IT Governance Division Manager (acting)
Bank AlBilad
Total years of experience :21 years, 5 Months
Establishment of IT Governance Division in the bank and ensure all departments and units are functioning as per best practice using COBIT framework.
Handling Data Governance, Change Management, Enterprise Architecture and IT Risk
Member of management and board committees.
Establishment of IT Governance Division in the bank.
Governing release management activities and IT Service Continuity tasks and ensure DR testing and planning.
Following up quality of IT services and reporting it to management
Ensure IT procedures and processes are documented and operated properly.
Improving change governance standards, policies, and processes to enhance quality and completeness of IT services
Building compliance plan that is derived from organization strategy.
Working with Internal\ External Audit and Risk Department on finding closing and risk mitigation.
Ensure the compliance of IT policy and procedures
Managing and monitoring the team responsible of release and deployment from Development environment all the way to production environment.
Ensure chnges are recorded, evaluated, authorized, priorotised, bulit, tested, implemnted and reviewed in controlled manner. Maintain quality standard of the releases.
Manage communication and business owners expectation during the roll out of new release.
Engage in projects in the early phases to ensure alignment with the overall release calendar and corresponding freeze periods
Collaborate with Project Managers to monitor and track project releases Risks and Issues
To establish and maintain product release plans.
Maintain standards for delivering services.
Plan and implement change management in the Bank in addition to updating Quality Management System (QMS) as part of IT quality management team.
Acting as Change Manager. Chairing the CAB meeting
Managing the team responsible of SW and application releases in the Bank.
Implement and review IT processes.
Implementing Change Management
Part of the team implementing ITIL processes in the organization. Managing release process. Team member of configuration management.
CAB member
Developing GIS database (using Geomedia)
Digitizing satellite images (using Microstation)
Analyzing satellite image project status
GPA: 4.28/5. aworded as 2nd honor.