HUSSAM HINDIYEH

Frisco, TX ***** 817-***-**** ad1yu3@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/hussam-hindiyeh PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior Business Continuity Professional passionate about designing programs, providing strategic insights, and establishing complex procedures that protected critical business processes, the people, and assets of global organizations. Enterprise Resiliency director who integrates Operational Risk, Business Continuity, Crisis/Incident Management, Information Security, Cyber Security, and Risk Management into a synergistic team that exceeds stakeholder expectations. Adviser who guides senior functional leaders, Program Steering Committees, and CEOs. Makes critical decisions during ambiguous situations while improvising with available resources to implement improvements for efficient sustainable solutions. Adept at managing high-value corporate interests.

WORK AUTHORIZATION

Eligible to work for any US employers

SKILLS

● BCM Program Management

● Risk and Control Assessment

● Crisis Management Response

● Internal Control and process

improvement

● Enterprise Risk Management

● Business Continuity Planning

● Third Party Vendor Risk

● Occupational Health and Safety

● Critical Analytical Thinking

● Business Impact Analysis

● Crisis Communications

● Physical Security.

EDUCATION CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) – Management The Arab Open University 2018 Certified Data Protection Officer (CDPO), PECB 2021 Certified Trainer, PECB 2020

Certified Strategic Management Performance System, George Washington University 2020 Certified ISO 31000 Senior Led Risk Manager, PECB 2019 Certified ISO 22301 Lead Auditor, PECB 2018

Certified Crisis Management Specialist, American University of Ras Al Khaimah 2017 Certified Business Resilience Manager (CBRM), BRCCI 2014 Certified ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, PECB 2014

Certified Manager (CM), ICPM 2013

Certified Business Continuity (CBCI) – Industry Equivalent Certification, DRII (CBCP), ISO 22301 BCI 2013 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bank Boubyan

Director Business Continuity Planning February 2019 – November 2022 Managed and streamlined contingency strategies to ensure uninterrupted operations in line with regulatory requirements; developed comprehensive business continuity plans that mitigated risks and safeguarded critical functions.

Assisted business functions in building and enhancing business continuity and IT disaster recovery plans; provided effective response to disruptive events by implementing an end-to-end Business continuity program and BCP strategy.

Established, formed, and charted the business continuity steering committee; garnered BC program buy-in and budget from senior functional team leaders and executive management.

Coordinated with cross-functional teams to execute business impact analysis; identified critical processes and instituted effective risk mitigation strategies following industry best practices while supporting corporate risk appetite.

Conducting regular BC Plan and IT Disaster Recovery exercises and testing in coordination with relevant stakeholders, established benchmarking protocols that met recovery targets through data driven decision-making.

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Made improvements to business continuity, resiliency, and disaster recovery corporate frameworks, policies and procedures while assessing the resilience capabilities and readiness of third-party products and services.

Maintained business process documentation developing program audit procedures and awareness campaigns to foster a culture of business resilience and preparedness. Kuwait Finance House

Senior Business Continuity Planning Specialist May 2014 – January 2019 Led and executed business continuity initiatives, ensuring robust response strategies; enhanced and maintained continuity procedures to promptly address disruptions.

Identified regulatory banking requirements for minimum recovery time; established a business continuity-planning program that met regulatory requirements and guided senior executives in establishing internal recovery objectives.

Provided subject-matter expertise in conducting business impact analysis and risk assessment; defined the critical business functions, systems, and applications required to achieve corporate business recovery objectives.

Developed, managed, and maintained business continuity and disaster recovery plans with annual and post incident executive reviews; ensured risk strategies accurately reflected business continuity needs.

Developed tabletop walkthroughs simulations and exercises of disaster scenarios; validated effectiveness of business continuity plans and provided functional leaders with performance benchmarks.

Provided corporate indoctrination training to the BC program establishing awareness and embedding a resiliency mindset as cultural norm across business functions.

Co-ordinated the planning exercising and testing of IT disaster recovery service continuity plans including exercise of business work area alternate recovery sites; ensured functions executed a thorough after-action review process.

PROJECT / PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Facilitated executive buy-in and contract acceptance for the Tire-3 reciprocal data center project with Bank Boubyan by conducting comprehensive cost benefit analysis and an executive summary report.

Identified Information Security Management System regulatory needs at Bank Boubyan; instituted business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management controls to achieve compliance and ISO 27001 certification.

Managed a project with information security teams to develop and implement the IT disaster recovery regulatory framework for cyber security controls.

Led project team to develop third party risk management banking frameworks.

Developed and implemented BCM BIA incident and crisis management automated notification tools in compliance with cyber security and information security management regulatory frameworks requirements.

Managed project to establish a business continuity disaster recovery alternate business continuity of operations site for Bank Boubyan.

Managed the project of business continuity – Clearview Software implementation at Kuwait Finance House.

VOLUNTEER

Frisco Public Library, 2022 - Present, Administrative Support.

BC Mentor, 2019 – Present, Provides mentorship and guidance on best practices to junior BCPs.

BCI Kuwait Forum, 2013, Provided Translation Services for the Business Continuity Institute, Good Practice Guidelines.

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