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CHAUDHARI MUHAMMAD WAQAS

Scarborough,WA

Summary

An energetic and highly self-motivated individual with a master's degree in cybersecurity. Aspiring to gain entry and start a challenging career in the IT industry in a dynamic organization that offers a genuine opportunity for progression. Leveraging a well-honed skillset in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Risk Assessment, Threat Intelligence, Linux administration, Network Security, Penetration Testing, and Security Tools and Technologies. Well-versed in understanding core technological needs and prioritizing conflicting demands. Exhibits a strong ability to work proactively in complex and fast-paced environments. Strong time management and multitasking abilities with analytical abilities to proactively solve complex problems.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

ICT Security Specialist

Apptology FZCO (Dubai)
09.2022 - 09.2023
  • Design, implement and maintain security measures such as firewalls, encryption, and access controls
  • Conduct risk assessments, vulnerability testing, and penetration testing to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities
  • Monitor systems for security breaches or anomalies and take appropriate action
  • Provide training and education to staff on security best practices
  • Work closely with IT professionals and management to develop and implement security policies and procedures
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest security trends and technologies.

Junior Project Manager and Technical Support (internship)

Makeen.io (Australia)
06.2020 - 02.2022
  • Manage the mobile and web bases application development projects
  • Worked on Microsoft Power BI bases project for South Australian Company
  • Provide the technical support remotely to clients which include the data storage, creating visual report from big databases and presented in final report.

Network Administrator

Harvest Group Market (Pakistan)
10.2015 - 05.2018
  • Working as a Network Administrator
  • Installation & Configuration of windows server 2008 R2
  • Responsible for network efficiency and maintenance
  • Excellent troubleshooting and customer service skills to quickly meet their needs
  • Provided technical support to computer system users on reported issues and service requests
  • Maintained network security standards and escalation of situations requiring urgent attention.

Education

Master of Cyber Security - Digital Forensic and Defense

Edith Cowan University
Perth, Australia
01.2022

Master of Information Technology - Networking

GC University Faisalabad
Faisalabad, Pakistan
01.2017

Bachelor of Information Technology - Information Technology

GC University Faisalabad
Faisalabad, Pakistan
01.2015

Skills

  • Networking
  • IT Support
  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft Exchange (Office365)
  • Data migration
  • Troubleshooting
  • Project Management
  • Microsoft Project
  • Waterfall
  • Agile
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Windows
  • Mac OS
  • Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • Splunk Server
  • Splunk Dashboard
  • Splunk Forwarder
  • Metasploit
  • Wireshark
  • Autopsy

Academic

Academic Project

Chatbot and the issue of Information Policy- ECU-2022

  • We aim to understand the working of a chat bot and apply the learning to build a chat bit for spreading awareness about cybersecurity.
  • These chat bots will tend to act as a technician for the customer to educate and solve their cybersecurity related queries.
  • This chat bot will be designed for the intention of awareness and protection on one’s own self.
  • We aim to study the development process of chat bots through Azure chat bot services, get inspirations from the similar projects and creating one while keeping in mind all the ethical considerations.
  • We aim to create a cross-platform application using React Native framework, for the chat bot.
  • Another goal is to focus on improvement of the security of the chat bots as it contains user credential and important details that needs to be secured from all kinds of scams, hacks.
  • A chat bot is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based software program that acts as a conversational agent to communicate with humans using Natural Language processing tools.
  • This chat bot is phone base application that provide solution about phone security to educate people about spam and viruses’ email and text massages.
  • It will reply suitable assistance when someone ask questions like "What are spam emails" or "Is my password strong enough".

Languages

English
Full Professional

Reference

Reference will be provided upon request.

Timeline

ICT Security Specialist

Apptology FZCO (Dubai)
09.2022 - 09.2023

Junior Project Manager and Technical Support (internship)

Makeen.io (Australia)
06.2020 - 02.2022

Network Administrator

Harvest Group Market (Pakistan)
10.2015 - 05.2018

Master of Cyber Security - Digital Forensic and Defense

Edith Cowan University

Master of Information Technology - Networking

GC University Faisalabad

Bachelor of Information Technology - Information Technology

GC University Faisalabad
CHAUDHARI MUHAMMAD WAQAS