Ahmad Hassan, IT Manager

Ahmad Hassan

IT Manager

Euro Motors

Location
Bahrain - Manama
Education
Master's degree, Project Management
Experience
16 years, 2 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 2 months

IT Manager at Euro Motors
  • Bahrain - Sitrah
  • My current job since November 2017

• Responsible for ensuring the stable performance of the overall IT systems/infrastructure of the entire company while assisting in continuous development and adding value to the business.
• Collaborated with business leaders and served as a Technical Lead for the planning and execution of projects to achieve business objectives through effective technology use.
• Implemented new IT infrastructure and data centre solutions for newly built facilities.
• Rollout planning and implementation of Office 365 product suit (Mircosoft Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Power BI, Teams, Intune, Azure AD, Powershell) across the company.
• Administration, maintenance and management of the Microsoft 365 applications.
• Coordinate with cross-functional and network support teams for maintaining operations and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Preparing maintenance schedules for Systems health checks ensuring data availability, confidentiality, and integrity.

• Managed a $1M annual budget, as approved by the management.
• Implemented ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) standards and facilitated process improvements by completing external audits.
• Lowering the cost of IT operations by deploying digitalisation solutions.
• Disaster Recovery site planning and rollout.
• Conduct in-house IT training and cyber security awareness workshops.
• IT Service Management - Intuitive reporting and tracking service requests and IT incidents via the helpdesk.
• Providing IT support to users and management.
• Reporting to Group IT Manager in the HO.

Assistant IT Manager at Euro Motors
  • Bahrain - Sitrah
  • My current job since November 2015

• Managing the entire company’s IT infrastructure.
• Server Consolidation; Physical Servers into VMs. MS Hyper-V implementation
• Implemented Document Management System for BMW service (DMS)
• Designed and implemented LAN network infrastructure for BMW, JLR and Ferrari workshops.
• Roll out of Microsoft Intune Mobile Device Management solution.
• Liaise with vendors to manage and maintain 300 plus CCTV cameras.
• Implemented Avaya IP telephony systems with separate billing and recording servers.
• Implemented Fire Alarm and humidity and temperature control systems for server rooms.
• Performing IT systems Backup.
• Measure and maintain dept. performance under the strategic process of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework with delivering new and managed services.

IT Officer / Network and System Administrator at Euro Motors, Al Zayani Group
  • Bahrain
  • November 2009 to November 2015

Providing IT support to users and management.
• Configuring Cisco switches, Access points, routers and firewalls.
• Monitoring CCTV and backup Systems, preparing reports, checking system logs, and asset
management.
• Troubleshooting of hardware, software and LAN / WAN issues.
• Website domain hosting and management.
• Reporting to IT Manager.

Executive NOC Engineer at Votel Solutions (PVT) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • January 2008 to September 2009

Education

Master's degree, Project Management
  • at Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)Comsats University
  • January 2019

courses: ISO 27001 – Information Security Management Systems (Training

High school or equivalent, Project Management
  • at Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)Comsats University
  • January 2019

courses: ISO 27001 – Information Security Management Systems (Training

High school or equivalent, Electrical Engineering
  • at Mirpur University of Science and Technology
  • January 2008

1st position in the program)

High school or equivalent, Electrical Engineering
  • at Mirpur University of Science and Technology
  • January 2008

1st position in the program.

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Core Network
Business Development
Solution Design
Problem Solving
REPORTS
ADVERTISING
ASSET MANAGEMENT
BUDGETING
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING
FIREWALLS
INFORMATION SECURITY

Languages

Arabic
Beginner
English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Punjabi
Expert

Training and Certifications

PMP - Project Management Professional (Certificate)
ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library (Certificate)
Microsoft Azure Administrator (Certificate)
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (Certificate)
CCNP – Cisco Certified Network Professional (Certificate)
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate (Certificate)