Ahmed Wagdy, IT Risk Manager

Ahmed Wagdy

IT Risk Manager

National Bank of Kuwait - NBK

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, Communication and Electronics
Experience
12 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 4 Months

IT Risk Manager at National Bank of Kuwait - NBK
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2019

-Collaborate with IT leadership, Internal Audit and business partners to ensure effective internal controls are implemented and maintained
- Align with Group Risk Management policy and tools in a way that is practical and relevant to NBK Egypt environment
- Guide IT delegate to perform, document risk, and control self-assessments for their process areas
- Oversee the RCSA process adherence then validate finalized ones for approval
- Guide IT and ISO in managing closure of outstanding IT risk issues and follow up with IT on the status of issues and maintaining IT risk register - Guide IT and ISO in identifying key risk and control indicators, associated thresholds and reporting cycle to group risk management
- Assess and issue recommendations to IT implementation plans for new product and services - Review IT and ISO policies and procedures new releases and amendments
- Review IT and ISO incident and root cause analysis reports and provide IT risk related inputs where necessary
- Review outsourcing proposals associated to IT and ISO for possible risks and mitigation measures

IT Assistant Manager (Deputy IT Manager) at Egyptian Life Takaful-GIG
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2019 to September 2019

-Design, develop, implement and coordinate systems, policies and procedures
- Identify problematic areas and implement strategic solutions in time
- Audit systems and assess their outcomes
- Handle annual budget and ensure cost -
Providing the latest technology infrastructures for an organization and contributing to organizational policy regarding quality standards and strategic planning.
- evaluate user needs and system functionality, ensuring that IT facilities meet these needs
- schedule upgrades and security backups of hardware and software systems

Head of IT Infrastructure at Egyptian Life Takaful-GIG
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2018 to June 2019

• Manage IT staff by recruiting, training and coaching employees, communicating job expectations and appraising their performance
• Ensure security of data, network access and backup systems
• Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective action.
• Audit systems and assess their outcomes
• Plan, organize, control and evaluate IT data operations
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Provide guidance to IT Infrastructure members.
• Set objectives for Infrastructure team

Project Manager for Building transition:
• Responsible for building data center (electricity, firefighting, cooling system ..etc..
• Responsible for design network topology, set req. and implement it
• Responsible for implement servers in a new data center
• Responsible for design and set Active component(IP cams, Network cables and nodes and access control)

Infrastructure Supervisor at Egyptian Life Takaful-GIG
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2016 to June 2018

Manage and ensure effectiveness of security solutions, including firewalls, anti-virus solutions, and intrusion detection systems.
 Manage and ensure optimal operation of all network hardware and equipment, including routers, switches and UPSs.
 Oversee the administration of user accounts, permissions, and access rights in AD.
 Oversee the administration of Firewalls, Routers, and switches
 Provide guidance to IT Infrastructure members.
 Set objectives for Infrastructure team
 Supervise Infrastructure team by defining and establishing schedules, setting priorities, providing support/direction and dealing with administrative issues as needed.
 Train Infrastructure team on operational procedures and troubleshooting techniques. Provide training on new hardware and/or software applications as requested.

Senior System Administrator at Egyptian Life Takaful-GIG (Gulf Insurance Group)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2013 to June 2015

Handle the tickets that received from first line of support.
Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware as (Flex-10 and SAN Switch), peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage (SAN), etc.
Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
Configure / add new services as necessary.
Create, Modify, and delete user accounts (AD, Exchange and Lync).
Enhance infrastructure process by create policies and procedures.
Planning how to improve the technical environment.
Planning and Implement Disaster recovery solution.
Purchasing new hardware and license.
Manage Active directory
Manage Group policy
Manage MS Exchange Server 2010
Manage FileServer
Manage Lync Server 2010
Manage Hyper-V and VMware 5.5 Environment
Manage Symantec EndPoint Protection and GFI Server (Security)
Manage SCCM 2012
Manage Equitrack Server for Printing
Responsible for renewal all H\W support (Care pack)
Enhance Service desk process, minimize service desk tickets and monitor Service desk tickets and tasks
Set Objectives to Service Desk
Working on Fortigate Firewall (creating policies)

System Administrator at Commercial International Life Insurance
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2010 to August 2013

• Handle the tickets that received from first line of support.
• Responsible for create IT Event, Incident and problem management process according to ITIL.
• Develop the helpdesk process to ensure excellent speedy customer service.
• Identify, resolve, escalate and follow up all IT Hardware.
• Keep all desktops and laptops up-to-date with the latest security patches (Windows-Office).
• Provide ongoing maintenance of desktops, Laptops and printers.
• Provide general user training and support for desktops and laptops and MS Office Applications.
• Monitor desktops and laptops performance and resource usage.
• Monitor Software usage and installation on desktops and laptops and report any irregularities.
• Keep logs of all desktop and laptops software licenses and make sure that all software on all machine are licensed.
• Document, log and maintain all hardware locations, specifications, configurations and users.
• Manage hardware spares and consumables stock for all desktops and laptops and printers.
• Using SCCM server to deploy Software’s, reporting and remote tools.
• Using WDS to deploy OS (Windows 7).
• Create AD accounts
• Responsible for monitoring and maintain Backup exec
• Monitoring servers health check
• Create and deploy packages from SCCM 2007
• Hardware installation for servers
• Account manager for Printing service

IT System Administrator at CIL
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2012 to August 2013

 Create AD accounts
 Responsible for monitoring and maintain Backup exec 2010
 Monitoring server’s health check
 Create and deploy packages from SCCM 2007
 Hardware installation for servers
 Account manager for Printing service

System Administrator Helpdesk at CIL
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2010 to December 2012

Responsible for create IT Event, Incident and problem management process according to ITIL.
 Develop the helpdesk process to ensure excellent speedy customer service.
 Identify, resolve, escalate and follow up all IT Hardware.
 Keep all desktops and laptops up-to-date with the latest security patches (Windows-Office).
 Provide ongoing maintenance of desktops, Laptops and printers.
 Provide general user training and support for desktops and laptops and MS Office Applications.
 Monitor desktops and laptops performance and resource usage.
 Monitor Software usage and installation on desktops and laptops and report any irregularities.
 Keep logs of all desktop and laptops software licenses and make sure that all software on all machine are licensed.
 Document, log and maintain all hardware locations, specifications, configurations and users.
 Manage hardware spares and consumables stock for all desktops and laptops and printers.
 Using SCCM server to deploy Software’s, reporting and remote tools.
 Using WDS to deploy OS (Windows 7).

Education

Bachelor's degree, Communication and Electronics
  • at Modern Academy for Engineering and Technologythe “Faculty of Engineering
  • January 2010

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High school or equivalent,
  • at El- Manar Islamic Language School

Specialties & Skills

System Administration
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
ADMINISTRATION
COMPUTER HARDWARE
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING
FIREWALLS
INSURANCE
MICROSOFT EXCHANGE
MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER
OPERATING SYSTEMS
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
Risk Management
Info Sec.

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

MS Lync 2010 (Training)
Training Institute:
Self Study
Ethical Hacking (CEH V9) (Training)
Training Institute:
Self Study
COBIT 5 (Training)
Training Institute:
Self Study
Fundamental of CISA (Training)
Training Institute:
Self Study
ITIL continuous service improvemen (Training)
Training Institute:
Global Knowledge
Date Attended:
August 2017
Backup Exec 2012 (Training)
Training Institute:
Self Study
Date Attended:
October 2013
SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager ) (Training)
Training Institute:
Global Knowledge
Date Attended:
July 2011
MCITP (Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional) (Training)
Training Institute:
Global Knowledge
Date Attended:
March 2012
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) (Training)
Training Institute:
Ahmed Nabil
Date Attended:
October 2010
ITIL 2011 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2016
Valid Until:
January 9999
MS Exchange 2010 (Training)
Training Institute:
Self study
Date Attended:
August 2013

Hobbies

  • Swimming, Rowing & Playing Football.
  • Reading & Listening Music.
  • Surfing the Internet.