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Randel Sankar

North Bethesda,MD

Summary

Experienced information security and technology leader with a proven history of guiding FinTech and EdTech organizations toward digital transformation. Skilled in system architecture, consultation, and solution delivery. Highly focused on building strong communication channels between clients and colleagues to foster lasting business relationships. Ability to decipher complex technology-based initiatives into concise and direct deliverables to ensure translational understanding. Leads with a people-first perspective to promote employee empowerment and development, to build strong team rapport, and to accomplish enterprise-wide goals diligently.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Security Architect

AccelerEd
Bethesda, Maryland
03.2023 - Current
  • Lead security architecture design, consultation, enhancements, analysis, and prioritization for internal and client organizations to enhance collaboration with key stakeholders, and subject matter experts.
  • Successfully launched and oversaw a strategic information security improvement program to enable a resilient and proactive infrastructure against the ever-changing threat landscape.
  • Led an enterprise-wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery assessment, standardizing response plans for critical platforms, and developing a governance framework and program roadmap.
  • Formalized secure SDLC practices by embedding security testing and remediation into all custom application development, ensuring vulnerabilities are addressed prior to production deployment.
  • Formalized information security minimum technical requirements, benchmarked through NIST-800-171, and validation processes to ensure prescriptive security consultation are properly designed into a product, solution, or platform within the environment.
  • Launched and led Architectural Community of Practice—a comprehensive council of all technology architects within the environment to align on shared challenges, mechanisms of improvement, and strategy through reference to TOGAF architectural principles.
  • Executed risk assessments for internal information security-owned tools and organizational cloud services, such as AWS, Azure, Databricks, Salesforce, and integration platforms.

Director of Information Technology

South River Mortgage
Annapolis, MD
01.2022 - 03.2023
  • Member of the Senior Leadership Board overseeing Information Technology departments, including Information Security, Network Engineering, Voice Engineering, Application Administration, Asset Management, and Technical Support for FHA-approved mortgage brokers/lenders generating $50M per year in revenue.
  • Manage cloud solutions adaptation to effectively migrate all technological systems to the cloud, to enable the organization to be 100% cloud-based.
  • Managed a team of 15-20 engineers and support staff across stateside offices and offshore to sustain technical operations and organizational initiatives.
  • Oversee the deployment of an enterprise-wide ticketing system in adherence to ITIL Foundations v4 standards.
  • Enhanced security and networking policies, including VPN tenant deployment and threat monitoring tools, in adherence to NIST 800-53 standards.
  • Architected a predictive dialer for the Loan Origination/Sales team to leverage existing leads to promote a newfound revenue-generating source (est. $2M in additional revenue).
  • CRM system enhancements include the implementation of a PCI-compliant credit reporting system and a wholesale resource channel to enable business-to-business relationships for third-party proprietary product loan origination.
  • Revitalized the entire asset management process via the implementation of branded device tagging and legally vetted asset ownership documentation to capture inventory counts, ownership, and audit regulation.
  • Manage the budget and technological buildout of various offices, including secondary offices in Iowa, Florida, and an anchor site in Maryland.
  • Implemented SANS Security Firewall compliance across anchor and secondary building sites.

Senior Technology Analyst

AccelerEd
Bethesda, MD
10.2017 - 01.2022
  • Managed the team through the delegation of work based on project completion, system management, and incident resolution.
  • Developed strategy and solutions with AccelerEd's Information Technology team to accomplish enterprise and operational goals for the client organization, University of Maryland, Global Campus, and internal organization, AccelerEd.
  • Assist with the implementation of the revitalization of threat monitoring tools, policies, and operational enhancements.
  • Played an integral role in the migration to Microsoft Office 365 and Azure from Google G Suite across both client and internal organizations.
  • Implement and actively manage a digitized asset management process/

Education

Master of Science - Cloud Computing Architecture

University of Maryland, Global Campus
03.2020

Bachelor of Science -

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD
06.2017

Skills

  • Thoughtful leadership
  • Financial planning
  • Risk assessment
  • Effective communication
  • Vendor management
  • Secure software development
  • Enterprise security architecture
  • Security risk assessment
  • Identity and Access management
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Technical consultation
  • Data protection and data minimization
  • Agile and Kanban project management
  • NIST 800-171, CIS 18, and PCI compliance

Certification

  • Harvard Business School: Launching Technology Ventures
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • ICAgile Certified Professional

Timeline

Senior Security Architect

AccelerEd
03.2023 - Current

Director of Information Technology

South River Mortgage
01.2022 - 03.2023

Senior Technology Analyst

AccelerEd
10.2017 - 01.2022

Master of Science - Cloud Computing Architecture

University of Maryland, Global Campus

Bachelor of Science -

University of Maryland - College Park

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