Manager Security

Tamer Maher

CELL +20-111-***-**** / +1-404-***-**** **********@*****.*** / WWW.TAMERMAHER.COM

SKYPE: TAMER.MAHER1982

http://www.linkedin.com/in/TamerMaher

Areas of Expertise

• Project Management / Program Management / Product Management

• Managing Virtual Teams / Managing Multinational Distributed Teams

• Change Management / Transition Management / Lean Transformation

• Managing Distributed Teams, Change Management and Process Improvement

• Agile / Scrum / TDD / Continuous Integration / DevOps

• Project Management Platforms (JIRA / Version One / Trello / RallyDEV / TFS and Ms Project )

• Project Valuation / Capital Budgeting

• Corporate Valuation / Corporate Finance / M&A / Acquisitions Integrations

• Strategic Planning

• Managing Cloud Platforms ( Amazon AWS / IBM VMware/ Windows Azure / Google Cloud/ Bluehost and Rackspace)

• Improving company operations using custom ERP and CRM solutions.

• Business Analysis / System Analysis (Balsamiq / Visio / Invision App ) /Data Analysis

• Business Communication and Negotiation

• C#.net /WPF/ .net Core / Python ( Django) / React / P5.JS/ Node JS and others. SQL ( MS SQL / MY SQL / SQL Lite and Postgres) and No SQL.( MongoDB / Graph)

• Security Expertise (Security Development, Security Management, Penetration Testing, HIPAA Security compliance, PCI / DSS compliance )

• Active member on TryHackMe, HackTheBox, INE and RangeForce

• Artificial intelligence ( PyTorch/ Tensorflow ) / FinTeh / BlockChain ( IBM HyperLedger) Education

• Master of Business Administration (MBA – With Finance Concentration) - the American University in Cairo (spring 2014)

• Awarded the AUC university fellowship (spring / summer 2013).

• Awarded AUC Merit Fellowship (Fall 2013 / Spring 2014)

• Bachelor of Dental Surgery – Mansoura University ( May 2008 – Grade Good)

• University of London – Goldsmiths – Bachelor Of Computer Science (expected 2023) Management Certifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional) from PMI. – on 24th of June 2013 – PMP Number 1622294 Languages

• Arabic (mother tongue), English (Native fluency), French (advanced) & Spanish (beginner), German ( beginner)

International Competitions

• Microsoft’s Imagine Cup IT Challenge: Ranked world’s 32nd in 2009, world’s 24th in 2008, Egypt’s round 2 finalist in 2007.

Technical Certifications

• Deeplearning.AI : AI for Everyone ( Workflow of Machine Learning projects / AI Strategy / Workflow of Data Science Projects)

• GOOGLE IT SUPPORT CERTIFICATION: (IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts /System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services / Operating Systems and You: Becoming a Power User

/Technical Support Fundamentals /The Bits and Bytes of Computer Networking)

• MCSE Security (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with Security Specialization)

• MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer – C#.net 2.0 – windows based applications)

• Attended a course for using Thomson Reuters EIKON software, in Citadel Capital Financial Center – October 2013

Other Tech

. Salesforce Experience https://trailblazer.me/id/tamermaher

. TryHackMe Top 10% https://tryhackme.com/p/tmaher (Based on current rank over ~ 400,000 THM Users) Work Experience

BRIGHT NETWORK – INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE UK - CONSULTING( July 2020):- Promoted by BrightNetwok in partnership with PwC, Accenture, Bain & Co., Alpha FM, Capital One and Ellixir. This experience has helped me explore the world of consulting with the top consulting firms along with networking activities with peers and speakers.

Aurea software ( ESW Capital -Crossover) – Acquisition and Integration –Project Manager ( June 2018 – June 2019):-

• Integration Gap analysis and Due Diligence

• Prepare staffing requirements

• Handling Managed Services integration with different departments

• Establish project plans using the Company’s defined workflow and best practices.

• Initiate projects with internal stakeholders to gather the information necessary to build the plan and budgetary estimates.

• Direct customer engagement coordinating project needs driving all deliverables for successful project delivery.

• Adept at leading projects and programs using frameworks such as Modified Waterfall and Scrum.

• Adept at leading complex custom development projects with clients and software engineers.

• Review of all assigned projects activities, ensuring schedules that auto-generated client facing communication are up to date.

• Manage and foster successful Project Coordinators.

• Create project estimates leveraging PMO best practices

• Effectively manage multiple concurrent complex project delivery in a matrixed organization

• Drive business, functional and technical resolutions with the client and team members

• Manage change, mitigations and project communication

• Lead software or services implementations

• Lead custom co-development projects with clients

• Equally adept at agile and traditional waterfall methods and tools

• Manage and Coach direct reports

• Drive process efficiencies quarter over quarter

My biggest achievement project, was managing the migration of a huge server farm (2000+ servers ) to the CLOUD (including AWS, google cloud and IBM VMWARE) . I also managed the necessary due diligence, security gaps, as well as covering all meeting the company security standards after migration. Traxion By Pluma Technologies – Chief Operating Officer (March 2018 Till – Oct 2018):-

• Handle over all operations of Traxion.

• Ensure projects are executed properly, on time and on budget.

• Involved in the overall technological strategies, business partnerships, network collaboration, human resources, project management.

• Manage FinTech projects (including,but not restricted, to : BlockChain / eWallets / IBM HyperLedger Fabric)

• Represent Traxion on roadshows during ICO and speak on behalf of the team using proper representation skills.

• Provide additional value to the whole company to ensure valuation is increased overtime.

• Managed the CTO

• Managed the Security teams

• Managed the compliance requirements of BSP ( Bank Central of Philipines) for financial services providers

FonteyneTheKitchen – Project Management Consultant (Brussels – Belgium) (January 2018 – February 2018):-

• Conduct Gap analysis and project management plan

• Establish PMO

• Coach the project managers and team members

FirstApprove CopernicusMD – Chief Technology Officer ( USA Based) ( April 2017 – November 2017):-

• Established the company’s technical vision.

• Lead the company’s technological development

• Worked in a consultative fashion with different departments as an advisor of technologies that may improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

• Provided leadership to different department heads, as well as, team members and employees in a fashion that supports that company’s culture, mission and value.

• Conducted research and due diligence on leading edge technologies and make determinations on the probability of implementation.

• Established the PMO for the company

• Oversaw other project managers and project management

• Managed the Secure Coding and Network security

• Lead the implementation of PCI compliance across the different tech teams

• Migrated the company to testing automation

Brisk Business / Senior Consulant ( USA Based) ( March 2017 – August 2017):- My work included ( but not restricted to) providing consulting for high end clients, on aspects related to Portfolio Management, Program Management and Project Management. I also worked on Cost Cutting and Organization Enablers.

Clients I worked with include (but not restricted to):

• Asfour Crystal

• ESRI Northeast and Africa

FREELANCE BUSINESS/Technical CONSULTANT ( JULY2015 – PRESENT ) :-

• Project management consulting / Agile Scrum Consulting / Change management / transformation

• Business Consulting

• Technical advisor for IT companies, helping them choose best options to implement their solutions Nashope – Entrepreneurs Coach ( March 2016):-

I coached young entrepreneurs on how to become better ones, solve common problems entrepreneurs have and how to achieve their short term / long term goals and keep moving forward. The coaching also included principles of using Agile and Lean as a blend helping startups achieve the Minimum Viable Product ( MVP) together with flexibility to accommodate long term business plans with frequent changes. Contractorwize Inc (USA Based ) - Program Manager – Product owner ( May 2013 – July 2015):-

• Research applicability of new areas where we may extend our existing product suite;

• Research broader market for product input

• Prototype solutions as proof of concept for inclusion into the mainstream product suite;

• Write specification and design documents to facilitate assimilation of new concepts into product features

• Managed projects with Agile Scrum using Jira

• Articulate to team members and management the value of these new features and back it up with the research required to showcase overall value to the product suite

• Established the IT foundation for the company, for multiple projects on multi-tier platforms, using Web, Android and Mobile apps customized for the company operations.

• Managed the cloud based security implementations for the different services on amazon AWS

• Managed the company security implementation on Amazon AWS CTI Logic (USA Based) : IT Project Manager ( Jan 2015 – June 2015):-

• Managed projects with Agile Scrum using Jira

• Accomplish information technology staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.

• Maintaining staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.

• Maintaining organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.

• Directing technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.

• Completing projects by coordinating resources.

• Verifying application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.

• Recommending information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.

• Maintaining quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.

• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Webglimmer (USA Based): Agile Project Manager – Scrum Master: March 2011 – May 2014)

• Achieved high customer retention success by helping the company keep their client ( KAPLAN US – FIRE EMS Training Department ) as the company had lots of problems on this contract before I join and have it assigned to me. My work resulted in solving the problems with this big client, and regain their trust for a contract renewal for 3 more years.

• Coached Client Side / Developers / Analyst and managers in the company to implement / migrate work to Agile – Scrum as well as continuous integration and TDD to solve critical business problems.

• Managed projects using Agile Scrum with RallyDev

• Managed Business communication with the clients and suppliers.

• Supervised and expanded the development team

• Monitored the development process and approved the deliverables

• Managed the continuous integration process and planned the quality control requirements

• Controlled the project scope and handled change requests

• Managed project documentation

• Migrated the development team to implement Agile – Scrum

• Managed Security implementation for the cloud servers as well as secure coding discplines

• Monitored the implementation and continuous improvement of the Agile process ModeTwo (USA Based): Senior Agile Project Manager: Oct2011 – Nov 2012:

• Establish the PMO – Prepare the Agile/ Scrum Platform

• Managed projects with Agile /Scrum using Jira

• Implement LEAN startup and Scrum methodology over the company

• Manage web based / cross platform apps development

• Worked on making prototypes for ipad apps for medical informatics using Adobe flex, and business analytics wide scope research projects using Neo4J ( non SQL database), besides working on a major smart TV project for Chumby platform.

• Lead the implementation of the Secure Development methodologies among different development teams

Garious (USA Based): Agile Project Manager – Scrum Master: October 2011 – July 2012

• Managed a social media networking team and web marketing team

• Coached the team and Marketing Manager on Migrating the whole work to Agile process

• Managed projects with Agile /Scrum using Trello

Museeka (Switzerland): Agile Scrum Master: March 2011 – May 2011

• Established the PMO

• Coached multiple project managers to use Agile / Scrum as a means for program management for a successful multi-tier application on multiple teams distributed globally with a total of 40 developers working on multiple platforms

• Migrated the software development team to implement Agile / Scrum

• Managed projects with Agile /Scrum using Jira

• Managed web and mobile apps software development teams Business Analyst in Into Your Web www.intoyourweb.com- (USA Based) 23rd of April 2010 – 30 October 2010

• Analyzed and gathered requirements for the projects needed.

• Compared different alternative solution and helped the decision makers use the most suitable solution meeting our company vision and our client requirements

• Participated in Company branding and helping in Business Process Improvement. Associate Project Manager - Symbyo Technologies www.Symbyo.com (US Based – Egypt Office) - 3rd of July 2009 till 30th of June 2010

• Accomplished a difficult medical imaging project : 360 Dental Implant software, used for Importing DICOM images, planning and designing surgical guide for dental implants and exporting co-ordinates and STL files to robots to manufacture the surgical guide. I managed the project from the very scratch doing the analysis, design and comparative – competitor analysis, milestones and long term project plan, till execution and delivery.

• Design projects’ requirements, write specifications and user stories, prepare wireframes

• Delivered MVP

• Managed projects with Agile /Scrum using VersionOne

• Prepared different projects’ documents and reports

• Managed communication between the company and the client representatives

• Managed Project Risk

• Reported project progress to higher management

• Negotiated partnerships with other industries / vendors that can be helpful for our company regarding the ideas and projects we invest on.

• Managed / Controlled project execution teams and making sure projects are on time, budget and quality.

• Managed the Compliance of our products to meet HIPAA / HIPAA Security requirements Security Tester - Link Development www.linkdev.com - 3rd of July 2007 till 15th of August 2007 - Internship ( Egypt Office)

• Revised the security specifications required by the client, and the designs made by the architect designer to checked if they meet the security needs.

• Preformed White Box testing for the hosting servers and the network connectivity, ( like checking security for the shared folders and NTFS permissions, service packs and security hotfixes, admin passwords and guest account .etc )

• Performed Black Box testing on the web application (like trying to bypass authentication, folder browsing, sniffing passwords to check SSL, stress / load tests .etc)

• Worked on MS Project / Sharepoint and TFS for project management Freelance Software Developer – July 1997 – July 2009

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