• Result-oriented professional offering 23 years of multi-cultural
exposure with diverse roles distinguished by commended
performance and proven results
• Rich expertise in IT Security, Cybersecurity platform migration,
cloud-based cyber platform services, application and data
security, and emerging technologies, DevSecOps environments,
Microservices, Containers and automating security controls.
• Built, managed and delivered large 'Go-digital' programs across
multiple practices across diversified cultural locations; vast exposure
in developing, maintaining, testing and releasing solutions
• Pioneered an industry revolution with innovative services that
expanded market growth; enabled technology that provided multimillion dollars opportunities and revenue growth
• Subject Matter Expert in Cloud and Digital environments,
cybersecurity technology; infrastructure, tools, architecture,
platforms, best practices for integration
• Steered measures to ensure that the BFSI product/applications
are in line with product road map/business through facilitation of IT
Security and Information System Audit; led compliance process like
SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SSAE16 and ISO 27017/18, SAS70
• Strong knowledge and understanding of relevant security
framework, legal and regulatory requirements, such as: NESA, ISO
27001/27002, NIST, CoBIT, SOC2 and GDPR
-
Al Maryah Community Bank
Chief Information Security Officer
April 2021 - Present (4 years 1 month)
-
UAE Banks Federation
Executive Committee Member - Digital Banking
January 2022 - May 2023 (1 year 5 months)
-
Mashreq Bank
Senior Advisory Auditor - IT, Cloud, Information & Cybersecurity
December 2019 - April 2021 (1 year 5 months)
-
Deutsche Bank
Vice President
June 2015 - May 2019 (4 years)
-
Barclays
Assistant Vice President
June 2013 - June 2015 (2 years 1 month)
-
Capita
Manager - Data Center Infrastructure, DBA & Application Security
November 2011 - May 2013 (1 year 7 months)
-
SunGard
Manager - IT, Security, DevOps
June 2007 - November 2011 (4 years 6 months)
-
Xansa plc
Technical Team Lead
2006 - 2007 (1 year)