A. Slimani

Cyber Security Leader, French Cluster

Jan 2024 - Present • 2 yrs 8 mos

Lead OT/ICS cybersecurity for a multi-site pharmaceutical manufacturing cluster. - Built and ran the OT cyber risk remediation program: assessment, risk analysis, prioritisation, work plan, execution and benchmarking against IEC 62443 and group standards. - Strategic and hands-on support to site cybersecurity managers across OT, ICS, BMS and IT systems, and guidance for manufacturing, engineering, automation, QC labs and digital programs. - Wrote site procedures: removable media in OT, business continuity and disaster recovery, site security management and support. - Built in-house tools (Power Apps) to control removable media and to track security incidents and threat remediation. - Single point of contact for security incidents between sites and the CISO organisation; prepared sites for cybersecurity audits and regulatory inspections. - Led the IT/OT cybersecurity awareness campaign across the Healthcare sites: strategy, instructor-led sessions, workshops, live penetration-testing demos, multilingual toolkit, posters, screen content and feedback surveys.

Digital Transformation Project Manager

Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 • 2 yrs

Large-scale IT/OT convergence program to raise the digital maturity of manufacturing sites and laboratories. - Assessed OT assets and infrastructure: connectivity, data integrity and cybersecurity (inventory, gap analysis, reporting). - Produced the master plan: milestones, timeline, stakeholders, full budget, RACI and remediation strategy. - Designed the target architecture: high-availability physical network, physical segregation and logical segmentation (security zones, VLANs). - Delivered server room remediation, new racks and fibre cabling, redundant core network and servers (backup, virtualisation, NTP) and the campus switch rollout. - Integrated and secured OT equipment with minimal production downtime; deployed OT-adapted security measures (IDS, endpoint protection, secure remote access, backup, AD). - Managed milestone budgets, procurement, deliverables and stakeholder reporting.

OT Engineer

Jan 2019 - Jan 2022 • 3 yrs

Support and improvement of OT systems and industrial networks on a pharmaceutical manufacturing site. - Revamped and improved several manufacturing and packaging lines. - Set up three servers for data storage and system backup, including data migration. - Brought OT systems into data integrity compliance: NTP time synchronisation, periodic backups, Windows session restrictions, domain integration. - Developed a machine monitoring system to locate failure points and an incremental backup application to NAS. - Delivered a label printing system connected to SAP for packaging lines. - Scoped a CCTV and access management system: data classification (GDPR), independent architecture, URS and BOM.