Delivery Manager & Customer Experience Lead with 17+ years of expertise in IAM, Directory Services, and Cybersecurity across global enterprises. Former Service Delivery Manager for IBM Security solutions and Transition Lead for Centrify migration with strong expertise in LDAP (IBM SDS, Sun One, Tivoli, ODSEE). Skilled in Agile leadership, customer engagement, and service delivery with a proven record of driving secure, reliable, and business-focused identity solutions.
- Leading end-to-end IAM operations for PingFederate, PingDirectory, and PingAccess, ensuring secure, scalable, and customer-centric service delivery.
- Drove real-time SSO issue resolution, LDAP configuration, and cert management to enhance **Customer Experience** and minimize user disruption.
- Supported compliance audits and maintained process documentation to uphold service reliability and a seamless customer journey.
- IAM Consultant (Directory Services): Managed LDAP operations (monitoring, replication, schema/index updates, password policies, ACIs, certificates) and application integration on Tomcat with secure provisioning and certificate renewals.
- Transition Manager: Unix Access Management migration to Centrify (AD authentication), ensuring seamless access, improved efficiency, and compliance with enterprise standards.
- Enhanced security & compliance** through audits, policy enforcement, user/group role management, and incident resolution, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards.
- Service Delivery Manager (IBM LDAP) & Directory Services Specialist: Delivered migrations (Sun DS V5.2→V6.3 for Avis, TDS V6.3→ISDS V6.4 for Whirlpool) and managed end-to-end LDAP operations—installation, replication, schema/index updates, password policies, ACIs, certificates, and user/group management.
- Resolved high-priority LDAP issues with vendor support, ensured compliance through audits, metrics, documentation, and led RFS/migration activities (planning, estimation, timelines).
- Agile Squad Lead: Coached teams on agile best practices, facilitated ceremonies (scrums, sprint planning/reviews/demos), and worked with Product Owners on backlog prioritization and release planning to improve delivery efficiency.
- Governance & Service Excellence: Established project metrics to track customer value, coordinated sign-offs with client teams, resolved incidents, and escalated risks/issues to governance committees while driving continuous improvement using IBM Bluesight & Mural Board.
- Production Support Executive (Directory Services):** Administered BMC Identity Management components, handled user/group provisioning, password management, and manual account setups.
- Monitored workflows, performed health checks, generated error reports, and resolved job abends, incidents, and user issues to ensure service stability.
- Tools Used: BMC Identity Management Suite, BMC Passport, BMC Calendara Directory Integrator, Sun Directory Server V5.2.