Chief Information Security Officer
Gulf International Bank - Saudi Arabia
Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months
• Managing units to build and deploy security infrastructure to secure internal and external bank Services, manage logical user access & keys management, and review and develop security architecture.
• Develop and follow internal security strategy.
• Plan and budget the annually and three years CAPEX and OPEX.
• Enhance tactics and techniques to increase security tools usability, and functions.
• Engaged in the DR exercises.
• Ensuring the compliance of all web, network & infrastructure assets with security standards.
• Attend technology events to ensure bank security ready to encounter the new and future security threats.
• Comply with the regulators national and international baselines.
• Strategic planning for information security.
• Develop and enhance tactics to increase security tools usability, and functions.
• Implement security best practice principles and standards.
• Ensuring the compliance of all web, network & infrastructure assets with security standards.
• Attend technology events to secure the bank from new and future security threats.
• Management awareness for information security threats, and attacks.
• Build and deploy security infrastructure to secure internal and external bank Services.
• Managing security technology projects.
• Comply with the regulators national and international baselines.
• Enhance information security monitoring and operation by deploying the most updated methods.
• Assets and technology inventory management.
• Key management.
Managing the IT infrastructure in the Bank, from Network, voice & email communications, Operating system, Database, Security, Storage, Backup, and Datacenter.
• Coordinate IT Infrastructure strategy and road map with Enterprise Architecture and keep the infrastructure architecture in compliance with bank standards.
• Provide infrastructural support to new projects.
• Manage development, test and production environments.
• Build system architecture and structure.
• Design and implement IT Infrastructure.
• Identify IT standards suit bank strategy.
• Contact vendors and contract negotiations.
• Develop strategic plan for disaster recovery datacenter.
• Plan capacity and resource expansion.
• Datacenter management and maintenance.
• Troubleshoot and quickly resolve technical issues.
• Monitor and maintain IT infrastructure stability.
• Continuously improve, document, implement and manage standardized policies and procedures.
• Team Leader of upgrading the core banking database.
• Ensure the team have the necessary information and tools to be effective in their roles.
• Ensure resource is allocated in the most effective way.
• Ensure availability of more than 50 databases using grid control.
• Disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Design and redesign database architecture.
• Database and OS performance tuning and optimization
• Securing the database environment.
• Capacity planning.
Oracle Database:
• Installing Oracle using best practice on different flavors.
• Oracle database RAC install, maintain, and manage on AIX.
• ASM creation, managing disks, and maintain oracle files.
• Oracle Clusterware installation, maintain for Oracle database RAC.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control (Installing, Managing, Patching, Deploy Agents).
• Database creation and maintenance.
• Managing database structure, and tune it from performance perspective.
• Monitoring database activity, and space growth.
• Performing database backup, restore and recovery.
• Applying Clusterware, ASM, and RDBMS patches.
• Database upgrade.
• Database objects reorganizations.
Microsoft SQL server:
• SQL server 2000, 2005, and 2008 Installing, maintain and manage.
• SQL server failover cluster install, maintain, and manage.
• Applying SQL server patches.
• Performing database backup, restore and recovery.
• Managing database structure, and tune it from performance perspective.
• Database creation, and maintain.
• Creating maintenance jobs by SQL server Agent.
• Generating reports Analysis.
• Database objects reorganizations.
• Administrate 18 domino servers.
• Installing domino enterprise server on windows platform.
• Upgrade domino servers from 5.x to 6.5.
• Applying domino user policy on domino servers.
• Developing domino applications for internal and external use.
• Mail template customization.
• Support Integration of blackberry through domino server.
• Enable fax through domino.
• Create automated work flow approvals between departments.
• Performing NSF backup, restore and recovery.
I am honored to graduate from the University of Liverpool Management School since it is one of an elite group of institutions worldwide AACSB Accredited, which represents the highest achievement for an educational institution and its college of business. Only five per cent of business schools worldwide have been awarded the accreditation.
Oracle Database 10g Administrator Certified Professional
Oracle Database 10g Real Applications Clusters Administrator Certified Expert
ITILF
Certified Lotus Professional Administrator (CLP)
Principle Certified Lotus Professional Designer (PCLP)
Oracle Certified Professional Database 9i Developer (OCP)
