Information Security Senior Manager
Network International Egypt (NI Egypt)
Total years of experience :23 years, 11 Months
Maintaining PCI DSS compliance and annual on-site assessments.
•Maintaining VISA PIN security compliance and periodic on-site assessments.
•Maintaining security polices rules and regulations and reporting deviations.
•Maintaining physical & logical access rights.
•Managing periodic Vulnerability and penetration tests and remediation plans.
•Managing change control procedures.
•Auditing system’s security parameters and access rights.
•Auditing system access & activity logs.
•Generation of security related policies, procedures & regulations.
•Generation of annual risk assessments report.
•Conducting security awareness sessions for employees.
EFT Implementation team leader
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) processing center offering integrated third-party solutions to the financial sector with more than 10 client banks.
NPC domain includes transactions acquiring and routing, card issuances, ATM management and driving, POS management and driving, running on Euronet transaction management application.
Responsibilities:
•Planning the introduction of new products &services.
•Testing & implementing new products/services on test & live environments.
•Managing the parameters of the company’s portfolio of products & services.
•Testing and installation of seasonal Mandates and Point Of Releases.
•Documenting basic product/service setup steps into user friendly manuals.
•Training junior members.
Daily backup for the EOD resultant files.
•Daily backup for the Production & Test machines.
•Weekly Backup for the Production & Disaster recovery machines.
•Monthly backup for the Production machine.
•Yearly backup for the Production machine.
•Managing storage space and daily cleanup on Production, Backup, Test & disaster recovery machines.
•Managing user accounts on Production, Backup, Test & Disaster recovery machines.
•Managing file restore tasks on Production, Backup, Test & Disaster recovery machines.
•Installation of Point of release upgrades.
•Installation of Mandates.
•Creation and maintaining of new environments on Test and Disaster recovery machines.
•Responsible for conducting role swap process during hardware maintenance.
Creating detailed step by step documentation for the various operational tasks.
•Training junior operators.
•Supervising junior operators’ daily tasks.
•Planning for and installation of VISA and MasterCard Edit package and Pre edit software upgrades.
Running the end of day programs for the acquirer participant Arab African International Bank.
•Running the end of day programs for issuer participants MIBank, Bank of Alexandria.
•Processing VISA and MasterCard incoming files for both the issuer and acquirer participants.
•Placing resultant files and reports for the various participants into their respective FTP sites.
•Running PIN mailer printing program.
•Processing of disk input incoming files.
•Generation of ATM up time reports.
•Generation of network/merchant monthly activity statistical reports.
NTG is one of many companies owned by National Telecommunications Holding (NTC) which in part is owned by the National Bank of Egypt.
The company provides banking services in terms of mailing solutions as well as an agent (sales & maintenance) for the POS terminal supplier Hypercom.
Company is a mailing service provider for 3 major banks as well as 2 GSM service providers and also a POS terminal provider for Egypt’s largest public sector bank NBE.
Responsibilities:
•Journal entrees.
•Issuing L\G’s.
•Dealing with L\C’s.
•Sales tax declaration.
•Bank reconciliation.
•Preparing sales, cost & profitability reports.
•Costing of imported shipments.
•Purchase of foreign currency.
•Issuing sales invoices & following up collection.
•Preparing commissions sheets for sales personnel.
Network International is the largest acquirer in the MENA region and the largest third party processor in the Middle East. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, Network International serves more than 70 banks and financial institutions across Middle East and Africa.
On 2008 Network International acquired NPC as a step for expanding its market share in Egypt and a stepping stone for expanding in Africa.
DSS certification procedures & requirements.
•VISA PIN security procedures & requirements.
•RoC build up procedures & requirement.
•Evidence collection & management.
•Transaction acquiring and routing.
•Implement and launch new card products.
•Dispatching and resolution of ATM problems.
•VISA international Concepts, rules & regulations experience
•MasterCard international Concepts, rules & regulations experience.