Shahul
Hameed

01Security Operations Unit Head — Museums Shared Services

Leads enterprise security operations across DCT's Museums Shared Services — the digital backbone of Abu Dhabi's national museums. Built and operationalized the information-security strategy, policy library and incident-response plans aligned to UAE IA, and enforced a Security-by-Design governance model that reviews every system before go-live. Deployed Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM), Defender XDR and Cloud App Security estate-wide, stood up AI governance to ISO/IEC 42001, and runs VAPT and third-party (supply-chain) risk end to end — protecting irreplaceable collections data, digital archives and the visitor-facing platforms behind the estate.

02IT Security Unit Head — Zayed National Museum

Built the technology and security operating model for a landmark national museum from greenfield, ahead of opening. Defined the dedicated IT and security budget, vendor SLAs and IT-governance model, and localized ISO 27001-aligned controls to safeguard irreplaceable digital archives, collections data and visitor information — embedding a security-aware culture across curators and museum staff before launch.

03Head of Technical Engineering Section — IT Department

Directed a multi-disciplinary engineering organization spanning Security Operations, hybrid infrastructure, application development and the desktop unit. Ran a 24/7 SOC, an Azure IaaS/PaaS/SaaS hybrid-cloud estate, DevSecOps pipelines and thousands of managed endpoints; owned IT strategic planning and budgets; delivered executive-level technical reporting to the C-suite; and governed BCDR, incident response and vendor SLAs across the enterprise.

04IT Governance & Compliance Unit Head — Corporate Security

Directed the enterprise Security Governance and Compliance unit as the strategic advisor to executive leadership on cyber risk. Authored the security policy library and incident-response plan, established the cyber-risk and threat-modeling lifecycle, and sustained ISO 27001, GDPR and UAE IA (ADSIC/NESA) compliance through recurring internal and external audits, corrective-action plans and formal reporting to regulators.

05Infrastructure Lead — IT Department

Led enterprise infrastructure operations and a cross-functional engineering team. Delivered new network architectures and systems with zero critical disruption, designed BCDR architectures to strict RTO/RPO objectives, and engineered infrastructure security controls and hardening while negotiating enterprise procurement contracts for maximum ROI.

06Senior Security Administrator → IT Security Expert → Security Administrator

Eight years progressing as the principal subject-matter expert for enterprise security. Engineered the network-security stack and IAM (firewalls, IDS/IPS) to hold a zero-breach environment on a highly-targeted estate, deployed centralized SIEM and ran end-to-end incident response with threat hunting and forensics, governed vulnerability-management (VAPT) programs, and sustained ISO 27001 / ADSIC compliance with security-awareness training for thousands of employees.

07Network Administrator — Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)

Engineered high-availability network infrastructure and security firewalls supporting the rigorous operations of one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds. Notably executed a zero-downtime corporate-headquarters migration that kept financial trading and operations completely uninterrupted.

08Systems Engineer — Seven Seas Computers (now Noventiq)

Designed and deployed complex enterprise IT architectures for diverse corporate clients. Directed end-to-end project lifecycles encompassing requirements gathering, vendor negotiation, deployment and rigorous security integration across each engagement.