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Bassim Hassan

Contact Details

Current Employer: N/A
City: riyadh
Province / State / Region: Ar Riyad
Country: Saudi Arabia

Teaching Experience (Years)

6+

Professional Experience (Years)

25+

Profile Summary

A Proven IT/Cyber Security proficient with 27+ years’ experience across the Middle East: (12+) years as Microsoft Regional Principal IT Manager| (2) years as Chief Information Security Officer | (13) years as: IT/Security Architect Lead| Sr. Security Consultant |Sr. Presales Consultant | Services Delivery Lead | IT / Security Governance and Auditing.   Specialty of practicing experience by working with multinational (Microsoft), system integrators, key enterprises customers in GCC across diverse industry sectors, partners, and vendors in:  ITSM | Cyber security | Cloud Solutions | Business Continuity | GRC | Auditing & Governance- developing on (Responsible AI | AI Governance & Ethics ISO42001 AIMS | Data Privacy Governance) Leading and managing several programs and projects that focusing on: Digital Transformation Programs including Infrastructure Technology evolution | MultiCloud Architecture |Modern Cyber Security & Zero Trust Transition | Modern Business Application Architect | Business Continuity & Resilience | Cyber IT Governance & Auditing | Agile / Scrum / DevOps methodologies and best practices. Roles and Responsibilities: Demonstrated and well recognized working profile while carrying several roles: IT/Security Services Management & Leadership: (Digital e-State Transformation roadmap planning | enterprise scale program management | people management) - developing digital business processes, employee’s digital experience, modern Zero Trust cyber security architecture, work productivity, intelligent support services evolution. Business Relations Management: a trusted advisor and business advocate with intensive business acumen at CxO levels, business relations, stakeholders, and customer success management. Sales Consultancy: working closely for many years in supporting sales teams including account planning, revenue generation, business growth, customer engagements and bidding management as a technical sales lead and presales consultant at CxO/BDM/TDM decision makers levels on closing multimillion sales deals with key enterprise customers across Middle east region. Technology Solutions design & Auditing Consultancy Services with proved lengthy experience as Enterprise Architect, IT/Cyber Security solutions Architect and Consultant: Modern IT/Security Infrastructure and business services enterprise architecture Azure Cloud Security Solutions Architect, Hybrid & Multi-cloud solutions (AWS /GCP/OCI) IT/Information Security Risk Management GRC, Information privacy and Governance / GDPR Practitioner Implementer and Auditor practicing TOGAF|ISO42001 ISO27001|IS027701/NIST IT/ Security Governance: COBIT, ITIL, & ITSM solutions like Service Now, Jira & BMC. Business Continuity management & Disaster Recovery planning based on BCI & ISO22301 IT/Security Services Delivery & Support: Leading regional scope, distributed professional engineer’s teams for services delivery, operations excellence, and client support service while managing distributed team of (17) persons across the region.   EDUCATION & MAIN CERTIFICATIONS: Academic Education: BE. Computer Engineering & Digital Systems – AL Balqa Applied University, Amman, Jordan, 1995 Oxford - Saïd Business School Program: Leading Strategic Projects Program, 2020 Oxford - Saïd Business School Program: Collaborative Leadership and Systems Transformation, 2021 London School of Economics and Political Science - Automation Implementation in Business, 2022 Currently – on-going education & development on  AI/ML & Services Automation – Business Digital Applications & Transformation – Responsible AI & Governance | Data Governance & Privacy Main Specialty Accreditations & Certifications Global well-recognized certifications: CCISO | CISM | CISSP | IAPP-CIPM | GRCP| GRCA | TOGAF | ISO27001-Lead Auditor | ISO 42001 LA & Implementor| ISO27701 Implementer | ISO22301 | BCI BCM | AGILE-ICP & IPO| | ITIL| COBIT- TOGAF Digital Specialist | DAMA -Data Management Professional CDMP ​Cloud Specialty in: Microsoft Azure Solution Architect | Azure Cybersecurity Architect | Azure Information Protection | Azure AI Foundation | M365 Foundation | Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner | Oracle Multi Cloud Architect

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