Yousef Syed

Current

• Director at Bayvision Limited

Past

• OIM Lead Architect 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

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Yousef Syed’s Summary

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

Yousef Syed’s Experience

• Director

  Bayvision Limited

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1999 — Present (8 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.

• OIM Lead Architect

  IBM Global Services

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

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

• 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 Groups:

•    Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) member
• LinkedIn UK 1st Million Members member
•    Information Security Community member
•    Identity Management Specialists Group member
•    Role Based Access Control - Executive Forum member
•    Thor Technologies Alumni Group member

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