Mohamed Habashi

• Develop and implement the organization's IT security strategy, aligning it with business objectives and risk tolerance. Identify and prioritize security initiatives, establish security goals, and create a roadmap for their implementation.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive identity security strategy covering more than 40k endpoints and 3 datacenters all over Egypt
• Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
• Provide leadership oversight for security tools deployment, implementation, adoption and maturity including applicable hardware, software, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, security event management systems, anti-virus and malware solutions, cryptography systems, or any other solutions required for enterprise and systems protection and monitoring.
• Investigates security breaches, communicates with appropriate executive management and local information privacy and security leadership.
• Ensure policies, procedures, and protocols are being executed and provide leadership, training, and guidance to staff members
• Manage a significant operational and capital budget for the security organization

• Partners with CIO to lead technology infrastructure strategy and execution for the enterprise
• Planning, project management and implementation leadership, identifying opportunities for automation, cost savings, and service quality improvement.
• Provides infrastructure services vision, enables innovation, and seeks to leverage IT trends that can create business value consistent with the Bank’s requirements and expectations.
• Development of enterprise standards and technology architecture and the IT operations governance process.
• Conduct product and vendor evaluations ensuring best in class technologies and partners
• Works closely with and manage strategic vendor partner relationships. Setup and run the Governance with the partners. Build strategic relationships for creating value for the organization.
• Participate in the formulation of the Bank’s enterprise architecture and business system plans; assessing cost and feasibility, and ensuring the plan is aligned with and supports the strategic goals of the business.
• Hands-on technical depth enables direct oversight, problem-solving leadership and participation for complex infrastructure implementation, system upgrades and operational troubleshooting.
• Experience with comprehensive disaster recovery architecture and operations, including network and redundant network architectures.
• Leadership for delivery of 24/7 service operations and KPI compliance.

• Actively listened to customers' requests, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns.
• Improved operations through consistent hard work and dedication.
• Participate in all team meetings and provide installation and onsite support to all customers and resolve all issues effectively and within timeframe.
• Administer all organizational alerts, manage emergency situations and identify technical opportunities and escalate issues to management as required.
• Identify and resolve all infrastructure issues for equipments and software and monitor effective deployment of customers.
• Maintain documents for IT infrastructure and provide support to all procedures and processes.
• Analyze customer requirement and coordinated with various departments to recommend effective solutions as per client expectations.
• Identifying possible security threats and determining the best security measures.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining security protocols, policies, plans, and systems to cover all possible security threats.
• Coordinating and briefing a team of security specialists and assigning tasks.
• Meeting with clients to discuss security measures, provide information, and explained the designed system.
• Running risk assessment and security tests and designing countermeasures to eliminate as many potential risks as possible.
• Compiling and presenting reports on the test results.
• Suggesting improvements to existing security systems.
• Remaining up to date with the latest security systems, tools, trends, and technology.
• Training staff to recognize and defend against security breaches and risks.
• Eliminated downtime and maximized revenue by providing top project quality control.

Designation Chronology

• July 2019 – Sep 2021: IT Delivery Manager
• May 2018 – July 2019: Head of IT Security

Joined as a Head of IT Security crafted an upward growth curve to merit promotion to the position of IT Delivery Manager, through exceptional performance

Highlights

IT Delivery Managers support the deployment, implementation, and hosting of an organization's enterprise software solutions, establishing tracking processes and procedures for deliverables and releases, establishing best practices for the business systems analyst role and the testing practice, and providing support among multiple pillars with overlapping and conflicting priorities and strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of vision and strategy principles, organizational objectives and strategic plans to ensure that the overall regulatory objectives of the IT sector (Egypt and Jordan) are achieved
• Develop proposals to improve and develop work, motivate employees and submit them to the Global IT CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (Egypt and Jordan)
• Participating in the budget preparation of the IT sector (Egypt and Jordan)
• Follow-up reports and help review the completion rates of existing projects and IT sector strategy (Egypt and Jordan)
• Assistance in the daily, monthly and annual assessment of IT decisions at the organizational unit level
• Help implement the latest IT applications and systems (Egypt and Jordan)
• Control and development of it process standards and policies and quality control
• Participating in the meeting with heads of departments, supervisory managers, suppliers and others to promote cooperation and solve IT problems
• Help communicate with IT stakeholders to implement the IT governance strategy
• Help to oversee and develop the needs of technical programs and systems (Egypt and Jordan)
• Helping to oversee the provision of support and technical support services to all IT departments
• Assistance in overseeing the operation, maintenance, development and evaluation of IT systems/solutions
• Coordinated delivery of contracted solutions at program level and in full accordance with outlined cost, scheduling and quality terms.
• Created and enforced detailed organization processes to increase quality service standards.

Key Responsibilities as Head of IT Security

• Provide Managerial guidance and high skilled technical expertise to team members in complex issues
• Manage IT security programs and supervise security departments
• Prioritize and allocate security resources correctly and efficiently
• Define, implement and maintain corporate security procedures
• Integrate IT systems development with security policies and information protection strategies
• Monitor security vulnerabilities, threats and events in network and host systems
• Develop strategies to handle security incidents and coordinate investigative activities
• Act as a focal point for IT security investigations and direct a full investigation with recommended courses of action
• Prepare financial forecasts for security operations and proper maintenance cover for security assets
• Participate in strategic planning for the deployment of information security technologies and program enhancements
• Ensure security policies, procedures and protocols are being executed by the appropriate technical teams
• Provide leadership, training opportunities and guidance to personnel
• Prepare senior-level technical reports for executive management
• Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations

Designation Chronology

• January 2017 – May 2018: Head of Infrastructure Implementation
• January 2015 – December 2016: IT Technical Delivery Manager
• January 2014 – December 2014: Head of IT Networks and Security
• October 2007 – December 2013: Senior Network and Security Engineer

Joined as a Senior Network and Security Engineer and crafted an upward growth curve to merit promotion to the position of Head of Infrastructure Implementation, through exceptional performance

Highlights

Heading a 2 unit team within the IT Infrastructure Sector

• Networks & IT Security
• Systems and Storage

Key Responsibilities

• Provide Managerial guidance and high skilled technical expertise to team members in complex issues
• Determines the Training needs of the team subordinates, including the resource skill mapping according to assigned tasks.
• Plan, Implement, and maintain network security and systems and perform day-to- day administrative tasks.
• Controls the daily responsibilities to be done by the network security and systems implementation teams; assign tasks depending on the profile of each member including follow-up if applicable.
• Plans and Manages procedures supporting and maintains user account information including rights, security and systems groups.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance or hardware issues by implementing network security and systems monitoring and capacity planning.
• Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the network security and systems, tuning, backup and recovery planning, provides technical support to application development teams.

Highlights

Network Engineer Joined new brokerage company, assist IT Manager in all Networks Operations tasks and managing all Regulatory requirements in terms of Network and Security aspects

Key Responsibilities

• Fully in charge of the complex network of the company.
• Design and Implement Company network architecture.
• Design, Implement and maintain Company Domain.
• Monitor and maintain communication lines.
• Responsible for company communication with Third Parties.
• Responsible for Email Server

Key Responsibilities

• Fully in charge of the complex network of the company.
• Design and Implement Company network architecture.
• Design, Implement and maintain Company Domain,
• Monitor and maintain communication lines.
• Monitor and manage trading software for the company.
• Monitor, manage and maintain Company network.
• Hardware and Software duties
• System compatibility quick repairs and alternative solutions for communication, accounting system, or any network application