Technology Solutions Manager
PST
Total years of experience :9 years, 9 Months
- Work closely with IBM and Oracle teams to apply different technologies and solutions.
- Design and architect solutions for Banks, Governments and Enterprises.
- Write business and technical proposals and present solutions to clients in the MENA region.
- Develop and maintain web applications.
- Responsible for developing cloud based solutions.
• Responsibilities
- Lead and control IT initiatives.
- Determine and write standards and procedures for technical functions.
- Ensure security and business continuity process frameworks are followed.
- Handle IT and Infrastructure procurement and work against fixed budgets.
- Manage a team of IT officers and administrators.
- Communicate and manage projects with different departments and outsourcing companies.
- Plan and supervise technical support and help desk operations.
- Manage live environment servers and making sure high uptime and response time for online services at all times are achieved.
- Plan and implement cloud computing techniques, auto scaling and load balancing on both Linux and Windows server environments.
- Network management including LAN / WAN.
• Challenges
- Maintain a high uptime for all of the clients' online services.
- Work and leveraging between different server operating systems running in different locations in order to achieve high performance and availability.
- Round the clock monitoring of server resources such as CPU, Memory and I/O network using advanced tools and alerting systems.
• Accomplishments
- Increased client online products uptime and response time through setting up autoscale and load balancing techniques, which has increased the products availability and reduced downtime cost significantly.
- Migrated clients data and applications from standard physical servers located in USA to a newly designed and implemented cloud of virtual servers located in Europe with zero downtime.
- Kept top management inline with current and projected servers’ and infrastructure cost by visualizing bandwidth, generating reports that detail server performance and computing resources as well as online products’ uptime and response time using statistical data and charts.
• Responsibilities
- Lead the design phase; design of N-Tier, Secure, and Multi-channel Web enterprise solutions.
- Developed technical risk mitigation plans, and direct proof of concepts with formalized documentation.
- Responsible for programming and web development.
• Challenges
- Worked against tight deadlines, learned new technologies in a short time and applied such technologies on various projects.
• Accomplishments
- Developed and deployed various C# .net projects such as online user profiles, blogging engine and friends section.
- Documented many projects according to software development life cycle and set standards to application testing.
- Setup source control solutions for projects being developed using Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS) and Sub Version (SVN).
• Responsibilities
-, Performed systems and business analysis.
- Developed software products and toolkits using the appropriate software engineering techniques and methodologies.
- Worked as part of a large multinational teams and used Visual Basic.net, C#, Javascript and HTML
• Challenges
- Worked on engineering and scientific applications that required an understanding of welding techniques, laser technology as well as stress and fatigue calculation.
- Created very detailed and organized project quality document that fully explains the project life cycle from analysis, design and planning to development, testing and deployment.
• Accomplishments
- Delivered two projects such as ClearWeld as well as Stress and Fatigue calculator.
- Worked on creating an API and a translation Component for Crackwise to incorporate Chinese and Japanese languages.
- Created project documentation that conforms to ISO9001 standard.
First Class Degree (70%) Final Year Project “Segmentation Techniques Used To Generate Image Geometrical Realisation For Microscopic Plant Cells”. This project, In coordination with the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, aims to review different segmentation methods used to extract geometrical data from confocal microscopic cell images, and then evaluate these methods to facilitate designing a segmentation pipeline.
● Applied Mathematics (A) ● Communication Skills & IT (B) ● Physics (A) ● Pure Mathematics (A)
Overall Mark 78.3%