Muhammad Farooq Khan

is fine and healthy. 🥦

Angestellt, Senior Director Information Technology/Security, Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (CIM/GIZ)
Abschluss: Master of Computer Science, SZABIST
Addis Ababa, Äthiopien

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Digital transformation
Cybersecurity
IT Governance
Vendor and Budget Management
Director
Strategic management
Stakeholder Management
Donor Management
IT Operations
IT Business Process Modeling and Process Planning
Management
ITIL
team establishment and team management
Team-Training
Agile Development
Team leadership
offshore team
Scrum
Automation
Infrastructure
ISO
MS Office
English Language
People Management
IT Service Management
Audit
Leadership
Leadership skills

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Muhammad Farooq Khan

  • Bis heute 3 Monate, seit Dez. 2025

    Senior Director Information Technology/Security

    Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (CIM/GIZ)

    Promoted from Director to Senior Director position. Strategic Leadership: Accountable for enterprise IT strategy, governance, and digital transformation roadmap for a national public institution. Digital Modernization: Lead the implementation of several digital workflows, improving service delivery Cybersecurity Oversight: Designed and enforced a robust cybersecurity policy framework, conducted organization-wide risk assessments. Team & Capacity Building: Built a cross-functional IT team including security

  • 3 Jahre und 8 Monate, Apr. 2022 - Nov. 2025

    Director of Information Technology

    Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (CIM Expert)

    IT Strategy Execution: Translated strategic objectives into actionable IT plans, focusing on process automation, infrastructure modernization, and data-driven decision-making. Governance Framework Development: Established the organization's first IT governance committee and policy suite, ensuring alignment with international best practices and donor requirements. Vendor & Budget Management: Owned and governed annual IT budgets, overseeing procurement, vendor contracts, ensuring cost-effective solutions.

  • 7 Jahre und 9 Monate, Apr. 2013 - Dez. 2020

    Director of Information Technology

    Learnship Networks GmbH

    Team Leadership: Directed IT functions for a distributed organization managing a global team of 300+ professionals Global IT Operations: Directed multiple IT functions for a distributed organization with teams across Germany, Armenia, India and Pakistan, ensuring 99% uptime for critical e-learning platforms. IT Service Management: Implemented ITIL-based service management, improving ticket resolution times and user satisfaction scores by over 35%. CICD implementation and execution across multiple teams.

  • 6 Monate, Okt. 2012 - März 2013

    Team Leader Quality Assurance

    Learnship Networks GmbH
  • 8 Monate, Sep. 2011 - Apr. 2012

    Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

    Groupon GmbH

    - QA Process design and implementation - QA Process implementation using TestLink and Test Automation - Test Planning, Test Case creation and assignment.

  • 4 Jahre und 7 Monate, Feb. 2007 - Aug. 2011

    Quality Assurance Manager

    Alfabet AG

    Responsible of the implementation of quality assurance process for an enterprise application supporting IT planning and governance processes in large enterprise solution systems called planningIT. Implementation of huge test case management system using TestLink with bug tracking system JIRA, the system implements Project based approach with test plans and daily builds. Collaboration with product line management and development to define use cases and test cases.

  • 1 Jahr und 6 Monate, Dez. 2004 - Mai 2006

    Test Engineer

    Fraunhofer Institute Berlin

    I worked as test engineer on a research scholarship from Humboldt University Berlin in Software Testing and Verification Group of Fraunhofer Institute Berlin, I Worked mainly on Testing and verification of industrial automation protocols.

Ausbildung von Muhammad Farooq Khan

  • 1 Jahr und 6 Monate, Dez. 2004 - Mai 2006

    Researcher

    Humboldt University Berlin

    Software Testing and Verification

  • 3 Jahre, Jan. 2001 - Dez. 2003

    Software Engineering

    SZABIST

    Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Testing and Project Management.

Sprachen

  • Englisch

    Fließend

  • Deutsch

    Gut

  • Punjabi

    Fließend

  • Urdu

    Muttersprache

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