Kanak Meena, PhD

Technical Program Manager

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India9 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in managing complex technical programs.
  • Strong background in cybersecurity and information security.
  • Proven leadership in cross-functional team environments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing expert with strong program management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementInformation SecurityMarketing Strategy

Other Skills

Program Management & leadershipSecurity & Product ManagementStrategic ExecutionLarge Language Models (LLM)Big Data Analyticsceritified cyber security expertSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Customer-Centric InnovationResearch and Development (R&D)SQLDashboard MetricsWeb Application Security AssessmentCross-Functional Team BuildingInformation Security ManagementAgile Methodologies

Experience

Amazon

2 roles

Sr. Technical Program Manger (APAC leader)

Promoted

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Program Management & leadershipSecurity & Product ManagementStrategic ExecutionLarge Language Models (LLM)Big Data Analyticsceritified cyber security expert+15

Technical Program Manager

Oct 2022Sep 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

Salesforce

Sr. Technical Program Manager (Big Data Cloud)

Apr 2022Oct 2022 · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Drive the execution of the Big Data cloud program and technologies including owning the roadmap, and producing regular status updates.
  • Work closely with technology and business stakeholders across the Big Data cloud.
  • Proactively identify and resolve challenges and issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, business, and technical goals.
  • Supporting various programs viz- Alibaba Cloud, Kafka (Engx support team), Falcon Kubernetes Program, Third & first party patching, GIA2H (Gov clouds).
  • Managing the scrum and sprint planning for Kafka team.
  • Supports in Release Planning for every quarter.
  • Prioritization of various work items as per the business needs and getting the alignment from various stakeholders involved in the program.
Program ManagementProgram Management & leadership

Adobe

3 roles

Technical Program Manager -III (Adobe Campaign)

Jan 2022Apr 2022 · 3 mos

  • Security
  • Drive the execution of the Adobe Campaign Security program and including owning the overall roadmap, producing regular status updates.
  • Managing the scrum and sprint planning for the team.
  • Yearly roadmap for the security team and help in prioritization of the work item.
  • Ensuring all the security reviews, penetration testing, audits are conducted in a timely manner.
  • Customer Escalation
  • Handling the Customer Escalation Portfolio for Campaign and providing the solution to the customer within a defined timeline across geo.
  • Create a weekly report for the program status for the Campaign management, to ensure no business impacts.
  • Collaborate with customer escalation managers, account managers, technical managers, support team, and eng team to resolve one escalation.
Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT)Program ManagementInformation SecurityProgram Management & leadershipAgile Project ManagementScrum+2

Technical Program Manager - III (ASSET)

Aug 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Managing the penetration testing program across the globe in Adobe which is handled by Red-Hat Team, including coordinating, maintain the pipeline and setting up project logistics.
  • Primary point-of-contact to external security vendors, including contract details negotiation and pricing.
  • Leading a team of three TPM’s & Coordinated with cross-functional partners in engineering, security, compliance, legal, and sales teams to meet changing business requirements.
  • Managed up to $300K budget, performed contract negotiation with security vendors, and served as the business owner for security tooling used across the company.
  • Managing the security assessments of products as part of the Adobe Secure Product Life Cycle (SPLC) and compliance requirements for channelizing the projects.
  • Personally, I coordinated over 90 assessments and 55 remediation assessments from initial request to completion, including subsequent follow-up.
  • Prepare and communicate project status as required to the leaderships & stakeholders.
  • Planning the schedule project timelines and milestones.
  • Strategy planning for prior 8-10-months roadmap.
  • Hands-on with the Atlassian product suite (JIRA) and AWS cloud.
  • New additions to the responsibilities in FY21:-
  • o TPM for the Adobe wide vulnerability management program to detect, remediate and reduce risk exposure to products, services, and the corporate infrastructure.
  • o Additionally responsible for multiple mission critical products to successfully meet Adobe’s product security requirements and excel in addressing their security backlogs.
  • o Enable the security organization to scale and cover the rapidly increasing number of products by developing TPM best practices.
Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT)Program ManagementInformation SecurityProgram Management & leadership

Technical Program Manager (ASSET (Penetration Testing))

Jun 2018Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT)Program ManagementInformation SecurityProgram Management & leadershipBudget ManagementVendor Management+1

Stride networks (educational start-up)

Co-Founder

Jan 2016Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Planned, directed and coordinated activities of multiple projects in vocational trainings.
  • Defined project scope, objectives, staffing & resources.
  • Developed project plans that identify key issues, approaches and performance metrics.
  • Planned and scheduled project timelines and milestones.
  • Formulated risk management plans.
  • Assembled and coordinated multi-disciplinary project teams.
  • Lead and mentored a project team.
  • Monitored quality assurance measures.
  • Developed and presented reports on project progress.
Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT)Program ManagementInformation SecurityProgram Management & leadershipBudget ManagementVendor Management+1

Cert-in

Security Analyst

Jan 2015Jun 2015 · 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Handling of Security Incidents.
  • Analysis of Spamming Incidents.
  • Log auditing.
  • Development of Anti-Spam Technique (published the same in IEEE conference).
  • Learned handling of classified data at National level.
Marketing OperationsMarketing StrategyAdvertisingProject Management

R.d allied industry

Marketing Manager

Jul 2013Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Uttar Pradesh, India

Program Management & leadershipProgram Management

Education

Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Big Data Analytics

Jan 2015Oct 2021

Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) — Information Security and Management

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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