Ahmad Bakr, NOC Manager

Ahmad Bakr

NOC Manager

Ministry Of Interior - Qatar

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, Risk, crisis, and disaster Management
Experience
11 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 4 Months

NOC Manager at Ministry Of Interior - Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • July 2014 to July 2019

Projects and initiatives
o Implement New Escalation Procedure for NOC team: define clear escalation procedure which help to reduce the time of solving incidents and helped in tracking the problems.
o Define Datacenter Access Procedure: how to monitor datacenter components, how to get approvals to access it, and how to work inside the datacenter all explained in this new procedure.
o Impalement and Enhance Monitoring tools to cover all the Systems
• Microsoft SCOM. • EMC SRM. • ESET Antivirus.
• Fluke TruView. • Cisco Prime. • HP IRS.
Key Responsibilities
o Manage the team responsible for monitoring core applications that server the emergency services across country and maintain the availability and healthiness of datacenter elements.

Senior System Administrator at Ministry Of Interior - Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • July 2012 to July 2014

Projects and initiatives
o Architect, design and implement New DR Site.
o Architect, design and implement Application Publishing using RDS 2012 R2.
o Virtualizing Core Applications Servers.
o Architect and design virtual environment (VMware, Hyper-V, and Citrix XenApp).
o Introduce Boot from SAN technology, the RTO is reduced by 70% during failover to DR site.
o Design and Create New Group Policies for Users and Computer.
o Install and manage policies for Antivirus and device control.
o Adopting and implementing of EMC VNX5300, and RecoverPoint which make RPO near to Zero.
o Implementation of Microsoft infrastructure (Windows Server, DNS, Domain Controllers, Certificate Server, System Center Suite, and KMS).
o Implementation of VMware Products (Site Recovery Manager, vRealize Operation Manager).

Storage administrator at Qatar Islamic Bank
  • Qatar - Doha
  • May 2011 to May 2012

Projects and initiatives
o Participate in collecting requirements, and design for Upgrading CCTV Storage and Cameras according to new requirements defined by Qatar MOI.
Key Responsibilities
o Administration of EMC Networker to backup all production banking applications and systems.

System Administrator at Qatar Islamic Bank
  • Qatar - Doha
  • January 2010 to May 2011

Projects and initiatives
o Architect and design Virtualization of all Bank branches server: Leads to reduce in maintenance work in branches and save in hardware, power and space cost.
o Initiative for virtualization of End Users Desktops.
o Applying PCI best practice by applying the changes to environment.
o Adding all ATMs to domain to centralize management and enhance security.
o Build New DR Site and migrate existing site, which comply with Central Bank Requirements and increase RTO and decrease RPO.
o Implementation of new Call center Voice System, which improved customer support satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
o Administrating Microsoft infrastructure (Windows Server, DNS, Domain Controllers, Certificate Server, System Center Suite, Exchange, and KMS).
o Administration of HP Blade and Rack mount servers.
o Administration of Blackberry Server.

System Operator at Qatar Islamic Bank
  • Qatar - Doha
  • March 2008 to January 2010

Key Responsibilities
o To generate various banking reports and statements.
o Take a backup of data as specified.
o To perform all the day end / month end quarter end / half year-end activities as provided by the system.
o Monitor Banking Systems, Server, Networks, Storage.
o Monitoring ATMs.

Education

Master's degree, Risk, crisis, and disaster Management
  • at University of Leicester
  • September 2019
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Computer Networks
  • at Mansoura University
  • November 2005

Specialties & Skills

Researching
Servers
DOCUMENTATION
REPORTS
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Enterprise architecture

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Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Hobbies

  • Diving
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