IT Projects Manager
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Total years of experience :12 years, 7 Months
Certified MCTS and MCP system administrator with above 7 years’ experience in all facets of systems administration of Win 2K12 R2, Win 2K8 R2 and Win 2K3 R2 infrastructure. Certified PMP having managed several value-adding business solutions and research projects. Expertise in designing and implementing virtualization solutions and associated operation and maintenance services based on ITILv3 standards. Possesses close to 5 years’ experience as Group Leader and Senior Systems Administrator responsible for planning and reporting in addition to operation and maintenance responsibilities.
Core business competencies include:
• Win 2K12 R2, Win 2K8 R2 and Win 2K3 R2 Infrastructure Administration including AD, Group Policy, DNS, Dhcp, and WINS servers.
• User account maintenance including Roaming Profile, Home Directory, and network printing.
• Installation, maintenance, and licensing of server for third-party software.
• Project Management of IT solutions.
• ITILv3 based introduction of new services aligned with core corporate business.
• Standardization of existing processes and procedures based on ITILv3.
• Server consolidation with VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.
• Virtual infrastructure administration with VMware vCenter, SCVMM 2008 R2 and Citrix XenCenter.
• Desktop Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop and Microsoft MED-V.
• Application Virtualization with Citrix XenApp and Microsoft App-V.
• SAN Installation, configuration, maintenance, and upgrade with EMC VNX 5100 and VNX 5300.
• Tape backup installation, configuration, upgrade, and maintenance with Dell PowerVault PV124T.
• SharePoint 2010 Installation and Administration.
Completed MS in Computer Science with specialization in Software Engineering. Successfully defended thesis entitled "Measuring Software Architectural Stability using Retrospective Approach." Thesis advisor was Dr. Jaralla S. Al-Ghamdi. Proposed suite of 10 metrics for measuring architectural stability. Also contributed to research community a framework to theoretically validate any architectural stability metric. The framework included 7 mathematical properties to analyze any proposed metric.
Successfully completed 144 credit hour spread over 48 courses and 4 years. Final project was to automate the special needs of Formation Public School. The automated system covered all aspects including HR, finance, academic and other divisions of the school.
