Avinash Gokhale |
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A well known trainer in the field of information security with 22 yrs of experience. He has conducted trainings as well as Security Audits in various industries. He is also an active member of ISACA USA and CSI (Computer Society India).
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| Profile |
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Educational Qualifications
- B.Sc. (Chemistry) from Bombay University
- B.Sc.(Tech.) from Bombay University
- Diploma in Administrative Management from Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in 1980
- Diploma in Computer Management from S.I.E.S. Institute of Management Studies, Bombay in 1982
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Certifications
- Certified Information Systems Auditor(CISA) from Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), USA in 1998
- ISO 27001:2005 Lead Auditor trained
- Certified Secure Software Life Cycle Professional(CSSLP)–in process
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Membership
- ISACA USA
- Computer Society of India
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Summary of recent achievements
- Conducted audits for 2 co-operative banks near Pune.
- Writing business specifications (SRS) and documentation, software testing for US based affiliate marketing company for development of about 15-20 web sites.
- Redesigning of delivery management processes from global perspective for Application Management Services (based on SAP and non-SAP) for a fortune 500 company in Mumbai.
- Recent experience as Project Manager for complete life cycle implementation of mySAP ERP-2004 for a financial institute; setting up of IT systems, policies and procedures for the institute.
- Associated with one of the top 5 Indian IT companies for overseas IS Audits and IS Security assignments.
- Experience of ACL (Audit Control Language) and writing ACL scripts for financial auditors for a US based fortune 500 company
- Visiting faculty to
- ISACA Mumbai Chapter for IS Audit Course
- Inst of Chartered Accountants of India for ISA Course
- Comptroller Audit General – Govt of India for CoBIT and IDEA courses
- Computer Maintenance Corporation (CMC), Govt of India enterprise
- Allana Institute of Management Studies for Object Oriented Design and programming using UML
- Xavier Institute of Communications
- Sydenham Institute of Management Studies
- Lala Lajpatrai Institute of Management Studies
- For about past 5-6 years carrying out IS Audit assignments
- Carried out SoX assignments in US / UK and security testing / source code audit for e-Payment Gateway in Dubai
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Summary of past achievements
- Started career as a Production Supervisor in chemical industry, worked for 4 years in this capacity
- Changed career path to Computer Software in 1982
- Worked in the capacities of Trainee Programmer to Systems Analyst / Systems Designer / Project Management / IS Consultant / IS Auditor
- Programming experience in COBOL, BASIC, C, Foxpro under operating systems like IBM - OS370, AOS (Data General), ICL, DOS, Unix, Windows-NT/95/98
- Project management experience for software development projects, software implementation projects etc.
- Experience in preparing various kinds of Project reports such as feasibility study for computerisation / migration, Systems Requirements Specifications etc.
- Experience as Business Owner / entrepreneur for
- Data processing
- Individual & corporate training in computer subjects, IS Audit subjects
- DTP
- Software development
- Project implementation
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| Significant IS Audit and related Projects |
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BSI Ltd - March 2009
- Participated as Technical Expert for ISO 9001:2000 Conformity Assessment for Kotak Mahnidra Bank Ltd (2 days)
- Participated as Technical Expert for ISO 27001:2005 Re-certification for Sharekhan Ltd –
a share broking company. (1 day)
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Ahmednagar Shahar Sahakari Bank Ltd, Malkapur Urban Co-op bank Ltd - Nov 2008 to Feb 2009
- Conducting CISA audits for banking application software covering areas such as data security, banking application functionality, infrastructure, facilities and people and procedures audit.
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Ace Co-operative Bank Ltd - Nov 2008 - ongoing
- Providing Information Technology consultancy services for the bank to migrate from distributed banking application to centralized banking application.
- The areas covered are : hardware, power systems, networking, software selection, helping in data migration, software acceptance etc.
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City Co-operative Bank Ltd - June 2008 – ongoing
- Data conversion and migration audit for the bank going from distributed banking environment to Core Banking System
- This assignment involves checking the converted data from old Btrieve-COBOL system to new SQL Server 2005 based database platform.
- The original data and converted data is checked file-by-file and field-by-field with the converted data to ensure correct conversion and working of new software.
- Also, implementation audit is being carried out.
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| IS Audit and COBIT Trainings delivered |
- Conducting IS Audit training for ISACA Mumbai chapter for various topics for an audience of about 250 senior level participants having varied industry experience of financial audits, IT etc.
- Conducting COBIT training for senior govt / semi-govt finance and IS auditors for all COBIT domains thru case studies.
- Conducting Systems Analysis and Design MIS, Advanced MIS, IS for management etc subjects for premier management institutes from Mumbai.
- Conducting IS Audit training for practicing CAs for various subject areas based on various modules.
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