Senior Officer Business Continuity
National Bank of Umm Al Qaiwain
Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months
Operational Risk
* Develop & Implementation of BCM Policy and scope to support the BCM Governance
* Assigning the Role & Responsibilities to manage the BCM program and process throughout the organization
* Develop and Implementation of effective business continuity through BIA. Assess both financial and non-
financial impacts of a key process and applications on the business units by initiating and maintaining a
Business Impact Analysis (BIA).
1. Identification of Key Process.
2. Coordination with business and IT for specific business process recovery.
3. Ensure its RTO & RPO is according to business requirement.
* Facilitate the Development and Rehearsing of Incident Management and Emergency Response Plans
* Develop and maintain a Crisis Management & Crisis Communication framework, to include mass notification
system, Crisis Management Teams, and Emergency Operational Centers.
* Ensure that IT DR Plans are in place, exercised and updated regularly for the recovery of infrastructure and
applications that support business operations/functionalities
Noman Ahmed - CBCI, AMBCI
* Establish crisis recovery testing methodologies; plan and coordinate the testing of recovery support and
business resumption procedures in different functional areas to ensure the recovery procedures are effective
* Develop relationship with Business Continuity Coordinators, Team leaders and Unit Heads to improve
business continuity preparedness of the business units.
* Collaborate with external stakeholders and third parties in ensuring their BC Readiness
* Ensure that Bank’s continuity recovery fulfill the regulatory requirements.
* Conduct workshop / Awareness Training for BC Team members & staff with producing recommendation or
changed BCM processes.
* Planning and coordinating simulation exercises, involving all critical / non critical business units and
documenting the results of all test and exercises, and identifying and recommended enhancement to the
Business Continuity Plans and Procedures.
* Ensure maintenance of the plans through annual or other periodic reviews.
Information Security Administration
* Participation in Business Continuity testing with regional team for global system.
* For local system, developed plan to cater the requirements of Access Administration for smooth recovery.
* Access Control Administration (including process doc, resolution of all access requests and periodic reviews of
User profiles / access rights).
* Establish, communicate and maintain information security policies that support the security strategy. Assist in
identifying, prioritizing and resolving vulnerabilities in time.
* Ensure that threat and vulnerability evaluations are performed on an ongoing basis. Assist in identifying,
prioritizing and resolving vulnerabilities in time.
* Identify and periodically evaluate information security controls and countermeasures to mitigate risk to
acceptable levels.
* Management Access Request System implantation on ABN AMRO N.V network.
* Review critical high level accounts on a periodic basis.
* Manage the response to information security incidents
* Participation in Risk Assessment of new, enhanced and existing information systems
* Maintain and review logs of user administration for systems.
Access Control Administration (including process doc, resolution of all access requests and periodic reviews of
User profiles / access rights).
* Establish, communicate and maintain information security policies that support the security strategy. Assist in
identifying, prioritizing and resolving vulnerabilities in time.
* Ensure that threat and vulnerability evaluations are performed on an ongoing basis. Assist in identifying,
prioritizing and resolving vulnerabilities in time.
* Identify and periodically evaluate information security controls and countermeasures to mitigate risk to
acceptable levels.
* MARS implantation on ABN AMRO N.V network.
* Review critical high level accounts on a periodic basis.
* Manage the response to information security incidents
* Coordinate Risk Assessment of new, enhanced and existing information systems
* Maintain and review logs of user administration for systems.
* Providing support for regional main system.
* Support in BAU and BCP testing.
& Projects
* Implementation & Management of effective BCM Program throughout the organization - NBQ-UAE - 2014
* Award recognition of successful implementation of "AMBIT - CBS" module for (SYMBOL 8.5 Core Banking
System). Faysal Bank - 2013
* Implementation of an automated password management system “Electronic Envelope Procedure (EEP)” to
monitor the use of high level ids and ensure the password availability in Disaster Recovery. FBL - 2011-2012.
* Initiated and completed implementation of profile base access and their periodic reviews. FBL - 2011
* Recognized as Champion of the Quarter - Q3 2009, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Pakistan (RBS) Ltd, 2009.
(For conducting review of generic accounts for BCP testing)
* At the time of exit of RBS from Pakistan, I initiated and managed the migration of passwords from regional
system Cyber Ark and migrate to PEP (Password Envelope Procedure) to ensure the availability when required
in a secure manner with full integrity. RBS - 2010.
* Management and international coordination to implementation internal customer request system SLA (Service
Line Asia) at the time of merger between ABN AMRO & RBS, a system to manage support efficiently. I
managed its overall implementation and conducted user training.
* Managed end user access and transfer process of about 3000+ staff on ABN AMRO domain in a structured
courses: / Certification Business Continuity: Certified ISO 22301 Professional – Continuity & Resilience – 2018 - Dubai Certified by the Business Continuity Institute – CBCI - 2016 Associate Member of Business Continuity Institute – AMBCI - 2016