Tasheel Dhillon

About Tasheel Dhillon

As an IT leader with 20+ years of experience spanning multiple industries, my expertise lies in developing the global strategies, processes, systems, and reporting to steer organizations through critical transformation initiatives. Early successes in network architecture and operational roles brought me to PwC’s cybersecurity and financial services practices. There, I support organizations in addressing their most complex business imperatives. Our team focuses on four components to propel transformation and achieve growth: Strategy & Transformation, Privacy & Data Protection, Implementation & Operation, and Incident & Threat Management.I have taken on a wide variety of challenges in my career, but I am particularly energized by opportunities to define a growth path, build a more structured and governed technology organization, and restructure IT operations to more effectively enable the business.satisfactionCombining his experience in project planning and design with strong technical qualifications; he is adept in formulating strategies for technology acquisition, integration and implementation for IP network architecture, security, routing/switching, VLAN, VoIP, SAN, disaster recovery and business continuity.Specialties: Network Architecture, Network Design, Implementation, Technical Solution Leadership.

Experience

1. Senior Manager

   PwC

   Jul 2019 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Partner with clients to address the most complex and pressing business needs from planning to execution, focusing on technology strategy, digital transformation, privacy and data protection, and incident and threat management. Manage multiple project teams of 5–15 employees through short- and long-term engagements with multimillion-dollar budgets. Mentor and develop junior employees through a continuous feedback cycle that includes monthly coaching meetings, ongoing feedback on day-to-day activities, and quarterly project-specific performance evaluations.KEY PROJECTS:• SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SECURITY & COMPLIANCE: Led development of automation strategy that incorporated secure development practices into the application development lifecycle and ensured regulatory compliance for a large US bank.• NETWORK SECURITY MANAGEMENT: Heightened security of global network infrastructure for consumer credit agency, centralizing management of network security infrastructure and significantly improving capabilities around identifying and responding to outages.• ENTERPRISE CLOUD STRATEGY: Developed cloud migration strategy—involving 451 applications, virtual machines, and 2 data centers—for IT organization of a regional US insurance company to enable deployment of next-generation core insurance platforms. • DATA CENTER NETWORK ASSESSMENT: Identified gaps and developed roadmap of initiatives to improve compliance and security of 4 corporate data centers and 1,656 network device configurations for leading healthcare provider. • CLOUD MIGRATION PLANNING: Analyzed resiliency, availability, scalability, and performance of leading digital media software company’s IT network to support new business model and migration to cloud technologies.

Education

• California State University, Fresno

  BS, Computer Science

  1992 — 1997

• University of Phoenix

  MS, Computer Information Systems

  2004 — 2005

• Bishop's Stortford College

  O Levels

  1980 — 1988

Skills

• Firewalls
• Network Security
• Rhel
• Data Center
• Microsoft Technologies
• Network Architecture
• Storage
• Disaster Recovery
• Network Design
• Cisco Technologies
• Information Security Management