Expert Technical Lead, with an extensive background in IT maintenance and risk management as well as proficiency in quality assurance, equipment management, and resource utilization. Experienced in maintaining highly secure IT environments. Leads IT teams in executing company-wide data protection protocols under an established security framework. Dedicated to protecting valuable data and intellectual property via robust governance protocols. Successful at leading both internal and external teams to accomplish challenging objectives
Hi, I’m
Md Zaved Iqbal Choudhury
Senior Technical Head, Cyber And Network Security (Tier 3 Data Center)
Dhaka
Summary
Overview
18
years of professional experience
9
years of post-secondary education
9
Certificates
Work History
Bangladesh Army, Dhaka
Senior Technical Head, Cyber and Network Security
2020.09 - Current (4 years)
Job overview
- Worked with teams to develop company-wide information assurance, security standards and procedures.
- Supervise Firewall and Network Device configuration changes as per organization policy in accordance with security framework standards.
- Outlined and maintained security patching schedule to efficiently address ongoing system issues.
- Created standardized incident response program to outline immediate and consistent remediation of security breaches.
- Coordinated with third-party threat intelligence provider and maintain protections and predict threats.
- Created and implemented security network framework across overall security domain.
- Installed and maintained commercial firewall solution, working with security vendors to consistently apply best practices and software updates.
- Coordinated security initiatives with personnel at Tier III data centers, and Branch sites across 40 Locations.
- Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
- Manage inbound and outbound security rules for email (filtering, whitelists, spam, etc.)
- Monitor and analyze email traffic for potential security threats, including phishing and spam.
- Investigate and respond to security incidents in a timely and effective manner.
- Supervise Installation, commissioning and integrating new security solutions.
- Developed and maintained company-wide endpoint security solutions.
- Completed vulnerability scans to identify at-risk systems and remediate issues.
- Manage overall operation of DDOS, WAF, EDR, SIEM, FIrewalls, Routers and Switches of Tier 3 Data Center and WAN.
- Designed standardized incident logging system to track historical incursions while helping prevent future breaches.
- Authored security and vulnerability reports, detailing logged incursions and suggesting remediation efforts.
- Offered preventive training to harden personnel against intrusion vectors such as phishing, ransomware and more.
Getco Telecommunications Ltd, Dhaka
Assistant General Manager
2012.08 - 2020.08 (8 years)
Job overview
- Ensure all necessary configurations with International Carrier, ICXs, PLMN, PSTN, and IPTSP operators using various signaling protocols (SIP, SIGTRAN, and SS7) for efficient call switching and call routing.
- Design, implement & maintain a cost-effective switching Network for International gateway (HRC), CAPEX, and OPEX minimization through network topology re-alignment and ensuring necessary subsequent approvals/permission from the regulator.
- Planning of Core Network resource rearrangement for any emergency/disaster situation.
- Total management of Back Office Network Devices, Router, Switch, Firewalls.
- Scheduled employees for shifts, taking into account customer traffic and employee strengths.
- Work as Information Security Manager, formulate strategies that provide effective prevention and recovery for the organization.
- Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, schedules, and contract negotiations.
Ranks Telecom Limited, Dhaka
System Engineer, NSS
2006.11 - 2008.07 (1 year & 8 months)
Job overview
- Analyze daily reports of Call Seizure, Bidirectional Trunk Data, Busy Hour Report, Signaling Utilization Report, Congestion of Traffic Routes, analysis of Network Performance, and take appropriate measures to address any problem.
- Call tracing and Call testing and gave appropriate solutions to one-way calls, cross-connection, and other common DDF/CIC/Tx-Rx related problems.
- Capacity and Interconnectivity Planning of Core Network with other PSTN and Mobile Operators
Education
Metropolitan University
Master of Business Administration from Human Resource Management
2010.09 - 2012.05 (1 year & 8 months)
University Overview
GPA: 3.67
International Islamic University
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science and Engineering
2000.09 - 2004.05 (3 years & 8 months)
University Overview
GPA: 3.36
M.C College
Higher Secondary School Certificate from Science
1997.07 - 1999.05 (1 year & 10 months)
University Overview
First Division, Marks
Sylhet Govt. Pilot High School
Secondary School Certificate
1996.01 - 1997.04 (1 year & 3 months)
University Overview
First Division, Marks: 794
Skills
Network Security Management
undefinedAccomplishments
Accomplishments
- Implementation of SOC at Bangladesh Army's Enterprise Network.
- Deploy and integrate security solutions (SIEM, WAF, DDoS, NBA, Proxy, EDR, PAM, NAC) in Bangladesh Army's enterprise network.
- Planned and Implementation of SDWAN in Bangladesh Army's WAN.
- Planned and Implementation of dedicated remote access VPN service.
- Implementation of remote access VPN with Fortigate solutions.
- Successful Implementation of Class QoS model throughout Bangladesh Army's nationwide network with (Router, Firewall, Distribution Switch, Access Switch) multi-vendor platform (Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Palo Alto).
- Implementing Mobile number portability (MNP) in ICX Getco Telecommunication and IGW HRC Technologies Ltd.
Timeline
Certified SOC Analyst
2024-03
Oracle Certified Foundation Associate
2023-07
Cisco Certified Network Professional Enterprise
2022-05
Cisco Certified Specialist – Enterprise Core
2022-05
ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
2021-03
Senior Technical Head, Cyber and Network Security
Bangladesh Army
2020.09 - Current (4 years)
Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation
2020-01
Red Hat Certified Engineer
2019-10
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
2019-03
Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching
2016-04
Assistant General Manager
Getco Telecommunications Ltd
2012.08 - 2020.08 (8 years)
Metropolitan University
Master of Business Administration from Human Resource Management
2010.09 - 2012.05 (1 year & 8 months)
System Engineer, NSS
Ranks Telecom Limited
2006.11 - 2008.07 (1 year & 8 months)
International Islamic University
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science and Engineering
2000.09 - 2004.05 (3 years & 8 months)
M.C College
Higher Secondary School Certificate from Science
1997.07 - 1999.05 (1 year & 10 months)
Sylhet Govt. Pilot High School
Secondary School Certificate
1996.01 - 1997.04 (1 year & 3 months)
Certification
Certified SOC Analyst
TechnicalSkills
TechnicalSkills
Networking:
· Firewall (Palo Alto, Cisco FTD, Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, FortiGate)
· Web Application Firewall (FortiWeb)
· Email Security Firewall (Barracuda)
· Web Proxy
· DDoS (Radware)
· Routing and Switching (MikroTik, Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, Fortinet)
· Quality of Service (QoS) (Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Palo Alto)
· S2S VPN (MikroTikCisco, Juniper, Fortinet)
· Remote Access VPN (Fortinet)
· Network Access Control (ISE,PAM)
· Redundancy (HSRP,VRRP,GLBP)
· SD WAN
Cyber Security
· SIEM (RSA NetWitness),
· NBA(Trend Micro)
VAPT
· Nmap, Nessus, Nexpose, Wire Shark
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