Technology Advisor
King Saud Medical City
Total years of experience :24 years, 11 Months
-Develop technical aspects for the IT strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
-Develop the IT department’s policies and procedure to meet IT standards and framework.
-Build and ensure quality assurance processes implementation.
-Build, implement and ensure change management processes.
-Ensure technologies are used efficiently, profitably and securely
-Evaluate new systems as needed
-Help departments use technology profitably.
-Recommend new technologies that can be used to help the organization.
-Discover and recommend new technologies that yield competitive advantage.
-Develop and monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance.
-Stay on top of technology trends and developments.
Ensure all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.
-Act as a mentor to team members.
-Ensure that the technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.
-Help teams to ensure functionality and efficiency.
Consulting & Managing:
ICT Consulting, Managing & Planning IT Services & Infrastructure for MIG Holding comprising multiple companies in 8 countries.
IT Strategy:
Formulated an IT Strategy reviewed by PwC, giving a clear roadmap of IT services for the business and IT alignment in present and future.
Major Achievement:
In 3 years of time following projects delivered successfully across the group which has multiple companies in 8 countries:
- Development of IT Strategy
- Building of LAN/WAN Infrastructure
- Building production Datacenters and DR Centers
- IP Telephony deployment
- Deployment of Siebel for Insurance
- Deployment of Oracle Financials with data migration and integration with legacy systems and Siebel
- Deployment of Oracle HRMS
-Premia & EZNsure Integration with ERP
Management Reporting:
Monthly Reports, Yearly Reports, RAS Reports, Efficiency Reports, Risk Assessments, Solution design, Evaluations & Process studies, Project Reporting, Presentations & etc.
IT Staff Management:
Interviews, Performance Evaluations, Vacation Planning, Trainings, Incentives & Increments and staff management.
Business Systems:
Study, Acquisition & Rollout of Oracle ERP (Financials & HRMS) & Oracle SEIBEL for Insurance. Moreover, integration with core insurance solutions Premia & EZNsure.
Cloud Computing:
Established a private cloud infrastructure for production services. Further establishing a private cloud based DR as well.
Major Projects:
Datacenter Preparation, DR Planning, Consolidation & Virtualization based private cloud preparation, Re-engineering of LAN, WAN Infrastructure implementation in all 9 countries for centralized service delivery design, IP Telephony deployment across the group, Enterprise Backup & Archiving Solution, Oracle EBS Implementation/Support, Oracle Siebel Insurance implementation & support, Re-location of entire IT Operations setup to new building, Physical Security Solution, time and attendance solution, Convergence of distributed environment to centralized env., AD & Exchange Streamline / upgrade, IT Security Policies & Procedures, New Website preparation & portals development, IT Support portal deployment.
Technologies that are involved in projects & service delivery:
Cisco (Cisco Works, Switches, FW(ASA) & Routers), IBM (Blades Center, x-series, SAN, Tape library, IBM Director & PowerVM), VMWare, ERP (Oracle EBS), CRM (Oracle SEIBEL for Insurance), Oracle10-12g Database, OEM grid control, MS Windows & Active Directory Service, MS Exchange, ISA, Mcafee(EPO, AV, HIPS & ASW), EDEMs, Citrix, Symantec (Netbackup) & Blackberry service, Avaya.
IT Operations / SDM:
Consulting, Managing & Planning IT Services & Infrastructure for the company with branches in 27 cities in Saudi Arabia.
Management Reporting:
Monthly Reports, Yearly Reports, RAS Reports, Efficiency Reports, Risk Assessments, Solution design, Evaluations & Process studies, Project Reporting, Presentations & etc.
IT Staff Management:
Interviews, Performance Evaluations, Vacation Planning, Trainings, Incentives & Increments.
Business Systems:
Service Delivery of ERP (IFS) & In-house Developed systems
ICT Management:
Service Delivery & Improvements
Major Projects:
Datacenter & D/R Preparation, Datacenter Consolidation, Virtualization, HA design for critical services, Platform Migrations, IT Service Management solution(ITIL Based), ERP(IFS Financials & Administration), ERP Upgrade, ERP Migration, Business Performance Management, Re-engineering of LAN & WAN Infrastructure, VA & Pen Testing, Re-location of entire operations setup, Physical Security Solution, Convergence of distributed environment to centralized env., SSO and Integrated Access control Solution, Domain Streamline, IT Security Policies & Procedures, Backup Solutions, Complete Conversion of Financial Packages From character mode version to latest GUI version.
Technologies that are involved in projects & service delivery:
IBM (AIX5L, POWER5 Series, Blades Center, x-series, SAN, IBM Director & PowerVM), VMWare, Cisco (ACS, Cisco Works, Switches, FW(PIX) & Routers), ERP (IFS), Oracle10g Database, OEM grid control, Oracle Tools (Forms, Reports, SQL+Discoverer), SAP Business Objects, EMC Storage, MS Windows & Active Directory Service, MS Exchange Server, ISA Server, e-Fax Server, Websense, Mcafee(EPO, AV, HIPS & ASW), Lenel, Antispam (SMM & GFI), Citrix, Veritas, Imprivata, RSA, Storagetek, Quest, & Blackberry.