Engineering Specialist and Communications Standards Committee Chairman
Saudi Aramco
Total years of experience :23 years, 8 Months
• Leading subject matter experts to manage and optimize Saudi Aramco telecommunications standards and procedures to reduce corporate capital projects cost and align to international standards.
• Working with major telecommunication vendors to evaluate and approve telecommunication technologies to be used by Saudi Aramco and manufactures to be qualified suppliers.
• Providing design enhancement and technical recommendations for telecommunication projects.
• Engagement with corporate cyber security program to develop cyber security governing procedure for industrial automation and control networks
December 2011 - Present Huawei Technology Khober, Saudi Arabia
Business Global Enterprise Department
Chief Technology Officer and Project Manager for Oil and Gas sector
• CTO leading the technical team to handle Oil and Gas projects.
• Developing design strategy and executing the project to meet the customer requirement and project milestone.
• Acting Project Manager for Aramco project BI-955 Alerting and Conferencing system
December 2006 - 2010 Cisco Systems, Inc. Khober, Saudi Arabia
Enterprise Sale organization
Pre-sale system engineer
• Designing and assisting Cisco partners to implement service provider as well as enterprise unified communication, data networking and security solutions for Oil and Gas clients in Saudi Arabia.
• Working closely with key customers such as Saudi Aramco and others to provide them with technical and commercial proposals.
• Leading the Cisco effort in Saudi Arabia to develop IT industry based solutions for manufacturing vertical.
• Working closely with Account manages to developing long term plan and short tactic to up sell and increase Cisco revenue in Saudi Arabia to achieve a planed and stretched quota.
September 2001 to September 2002. Cisco Systems, Inc. USA, San Jose, CA
* Consultant with Cisco Systems, Inc. US Technical Assistance Center, LAN Switching group in San Jose, CA.
June 1995 to September 2001 Saudi Aramco Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Computer & Communication Services Department.
Communication Engineer
• Worked on Telephone Central Offices COs, voice mail and conferencing systems day to day operation and maintenance.
• Developed and executed performance acceptance test (PAC) for communication systems.
• Developed software applications and scripts to automate programming various types of communication systems.
• Managed and administered local Area Network of Dhahran telephone switching group.
• Performed telephone switching Main Distribution Frame (MDF) work activities, service orders implementation, line testing and programming subscribers' features.
• Integrated legacy communication equipments such COs, paging systems and voice mail system with LAN switching technology.
• Migrated Novell servers and clients to Microsoft NT environment.
Project Management Department
Project Engineer
• Developed projects schedule and plane to execute scope of work and short form contracts to provide voice and data services for Saudi Aramco users located in Aramco campus, oil refineries, and gas plants.
• Technical bid evaluator for projects with a value of $ 2 million USD and above.
1991 - 1995 TriState University Angola, Indiana USA B.S. / Electrical Engineering.