Pawan Ghimire

Pawan722@gmail.com
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Summary

Delivery-focused management professional with team development, mentoring, and relationship-building background. Adept at quantifying issues and utilizing creative ideas across diverse backgrounds to develop solutions. Ability to help “company” deliver on Brand promise while continuing to grow my skill set in an Information Technology role. My current background is in Microsoft Azure project delivery and Azure Infrastructure Management. Always a Student.


Key Skills and Characteristics

  • Staff management and training
  • Relationship building
  • Customer Service
  • Team Building
  • Service Now
  • AzureDevOps
  • PowerBI
  • MS Office Suite
  • Root cause Analysis
  • Troubleshooting
  • Budgeting
  • Cost analysis
  • Customer relations
  • Delivery
  • Disaster recovery Planning
  • Leadership training
  • Cloud Computing
  • CI/CD
  • Cross-functional Team Leadership
  • Agile

Experience

Application Support Analyst

Texas 811

Jun 2021 - Current (40 hrs. / wk.)

Currently participating on the DE&I committee and leadership development team. This role has me performing application delivery functions related to software deployment. This is to ensure the timely deployment of the application stack. This includes:

  • Overseeing DevOps delivery items to ensure they are completed before sprint.
  • Deployment of Azure Cloud Infrastructure as required by the project.
  • Jump started a project to save the company close to $30000 per year on Infrastructure costs.
  • Created, implemented, and currently maintaining a Disaster recovery plan to meet downtime of 3hrs. (Our time is 45 min).
  • Create and Deploy SSIS packages.
  • Deploy and Test Build upgrades to Dev and Production environments.
  • Cost Analysis of Cloud Services consumed to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
  • Responsible for self-educating on emerging Cloud Technologies.

Cyber Security Trainee/Cyber Security Bootcamp

University of Texas at Austin

June 2023 - December 2023 (21 hrs. / wk.)

  • Ability to comprehend cybersecurity threats, actors, and methods; ability to advise, develop, and implement best practices across an organization
  • Configured, administered, and secured Linux and Windows servers. Wrote Bash and Powershell scripts to automate security tasks
  • Analyzed traffic flow over a network to troubleshoot issues and identify malicious activity and suspicious patterns of behavior using Wireshark
  • Configured SIEMs and performed network security monitoring. Conducted a forensics investigation to recover and analyze data and prepare technical evidence
  • Used penetration testing to examine network, system, and web vulnerabilities. Identified and exploited web vulnerabilities to be able to suggest mitigation strategies. Conducted vulnerability assessments using tools like NMAP and Metasploit and then exploited those vulnerabilities

Manager

Geek Squad / Best Buy

Oct 2000 - Aug 2021 (40 hrs. / wk.)

During my tenure with Geek Squad, I was responsible for team delivery of Geek Squad services and leadership development team. This included developing and managing 20-30 staff members across multiple locations. This included:

  • Managing a staffing budget to within 95 to 98% of the allotted budget.
  • 7 new store openings with staffing plans delivered within the Planned number of days.
  • Participated in Sandbox for new technology delivery. As a development team member, I focused on testing, documenting, and finding critical crash points in the application.
  • Helped design, test, and deploy data systems to comply with the company’s Client Data Privacy (CDP)policy in the UAT environment.
  • Maintained over 90% Customer satisfaction rating by training staff to provide world-class customer service.

Education

Western Governors University | Salt Lake City, UT Anticipated: May 2026

  • Bachelor of Science, Information Technology (BSIT to MSITM)

University Of Texas at Austin | Graduated : December 2023

  • Cyber Security Certificate

Licenses & Certifications

Certification Table
Certification Provider Date Status
Security+ CompTIA 2023 Active
Azure Fundamentals Microsoft 2024 Active
ITIL v4 PeopleCert 2024 Active
ITF+
A+
NET+
SEC+
CIOS
CSIS
ITIL