Adel Al-Rashidi, Senior Manager, Infrastructure and End users support

Adel Al-Rashidi

Senior Manager, Infrastructure and End users support

OOredOO Kuwait

Location
Kuwait
Education
Diploma, Electronics Engineering
Experience
25 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 10 Months

Senior Manager, Infrastructure and End users support at OOredOO Kuwait
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since October 2016
Manager, IT Operations at OOredOO Telecom - Kuwait
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since September 2016

Managing IT Operations (Service Desk Function and Systems Administrations teams)

-Wataniya is capable of changing the outsourcing vendor any time smoothly and within short time because of the well documented policies, processes, procedures and configuration documents

-Aligning IT services with ITIL best practices

-100% SLA and ~96% Customer Satisfaction

Supervisor, Helpdesk Administration at Wataniya Telecom - Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • January 2008 to October 2011

Managing IT Outsourcing Project

-Service Desk Certified with ISO 2000

Team Leader. IT Infrastructure and Office Automation at Wataniya Telecom - Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • December 2005 to December 2007

Responsible for all Microsoft Environment and Service Desk.

-Developed online Self-Service TT system

IT Consultant at Adailiya Coop society (Retail)– Part Time
  • Kuwait
  • March 2004 to December 2005

IT Consultant

-Developed complete POS system with back office services.

-Saved Adaliya Coop (Retail-Grocery) more than 50 thousand KD annually by discovering system issue that calculating shareholders purchasing incorrectly.

Head of Technical Support at Kuwait International Airport
  • Kuwait
  • January 1998 to December 2005

Head of Network, Systems and Service Desk.

-www.kuwait-airport.com.kw with actual and live arrival/departure information and more that 4 million hits per month, this portal was the first in middle east having this service

-Developed complete email server using VB6 which helped me to be expert in email messaging protocols.

Network Administrator at Kuwait International AIrport
  • Kuwait
  • October 1993 to December 1997

Responsible for all network elements, cabling, administration and Novell Administration

Education

Diploma, Electronics Engineering
  • at College of Technological Studies
  • January 1993

2.5 years diploma

Specialties & Skills

Outsourcing Management
Project Management
IT Service Management
IT Operations
DBA (MS SQL, MySQL, Access, Sqlite)
IT Security
TCP/IP Protocols (DNS,DHCP,SMTP,POP3,SNMP,… etc)
System Development
Networking In Genetal (Switches, Routers, and Firewalls)
Microsoft Enviroment and Platforms
Managing Projects
ITIL & Service Delivery
Point of Sales and Retail
IT Policies and Procedures
Outsourcing Management
Cloud And Virtualization
Managing Technical and Operation Teams

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

ITIL v3 Service Offering and Agreement (SOA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012
Valid Until:
December 2012
Leadership Tools (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2007
Valid Until:
December 2007
IT Infrasturcture Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2006
Valid Until:
December 2006
ACPM Associate’s Certificate in Project Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2009
Valid Until:
November 2009
Project Planning, Analysis and Control (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2009
Valid Until:
November 2009
ITIL V3 Operational Support & Analysis (OSA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2012
Valid Until:
March 2012
IM:EX (Interaction Management:Exceptional Leaders) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2007
Valid Until:
August 2007
Cisco Certified Network Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2004
Valid Until:
January 2004
ITIL Foundation V3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2012
Valid Until:
February 2012
Certified TOGAF IT Enterprise Architect 9.1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
Valid Until:
March 2012
Managing Projects (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2008
Valid Until:
March 2008