Farah El AKKAD, Information Security Compliance Project Manager

Farah El AKKAD

Information Security Compliance Project Manager

Fawry for Banking & Payment Technology Services

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Diploma, Project Management Diploma
Experience
12 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 6 Months

Information Security Compliance Project Manager at Fawry for Banking & Payment Technology Services
  • Egypt
  • My current job since August 2017

- Audit change management requests and plans against Policies and procedures
- Drive decisions, escalations, and conflict resolution with neutral, approachable, data-driven communications
- Create relevant project support documents to share with teams that will support new configuration or hardware
- Identify process improvement areas, propose solution, carry through to roll-out in order to be compatible with PCI requirements
- Manage the day-to-day aspects of the project and its scope, including conflicting priorities and business interests
- Ensure the viability of all change process and guideline verification security systems with the goal of minimal business disruptions, as the result of failed or improperly configured or installed systems.
- Participate in project Plan to advise the security system needs including operations and program support by active collaboration, feedback, and support
- Manage compliance certifications like PCI, SOC2 and other periodic audits

Product Owner (MyFawry Portal) at Fawry for Banking & Payment Technology Services
  • Egypt
  • July 2016 to August 2017

- Providing myFawry customers with a great experience through a customized communication, and relationship. To manage their assigned accounts, addressing their issues proactively, maintaining personalized and increasing revenue
- Providing guidance in areas of professional matters as requested or needed
- Create a smooth communication channel with different departments to deliver myfawry new tasks on time
- Create reports and open investigations in any suspicious Configurations or System Misbehavior
- Working on Process planning and improvement
- Ensuring Change management process, compatibility of Technical flow and Product business
- Applying Configurations in myFawry product
- Ensuring Operations, Marketing, Call Center and Technical staff are aligned with enhancements and new services
- Providing UAT for myFawry portal, Components and creating Test cases document
- Ensuring Escalations Management applied as necessary with customers and colleagues
- Efficient case handling within the Support Teams, ensuring all objectives are met
- Testing new myFawry releases and confirm their functionalities

Project Manager at Fawry for Banking & Payment Technology Services
  • Egypt
  • December 2013 to July 2016

- Schedule meetings with related stakeholders to ensure flow of process
- Create project plans, establish timelines
- Report projects progress and provide regular updates to upper management
- Preparing presentations, status updates and Overlooks the project plan and follows up on delayed activities
- May act as liaison between districts and contractors involved in project implementation
- Negotiate delivery dates working with stakeholders and maintain communication during the delivery stages
- Work with different departments to ensure that project objectives are achieved within established time frames
- Assures that all contracted work is satisfactorily completed according to specifications
- Work with internal functional teams in order to gather and document requirements
- Ensure that relevant documentation is completed correctly and provide general administrative oversight for projects
- Ensure that the execution of tasks comply with relevant departmental processes
- Work with stakeholders to identify and manage conflicting tasks and adjust priorities
- Follow up on on-going Projects
- Make periodically reports to evaluate New projects

Customer Care Representative at 2013: Huawei Technologies Egypt Co, Smart Village
  • Egypt
  • October 2011 to December 2013

CCR):
•Handling Customer Requests related to all product line.
•Handling customer requests by transferring the requests to the related engineer according to TAC workflow and regulations.
•Accepting Customer's Request, Responding within the SLA & making regular survey for all the customers on daily basis.
•Generating reports to measure the KPI & quality for all TAC Product Lines.

Education

Diploma, Project Management Diploma
  • at RITI- Regional Information Technology Institute
  • December 2015
Master's degree, Sciences of Management
  • at Université de Nantes
  • June 2011
Bachelor's degree, Sciences of Management
  • at French University of EgyptUniversité de
  • January 2011

:

High school or equivalent,
  • at Mère de Dieu School, Cairo
  • January 2007

courses: General Secondary Certificate (Thanaweya Amma) – Section: Sciences.

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Planning
Team Management
Workflow
ADMINISTRATION
CALL CENTER
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
DELIVERY
MARKETING
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
PERSONNEL
PRESENTATION SKILLS
PROGRESS
PROJECT PLANNING

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
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