Jan 2024 – Oct 2024 · 9 mos · United Arab Emirates

Jun 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Member of Cyber Defender’s council for advancing defense forward representing EMEA region.

Aug 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Established and led Cybersecurity function from ground up at DAMAC Group including security governance, risk and compliance management, security architecture and security operations
• Directed a holistic cyber security strategy and multi year transformation program to ensure the protection of the organisation’s digital assets, and securely enable a major digital transformation program.
• Established an enterprise security strategy and governance framework covering information security policies and standards in compliance with applicable local and global security regulatory and industry standards (NIST CSF, ISO 27001/2, GDPR)
• Reduced response time by 50% and accelerated detection and analysis of suspicious activities by establishing a 24/7 Security Operations Centre (managed service) powered by machine learning and AI technologies
• Implemented 21 different security technologies stack at various layers of defense-in-depth approach.
• Spearheaded Cyber Hygiene Improvement program to plug gaps in existing security ecosystem and increase effectiveness

Jul 2017 – Aug 2021 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Dubai

• Responsible for Overall Cyber security Strategy and Governance at Majid Al Futtaim Ventures Group
• Setup, Manage, and oversee security controls Implementations across MAF Ventures Business units
• Develop and enforce Security Baseline configurations and defense-in-depth controls
• Analyze, audit, and advise on improving overall security posture of the organization
• Responsible for implementation of technology stack for security operations
• Design, develop, and maintain policies and procedures for Governance
• Information Security Incident Response management liaison in conducting investigations
• Responsible for IT risk assessment, mitigation strategies and implementation
• Vendor management for Infrastructure and security services
• Responsible for Security awareness and training
• Drive compliance requirements and controls implementation for PCI, ISO27001, and SANS

Mar 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Dubai

• Responsible for Infrastructure Project delivery for Systems & Network Group (SNG)at Intertec.
• Leading and managing Infrastructure projects comprising large to medium scale Multi million Dirhams projects
• Managing Infra project involving best of breed technology stack – EMS, Office365, Azure Cloud, Backup and Recovery, SharePoint, IPT, Cisco ISE, WLAN, in all Systems, Network, Voice, Data Center, & Security areas.
• Spearheaded Retail stores IT Infrastructure deployment project across Gulf countries.
• Reporting to C-level executives and steering committee for project delivery and enhancements of infrastructure
• Lead technical teams, cross functional teams and liaise with external vendors
• Handled complex infra and techno commercial projects spread across multiple remote sites with over 3000 users

Oct 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Managing Complex Infrastructure Projects for a Fortune 100 Financial services giant.
• Delivering full scale of Project life cycle on production environment
• 1400 Database servers deployment & Backup configuration
• 700+ Virtual Servers migration to IBM Cloud platform
• Spearheading Full scale Backup and recovery environment deployment
• Managing remotely organized teams to deploy 200 ESX hosts upgrade in production DataCenter

Jan 2012 – Dec 2012 · 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Manage, Operate, Support Hyper- V Virtualized Microsoft Lab for Test and Dev Environments. Run Data Center where Microsoft technology implementation and showcase incubates. Lead a technical team supporting Services Operations and Service Transition for MSGD.

Nov 2008 – Apr 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Planned, Designed, and supported large and complex IT Infrastructure involving Spearheading Data Center Design, deploying Robust Technologies ( Network/servers/storage/Security) meeting World’s Largest Indoor theme park business requirements
• Developed effective IT Strategy compliant to the best practices based on International ISO and ITIL standards.
• Implemented and supported IT operational infrastructure for a number of technical and techno-functional solutions developed for running Ferrari World Theme park
• Extensive involvement in migration of the entire infrastructure to ‘Tier-IV Data Center’ and tested disaster recovery, WAN resilience, optimization, and fine tuning.
• Developed IT Service Management Processes and procedures to internalize and streamlined operational Infrastructure support services
• Planned Backup/restore, collocation, Infra optimization, virtualization, and integration of subsystems
• Developed and groomed team for both technical and non-technical (process/customer oriented ) skills

Nov 2007 – Sep 2008 · 10 mos

• Support and administer fast growing and versatile IT infrastructure for Yas Island.

Aug 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Implemented and supported Technical Presales for WAN Optimization -Riverbed, EMC Storage, Windows Server administration

Jun 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Been Part of Accenture Technology Infrastructure Services GDN in Hyderabad.