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ABDULLAH ALGHONAIM, Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect

ABDULLAH ALGHONAIM

Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect ·National Information Center – MOI

Saudi Arabia

Master's degree, Business

Work experience

Total years of experience: 17 years, 0 months

Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect

July 2013 - Present

National Information Center – MOI

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

July 2013 - Present

 Developed the “Enterprise Architecture (EA)” of National Information Center (NIC) to align "Business" and "IT". This includes building "AS-IS" and "TO-BE" business, application, information and infrastructure architectures.

 Business Architect Lead. Developed business architecture for the enterprise by covering all the domains and sub-domains such as Org -Strategy, Goals & Objectives, KPIs, Org-structure, Business Processes, Unit Functions, Service profile and Capabilities. Linkages across the domains and mapping them to the IT architecture such as application and data.

 Captured organizational Business Services in EA Tool (ARIS). Analyzed the services from various perspective such as customer views, criticality, and usage.

 Analysis of Business services. Analyzed the services from various perspective such as customer view, criticality and usage also suggested various improvements to existing service catalog.

 Participated in EA maturity assessment conducted by a third party assessment team. Coordination and keeping track of assessment team engagement with EA Domains Architects, stakeholders and top management.

 Acted as EA governance officer Responsibilities includes keeping track of all important meeting agenda, preparing minutes of meeting, following up with EA teams and conducting initial assessment of agenda for prioritization.

 Presented EA team and Architecture Review Board (ARB) progress report to top management and executives. The presentations covered all up-to-date progress as well as future plan of EA team.

 Acted as a project manager for EA tool (ARIS - Software AG) delivery. The project scope was to deliver ARIS licenses, training and support from vendor. Managed the project (end-to-end) in scoping, costing and delivery. The task included preparing business case, writing request-for-proposal (RFP) and scope-of-work (SOW) documents. Also evaluated various proposals as submitted by the bidders by defining set of criteria and assigning weights to criteria for transparent proposal evaluation.

 Provide and manage end to end tasks related to providing ARIS as a service (deployment) to MOI sectors.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Architecture

IT support engineer

January 2012 - July 2013

ISE - International System Engineering company

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

January 2012 - July 2013

working with ISE Operation Team to provide the technical support to our main customers (BAE system users in Saudi Arabia).

Activities includes:

 Work with other support groups and vendors to provide technical support to customers.
 Support multiple remote sites around the kingdom.
 Monitor, analyze and address reliability and performance issues.
 Analyze problems, develop creative solutions.
 Working on the patching for the servers and end users level.
 Writing documentation and manuals for the solutions

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

C4I - System Engineer:

September 2009 - December 2011

ISE - International System Engineering

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

September 2009 - December 2011

I was seconded to Work with BAE System Company on C4I Project - for Ministry of Defense "MOD".

 Lockheed Martin Company, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA (December2009 - June2010):
Working on activities associated with development, test in fielding of Command & Control (C2) Subsystems.
Joined with the test & Integration team to run test procedures and validate requirements.
Working with deployment team to install software builds and setup a development environment for C2 Subsystems.

 BAE Systems Company, Frimley, UK (July 2010 - January 2011):
Working with integration engineering team to integrate and test all the C4I subsystems
Reviewing the test procedures documents and giving a feedback.

 BAE Systems Company, Riyadh, KSA (Feb 2011 - Dec 2011):
Joined with the Engineering team as (Integration & Test Engineer).
Working with the Interfaces Design team, System Engineering team and Integration team.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Trainee - Junior Developer

June 2006 - August 2006

Al-Elm - information security company

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

June 2006 - August 2006

Trainee at Al-Elm - information security company - (Riyadh -KSA) for a period of three months in the summer of 2006 - java and SQL DB Junior Developer

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

King Saud University

February 2015

February 2015

Master's degree, Business

Saudi Arabia

King Saud University

February 2009

February 2009

Bachelor's degree, computer sciences

Saudi Arabia

Skills

Engineering
Expert
Engineering
Expert
Project Management
Expert
Project Management
Expert
IT Strategy
Expert
IT Strategy
Expert
Business Architecture
Expert
Business Architecture
Expert
Enterprise Architecture
Expert
Enterprise Architecture
Expert
Troubleshooting
Intermediate
Troubleshooting
Intermediate
MS Office, Windows OS
Expert
MS Office, Windows OS
Expert
Strategy, planning and Business Architecture.
Expert
Strategy, planning and Business Architecture.
Expert
Business Process Improvement
Intermediate
Business Process Improvement
Intermediate
Software development life cycle
Intermediate
Software development life cycle
Intermediate
java, C++ programming language
Intermediate
java, C++ programming language
Intermediate
Management skills (Leadership, Projects, Teams).
Expert
Management skills (Leadership, Projects, Teams).
Expert
Communication's skills
Expert
Communication's skills
Expert
Review and Approve the documents - DOCUMENTATION
Expert
Review and Approve the documents - DOCUMENTATION
Expert
Enterprise Architecture Framework & Methodology, tools and Governance
Expert
Enterprise Architecture Framework & Methodology, tools and Governance
Expert

Languages

Arabic

Expert

English

Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifications
COBIT5 Foundation
Jun 2014
ISO 9001 Introduction & Lead Auditor
Aug 2014
Enterprise Architecture Center of excellence(
Jan 2015
Lean Six Sigma - Green Belt
Aug 2015
BCS Professional Certificate in Business Architecture
Mar 2017
ITIL Foundation v3 certificate in IT Service Management
May 2016 - Jul 2012
Lean Six Sigma - Black Belt
Aug 2017

Training
The Open Group Architecture Framework TOGAF9 (Level1, Level2)
Kafa'at Company
Aug 2016
INCOSE System Engineering course.
Lockheed Martin Company
Dec 2009