Faisal Uddin Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

• Administered the Datacentre exit programme from the legacy to strategic Datacentres to reduce cost and to be compliant with US regulators expectations for the Markets division.• Strengthened the management and maintenance of the Security aspects for all applications in the bank’s eco-system with regular hardware and software upgrades through the Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM) and Product Request Triage initiatives.• Created a regular reporting framework to assist senior leadership by collecting and analysing data for supporting discussions that led to continuous improvement or corrective action planning.• Hosted programme-level discussions and workshops to achieve clear direction on key issues and priorities.• Assessed, formulated and proposed changes to ongoing programmes, providing strategic directions for senior management and application owners.• Strengthened the management and integrity of the programmes through the tracking and reporting of interdependencies with oversight of risks.• Resolved programme issues and initiated appropriate corrective action, maintaining programme integrity and quality.• Implemented strong governance and control procedures to ensure all programmes are managed and tracked with full transparency on commitments and any deviations are explained and approved by senior leadership.• Led the Modernisation initiatives within CIB Markets for Cyber Resiliency and backup/recovery as part of the FCA and PRA Operational Resiliency for Critical Applications in terms of understanding the RTO and Impact tolerances.

• Implemented a strong IT Controls framework aligned to ISO27001 as part of the approved IT Systems Auditor status for the MDIA & MFSA in order to conduct IT security audits for applicants wishing to obtain Tier 1 and 2 banking licenses from the in-country regulator.• Conducted multiple Cyber Security Reviews / Penetration Tests for clients on their technology, processes and staff to provide feedback on their robustness to defend against potential cyber-attacks.• Assisted clients through consultancy services with Datacentre exit projects between co-location facilities.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

• Administered the IT Infrastructure budget for the region and responsible for Datacentres, Networks, Compute, Storage, Data backup, Voice and Multimedia with close tracking to meet annual forecast and recommend areas to optimise.• Delivered several Datacentre migrations, optimisation initiatives and IT department mergers between Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Commerzbank AG.• Spearheaded multiple projects that were delivered on time and on budget for the region, such as the Datacentre project.• Created multiple business cases to articulate the benefits of hardware refresh programmes and managed services implementation.• Administered 25 FTE and 3 managed services contracts for compute, storage, Datacentre and voice for approximately 40 engineers.• Strengthened relationships with internal clients in the business and with third party vendors.• Implemented Level 1 operational support for core IT Infrastructure Managed Services.• Launched multiple RfP programmes for Storage (File and Block), Datacentre contracts and Data Backup (Tape Libraries and Software)

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Led the management and operation of file/block storage and data backup services for Commerzbank in the International Locations excluding Germany.Following are highlights of my key achievements:⇨ Led data centre optimisation in 2009 and global rollout of new storage platform. ⇨ Facilitated IT integration between Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Commerzbank during merger

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Led maintenance of the global standard build for block storage (EMC and HDS) for Unix connected hosts on Linux, Solaris, HPUX and AIX.

New York, Ny, Us

Led the management and operation of the Unix systems (Solaris) for the bank including previously leading the system administration of HP Openview ITO/Omniback, Autosys, Market Data Triarch and Datacentre Operations for the bank.