Head of Information Management
Qatar Biomedical Research Institutes QBRI member of Qatar Foundation
Total years of experience :19 years, 3 Months
Develop and implement QBRI Information Management strategy, and associated policies that support and deliver QBRI vision, strategy and business plans
Planning, implementing, upgrading, configuring and troubleshooting, QBRI laboratory infrastructure including but not limited to network, DB, servers, HPC, storage, security, medical equipment, scientific application and any other QBRI Research system to ensure maximum access and performance for all technical and non-technical staff
Creating and developing suitable operational and up-to-date procedures to secure, maintain and troubleshoot QBRI infrastructure
Gathering, analysing and correcting Performance related issues to increase service performance
Developing solutions for reliability, efficiency, and confidentiality to ensure the QBRI research project continuity.
Managing research data files generated by QBRI scientists to insure availability.
Streamline QBRI Research data collection and analysis procedures to ensure fast access metrics.
Maintaining databases and conduct routine maintenance as needed to ensure data integrity and availability.
Producing an annual QBRI IT plan and budget, setting out, prioritizing and costing the activities of the services in the forthcoming year.
• Assessing where the company stands as far as IT system performance/efficiency, compared to where it would like to be, and compiling recommendations on how to improve performance.
• Planning, troubleshooting, network maintenance, and performance analysis
• Planning and implementing systems upgrades, hardware, software, Operating system, and application.
• planning, implementing, and maintain specialized applications for major laboratory equipment and there integration with SMGC network
• Develop and document operational procedures for Windows servers and applications.
• Troubleshooting hardware and software issues in order to ensure maximum uptime of windows servers and windows desktops
• Gather, analyze and correct Performance related issues
• Support applications running on the Windows servers
• Monitor and Maintain a virus management system
• Assist in Windows AD (Active Directory)and user administration duties corporate wide, including creating users and groups; assigning user and group rights; setting
• up shares, volumes and directories; and monitoring servers, storage and events corporate wide
• Install and Administer the AD, FTP, DNS, DHCP, SSL, WINS services, Exchange
• sever, IAS service, ISA firewall, ASA firewall (Cisco pix), switches and routers,
• antivirus server, file/print server, network storage, SQL server, Oracle database, Http server
• Implement and support Microsoft WSUS, AD, Group Policies and SQL 2005servers
• Maintains network status and performance and assists with the development of solutions for reliability, efficiency, and confidentiality
• Determines areas where network hardware and software are currently vulnerable
• Ensures that policies and procedures for monitoring, maintaining and troubleshooting the network are complete, accurate and up-to-date
• Install and support the Windows Operating System software, upgrades, and security patches
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Coordinate system development tasks to include design, integration and formal testing
Oversees all transitions into production
Develop and complete actions in system specifications, technical and logistical requirements and other disciplines
Create and maintain programmatic and technical documentation to insure efficient planning and execution
Manage and document system configurations
Designing and implementing computer systems, software and networks includes defining complex system requirements, determining system specifications, processes and working parameters
manage and monitor LAN network services
recommend and acquire equipment replacements and upgrades
maintain an inventory of all network devices
draft and maintain LAN documentation and processes
introduce and integrate new technologies into existing data center environments;
perform routine audits of systems and software; and
Troubleshoot any reported problems
installing, configuring, updating and maintaining server software/hardware high-level problem troubleshooting
installing, configuring, updating and maintaining server software/hardware
replacing failed hardware and addressing system problems
tracking system capacity (CPU, memory, disk space, etc.) and reporting/correcting any issues
installing software upgrades and security patches
My graduation project was on Oracle DB