Amjad Abo Al-Quran, Enterprise Architect

Amjad Abo Al-Quran

Enterprise Architect

Arab Bank

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineering
Experience
19 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 6 Months

Enterprise Architect at Arab Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since August 2015

Performs the necessary leadership, analysis, design and development for the bank based on strategy and business requirements.
• Designs information systems to be implemented according to the business goals, needs and objectives.
• Establish a system’s basic structure, defining essential design features and providing a framework for developers to follow.
• In the beginning stages of a project:
o Participate in defining requirements; assessing server, storage and infrastructure sizing; analyzing hardware sizing to meet application requirements; and designing load balancing and clustering solutions according to architecture standards.
• Throughout the life cycle of system implementation:
o Oversee building business plans, strategic direction, and standards for procedures and policies as they relate to IT systems architecture.
• Ensure no redundancy in the organization’s application landscape
• Ensure integration between applications through an integration backbone, rather than a point-to-point integration style.
• Monitor compliance and related guidance to determine impact on ESA.
• Monitor emerging industry standards to determine impact on ESA.
• Design and develop application architecture taking into consideration the organization’s security standards and policies, also the organization’s meta-model

Enterprise Application Architecture at Jordan Ahli Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • June 2010 to August 2015

Performs the necessary leadership, analysis, design and development of an enterprise solution architecture (ESA) based on strategy and business requirements
•Analyze the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement.
•Analyze technology industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
•Define the principles to guide solution decisions for the enterprise.
•Design and lead the implementation of an enterprise application architecture based on enterprise business requirements and IT strategies.
•Assist with the governance activities associated with ensuring enterprise application architecture compliance.
•Develop a road map of the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from current to future state
•Coordinate solution architecture implementation and modification activities.
•Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards, as well as the design of standard software configurations.
•Consult with application or infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the solution architecture to accommodate project needs.
•Document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
•Ensure no redundancy in the organization’s application landscape
•Ensure integration between applications through an integration backbone, rather than a point-to-point integration style.
•Monitor regulatory guidelines to determine impact on enterprise application architecture.
•Monitor compliance and related guidance to determine impact on ESA.
•Monitor emerging industry standards to determine impact on ESA.
•Design and develop application architecture taking into consideration the organization’s security standards and policies, also the organization’s meta-model

System Administrator - Head Of Section at Jordan Ahli Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • September 2005 to May 2010

 Windows 2003 Server Administration & Maintenance:
Design, Prepare the suitable studies, Plans for desired infrastructure.
Install, Configure, Troubleshooting all W2K3 servers in all sites and keep it running.
Configure, Troubleshooting user accounts, Password problems, Groups, organizational units.
Design the appropriate security policy with full documentation.
Read, analyze daily log files and reports.
 Exchange 2003:
Prepare the suitable studies for implementation on other Sites.
Create, Delete, Modify Mailboxes with Proper Documentation.
Apply Outlook Web Access “OWA”, Mobile Services.
Read, Analyze Log Files, Create Reports.
 ISA 2004:
Manage, Administrate rules and Users.
Manage Security, Create Reports & Analyze Log Files.
 Anti Virus:
Keeping UP to date as Engine & Virus Definition (Server Side).
Prepare Reports about Virus activates.
 Hardware & Software troubleshooting:
This task includes performing routing preventive maintenance (disk scan, deleting temp files, defragmentation, etc.); installing software batches and upgrades; troubleshooting hardware or software problems; ensuring users are backing up their data files on the server.

Network Administrator at Philadelphia Investment Bank
  • Jordan
  • November 2004 to August 2005

 Windows Servers Administration & Maintenance.
 Manage Exchange Server.
 ISA 2000.
 Anti Virus.
 Hardware & Software troubleshooting.
 Technical support.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineering
  • at UNIVERSITY OF DAMASCUS/SYRIA
  • June 2004

B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Major in Electronics

Specialties & Skills

Technology Design
Enterprise Integration
Project Collaboration
Administration , Hardware & Software , Networking , Security
Strategic planning skills
Designing & building solutions
Supervision Skills
Project Management

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Memberships

SOA School
  • User
  • April 2012

Training and Certifications

TOGAF 9.1 (Training)
Training Institute:
Arab Bank
Date Attended:
January 2016
TOT (Train of Trainer) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Valid Until:
October 2011
MCP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2005
Valid Until:
March 2005
SharePoint (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2010
Valid Until:
July 2010
IT Architecture & EA (Modeling Tools) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2011
Valid Until:
September 2011
ITIL V3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
Valid Until:
April 2012
Microsoft Project (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Valid Until:
October 2011
Microsoft System Center (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2011
Valid Until:
December 2011
SOA Expert (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
Valid Until:
April 2012
TOGAF 8 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2011
Valid Until:
May 2011
Microsoft SQL server (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2011
Valid Until:
November 2011
Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures (CEH) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2010
Valid Until:
April 2010
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2004
Valid Until:
August 2004
Computec Training Institute (MOF V.4) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
Valid Until:
April 2012