Ahmed Megdad, Head of Systems & Data Services

Ahmed Megdad

Head of Systems & Data Services

Arab National Bank

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Systems Engineering
Experience
23 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 10 Months

Head of Systems & Data Services at Arab National Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since June 2000

- Strong Technical Knowledge on below: •
Data Centre migration,
• PCI standards Review and Implementation
• Business application (Core banking and middleware)
• Database management (SQL and Oracle)
• Authentication services (Active Directory 2012 R2)
• Mailing System Exchange 2010 and Lout Notes
• Private Cloud services (Hyper-V and vmware)
• Hardware management: HP hardware (Superdoom, enclosure blade servers. Sunsolars (t5 and T8)
• Monitoring services (SCOM 2012 and HP OV)
• Security tools including file integration mang. FIM, Antivirus, Log centralization mang. HP arcsight and Intrusion Detection IDS. Manage file Encryption tools.
• Disaster Recovery services including data and hardware availability on DRC and implementation data canter switching.
• Operating Systems management (Windows 2012, HP Unix, Tandem, Aix)
• Deployment services SCCM 2012
• Data availability and recovery using HP ominBack and 3Par storage.
• Experience of IT Service Delivery Management through Communication & Coordination with all stake holders for clarification and meeting Business Demands; Service Desk, Incident and Problem Management; Change Request review, finalization and Change Management; Planning & Provisioning of Schedule, Resources & Team Responsibilities.
- vendor managements : responsible to all infrasturacture contracts renewal including cost and licenses reviews

-Currently reporting to IT infrastructure head and leading a team of 23 resources.
• My Department responsibility is
• Operating Systems administration including Windows; UNIX and SunSolar.
• Maintaining Bank data using HP 3PAR storage, VMAX EMC, Power Max and running backup and restore using HP Data protector.
• Administrating all Bank Databases Including oracle and SQL.
• Administrating application servers like WebSphere and Oracle application E-Business wrblogic
-My main responsibilities are:
• Assign tasks to team heads at the same time lead, monitor & evaluate team projects.
• Follow with the teams all problems and incidents related to Department.
• Implementing strong secure policies and standards by implementing Bank policy and regulation policy like PCI and SAMA regulation.
• Responsible to run business continuity plans along with the disaster recovery initiatives ensuring data integrity.
• Providing management capacity planning reports for hardware & human resources.
• Performing daily team administration routines as well as team development initiatives for improvement of team productivity.
• Develop an annual budget and forecast, monitor implementation, evaluate and recommend specific adjustments during the implementation to project needs.

-Previous Responsibilities:
• Windows administrator upgrades and installation
• AD administrator, Monitoring server and Backup administrator
• Release controller for all Bank projects
• Implementation ISO2000: 9001 procedures
• SAMA activates coordinator ( SARIE application
• Coordinator leader for ISO2000: 9001 activates.
• Implementation IT policy and procedures

Projects Summary
project run as team leader
- New data center migration
- Implementing PCI standards
- Member of core banking migration
- Active Directory upgrade to 2012R2
project run as project manager
- Migration Louts Notes Mailing System to Exchange 2010 and then to ex change 2016
-Migrating physical server using (Hyper-V) 2012 to virtual server
-Implementation SCOM 2012
- Implementation Share Point 2010
-Upgrade Citrix to 8.5
- Migration all Windows 2003 and 2008 servers to Windows 2012 R2 and 2016
- Upgrade SCCM from 2012to 2016
project completed as department head
- Upgrade Oracle Database to 12C and 19
- Storage Refresh
- Data Base Encryption
-Tandem non stop migration
- Unix Hardware migration to Sun Sparc
- migrate virtual servers from Hyperv to VMware
- Implement Oracle RAC
- Data Center failover test to DRC all bank services
- implement OpenShift to enable contoranization
- IBM WAS upgrade

Education

Bachelor's degree, Systems Engineering
  • at : King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • December 1999

Bachelor degree in Systems Engineering.

Specialties & Skills

PCI DSS
Project Server
Hyper V
Team Management
Project Management
Windows Systems Administrator
It Security
Computer skills
Team Managment
Project Managment
Database Managment
IT Managment
Business Countinuity
service delivery
operations management
service management
system administration
people management

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Implementation of PCI (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
5 datys MBA leadership managment (Training)
Training Institute:
kinggistion institute
Date Attended:
February 2015
MS annual event (TecEd 2011): Dubai. UAE (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
October 2011
IT service management ITIL. Riyadh, KSA (Training)
Training Institute:
Arab National Bank
Date Attended:
January 2004
Managing and Maintaining MS WINDOWS 2003 Environment Riyadh, KSA (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
January 2005
HP archiving (Training)
Training Institute:
HP
Date Attended:
March 2007
Implementing managing and maintaining MS WINDOWS server 2003 NT infrastructure Riyadh, KSA (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
February 2005
The 7 habits. Riyadh, KSA (Training)
Training Institute:
Arab National Bank
Date Attended:
July 2003
Implementing MS WINDOWS server 2003 NT infrastructure Riyadh, KSA (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
February 2005
MS annual event (TecEd 2008): Barcelona, Spain (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
February 2008
Unix Fundamental. Riyadh, KSA (Training)
Training Institute:
HP
Date Attended:
August 2003
Project Management Program. Riyadh, KSA (Training)
Training Institute:
Arab National Bank
Date Attended:
July 2006
MS annual event (TecEd 2012): Amsterdam, Netherlands (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
June 2012
ISO2000: 9001 senior Auditor. Riyadh, KSA (Training)
Training Institute:
Arab National Bank
Date Attended:
January 2001
Planning and maintaining MS WINDOWS 2003 NT infrastructure Riyadh, KSA (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
February 2005
HP Clould solution (Training)
Training Institute:
HP
Date Attended:
March 2013

Hobbies

  • Technology
  • Travling
    Visit historical places
  • Sport
    Including Swimming football