khaled abdalla

Managing director March 2010 - so far
KAN Egypt/CAIRO- Ismailia
Responsibilities and achievements included:
• Setting the project plan,
• Setting the organisation chart,
• Managing and recruiting staff
• Managing budget
• Managing factory relationship with suppliers, agents, vendors and different government organisations and financial institutions
• Budget planning, allocation and follow-up,
• Team building,
• Splitting the policy & strategy into precise projects
• Developing the Feasibility study for each project.
• Developing the business plan for the project
• Technical environment design procurement and installation
• Assisting in partnership negotiation and strategic alliance building
• Managing a team for designing the marketing strategy
• Costing and resources allocation and interviews
• Managing Market forecasts team
• Managing team of researchers
• Managing company different projects ( related to WASEL Program)
• Managing new security products design, development, and implementation
• Department Finance management including regular reporting monitoring, and projects financing/timeline regular reviews
• Department activity marketing within organisation and internationally

IS Security head for the UAE / new markets.
Responsibilities and achievements included:
• Developing the information security strategy & department organisation structure for UAE
• Performing Technical Vulnerability assessment for IT projects.
• Performing Information security process design and reengineering
• Audit missions to ensure compliance to the security policy
• Applications / network monitoring.
• Information security training.
• Logical Access management.
• PCI/DSS project planning.
• IS Security policy authoring, customisation and enforcing
• Business continuity planning strategy development,
• Developing, and delivering test plans, training scenarios for all divisions during the crisis management for the brokerage division.
• Business Process analysis and reengineering, report writing, risks and issues management
• Prince2 certified practitioner: ID No:P2R/272439

Business continuity plan Lead consultant February 2007 - Dec 2007
EMC & National Commercial Bank Capital, NCB IT BCP/DRP Jeddah, Riyadh, KSA
BCP & DR project management for a national and international brokerage division in the bank.
Responsibilities and achievements included:
• Managing a team of 3 consultants throughout the project.
• Business Impact Analyses, Risk assessment, Work Area Recovery (WAR) with senior management/directors for their Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery requirements.
• Business continuity planning strategy development,
• Testing the proposed Business continuity plan.
• Working closely with the BCP&DR on day to day senior management, engagement with business managers and heads of department.
• Developing, and delivering test plans, training scenarios for all divisions during the crisis management for the brokerage division.
• Excellent business analysis, process analysis, report writing and risks and issues management

Regional IS security project Manager October 2005-February 2007
& Regional Data Recovery Plan Manager Manama, Bahrain
BNP Paribas Doha, Qatar
Kuwait, Dubai, Abu-Dhabi, UAE
Riyadh, KSA
Projects and achievements and responsibilities:
• Designed, managed & supervised the implementation of the Data Recovery Plan (DRP) on the ME region.
• Regional IS security design & implementation,
• Regional IT processes re-engineering, procedures authoring and implementation
• Designed, implemented and managed the IS security project for the bank in the ME.
• Developing the Bank's regional IS security policy to match local regulations
•Implementing and enforcing the Bank's security policy
•IS risk Assessment for all the bank applications
•IT Audit missions participation
•IS Security awareness sessions Region wide for the bank employees in different managerial levels
•Reviewing the designs of new projects for the bank and approving them from an IS security point of view, Network, infrastructure, new projects specifications documents, and inspecting the delivered projects.
•Managing the bank IDS, firewall & proxy.
•Performing IS Security incidents investigations
•Assisting the bank to comply with various laws and regulations in the IS security domain.

BCP consultant May 2005 - October 2005
BNP Paribas Cairo, Egypt
Projects and achievements and responsibilities:
• Business interruption impact analysis for retail banking, corporate banking Islamic banking, asset management,
• Maximum Tolerable outage per business line estimation
• Business resources requirements definition for all business lines in BNP Paribas in crisis scenario
• Business Analysis definition for all bank departments to develop the local BNPP Business continuity plan.
• Designing the BCP for the bank in Egypt, and project management
• BCP testing definition, design, and implementation.
• BCP training and testing for the bank employees in different managerial levels

IS Security Officer Feb 2005 - May 2005,
BNP Paribas Cairo, Egypt
Projects and achievements and responsibilities:
• Responsible for the IS security in BNP Paribas Le Caire,
• Designed, implemented and managed the IS security project for the bank.
• Developing the Bank's Local IS security policy
• Designed, managed and supervised the implementation of the Business continuity plan (BCP).
• Investigations in any IS incident
• Monitoring the IS resources
• IS risk Assessment
• IS Security awareness sessions Country wide for the bank employees for different managerial levels

Oasis Technologies(E-funds)
Toronto, Ontario,
Cairo-Egypt,
Paris-France,
Warsaw-Poland
Projects:
•ENBA: a payment processing proxy for credit cards for an Irish Client
•FACTORE; a payment processing proxy for credit cards and other debit cards for an Irish credit card issuer whose processing centre was placed in Paris
•EXACTPAY: an internet payment processing proxy for a Cayman Island bank owner
•TWO: a no branch bank which offers full banking services for clients through the internet
•PBK: for a bank in Warsaw-Poland with the same name; its a front office application for processing issuer and acquirer transactions for different payment cards, the second phase was a credit card monitoring and issuing back office system, as well as integration project between their back office (TIM) and oasis switches.
Roles in projects and achievements:
•Consultant for e-payment and e-business in Oasis
•Delivering and customization of project in Paris-France including authoring a validation and verification testing of the delivered project as well as stress testing the delivered system for a number of financial institutions and banks.
•Delivered consultation, product support and customization for clients in site in Paris-France, Cairo-Egypt, Warsaw-Poland, and Toronto-Canada for the company solutions (IST/Card, IST/Exchange, IST/Switch, and IST/Foundation).
•Delivered an integration project for IST/Card with a French company back office (TIM). The project integration scope included, specification writing, design, coding, testing plan writing and execution including validation and verification testing as well as interface compatibility tests, user guide authoring, training manual developing and training on the system for bank employee later on at site.
•Debugging into a number of life networks including, Europay, PolCard, PBK
•Performing Visa Certification as issuer, and acquirer for Client banks across Europe & ME.
•Coaching a number of employees during the different projects.

April 1998 - Mar. 2000
Arab Bank Cairo, Egypt
Projects and achievements:
• Y2K readiness projects and EMU work
• responsible for launching a set of enhancements and modifications over the bank Back Office application EQUATION including full design of the process from system analysis, data collection, deployment and user training, this including applying Y2k enhancements, EMU, standing orders, diary notes, Balance Orders, Equation swift interface, installing new version of equation and testing it internally before deployment and doing all necessary parameterization, also doing orientation training sessions to employee’s to orient them regularly about the new modifications and enhancements.

IBM - Egypt Cairo, Egypt
Informex-4GL Report Designer Summer 1996
Worked in the project of educational building authority where I was responsible for report layout design using Informix-4GL report layout utility under AIX.
Web Server Installation and HTML programmer Summer 1995
Installation of IBM-Egypt prototype for web site and initial design of the site including writing HTML pages and some scripts under AIX platform.
Awarded the 1st prize in the internationally held IBM contest in programming under OS2 where my program OS2Draw won the first prize it was developed under OS2 using C++, OWL, OS2 SDK.
Testing and Documentation Summer 1994
TOP reader Documentation and user manual
Designed an algorithm for OCR which is now operational and highly productive.

instructor for different programming languages