engineering consultant with major IT
Qatar News Agency. (QNA)
Total years of experience :30 years, 5 Months
Seasoned IT Professional & senior project manager with 24 years of rich and diverse experience, including over 20 years International (Qatar) environment, managing projects, portfolio, and IT Operations. With proven Technical & Management Expertise in Business Growth through IT initiatives (Enterprise / Global). Specialized in the areas of project management, operation management, consultancy, business process re-engineering, business process management, alignment of technology with business needs, and defining strategies/policies/procedures. Excellent knowledge of the business management context and the position of project management within it and how the business management functions perceive the project management function. Business transformation expertise and faced the challenges of changes.
Achievements
1- Building IT strategy, strategy planning for IT, IT policy, approval system, KPIs, and appraisal system for employees and sections.
2- Conducted a full analysis of the technical affairs (IT) department to identify risks, pain areas, and QNA requirements.
3- Building a professional team, collaboration work and, developing the required technical solutions to enable QNA to restore its position among the Arab and international agencies.
4- Built, Full documentation of QNA systems and applications.
5- Through a set of assessments to active directory, Email, and technology in addition to risk management gap analysis and policies, we built a comprehensive security solution.
6- Built a new website and new core business application as part of the change leadership of QNA.
Reported to the owners, managed projects in efficient and
effective manner for the goal of good quality and profit.
Responsibilities.
* Managed and overseen projects through portfolio to face the
challenges of achieving the company's strategy and limitations
of resources.
* Successfully guided a Strategic Information Systems (SIS)
company in Business Process Management and established
delivery process, CRS process, HR and financial process.
* Led and directed project team. Where the discipline and
coaching was to ensure SIS keeps competent employees, helps
employee improve. Built governance and the relations
between team players.
Achievements
Successfully delivered two projects 1) wooden caravans were built
as temporary offices for the site and were equipped with offices
and information systems to ensure continuity of work. 2) The
wireless network is designed and implemented to connect
employees with business application. The site is linked to the head
office and, the administrative building through VPN site to site, in
addition to, run the business application on the cloud computing.
• Project preparation included participation in business case study feasibility study, and financial analysis for projects.
• Carried out IT advisor and freelance consulting activity for IT Architecture, Project Delivery and Technical guidance.
• Managed alignment IT with business objectives and business processes management.
• Improved the organization performance through integrating, automating, eliminating waste, maximizing the value and risk management of core business processes and its supporting business processes.
Performed daily team administration activities like allocation, monitoring, feedback, and appraisal while initially did people, and dependency amongst team members in addition to raise .
1- Reported to the Business Director while led a team of 27 resources for operation management of information services of this Utility Company including setting up IT Department.
2- Accountable to lead the team to also control & manage the Data Center, while defined & enforced IT policy, SOB policy, IT appraisal and HR management in addition to Managed operation and support of day-to-day IT Operation activities.
3- Supporting requirements of the IT department while enforcing the agreed annual budgets of the department for all procurement, operation, and support activities.
Achievements:
Designed, built, and managed comprehensive Data Center end-to-end solution including raised flour, UPS, Generator, and rack installation in addition to SW applications, HW configuration, and deployment.
Managed and successfully running SAP ERP (Al-THORYA project) including the design and deployment of SAP landscape (basis) and SAP solution manager. Expert in Data Center operation.
Set up the data Centre involving design, planning, deployment, and smooth operation of the IT Infrastructure & Security System. The above include and not limited to customization and deployment of SAP ERP (FICO, MM, HCM and PM) and ORACLE Rack database as backend. MS exchange based on cloud computing, AD and DHCP in addition to other MS services such that monitoring and control the servers.
Reported to the Head of Technical Department Affair while led a
team of 50 resources for meeting the challenges of business
transformation of QNA (including migration to new building) after
collecting & analysis of business requirements.
Lead the team for development, deployment, operation & support
of 3-tier heterogeneous Data Center as well as execution of
multiple projects for the Technical Affair like generator, UPS and
furniture deployment.
Responsible for IT based projects involving requirement
finalization, scoping, scheduling, cost/budgeting,
identification/mitigation of project risk, execution planning and
delivery. Performed coaching, mentoring & motivation of the team
as well as the people management tasks like recruitment,
induction, training and performance appraisal. Developed system
documentation, developing Charts, generating risk response plans,
Scalability, Interoperability and Portability Analysis.
Achievements
Designed, built and managed heterogeneous Data Center which
Reported to the Head of engineering Department and IT Affair and led a team of 10 resources development of solutions for making improvement in the system performance.
Responsible for resolution promptly of bug reports, review and repair legacy code as well as update of solutions with new patches.
Managed requirement analysis, design & development, testing and deployment of solutions to keep the system current with changing technologies.
Leaded analysis, design, coordination and oversight the development of software systems to form a basis for the solution of information processing problems.
Spearheaded all the function of development life cycle for application like requirement analysis, specifications, solution design, development;coding, testing & integration and deployment of final solution
Supported performance analysis of current programs to diagnosis and troubleshooting (root cause analysis) of problems and designing solutions.
Achievements
Innovated and built audio and video recorder based on TV& radio convert news to texts and integrated to the applications of journalists.
Successfully developed a group of utilities under UNIX using C language for writing the name of the journalist on his story, enhanced and accelerating receive and sending news.
Successfully administrated Unix Solaris and Oracle database without any incident for more than five years.
Reported to the Head of engineering Department and IT Affair
and led a team of 10 resources development of solutions for
making improvement in the system performance.
Responsible for resolution promptly of bug reports, review and
repair legacy code as well as update of solutions with new
patches.
Managed requirement analysis, design & development,
testing and deployment of solutions to keep the system current
with changing technologies.
Leaded analysis, design, coordination and oversight the
development of software systems to form a basis for the
solution of information processing problems.
Spearheaded all the function of development life cycle for
application like requirement analysis, specifications, solution
design, development;coding, testing & integration and
deployment of final solution
Supported performance analysis of current programs to
diagnosis and troubleshooting (root cause analysis) of problems
and designing solutions.
Achievements
Innovated and built audio and video recorder based on TV&
radio convert news to texts and integrated to the applications of
journalists.
Successfully developed a group of utilities under UNIX using C
language for writing the name of journalist on his story, enhanced
and accelerating receive and sending news.
Successfully administrated Unix Solaris and
technical support engineer for
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NOVELL network
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BSC of engineering