SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Paras has over twenty-five years’ experience in business and technology consulting. 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 in areas such as Business and IT strategy alignment, Risk management, Governance, IT 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 in 2001. 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 of his volunteering involvements include:

• Immediate 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)