Omar Alwan, IT Manager

Omar Alwan

IT Manager

Royal University for Women

Location
Bahrain - Manama
Education
Diploma, ITIL v3 Service Transition
Experience
23 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 6 Months

IT Manager at Royal University for Women
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • My current job since July 2013

Overall responsibility for ICT operations and infrastructure

IT Project Management at EVRY
  • Sweden
  • January 2012 to June 2013

IT-systems review
Systems documentation review
Knowledge transfer

Senior Problem manager at EVRY
  • Sweden
  • January 2008 to December 2011

Leading and managing the Problem Management process in IT-operations for application operation ERP.

Control the lifecycle of all problems

Effectively identify repeating incidents and eliminate them by workarounds until a root cause is identified

Minimize the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented

Liaising with third party suppliers to ensure Problem processes are delivered effectively according to SLAs and business requirements

Work closely with both internal and external entities in achieving goals and objectives

Coordinate operational resources and cross-functional teams to effectively manage Problems and Changes related to problem activities

Manage and coordinate changes related to problems

Lead internal Problem forum meetings

Manage projects related to Problems

Member of the (CAB) Change Advisor Board

Change Manager at EVRY
  • Sweden
  • January 2006 to December 2007

Manage and lead change activities in IT-operations for the Swedish Pharmacy company (over 300 pharmacies around the country)

Hold CAB meetings

Analyze and approve IT-operation changes

Support technician 2005 at Evry
  • Sweden
  • January 2005 to December 2005

Manage day-to-day support cases
Support end users to resolve PC hardware and software problems
Follow the SLA to close helpdesk tickets on time
Working with group development
Training group members using incident module in HP 6.1 Service Center

Support technician at ELAN IT / Manpower
  • Sweden
  • January 2003 to December 2004

Manage day-to-day operations
Support end users to resolve PC hardware and software problems
Follow the SLA to close helpdesk tickets on time

Instructor / Trainer at ApoPC (own Company)
  • Sweden
  • November 2000 to December 2002

Training employees to use different Internet services and specific programs
Teaching Internetworking courses
Teaching MS Office basics/advanced

Education

Diploma, ITIL v3 Service Transition
  • at BiTA Service Management
  • November 2012
Diploma, ITIL v3 Service Operation
  • at BiTA Service Management
  • January 2012

ITIL Lifecycle Stream

Diploma, ITIL v3 Service Design
  • at BiTA Service Management
  • October 2011

ITIL Lifecycle stream

Master's degree, Data Communication
  • at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
  • April 2011

Master of Science in Engineering Thesis: Data Communication in Medical Informatics

Diploma, Project manegment
  • at Evry
  • October 2009
Diploma, Test Leader
  • at Astra Kahn
  • April 2009
Diploma, ITIL v3 Foundation
  • at BiTA
  • November 2008

Information Technology Infrastructure Library v3

Diploma, MCSE Microsoft Certified System Engineer
  • at Hallsten & Partners
  • November 1999

MCSE Microsoft Certified System Engineer

Specialties & Skills

Disaster Recovery
IT Management
Change Management
C / C++
Unix / Linux
LAN / WAN
MS Office
Java / Jboss
Apache / IIS
ITIL implementation

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate
Swedish
Expert