Paras is a Cybersecurity, Technology Risk Management, Governance, and Assurance Professional with over twenty-five years of experience. He has offered consulting and advisory services to wide-ranging commercial, public sector, educational and not-for-profit organisations to solve business and technology problems.
As a trusted advisor and an experienced organisational change expert, Paras has successfully enabled many organisations, large and small navigate their business and technology transformations.
He has an extensive experience in Business and IT strategy alignment, Risk management, Governance, capability maturity assessment, Management Systems, Information Security, Business Continuity, and Process and business improvements.
He started his career as a Chartered Accountant and ventured into the field of Information Technology as an Auditor. He leveraged his understanding of finance and cost accounting principles across large IT implementation and outsourcing projects.
Paras is a Certified Trainer and Certification Assessor for Management Systems Certifications including ISO27001 (Information Security), ISO9001 (Quality), ISO20000 (IT Service Management), and ISO22301 (Business Continuity). He’s also accredited trainer for COBIT5 Foundation, Implementation and Assessor trainings.
Some recent involvements include:
- Past President, ISACA Sydney Chapter (President 2014-2016)
- ISACA Framework Committee Member (2012-2015)
- Member of Standards Australia’s Quality Management Committee ‘QR-008’, responsible for ISO 9000 family of standard (2012-2019)
- Member of Standards Australia’s Security Techniques Sub-committee ‘IT-012-4’, responsible for ISO 27000 family of standard and other (2013-2019)
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