Amadou Moctar NDIAYE
Montreal,Canada
Summary
Knowledgeable IT security professional with 10 years of experience designing and implementing security solutions in high-availability environments. Skilled in IT Telecommunications and Cybersecurity and adept at delivering strong risk management practices.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Cybersecurity Consultant (GRC)
CGI
Montreal, Canada
10.2023 - Current
- Senior Cybersecurity Expert, Ville de Laval
- Developed and implemented cybersecurity policies, procedures, and standards to ensure the organization's information assets are secure.
- Monitored security systems for threats or unauthorized access attempts, and took necessary steps to address any potential issues.
- Document and address the organization's requirements for information security, cybersecurity architecture, and system security engineering throughout the acquisition lifecycle
- Performed risk assessments of existing IT infrastructure to identify areas of vulnerability and develop mitigation plans.
- Ensure that acquired or developed systems and architectures comply with the organization's guidelines for cybersecurity architecture
- Conduct security reviews, identify gaps in the security architecture, and develop a security risk management plan
- Verify and update security documentation reflecting the security design features of the application/system
- Provide advice on project costs, design concepts, or design changes
- Provide feedback on security requirements to be included in statements of work and other appropriate procurement documents
- Define and document the impact of implementing a new system or new interfaces between systems on the current environment's security posture
- Provided technical guidance regarding cyber security best practices to staff in order to maintain system integrity.
- Develop a system security context, a preliminary system security operations concept, and define basic system security requirements in accordance with applicable cybersecurity requirements
- Evaluate security architectures and designs to determine good integration of the proposed security design and architecture in response to requirements contained in acquisition documents
- Determine protection needs for the information systems and networks and document them appropriately
- Translate proposed security capabilities into technical requirements.
Complex ICT Project Manager
Orange / SONATEL
Dakar, Senegal
05.2022 - 09.2023
- Lead, monitor and coordinate SONATEL B2B ICT (Integration Cloud Transformation) and Telco projects
- Cloud, Security and Telco E2E Project Management
- Ensure communication between B2B Customers and technical Internal Teams
- Coordinating with third-parties ICT Solutions Providers and B2B Customers
- Lead B2B customers Lease Line and SIP orders
- Tools: Microsoft 365 (Planner, SharePoint, OneNote, Teams, OneDrive), Internal CRM and Billing Systems
- Key achievements: Project: BP (British Petroleum) Provision of global telecommunications managed services For Mauritania & Senegal
- Leading The GTA (Grand Tortue Ahmeyim) Telecommunications Services provision at Orange Sonatel
- Communication and change Management between all stakeholders
- Project: CMS (Crédit Mutuel du Sénégal) SDWAN Interco Project
- I have led the CMS SDWAN project
- Deployment of the core network and 221 access sites based on Fortigate technologies
- Change and communication management between all internal and external stakeholders
- Project: BOA (Bank of Africa) Lease Lines Integration and Upgrade
- Lead the E2E activities of the integration and upgrade
- Project: KOSMOS ENERGY Lease Lines and Voices Service Provision
- I have led the Lease and Voice Services installation
- I have led the communication and change management.
Senior Networks and IT Security Engineer
Orange / SONATEL
Dakar, Senegal
01.2019 - 05.2022
- IP Network and System Project Manager
- Security, Systems, and IP Network Devices Management
- IT Network and Security Incidents Management
- Daily administration of security and implementation of security policies
- Ensure the availability and continuity of service of the IT network (Security, LAN and WAN)
- Set up networks and then ensure their maintenance and optimization
- Manage workstation supervision (suspicious behavior, antivirus)
- Administration of the security platform (Firewall, proxy, mail relay)
- Administration of network equipments (routers, switch, controller, ISE)
- Processing of access requests (VPN accounts, business application accounts, updating access following staff movements, detecting and correcting cases of account sharing)
- Check the availability of IT System (supervision, firewall, proxy, routers, switch, wifi)
- Management of the implementation of changes to the security platform and network equipment
- Integration of new equipment and interconnection of new sites to the IS
- Feedback of monitoring indicators for the network and security dashboard
- Maintain a report on the supervision of LAN and WIFI networks
- Write and update procedures and operating methods
- Following change requests rules and policies and IT Management process based on PMBOK and ITIL and ISO 27001
- Ensure the availability and continuity of network and System services based on the KPIs and SLAs defined by the Management
- Integration of new equipments and interconnection of new sites.
Network Engineering Manager
WAW Telecom
Dakar, Senegal
04.2018 - 12.2018
- IP Network Deployment Project Manager
- Responsible of the backbone Network
- Responsible of the LTE wireless broadband Network
- Administrator of Network, System and Security Devices
- Ensure communication between B2B Customers and technical Internal Teams
- Network devices configuration and management
- Coordinate the Change Requests Management
- Incident troubleshooting and Management
- Annual ICT budget planning
- Management of the subcontractor's team
- Designing and device integration.
Datacom Engineer
SENUM (Senegal Numérique ex ADIE)
Dakar, Senegal
06.2015 - 04.2018
- Phase III Projet e-GOV (l'intranet gouvernemental), Huawei Technologies
- Lead of the Telco part of Teledac Projet (financed by ICF)
- Member of the SIGIF Project (Financed by World Bank)
- Tech Lead Huawei eLTE project
- Security, Systems, and IP Network Devices Management
- Microsoft Active Directory, DNS Service Configuration
- Member of Senegal IXP Team.
Telecom Engineer
SENUM (Senegal Numérique ex ADIE)
Dakar, Senegal
04.2014 - 06.2015
- Phase II Projet e-GOV (l'intranet gouvernemental), Huawei Technologies
- Site Survey and new sites implementation
- Base station Monitoring and IP Phone administrator
- Fiber optic supervision in all around the country
- Responsible of the TelePresence and videoconference project deployment
- In charge of the videoconference monitoring.
Internship
LARIM-ERICSSON Canada-Polytechnique
Montreal, Canada
03.2013 - 09.2013
- Achievements: Dimensioning Mobile Networks 3G/4G LTE and Optimizing QoS
- Coverage Prediction and Design of 3G/4G Networks
- Evaluating custom scheduling algorithms for LTE base and subscriber stations
- Testing QoS mechanisms for various applications
- Validating overall network behavior and QoS Optimization.
Engineering project Tech Lead
IRSEEM
Rouen, France
01.2012 - 02.2013
- Project: Sky Conditions Sensor (Sky-CS)
- Responsible of the transmission part.
Education
3-year master's degree - Telecommunications Networks Engineering
ESIGELEC School of Electrical Engineering
12.2013
2-year specialized course - Math and Physics
CPI-ESMT-ESIGELEC
06.2010
Skills
- Strong knowledge of IT Security Principles, Business Continuity (BC), Disaster Recovery (DR) & Incident Response Concepts, Access Controls Concepts, Network Security and Security Operations
- ICT Project Management
- ICT Audit and Risk Management
- Network Security Management
- Cybersecurity Frameworks
- Telecommunications and Networks Information Security
- Strong knowledge of M365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Projects, Planner, Teams, OneNote)
- Strong knowledge of Cisco Meraki, Huawei, Fortinet, juniper Firewalling
- Strong experience in implementing routing and switching protocols
- Good communication skills
- Experienced In Microsoft Defender, Azure Devops, Solarwinds, Lansweeper, PowerBI, Jira
Certification
- Fortinet Certified Associate Cybersecurity, #B2OHQnDDmA, 11/2023
- Certified Cybersecurity, (ISC)2, #1045522, 12/2022
- ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor, #1242, 12/2021
- Project Management Professional (PMP), #2935631, 12/2020
- CFOT (Fiber Optic Technician), #7220180, 08/2015
- TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication), #1805628, 11/2013
Personal Information
Nationality: Senegalese
Languages
- French, Excellent
- English, Very Good
- Arabic, Good
Accomplishments
- Ranked 1st in the General Competition for the Senegalese Police in 2018, specializing as a Commissioner in Video Surveillance and Telecommunications.
Timeline
Senior Cybersecurity Consultant (GRC)
CGI
10.2023 - Current
Complex ICT Project Manager
Orange / SONATEL
05.2022 - 09.2023
Senior Networks and IT Security Engineer
Orange / SONATEL
01.2019 - 05.2022
Network Engineering Manager
WAW Telecom
04.2018 - 12.2018
Datacom Engineer
SENUM (Senegal Numérique ex ADIE)
06.2015 - 04.2018
Telecom Engineer
SENUM (Senegal Numérique ex ADIE)
04.2014 - 06.2015
Internship
LARIM-ERICSSON Canada-Polytechnique
03.2013 - 09.2013
Engineering project Tech Lead
IRSEEM
01.2012 - 02.2013
3-year master's degree - Telecommunications Networks Engineering
ESIGELEC School of Electrical Engineering
2-year specialized course - Math and Physics
CPI-ESMT-ESIGELEC
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