Rama Kant

A seasoned professional with broad background in technology supplemented with sound business acumen looking for a senior executive position.

Summary:

Providing advice and consultative selling to Federal clients as a subject matter expert. Adept at identifying new opportunities in customer requirements. Currently working as a solutions architect for a government-wide email messaging security infrastructure.

Broad spectrum of achievements includes security policies and architectures, Wi-Fi architectures, voice recognition, supercomputing in support of ocean and weather modeling, global network routing, email infrastructures and security, organizational and security assessments, battlespace infospheres, messaging middleware, mobile security and Zero Trust.

• Recently authored a whitepaper on mobile security “Applying Zero Trust Principles to Enterprise Mobility” for a large US Government agency. Reference link: Applying Zero Trust Principles to Enterprise Mobility.

Continuing with other similar mobile security solution papers in Identity, BYOD, and Enterprise Integration.

• Finishing up a solution architecture for protecting against emerging security threats to email messaging infrastructures for a broad set of US Government agencies.

o Capabilities will include – email protections (anti-spam, indicator-based filtering, anti-phishing, data loss prevention, allow/block/grey lists), DNS (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, reverse lookup), quarantining and sandboxing, incident response, cyber hunting at scale (DARPA’s CHASE), configuration management, certificate management, directory services etc.

• Edited an article titled “An Overview of the Mobile Security Ecosystem” for the Federal Mobility Group.

• Mentor high school and middle school students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and Marshal High School’s Governor’s STEM Academy in Northern Virginia.

• Enrolled in Mobile Security Program at Stanford University.

Professional Background:

• Possesses extensive experience in tackling broad technological and organizational challenges.

• Works as a subject matter expert, project lead, task and technical lead for projects with Air Force, DHS, CISA, USAID, VA, ICE and IRS.

• Well respected by peers for business acumen that enables management of sponsor expectations with a goal to provide value and impact.

• Quickly analyses complex situations involving diverse technologies and organizational issues to propose reasonable and cost-effective solutions that meet stated and unstated goals.

• Leads teams to meet tight deliverable deadlines while managing competing priorities.

• Expert at developing large and complex documents and distilling the key decision points in high-level representations for executive-level review.

• Experienced in selling security services and technology solutions during the tenure at Adeptech.

• Proficient in data analysis techniques using Excel’s statistical functions and PivotTables. Familiarity with Splunk.

• Knowledgeable in mobile messaging security issues: viruses, worms, smishing, spam, DLP, privacy, etc.

Business Skills:

• Passionate about learning clients’ issues through immersive engagements and careful listening to the extent clients would be comfortable “passing on their paranoia”.

• Adept at managing customer expectations and perception to ensure satisfaction by providing value-added solutions from the best possible source.

• Superior writing capability resulting in well-constructed, clean, concise, and informative documents that are nicely formatted for smooth readability.

• Excellent presentation skills – supplemented by impactful visual representation of data; prepare own graphics through Visio and PowerPoint.

• Manages order out of chaos while dealing with multiple priorities.

• Proficient in identifying corporate resources to bring them to bear for creative solutions for customers.

Technology Skills:

• SMTP, TCP/IP, Unix/Solaris/Linux, Windows, IDS, Postfix, Sendmail, LDAP/Directory Services, AD/Exchange, Firewalls, Cisco IOS, Sniffers, Strong Authentication, SOA, EDR/EMM/MDM/MTD/Mobile App Vetting, Cryptography Frameworks, DoDAF, C&A, NIST 800 series documents, Zero Trust techniques to name a few.

Professional Experience:

Current:

• MITRE

Analyze customer requirements for proposing technical solutions for large-scale and complex problems. Evaluate products offered by service providers for developing acquisition strategies and target solutions:

o IRS – Acquisition Strategy, TEC Modernization, ICE – Security Assessments; DHS Chief Information Security Office – Directory Services Architecture for DHS CISO; DHS CIO –Comparative study of IRS and DHS development Framework; Wi-Fi Architecture, IPv6 Plan, Google Pilot, Email and Network Security, Identity Management Architecture; Air Force Weather – Director of Engineering: Disconnected Operations, Joint Environmental Toolkit, Weather Radars; VA – SOA, Data Strategy; CISA - Assessments for Sustainment and ECS, ZT-Mobility, Secure Email messaging architecture and numerous other ad-hoc consulting assignments.

Previous:

• Adeptech Systems – VP

o The company is a provider of professional services in information security, IT architect ure, assessments, communication networks, email messaging for solutions at Phillip Morris, SallieMae, LaFarge, Army, Airforce, Commerce, Network Solutions, FEC, FRA, DoD etc.

o Translating customer requirements into technical requirements for proposal preparation, pre-sales and account strategy were key responsibilities.

o Engagements involved customer-facing technical account management, including customer calls for expectation management for ensuring financial targets are met.

o Supervised development of technical training and best practices documentation, C&A Test Plans and reports.

• Glaxo SmithKline – Chief: Network Engineering

o Global Networking, Email infrastructure and Information Security

• Institute of Naval Oceanography (OCNR) – Manager of Computing

o Applying Supercomputing for Naval Oceanography (detection of Russian submarines); Coordinated supercomputing utilization with the country’s top-notch scientists – Harvard, Princeton, NCAR, ECMWF, Florida State (El Nino)

• International R&D Corp. – Director of Data Processing and Statistics

o Wi-Fi Mesh, Voice Recognition for Pathologists

Education & Certifications:

• Masters in Information Sciences, Kent State University

• CISSP

Clearances:

• DoD TS

• DHS, CISA - Secret