Led the Inforation Security, Information Protection, and Cyber Security programs for the organization.

Led a team of information security professionals responsible for security across the organization, including disparate functional departments, technology departments, and physical and environmental security teams. Moved from Assurance to overall information security management. • Architected the organization’s vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, and risk management frameworks.• Upgraded the Information Security Management System to ISO 27001:2013 with required policies, processes and controls. • Designed and implemented major architectural enhancements to information security capabilities within a short time. Responsible for a portfolio of over 30 concurrent projects.• Established the security operations center and supporting technologies, including incident and event management, configuration auditing, automated threat intelligence, and heuristic analysis and detection.• Responsible for disaster recovery, business continuity and incident response at a corporate governance level. • Acting as CISO and managing the information security function overall.

Led the IT Governance, Information Security and IT PMO functions at a major UAE industrial manufacturer. Accomplished significant improvement in the organization’s security posture in a short time, and was responsible for the successful completion of several major implementations including security and ICT and infrastructure projects. • Led the organizational ICT risk and compliance function, introducing enhancements to the processes involved and leveraging management support to effect rapid and dramatic change. • Designed, led and completed major network segmentation, vulnerability management, security monitoring, network access control, privileged access management, and patch management initiatives. • Architected a 3 year program to achieve information security maturity in corporate and industrial technology segments • Enhanced the information security policy of the organization, including designing and applying an operational technology policy based on Critical Infrastructure Protection standards• Instituted an Information Assurance function to continuously audit and monitored closure of security gaps. Tracked, reported, and coordinated the corporate ICT project portfolio, including VDI, storage, network infrastructure, server consolidation and value-chain enhancements.

Led a team responsible for infrastructure and systems delivering satellite voice and data services to over 200,000 customers across 140 countries, as well providing enterprise IT services to corporate users in 4 international locations • Established processes for IT Operations, customer support, operator training and disaster recovery that improved service delivery and enhanced productivity. • Saved between 15% and 50% on all budgeted projects within the first 6 months in the role, while delivering projects ahead of time and on quality. • Delivered implementations and migrations to productivity enabling technologies, including messaging, collaboration, unified communications, video conferencing, and mobility services to corporate customers. • Spearheaded implementations in IT Governance covering Risk Management, Change Management, and Knowledge Management programs. • Introduced a virtualization and architecture consolidation initiative projected to introduce significant saving over 3 years.

Led a small team of Information Security specialists, responsible for network and system security across a complex, heterogeneous information system.* Consolidated security monitoring and network management.* Instituted network architecture enhancements, network security and Intrusion Prevention upgrades.* Managed network and system security as well as all WAN networks and interconnection, external messaging systems, public IP management and routing, mobile device management and remote access.

As part of a dedicated networking and security team, managed, led and implemented major network transformation projects and upgrades, architected secure operational networks, instituted policies and practices enhancing system and network security overall.* Led, designed and delivered improvements to Information Security areas across the spectrum.* Architected the organization’s global Points of Presence and LAN/WAN infrastructure.* Designed the organization’s remote access strategy, device security strategy, and directly managed mobile messaging and remote access implementations.