Yousef Syed

Current

Director at Bayvision Limited

Past

Manager and Lead Architect at IBM Global Services
OIM Lead Architect & Development Lead at IBM Global Services
Technical Architect - Identity Management at Oracle

Identity Management and Technical Architect at Accenture
OIM Developer at Royal Bank of Scotland
Solutions Architect at Thor Technologies, Inc.
Xellerate Solutions Architect at Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS)
Websphere Architect at IBM
OO/J2EE Architect at Saudi Aramco
J2EE Architect at Procter & Gamble
J2EE Security Architect at Accenture
Application Architect at KPNQwest
Analyst Programmer at Oyster Partners

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Education

London Metropolitan University
University of North London

Recommended

6 people have recommended Yousef

Connections

126 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Company

Yousef Syed’s Summary

Delivery focused Technical & Security Architect/Manager with a background in J2EE Applications and Identity & Access Management.

Yousef Syed’s Specialties:

Security, Technical Architecture, Identity & Access Management, Application Security, J2EE, Oracle Identity Manager

Yousef Syed’s Experience

Director

Bayvision Limited

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1999 — Present (9 years 11 months)

Providing Information security and Information technology consultancy and training to a variety of industries.
Currently Consultant, Team Lead and Architect for IBM at KPN in Netherlands on an Oracle (OIM/OID/OAM Oracle DB 10g) Single Sign-On project.
Manager and Lead Architect

IBM Global Services

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2009 — June 2009 (5 months)

Managed & Lead the development team to produce a Licensing application for all teachers in Qatar
OIM Lead Architect & Development Lead

IBM Global Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Architected and Designed the OIM solution for a 5 million user delegated administration system.
Managed development team
Project planned
Resourcing
Worked successfully with Oracle to produce a business critical Performance patch for OIM.
Configuration Management
Liaison to Test Team and Business Analysts
Defined design and coding standards
Delivered on-time and on-budget
Technical Architect - Identity Management

Oracle

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

July 2006 — December 2006 (6 months)

Contract:
Identity Management project at Royal Bank of Scotland.
Using Oracle Identity Manager (formerly Thor's Xellerate), RSA Clear Trust, Bridgestream's Smart Roles.
Identity Management and Technical Architect

Accenture

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 7 months)

Various projects for the following clients:
Johnson & Johnsons
Thor Professional Services
UBS
OIM Developer

Royal Bank of Scotland

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RBS; Banking industry)

2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
Solutions Architect

Thor Technologies, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
Xellerate Solutions Architect

Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
Websphere Architect

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

August 2003 — December 2003 (5 months)

Contracting:
Architected internal Websphere application for EMEA Finance department
OO/J2EE Architect

Saudi Aramco

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Oil & Energy industry)

March 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 4 months)

Contract:
Java/J2EE and OO Architect and Mentor to aid and oversee the Divisions’ Java/Intranet software development.
J2EE Architect

Procter & Gamble

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Goods industry)

February 2001 — August 2001 (7 months)

Contract:
Developed a J2EE (EJB) application framework to bring together the functionality of two legacy Mainframe systems and add a web based front end for external customers.
J2EE Security Architect

Accenture

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

September 2000 — November 2000 (3 months)

Contract:
Worked on the client site (Nets A.G.) on the application’s Security Architecture. Implemented the Java 2 Security API with Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) 1.0. Secured access for entire application.
Application Architect

KPNQwest

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

September 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Contract:
Responsibilities: OO Security Architect; Java Developer; Team Leader and builder of Web Application infrastructure.
Analyst Programmer

Oyster Partners

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

March 1999 — August 1999 (6 months)

Various web development activities: JHTML, JSP, ASP...

Yousef Syed’s Education

London Metropolitan University

BSc , Computer Science , 1992 — 1998
University of North London

BSc , Computer Science , 1992 — 1998

Additional Information

Yousef Syed’s Websites:

My Company

Yousef Syed’s Groups:

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP)
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
RSA Conference
The Enterprise Architecture Network
Information Security Community (30,000+ Members)
Identity Management Specialists Group
Accenture Alumni Worldwide Group
League of IAM Architects/Consultants
OIM Professionals
Role Based Access Control - Executive Forum
Thor Technologies Alumni Group
Oracle Identity Management
KPNQwest @ the speed of light
Websphere Software Specialist Group
Square One IT & ERP Consultants Group (SAP, Oracle / Peoplesoft, Testing, Databases & Development)
InfoSec Careers
Information Risk & Security Job Forum
Cloud Security Alliance