Faisal Mohammed

Faisal Mohammed

Business Continuity Management, ITDR, Risk Management Professional

Hyderabad, India
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Summary

Executive Summary: A highly motivated and result oriented professional with expertise in Business continuity management, DR for information systems, information risk management and cyber security. With 18 years of total industry experience focused on Networks and IT services spanning across Banking & Insurance, Media & Entertainment, Government, Engineering & R&D industry sectors for business continuity planning, IT risk, project and program management areas with proven extensive knowledge of ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 31000, CoBIT, and NIST frameworks

Looking forward to utilizing my experience and SME skills for opportunities in Continuity Program Management, Risk Management advisory and Leadership roles aiming Organizational Resilience & Security

Experience

2013 Jan - Present
Senior Professional – Business Continuity, Cloud, Cyber Security
DXC Technology / Hyderabad

Jan 2013 – Aug 2019. DXC.Technology (Formerly known as Computer Sciences Corporation. CSC) is a leading global information technology (IT) Services Company based out of U.S.A, delivering business results to customers across the world.

Designation: Senior Professional – Business Continuity, Cloud, Cyber Security, DXC India.

Role: Regional Lead – North America. Business Continuity /Disaster Recovery Services.

Job Profile:

  • Managing BC/DR service across the region, resource management, project management, and CSAT scores.
  • Lead and manage the delivery team with success with multiple client engagements from the region.
  • Take responsibility for quality and on-time delivery of engagements
  • Balancing operations management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues
  • Build and develop relationships with key stakeholder teams and client contacts
  • Developing compelling services and solutions for BCP, Crisis Management and IT DR requirements
  • Plan, initiate client reviews for operational readiness, risk items and change management.
  • Creating a positive environment by monitoring workloads of the team while meeting client
  • Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring staff at all levels
  • Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff at all levels.
  • Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training SME /Professionals.
  • Understand, follow and communicate workplace policies and procedures to all levels of staff.
  • Team management in a multi-cultural /globally dispersed team structure.
  • Regional account level risk register update and reporting
  • Identify, drive cross-functional efforts from the line of services to drive compliance
  • Oversee all activities from BCP and risk management areas at account level
  • Participating in practice leadership, continuously extend and improve the services across the accounts.
  • Initiate, contribute and participate in organizational BCM strategic growth initiatives, innovation agenda.
  • Coordinate Internal and external audit programs for client BCP/DR
  • Drive compliance with all DR standards and procedures per client requirements
  • Articulated plans for availability of resources for COOP and WAR exercise.
  • Maintain data currency in SharePoint, LDRPS and FUSION risk management tools.
  • Accountable for obligation management update for deliverables to the client in OMS system.
  • Responsible for client interfacing reviews on deliverables, contractual obligations, and escalations

Expectations and extending help to accomplish deliverables

Vendor management, collaborate, coordinate and communicate availability of requirements for BCP/DR test execution.

Education

1994 - 1997
Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) / Management Accounting, IT, Banking
Osmania University
Master of Business Administration, Leadership & Entrepreneurship

Pursuing Master of Business Administration (Leadership & Entrepreneurship) from United Business

Institutes, Belgium (UBI, thru: Jaro Education).

Bachelor of Commerce from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

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