Shamir Lalani — Product Manager

Author, Director of Products for CyberSecurity & Risk Services with Exp as Director PreSales for EMEA, Project Manager, Expert in Risk, Compliance & Audit Readiness with strong background in Product Development & Enterprise Solution Architect with MBA, MCP working in IT industry for over 20+ years, providing leadership and engineering management in solution designing, architect, solution delivery of software solutions, GTM strategy and managed service with proven technical leadership, project management and communication skills demonstrated in information technology teams. Developed a comprehensive approach to 360 risk management & compliance with multiple regulations & certificates that empowers IT leaders to adopt a proactive, holistic ERM strategy. Demonstrated history of accepting challenges & achieved success in information security & services industry. Skilled in developing teams, products & solutions for Cyber Security, Enterprise Risk Management and Compliance. Seasoned Product/Project Manager with MBA, MCP, (aspiring PMP & CISSP Certification). Performed roles like Scrum Master, Business analysis, database designer, application designer, customer engagements, project handling, competitive analysis, application designing and team management in the journey of reaching to top Management. Excellent communication, presentation skills & leadership qualities with ability to proactively identify and resolve complications, well acquainted with project management & sales processes in the industry and follow the most effective and productive method of resolving customer challenges. I am sure my result-oriented approach and effective sales & team handling skills can deliver the requisites with profit increases & customer satisfaction. Specialties: Project Handling, Leadership, Team Work & Team Building, Client Interaction & Requirement Gathering., Idea Conceiving, Mentoring & Motivating, Testing & Implementation, Delivery & Deployment, Product Training, Scrum Master.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Risk Management expert with extensive experience in product development and technical presales.

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 25 yrs 1 mo

Skills

Product Management
Cybersecurity
Technical Presales
Governance, Risk Management, And Compliance (grc)
Teaching
Strategic Management

Career Highlights

20+ years of experience in IT and Cybersecurity.
Expert in Risk, Compliance, and Audit Readiness.
Proven track record in product management and technical leadership.

Work Experience

Wipro Limited

Director of Product Management (8 yrs)

Dell EMC

Director of PreSales (4 yrs 2 mos)

IBS International Business School

Professor of Strategic Management & International Finance (9 mos)

ViewTrust Technology Inc.

Technical Program Manager (10 yrs 2 mos)

Jeff Consultants Pvt Ltd

Consultant (7 mos)

Pune Web & Marketing Solutions

Web Developer (2 yrs 2 mos)

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA at Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

Bcom at Pune University

at MES : Maharashtra English School

Shamir Lalani

Product Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India25 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in IT and Cybersecurity.
Expert in Risk, Compliance, and Audit Readiness.
Proven track record in product management and technical leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Risk Management expert with extensive experience in product development and technical presales.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementCybersecurityTechnical PresalesGovernance, Risk Management, And Compliance (grc)TeachingStrategic Management

Other Skills

Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile Application DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAgile ModelingAgile Project ManagementAgile Web DevelopmentAnalyticsArtificial Intelligence(AI)Business AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence (BI)Business Relationship ManagementBusiness StrategyBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

About

Experience

25 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

5 yrs

Average Tenure

8 yrs

Current Experience

Wipro limited

Director of Product Management

Jun 2018 – Present · 8 yrs · Pune Area, India

Leading central engineering team for building IP products in Cyber Security & Risk Services(CRS). Ensuring the constant delivery of product[s] built on core technologies along with automation in GRC platforms like ServiceNow, RSA Archer, and Rsam/HighBond in the areas of Third Party Risk Management (TPRM), Business Risk and Controls, Security automation, IDAM, Vulnerability, threat management, Data security and overall IT automation using AI/ML, with substantial exposure in the planning of controls & analysis, system development under risk management framework, evolving risk assessment, mitigation process & compliance practices.

Cloud SecurityProduct ManagementCybersecuritySupportive ServicesProject ManagementArtificial Intelligence(AI)+9

Dell emc

Director of PreSales

Feb 2014 – Apr 2018 · 4 yrs 2 mos · EMEA

(Dell EMC acquired Virtustream) Successfully completed various projects to gain the trust of the Management in 15yrs long run and got promoted at various steps and stages to become the Presales Engineer for EMEA region after few years in Product Management, Product development, managing the NOC/SOC operations etc
Presales activities undertaken like Product presentations, deep dive demos in sale meetings in US, Europe & Middle-East followed by deployment & successful closure.
Directed the team on product design & architecture to make a successful GRC tool while being involved in the sales activities & satisfying the customer’s needs like product presentations & on/off site demos. Active member of QISC (Quality & Information Security Council), core team for ISO Certification. We defined all the Policies & Procedures for the company & ensured the applicability of the same.
Our tool supported standards and regulatory requirements like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, ISO/IEC 27002:2013 (IT), ISO/IEC 27017:2015 (Cloud), ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27001:2005, SANS Top 20 v6.0, FISCAM, NIST 800-53-REV4, NESA (for UAE), HIPAA HiTech, DIACAP, DOD-RMF+CCI, FedRAMP, IBM ISEC, CCM, CSC-CIS Critical Security Controls VER 6.1, NERC, etc..
Supported sensors like Tenable Nessus, Qualys, VCenter, McAfee EPO, McAfee MVM (aka Foundstone), MS Windows Events, Symantec CCS, Tenable SC Center, ForeScout, Generic Syslog, Linux Events, Retina, HBSS, CISCAT, Gold Disk, PatchLink, NEXPOSE, Splunk, STIG, ACAS, NIST EPO, NIST ForeScout, SCCM, xStream, Oracle, SIEM etc...
Expert in continuous proactive monitoring of risks across the on-premise, hybrid or the cloud environment to address risks surrounding Cyber, non-Compliance, IT Operations and Audit Readiness.
Our solution Provides a unified view of enterprise risk on a single dashboard. Automates Compliance and Risk management for private or hybrid clouds. Continuous analysis of risk with heat maps for proactive view.
Collaborative and workflow driven platform.

Software Solution ArchitectureTechnical PresalesBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Product Lifecycle ManagementCustomer SuccessAgile Methodologies+4

Ibs international business school

Professor of Strategic Management & International Finance

Jul 2009 – Apr 2010 · 9 mos · Pune · On-site

IBS : International Business School was a Business Management School in India Pune.
Primarily was teaching as a Faculty for
1. Strategic Management
2. International Finance
My Roles and Responsibilities were
Teaching the subject matter with professional touch.
Organizing seminars & guest lectures.
Bringing a balance of academic expertise and professional experience to the students.
Be a Guide to the students for their Projects.
Developed educational alliances with companies & helping the placement cell.

Strategic CommunicationsFinaceStrategic Enterprise ManagementBusiness Relationship ManagementTeachingStrategy+2

Viewtrust technology inc.

Technical Program Manager

Dec 2003 – Feb 2014 · 10 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

At ViewTrust i have worked on web based applications related to Network securities, Asset Management, Risk management, Compliance (ISO, NIST (all Rev’s), DIACAP, FISMA, HIPAA, SOX, IBM ISEC, PCI, PCI DSS 3.1, NERC, SANS Top 20 v6.0, BASE II, GLBA, NESA, DoD-RMF, COBIT, etc..), Incident Management, Contract Management etc.. & maintenance of the web sites.Have been an active part of the QISC (Quality & Information Security Council) In ViewTrust which was the core team during the ISO Certification. We collectively defined all the Policies & Procedures for the company & ensured the applicability of the same.
Innovative thinker with aptitude to transmute complex contexts to implementable solutions.
Designed Enterprise 360° view across Governance, Risk & Compliance on a single dashboard.
Continuous proactive monitoring of hybrid environments to address risks across Cyber, Compliance, IT Operations, Audit Readiness, Asset Management & Incident Management.
Establishing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy, and program to ensure IT assets and technologies are adequately protected with help of the tool.
Lead & participate in due diligence in order to validate architected solutions.
Worked with various teams to enhance existing services based on market or customer feedback

IT GRCProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementTechnical Project LeadershipProduct DesignProduct Lifecycle Management+4

Jeff consultants pvt ltd

Consultant

Aug 2002 – Mar 2003 · 7 mos · Pune Area, India

Worked as a Consultant to Develop Real Estate Data Management software for Real Estate Consultant as a single handedly managed project. Had continuous interactions with the end users to gather requirements and developed as per the needs on the fly & delivered.

Pune web & marketing solutions

Web Developer

Jun 2000 – Aug 2002 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India

Worked on multiple Web based projects from basic websites, CMS & File system input and output of data management portals for various clients in multiple industries. Written content for lot of websites and handled the change request on various websites & web based projects.