Yogen Upadhye
About
Yogen Upadhye is from San Francisco, California, United States. Yogen works in the following industries: "Computer Software", "Internet", "Financial Services", and "Consumer Electronics". Yogen is currently Information Security Analyst at Twitter, located in San Francisco, California, United States. In Yogen's previous role as a Security Professional at Omnivant Inc., Yogen worked in Pleasanton, California, United States until Feb 2020. Prior to joining Omnivant Inc., Yogen was a Program Manager, Information Security and Risk Management at Workday and held the position of Program Manager, Information Security and Risk Management at Pleasanton, CA. Prior to that, Yogen was a Program Manager at PayPal, based in San Jose, CA from Feb 2013 to May 2014. Yogen started working as Project Manager at Apple in Cupertino, CA in Apr 2012. From Dec 2011 to Apr 2012, Yogen was Program Manager at Franklin Templeton Investments, based in Dublin, CA. Prior to that, Yogen was a Program Manager at PayPal, based in San Jose, CA from May 2011 to Dec 2011. Yogen started working as Program Manager at eBay in Jan 2010.
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Yogen Upadhye's current jobs
- Mitigate 3rd party Risks through systematic assessment of vendor risk and recommending remediations per Twitter's vendor risk management processes - Suggest process improvements where appropriate - Collaborate with Security Engineering, Data Privacy, Legal and Sourcing partners for a well-rounded vendor review - Prioritize user requests while meeting SLAs for response times and minimizing resolution times - Collaborate with internal users and vendors to fast-track security reviews and minimize residual risk - Work with upper management to assist with the review of Security Exceptions - Assist in the generation of Metrics for the Vendor Security program - Helped draft the Vendor Security Management Policy
Yogen Upadhye's past jobs
Consultant for Information Security and Software development: • Best security practices for endpoints and networks • Security awareness • Software and h/w configurations • Issue resolution Work sabbatical Sept 2018 to Feb 2019
• Vendor / Product Security Reviews: Responsible for the security aspect of on-boarding new vendors and their products and services at Workday. Review the security of, and provide approval for, the use of 3rd party / vendor products and services and their use at Workday. • Influence the design of vendor products to improve Security • Advise internal users on the use of best security practices when using 3rd party products or services • Standards Development: Created the New Product Security Review Standard for Workday’s Security team. • Process Improvement: o Created a Security Playbook to assist cross-functional teams with reviews of new products or services from vendors. o Created a new formal processes for Security Exceptions. • Security Policies: Responsible for and actively contributing to the creation, periodic reviews and updates of Workday’s Security Policies, Procedures and Standards. • Experience: Bringing to the Security Team my diverse enterprise experience working with the business, technology teams, Information Security, Infrastructure, IT, Development, Product Management, Human Resources, Legal, Sourcing, Procurement, Sales and Marketing. • Awards: Awarded the Technology Excellence and Impact Winner award for 2017 by the CIO.
• Business-facing project manager at PayPal Site Operations. • Successfully managed multiple high-visibility Site Infrastructure projects with very aggressive timelines for Wallet, Risk, Global Ops and other business units. • Managed budget up to 5 million for the project portfolio • Successfully completed more than a dozen projects of various complexity and timeframes ranging from 3 to 9 months. • Simultaneously executed 6-8 projects at a time, duration 3 months to 10 months. • Executed projects using PayPal’s private Cloud, Oracle Databases as well as NoSQL databases such as Couchbase, physical servers, Virtual Machines, routers and switches, and Solid State storage devices such as Solidfire, across multiple data centers. • Understood business as well as technical requirements and executed with multiple cross-functional Site Operations and Development teams. • Managed project schedule, budget, resources, issues and risks and communicated effectively from VP and Director-level to engineers, to deliver projects on time and within budget. • Worked with Site Architects, SAs, NetSec, InfoSec, DBAs and Development teams, to implement site changes and enhancements to meet business needs • Recognized as an outstanding contributor to the Global Operations projects
Successfully Delivered projects for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) using Quest’s Foglight for Java and Compuware’s Gomez family of products, Business Metrics monitoring and a History Database (Oracle) for Apple’s Customer Systems Engineering group. • Managed multiple projects and reported project status, issues and risks on a weekly basis, • Analyzed application monitoring requirements from Customer Systems teams • Implemented the D2P (Development to Production) process for monitoring of each application • Worked with system engineers for capacity analysis and for resolving performance issues • Implemented alerting for application up-time and response time • Procured h/w for projects • Facilitated design discussions with DBAs and architects
Successfully managed the design and implementation of a strategic project for FTI - an external facing Global Careers website for Franklin Templeton, using Interwoven’s LiveSite platform and TeamSite (Content Management System) products. Internal customer was Human Resources / Talent Acquisition. Managed external vendor, scope, internal development resources, timeline, risks, issues and budget Provided regular status updates and communicated with the executive sponsor as well as with the working team.
Program Manager with PayPal Site Operations (Infrastructure) PMO. Successfully executed and turned around projects for the Compliance and Emerging Tech business units (Mobile, POS, IVR etc.). Managed a portfolio of 10+ projects with budgets up to 1.6 million. Single Operations point of contact for these business units. The Compliance projects deal with compliance with tax laws, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) regulatory mandates for all countries PayPal operates in. Mobile projects are related to the explosive growth in Mobile revenue for PayPal and the associated augmentation of Operations and Monitoring Infrastructure. POS projects are PayPal’s attempt to expand in the brick-and-mortar business.
Program Manager at eBay’s Developers Program, managing a portfolio of projects including a project to facilitate easier and faster integration of large merchants with eBay’s Large Merchant Services API at significantly reduced cost and a project for implementing a Payment Gateway and Enterprise Service Bus in eBay’s Sandbox. Successfully executed a company-wide initiative to achieve production-like availability, reliability and functional parity with production site for the eBay SandBox used by eBay’s 3rd party developers to develop and test Selling and Buying products that leverage eBay APIs and services. Overseeing cross-functional Development and Operations teams. Executed successfully a data center move infrastructure project to move SandBox H/W from Sacramento data center to Phoenix data center. This included procurement, budgeting, h/w movement, asset tracking, new installs, traffic migration etc. Also Product manager for eBay’s Service Platform that allows faster iteration of changes to eBay’s web site.
As a consultant, managed a portfolio of projects in the Technology Platform area. I managed several projects in the Technology Platform area for eBay, related to Software Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure services, SOA Registry deployment, training and integration with other internal tools and deployment to production. The SOA initiative helps towards software re-use, agility in reacting to market changes and enabling faster Time-to-Market for new online products. I also worked for a short time as a project manager in the Internet Advertising Solutions group.
As a consultant, managed a portfolio of projects in the Accounts Protection / Risk area, to help minimize online fraud at PayPal. Several of these projects run concurrently and are at different phases of execution at any given time. As Senior Project Manager, I drove my projects to timely completion through all their phases.
Won contract and managed a project to build a brand new Web site for an Industrial Testing company, ITC Engineering, in Sunol, CA. This is a B2C website intended to increase customer awareness about the company’s testing services and therefore help increase customer base.