Abdullah Abdullah, IT Infrastructure Manager

Abdullah Abdullah

IT Infrastructure Manager

Allianz Saudi Fransi Cooperative Insurance co

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Experience
17 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 5 Months

IT Infrastructure Manager at Allianz Saudi Fransi Cooperative Insurance co
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2019

• Responsible for overseeing both the technical and managerial aspects of the organization’s IT department.
• Direct and design company’s IT infrastructure and technology.
• Provide leadership in planning and managing computer operations and production support, systems and network operations.
• Ensure system performance and SLA's are met.
• Manage IT resource requirements to ensure appropriate balance between tactical and strategic demands.
• Manage strategic relationships with key IT product and service providers
• Provide in depth technical expertise for both tactical and operational initiatives.
• Participate in IT strategy planning activities including all IT processes and procedures.
• Responsible of IT Service Management, IT Governance and Service Continuity.
• Comply with SAMA requirements and framework regarding both IT and IS.
• IT budget planning
• Managing/overseeing all IT project, IT digitalization and Cloud computing.

Technical Support at Thimar Al-Arabiy
  • Saudi Arabia
  • July 2017 to July 2019

Managing group technical and infrastructure team.
• Provide and design technical solutions for the group companies.
• Manage IT related projects.
• Capacity planning.
• Availability Planning.
• Group companies technical architecture.

IT Manager at Volkswagen Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2015 to July 2015

In charge of IT department for three brands (VW, Audi and Porsche)
representation in Saudi Arabia.
• Group IT representation for the dealership in the country.
• Managing IT related projects in the region (Hardware and Software).
• Rolling out Group IT solutions and projects.
• Finding proper IT solutions to match brands requirement and needs.
• Act in accordance with Global IT policy, Security and infrastructure standards
defined by the group headquarters.
• Part of Regional Infrastructure Team, to provide infrastructure solutions for
the region.
• Business process gathering and documentation.
• IT Budget maintaining and planning.
• Accountable for IT department strategic planning and future expanding.

ICT Associate (Infrastructure) at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • Eswatini
  • August 2012 to March 2015

"• Global infrastructure and WAN connectivity team member.
• Enterprise firewall Administrator.
• Third level support for WAN connectivity for more than 320 site.
• Technical design and recommendation (Data Center and Connectivity).
• Network management and administration HQ LAN.
• Datacenter and infrastructure management.
• Provide infrastructure technical solutions for the Organization.
• Technical adviser for infrastructure upgrade project overall the worldwide offices.

Technical Team Leader (Acting Hardware Manager) at Electronic Health Solution (EHS) - National E-Health Project (Hakeem)
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2010 to August 2012

"• E-health Enterprise Administrator.
• Project engineering and solutions design.
• Medical system infrastructure design and deploy.
• E-Health system capacity design and build.
• Business continuity and disaster recovery design.
• Technical system evaluation and recommendation.
• Hardware department manager (Desktop Support and System administration Team).
• Datacenter design and responsibility.
• Build and design Health system workflow IT requirements and technical challenges.
"

System Administrator at Electronic Health Solution (EHS) - National E-Health Project (Hakeem)
  • Jordan - Amman
  • February 2009 to January 2010

"• Microsoft System Administrator.
• SAN Storage (Dell-EMC, EqualLogic) deployment and administration.
• Hardware monitoring and deployment.
• VMware and Hayper-V Virtualization deployment and administration.
• Datacenter installation and support.
• Backup Operator, Symantec Netbackup Administrator.
• Build and deploy the project infrastructure.
• Group Policy design

Technical Support Coordinator at Insurance Commission of Jordan
  • Jordan - Amman
  • February 2008 to February 2009

"• Help Disk support hardware and software.
• User accounts administration using active directory.
• Appling and management and testing Group Policy.
• Network administration and troubleshooting.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting IT related Systems (CCTV, Door
Access, Attendance, Digital Phone System)-H.ardware and Software.
• Backup operator and tape library management.
• SAN management and Administration.
"

Technical Support Engineer at Business Technology Co. (Ricoh distributor in Jordan)
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2005 to February 2008

"• Computer maintenance including software and hardware.
• Installing all the Ricoh products including (Copiers, Faxes, Scanners, Printers and Multi Function Products).
• Troubleshooting and maintain Ricoh products for all the models-especially digital machines-, include solving hardware and software problems.
• Testing and troubleshooting installed systems.
• Configure basic network components for wired and wireless networks.
"

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • at The Hashemite University
  • August 2004

Computer Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Cloud Computing
IT Project Management
Virtualization
IT Management
Pre sales Technical Support
CAPACITY PLANNING
MANAGEMENT
BUDGETING
BUSINESS PROCESS
COMPUTER HARDWARE
DOCUMENTATION
REQUIREMENTS
STRATEGIC PLANNING
A+ CERTIFIED
ACTIVE DIRECTORY

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI
Date Attended:
January 2016
ITIL (Certificate)
Valid Until:
January 2009
MCSE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2009
AWS cloud archatict (Training)
Training Institute:
Amazon

Hobbies

  • Sports