Manager, Technology Advisory
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Total years of experience :29 years, 6 months
• Technology Project/ Program management
• IT Risk Assessment/ Risk management
• Infrastructure and Security project management
• Business process reegineering
• Qaullity Assurance
• RFP development
• Business develoment
• Infrastructure and Security consultancy
• Enterprise architecture consultancy
• Aligning technology for business delivery
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM project management
• Development of security policies/ procedures
• Business development, development of RFP responses, identifying new opportunities
• Framework design and implementation
• ADSIC/ISO security standard consultancy
• Service delivery management
• Team management
• Infrastructure Network and Security Consultant focused for the Information Security Division
• Solution proposal/ consultancy and solution presentation
• Bid management and Solution Architect for large scale turnkey solutions.
• Responsible for building full product portfolio to provide end to end security solutions.
• Business development activities include identifying new business opportunities
• Product and vendor relationship management: Bluecoat, RSA, McAfee, TrendMicro, IBM-ISS, IronPort. Responsibilities included
o Marketing events, market studies.
o Business planning and forecasting
o Meeting and exceeding targets
o Funnel and account planning
o Dealing with clients and partners on the products handled, as well as partner enablement, financially and technically.
• Security consultancy following standards such PCI-DSS and ISO 27001.
• Security and best practices recommendations on IT related areas, including infrastructure, application, endpoint, backup, data security, encryption, secure gateway, access control, authentication, management, SIEM, visibility and reporting.
•Developped RFP response, including technical write-up, BOQ, project plan, project assumptions, and scope of work.
• RFP developemnt
• Solutions consultancy, requirement gathering, future planning, building roadmaps, and statement of work preparation.
• Full Cisco Product portfolio consultant, including Network Infrastructure, IP Telephony (Unified Communication), Security and Wireless.
• Organization of the Security Division and handling a broad line of products with our partners (CISCO, IBM-ISS, Bluecoat, RSA, Ironport, CA, McAfee, Symantec)
• Cisco Networking and Security Design Consultant. Including IOS, Core (Nexus and 6500s), Distribution (4500s), Edge, routers, switches (CAT), firewalls (ASA, ACE, Palo Alto), Intrusion Prevention (IPS), Load Balancer (F5, ACE), Application Layer (XML) firewall, Anomaly Detection (ADS)
Security projects implementation for Corporate/Enterprise clients in GCC countries such as Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Remote Penetration Testing.
Network and Systems Vulnerability Assessment (Servers, Network elements such as firewalls, switches, routers and boxes)
Security Trend Analysis studies and reports
Wrote Security Baseline guides for different systems and network components (MS Windows Server systems, IBM AIX, CISCO VPN/Router/PIX)
Dealt with many security products and solutions including, PKI, Identity Management Solutions, One time Password (RSA, Cryptocard), Peripheral Control Solutions, VPN access solutions, E-mail security solutions(Iron Port), Encryption appliances (CE-Infosys LAN/WAN Cryptors, Microcryptors), Application Layer Firewalls.
Presales work, presentations, introductory as well as technical and consultancy meetings.
Apart of my technical tasks, I prepared project proposals (RFP and RFQ) for system deplyment and network for different clients. I performed financial studies and managed project deployment, and task distribution.
Managed product presales, training and support like 3COM, CISCO, AVAYA, DLINK, SMARTBIZ, MICROSOFT, SiteCOM.
Setup of Microsoft based networks using HP DL 140, 350 and IBM servers.
Design, deployment, administration of Microsoft Windows based network. Windows 2000/2003 server, IIS, DNS, Active directory, Exchange 2000, SQL server 2000, DHCP management. Netscreen, 3com firewall configuration. CISCO 1700, 2500 router configuration.
Deployment and configuration of over 20 Medium size office full IT setup in the UAE, using Microsoft Windows server 2k3, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Firewall.
Solution consultancy for Neurotech clients, regarding networking, security, and software solutions.
Windows 2003 migration from NT and 2000.
Handling 10 companies' Annual Maintainnace Contracts that included support and maintainance of networks with Active directory, Exchange, SQL 2000, servers, switches, routers.
Design, deployment of wireless network 802.11 a, b, g infrastructures using 3COM, CISCO, AVAYA, SITECOM wireless equipment.
3COM NBX 100 IP Telephony system installation and configuration.
3COM/CISCO backbone switch configuration.
Lucent/CISCO router configuration.
Product support: Webalarm security system, Smartbiz monitoring system.
Customer services and support.
Project management using Microsoft Project.
ASP and ASP.NET development.
Wireless Hotel Internet access and billing configuration, interface with Microsoft Fidelio.
Managed wired/wireless university network consisting of 5 servers/ 220 clients and 2 WAN nodes connectivity. Windows 2000 Active Directory/DNS/Exchange/WINS.
HP/IBM servers setup and deployment.
CISCO Switch/Router configuration.
Gave Computer Engineering /Science courses.
Was responsible for setting up all the Engineering Laboratories.
Developed software for Engineering LABs.
Wrote student manuals and Education Material for engineering LABs.
Part Time training of Microsoft Based courses including A+, Visual Basic, CIW, HTML, E-Commerce, Windows 2000 server.
Security + training
I taught private lessons in Mathematics, Science, and English for school students, as well as Programming, C++, networking for university students.
I worked as a Network Administrator as well as a software developper. I developped software, installed networks at both offices, supported and administered them. I developed several software packages as well as web - based administration interface. I also designed and supervised the Holiday Inn - Martinez. Hotel Network implementation, and developed the billing system and software for the internet service that my company provided for the Hotel. The software billed the customer on usage bases as they used the internet in their hotel rooms.
Technical Department - NOC Division,
Network Support / Network Administrator
Cartage operations is a medium sized organization that provided internet services for education based environemts. So my job included managing the company's network and maximising network uptime, as well as provding network solution for out clients.
Work Technologies involved coniguration mand management of Microsoft Windows NT servers, Microsoft Proxy 2.0, SQL server 7.0, CISCO rotuer configuration.
Installation and management of Cisco 2500 routers, layer 2, 3 switches, cisco remote access server (RAS), modem and Zyxcel modem racks. Providing complete internet solutions for schools and universities including mail server configuration (MS Exchange), firewall, DNS, ISA server configuration.
Masters Degree in Telecommunication and Networking, just shy of Thesis submission. It deals with different aspects ranging from Advanced Netwroking Topic, ATM, Wireless Communication, Digital Communication, Network Security, Network SImulation Tools, Network LAB, Optical Communication and some related business sides such as Managment Information Systems (MIS) course, and an E-Commerce course.
We went to the 3com Boston Facility in the United Stated to get training on how to install/Configure a networking product that they developped. We also trained on using the linux based SolutionIP server. The 3com equipment emulated ethernet on a 2 wire telephone line, and allowed ethernet traffic to be transmitted with voice simultaneously over the copper wire pair or the telephone wires.
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Communication Engineering. a 5 year degree.