, compliance purposes, creation of custom parsers, use cases, and extensions to adapt to specific security needs with QRadar and Google chronicles.
- Work on documenting IAM processes, procedures, and policies, generating reports on access activities, development, and implementation of identity governance strategies, including defining and enforcing access controls, segregation of duties and least privilege principles.
- Collaborating with stakeholders, including clients, IT administrators, security teams, and application owners, to align IAM initiatives with their business objectives.
Security/Azure Consultant
Optimal Answers
02.2017 - 02.2018
- Worked with PMC Group LLC to create NIST SP 800-171 Corporate IS Cyber Risk Management Plan (CRMP), Event/Incident response plan, Communication plan, Security Audit Plan, Systems Security Plan, Security Assessment Plan, Information Systems Policies and Procedures etc.
- Worked on Security Assessment for Optimal Answers environment and prepared document with risks and findings.
- Managed active directory responsibilities using Azure, Created and Migrated virtual machines in Microsoft azure.
- Replicated machines to Resource Manager storage accounts using Azure portals to make it available in the nearest datacenter.
- Worked on creating and validating the Power BI reports for optimal reports connecting it to SQL Azure.
- Worked on migration, upgrade, promotion and demotion of domain controllers.
- Migrated the entire infrastructure from Optimal desktop to Azure.
- Created databases in SQL Azure, migrated databases from SQL Server 2016 to SQL Azure, stored on elastic pool and given permissions to specific users.
- Created Databases on SQL Server and managed them from both SQL Server Management Studio and Optimal web page.
- Worked on Setting up Connection Strings, connecting SQL Server AZURE Databases from Installed SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) for Developers.
- Responsible for creation, setup and maintenance of new users and assigning user accounts and grant permissions to shared resources.
- Monitored the performance of different resources including physical and virtual machines using log analytics in OMS services.
- Designed and implemented Subversion metadata like elements, labels, attributes in SQL databases and web application using scripting.
- Worked on configuration of VM automatic shutdown and restart using PowerShell scripting.
Active Directory Consultant
Spica Computers
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Managing the sync cycle in azure AD connect Troubleshooting on the sync issues, Upgrade of Azure AD connect servers, Adding New Tenants in azure and PowerShell scripting.
- Worked on o365 management like License management, Provisioning mailbox to users, troubleshooting cloud sync issues, Adding new Agents and SVC accounts.
- Worked on Domain Controller Management, Promotion of the DC, Demotion of the DC, upgrading to higher level and configure new domain controller via change controller procedures.
- Certificate Authority Management including Upgradation of certificate Authority servers and handling auto enrolment of certificates.
- Group policy Management like Cleanup of the stale GPO's, Deploying the GPO's and Creating GMSA accounts, adding servers to GMSA groups.
- Worked on AD Hardening project like Cleaning Impersonation Accounts, Upgrading Domain controller.
- Designed process for DNS zone migration from legacy to application storage.
- Privileged Access Management system deployment, Password vaulting, Privileged session recording, Cross forest/domain migration of users for acquisition and removal from the enterprise domains.
- Implemented Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to manage and provision Virtual Machines in both production and integration.
- Build application servers based on the business requirements and assisted various test teams in preproduction environments to validate the application functionality.
- Provided Tier-2 Support for production environments and trouble shoot critical issues at minimal business impact.
- Expertise in Migration Using Quest Migration Manager Tool for Active Directory.
- Expertise in Active Directory design and support (GPOs, AD Schema, OUs, LDAP, Sites, Replication, etc.).
- Expertise in deployment and troubleshooting of windows 2008 and 2012 R2Domain Controllers in Active Directory.
- Experience in Migrating Group and Exception Policies from one domain to another domain in AD forest.
- Performed and Raise the Domain functional level from windows server 2003 to 2008.
- Experience in creating Service Accounts to have Log on as a Batch and Service Jobs, Create and Link Exception policy to windows Application Servers.
- Assisted in designing, implementing and evaluating applications, systems and utilities relevant to Active Directory services.
- Experience in Migrating Users, Groups, Workstations and Application window Servers from Source Domain to Target Administration of user Accounts, Groups, Resources, Security, Backup strategies in window Servers.
- Experience in managing Active Directory Domain Controllers, DNS and DHCP Servers.
Education
Masters of Business Administration - Cybersecurity
NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE
Henniker, New HampshireMaster’s - Electrical Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
San Antonio, TexasBachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication Engineering
GITAM UNIVERSITY
Visakhapatnam, Andhra PradeshSkills
- Identity and Access Management
- Problem solving abilities
- Active Directory
- Incident Management
- Kanban tools and techniques
- Automation using scripting
- Analytical and critical thinker
- Computer Skills
- C
- C
- Assembly level language (8086)
- Python
- PowerShell
- Perl
- JAVA (basics)
- AUTOCAD
- TopSpice
- MATLAB
- Mathematica
- Verilog HDL
- ISCSI
- RAID
- SAN
- NAS
- MS Powerpoint
- MS Excel
- MS Word
- MS Visio
- SQL server 2016
- SQL server 2014
- Windows server 2008
- Windows server 2012
- Windows Server NT
- Windows XP/Vista/7
- VM Ware ESX/ESXi server
- Splunk
- PAM For Securities
- CyberArk
- Varonis
- IBM QRadar
- Microsoft Azure
- Service Now
- Hardworking
- Optimism
- Eagerness to learn new things
- Leadership
- Conflict resolution
- Adaptability
- Team Player
Languages
Professional Working, Native or Bilingual, Native or Bilingual
Training
- Yale School of Management, Women’s Leadership Program, 03/2021
- Columbia University, Value Investing in Technology, 03/2023
Interpersonal Strengths
- Hardworking
- Optimism
- Eagerness to learn new things.
- Leadership
- Conflict resolution
- Adaptability
- Team Player
Timeline
IAM Engineer
Bausch Health Companies
03.2018 - Current
Security/Azure Consultant
Optimal Answers
02.2017 - 02.2018
Active Directory Consultant
Spica Computers
01.2015 - 01.2017
Masters of Business Administration - Cybersecurity
NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE
Master’s - Electrical Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication Engineering
GITAM UNIVERSITY
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