Irfan Shareef, Director Product owner

Irfan Shareef

Director Product owner

PM Innovation Lead, Bank blockchain cloud cyber (SecDevOps)

Location
United Kingdom - London
Education
Bachelor's degree, Network Management and Design
Experience
17 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 7 Months

Director Product owner at PM Innovation Lead, Bank blockchain cloud cyber (SecDevOps)
  • United Kingdom - London
  • My current job since October 2017

Plays a pivotal role AWS consultancy and external application integration for DevOps pipeline information security remediation to determine the risk to the organization and compliance orientated projects and strategy services to Group Technology. Delivering roadmaps and driving prioritisation of Cloud Native applications, Event-Driven Architecture, Orchestration/Choreography, Data Pipelines.

•Migrating DevOps, its application and tools, change management discipline to cloud
•Creating communication plans and workshops, leading working groups and discussion groups.
•Product ownership for SecDevOps tools JIRA, BitBucket, TeamCity, SonarQube, Jenkins, Nexus twistlock
•Acting as SCRUM master and proactively managing program in working groups
•Holding operating committees and working group for backlog remediation
•Works closely with the business ExCo level and SteerCo to achieving Vendor Risk Management
•Running Pathfinder initiatives covering Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies such as Hyperledger fabic, Ripple, litecoin and utility settlement coin


2015 -2017
Product Owner Cloud Transformation Information Security officer
Application and infrastructure AWS roadmap strategy

Program Manager at Deutsche Bank AG
  • United Kingdom - London
  • April 2006 to March 2017

and Transformation Information Security Officer for integration of a new control relating to information risk across the entire bank. Regulatory remediation with new cloud platform for Office365 and Cloud electronic communication on Amazon Web Service

•Delivering IT Strategy technology road map compliance as part of the 2020 HP/IBM transformation (covering 723 products for 3600 applications)
•Translating into an operational plan tier 2 timelines for agreed audit remediation and confirmed control gaps
•Including Microsoft Dynamics AX, NAV and CRM, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft's intelligent business cloud.
•Documents business flows, users backlogs and writing functional specifications for AWS and
•Triaging bugs and scheduling tools Marathon, Apache Mesos, Shippableand AWS EC2 Container service KMS and Swarm
•Create task level project plans for PPM tooling testing

at Deutsche Bank AG
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Translated this roadmap into a milestone plan and setting the deadline for team SOx applications
•Created KPI and SLA for Program tracking and management reporting
•Drove account ownership to over 99% - Defining the business case for 3000 applications
•Reduced Database Access violations to under 10% - Investigating ‘dbdenywriter’ on MS SQL and access on Oracle, Sybase & DB2 control limitations
•SSH key rotation and control across non production environments to stop daisy chaining
•Coordination of external penetration testing
•Splunk event monitoring for log file alerting suspicious actives

2006 - 2013
Global Markets Credit and rates Transformation Program manager

Education

Bachelor's degree, Network Management and Design
  • at University of Portsmouth
  • January 2005

Specialties & Skills

Security
Governance
Project Management
Auditing
Blockchain
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
DRIVING
INFORMATION SECURITY
MANAGEMENT
MICROSOFT WORKS
RISK MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIC
WORKSHOPS

Languages

English
Native Speaker