Experience

GulfNet Solutions Company Limited (GNS)

• Saudi Arabia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Governance & Compliance Assurance Consultant

  • Nov 2021 - Present

  Project Delivery Manager at Public Investment Fund (PIF): • File Integrity Management. • Developing customized policies based on NCA requirements. • Integrating compliance tools with SOC. • Convert policies & procedures into scripts to automate the process of technical verification for the policies. • Directing different teams (Network, Information Security, System owners, application owners) to assure the compliance and provide recommendations and best practices. • Developing governance to assure sustainability. • Change Management process planning. • Enhancing maturity level. Show less



SPM Consultants

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• MSS, SOC & Strategy Consultant

  • Nov 2016 - Oct 2019

  • Delivering value-add consulting services to customers through identifying their needs and oversee implementation to achieve their business and technology objectives. • Establishing SOC & Threat Intelligence Department in National Information Center in Saudi Arabia. • Responsible for NIC SOC staffing, assigning roles & responsibilities. • Aligning Cyber Security requirements with business strategy. • SOC Project Delivery Manager, Operation Manager. • Designing policies, procedures & process workflow between departments (Sales, Presales, Technical, Procurement and Project Management). • Integrate solutions with SIEM. Show less



Security Matterz

• Saudi Arabia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Professional Services & MSSP Advisory

  • Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

  -Establishing MSS -Staffing -Designing Policies, Procedures and Process for Professional Services, Sales, Pre-sales and MSS departments. Delivering value-add consulting services to customers through identifying their needs and oversee implementation to achieve their business and technology objectives. -Establishing MSS -Staffing -Designing Policies, Procedures and Process for Professional Services, Sales, Pre-sales and MSS departments. Delivering value-add consulting services to customers through identifying their needs and oversee implementation to achieve their business and technology objectives.



IT Security Training & Solutions - I(TS)²

• Saudi Arabia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Sep 2012 - Oct 2016

  • Professional Services Team Lead• Responsible for all Tripwire and F5 projects. • Handling RFPs, RFIs, RFQ, technical proposals and financial proposals.• Supporting sales team on their accounts: Customers meeting, requirements understanding and analysis.• Develop solution proposals that define customer expectation and products and services requirements necessary to achieve customer objectives.• Handling all Tripwire Enterprise projects for many banking and government sectors in Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam and Lebanon. • Ensures that deployments follow established implementation methodology and processes to ensure efficiency of the implementation.• Conducted internal in-house project management training for the team, as well as several solutions training for the clients after project completion. Show less

• Information Security Consultant

  • Sep 2010 - Aug 2012

  • Designing, testing, implementing and managing several security solutions (Tripwire Enterprise, ArcSight, SafeNet, F5 LTM, F5 ASM, F5 GTM, Juniper SSL/VPN, Juniper IDP, Juniper SRX).• Architecture review.• Working with customer to determine future roadmaps and define project scope with the technical & budget impact- needed to fulfil.• Creating project plans for solutions deployment.• Creating user manuals for systems installation and configuration.• Handling presales activities, meetings, proposals, client requirements management, training, kick off and Sign-offs. Show less

• Senior Security Engineer (Professional Services)

  • Sep 2009 - Aug 2010

  • Conducting Vulnerability Assessment Process.• Penetration Testing.• Juniper Security Solutions and F5 implementation• Routers, switches and firewall configuration and design assessment. • Systems Hardening based on PCI DSS, ISO or vendor best practices (AIX, Sun Solaris, Windows, Firewalls, switches and routers)

• MSS Engineer & Analyst

  • Jul 2007 - Aug 2009

  • MSS Setup contribution under Raqeeb branding, partnered with VeriSign (Secureworks - dell).• Customizing correlation rules based on iDefense Threat intel.• Developing policies and procedures.• System tuning.• Configure log sources.• Managing/Monitoring more than 25 different solutions.• Develop Health check and hardening procedure for systems.• Managed Solutions such as: Sun Solaris, Windows, AIX, Juniper Firewalls, Cisco Firewalls, and other solutions.• Implementation, Configuration, Reports creation, rules development based on business needs, dashboards. Show less



National Information Center – Saudi Arabia

• Information Technology & Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Security Operations Center Setup Project

  • Nov 2015 - May 2016

  SOC Design and Implementation Project Staffing Establishing Threat Intelligence Department. Aligning Cyber Security requirements with business strategy. Designing policies, procedures & process workflow between departments. Integrate solutions with SIEM. SOC Design and Implementation Project Staffing Establishing Threat Intelligence Department. Aligning Cyber Security requirements with business strategy. Designing policies, procedures & process workflow between departments. Integrate solutions with SIEM.


Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Professional Training and Coaching
• Volunteer PMP/CAPM Trainer

  • Jan 2013 - May 2015

INTRACOM IT SERVICES Middle East & Africa
• Network Engineer

  • Jul 2007 - Oct 2007