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Abdullah Alomari, Director and CIO, Information Technology

Abdullah Alomari

Director and CIO, Information Technology·ARO Drilling

Saudi Arabia

Master's degree, Master's in cyber security,

Work experience

Total years of experience: 23 years, 4 months

Director and CIO, Information Technology

November 2023 - Present

ARO Drilling

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

November 2023 - Present

• Spearheaded IT strategy and digital transformation, leading to enhanced infrastructure capabilities.
• First company in Saudi Arabia to realize and sign Low Earth Orbit
• Managed entire information technology department reporting directly to the CEO. Governed entire IT service management across ARO onshore and offshore.
• Established clear vision, and 5 years road map to digital technology.
• Established information security governance within ARO
• Selection, implementation, and migration of ARO ERP to SAP Rise Public

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Oil and Gas

Applications unit head

April 2012 - Present

SATORP

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

April 2012 - Present

Managing the applications team which supports SATORP Refinary applications including: Meriduim, KBC, ASPENTECH, LIMS, PIMS, SPI, PRODOM, etc...

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Information Technology

General Manager, Digital Infrastructure

October 2022 - November 2023

SAMI Advanced Electronics

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

October 2022 - November 2023

• Led digital infrastructure road map development, driving improvements in IT operations.
• Acted as General Manager for the ministry of Exterior with all IT infrastructure and service desk operations under our governance including compute, network infrastructure, secure communications, data center facility management.
• Secured and started a new joint venture between SAMI/AEC and Riyadh Region Municipality acting as VP of technology and Information security.
• Acted as project manager for multiple opportunities as managed IT services, to name a few: Ministry of Hajj and Umra, Qyddiya, Seven.

Company industry:
Industrial Production

Global Director – Digital Technology

July 2020 - November 2022

Raytheon Technologies

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

July 2020 - November 2022

• Envisioned and implemented the digital transformation strategy forMiddle East IT operations.
• Governed entire IT operations with ITIL best practices and processes for Saudi Arabia, middle east branches, and UAE.
• Implemented enterprise project management solution tailored for middle east operations.
• Governed conference rooms implementations with required classifications based on business needs.
• Transitioned and provided support to local ERP solution for the middle east operations.

Company industry:
Military & Defense

Senior Director, IT Services

December 2019 - July 2020

Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare-JHAH

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

December 2019 - July 2020

• Directed IT service management, aligning with organizational goals to improve patient care.
• Governed entire IT operations for JHAH including on premise/on-cloud computing and applications

Company industry:
Medical Hospital

Manager, IT Computing Infrastructure

July 2017 - December 2019

Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare-JHAH

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

July 2017 - December 2019

• Led the development and execution of IT infrastructure projects, enhancing operational efficiency.

Company industry:
Medical Hospital

Data Center Service Manager

March 2015 - April 2017

SADARA CHEMICAL COMPANY

Jubail, Saudi Arabia

March 2015 - April 2017

• Managed data center operations, establishing key performance metrics and ensuring uptime. Public

Company industry:
Petrochemicals & Refined Petroleum Products Manufacture

Infrastructure Services Manager

June 2014 - February 2015

Accenture

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

June 2014 - February 2015

• Oversaw infrastructure services, enhancing client management and technical innovation.

Company industry:
IT Services

IT Technical Delivery Manager

May 2013 - June 2014

Naizak Global Engineering Systems

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

May 2013 - June 2014

• Delivered critical infrastructure upgrade projects for key clients, including PETRORABIGH refinery.

Company industry:
General Engineering Consultancy

IT Service Delivery Manager

November 2012 - November 2013

International Systems Engineering

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

November 2012 - November 2013

inhereting ITIL Standard frameWork into looking information technology as a service provided to our end cutomers: BAESYSTEMS. I look after the service as an overall from the end user prespective. The services provided as first level, second level, and third level in terms of infrastructure readiness and support provided.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Management

VariousTechnical Expertise

December 2003 - April 2013

Satorp

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

December 2003 - April 2013

• Led enterprise infrastructure initiatives, promoting IT service management best practices.
• Maintained corporate applications and Windows infrastructure, enhancing system reliability.
• Supported data center operations and administered Exchange/Active Directory environments.
• Coordinated hardware systems analysis in Security Access Control Systems Management Department.
• Provided second-level support for Windows-based systems and DataCenter operations.
• Gained initial experience in IT operations and support within a leading energy company.

Company industry:
Petrochemicals & Refined Petroleum Products Manufacture

Server Administrator

December 2008 - December 2012

Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemicals

Jubail, Saudi Arabia

December 2008 - December 2012

•Maintaining company corporate applications: Exchange and active directory.
•Maintaining windows infrastructure environment.
•Managing and coorenating windwos based projects
•Maintaining inkingdom, outkingdom, corporate Exchange environment with domain, forest planning.
•Successfully deployed the new out of kingdom remote site located in Italy, Europe. The infrastrcuture made in short was installing the domain controller, building Client access, Hub Transport and Mailbox in Clustered CCR HA environmnet. In addition, installing WSUS, Antivirus, and windows deployement services utilized for deploying over 60 workstations. At later stage, migrating PMT users mailboxes from Head Quarter to the remote site.
•Providing Consultation services and procedures to second level support unit.
•Officially hired as a permenant Employee on january 2010 as a server administrator.
•Desinged, implemetned the new refinary data center infrastructure in terms of server farm, AD, Exchange, SCOM, SCCM, Antivirus, VMWare, SQL, etc..
•Implemented forest trust relation-ship between corporate and new refinary domains, moved users bewteen environments accordingly. This step will follow a huge migration of data along with authentication prevlidges.
•Decommesioned Rome/Italy site which includes proper removing of objects from AD, and data sanitizations.
•Currently, conducting the FAT, IFAT for the refinary DC site.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Information Technology

Systems Engineer

February 2007 - September 2008

Naizak Global System solutions company

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

February 2007 - September 2008

•Datacenter AdminiSupport Activities specially as an Exchange\Active Directory\SMS\Security systems Administrator. Servers & network Devices Hardware Implementer, Environment Monitoring, IT helpdesk Team Leader, Support for: Firewall: Fortigate/ISA, Storage: SAN, Remedy, HelpStar, Accura, BackupEXEC, File & print. Future project manager for Nokia Siemens. Technical Support for: Symantec, WT/CITTIO.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Electronic Technician II

April 2006 - August 2007

Saudi Aramco Sub contractor (Alfalak)

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

April 2006 - August 2007

•Working as Electronic technician II in Industrial Security Department, Hardware coordination and systems analysis.
•Enhancing the current procedure by implementing the SAP/R3 warehouse management which includes: Materials cataloging, purchase orders & requisitioning, and storehouse activities: Goods receipt and goods issuance.
•Planning the barcode implementations for SACSMD.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Information Technology

computer operator

February 2003 - June 2006

Saudi Aramco Sub Contractor (RMZ)

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

February 2003 - June 2006

•Customer support for web, active directory, file and print and exchange incidents
•Enhanced current procedures with web hosting group.
•Promoted for ITHD specialist II, windows servers support in year 2004.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

Al Yamamah University

January 2023

January 2023

Master's degree, Master's in cyber security,

Saudi Arabia

Arab Open University

August 2011

August 2011

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science And Computer Networks

Saudi Arabia

Arab Open University

January 2010

January 2010

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor ofScience in IT & Computing

Saudi Arabia

King Fahd University of petroleum and minirals

October 2003

October 2003

Bachelor's degree, Applied computer systems

Saudi Arabia

GPA (point): 2.6 out of 4

GPA (point): 2.6 out of 4

King Fahd University Of Petroleum And Minerals

January 2003

January 2003

High school or equivalent, Associate of Applied Science in Computer Systems,

Saudi Arabia

Skills

VMware
Expert
VMware
Expert
Cisco products
Expert
Cisco products
Expert
Linux Redhat
Expert
Linux Redhat
Expert
MANAGEMENT
Expert
MANAGEMENT
Expert
SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Expert
SERVICE MANAGEMENT
Expert
INFRASTRUCTURE
Expert
INFRASTRUCTURE
Expert
MFG/PRO (ERP)
Expert
MFG/PRO (ERP)
Expert
OPERATIONS
Expert
OPERATIONS
Expert
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
Expert
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
Expert
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
Expert
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
Expert
CONTROL SYSTEMS
Expert
CONTROL SYSTEMS
Expert
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
Expert
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
Expert
COMMUNICATIONS
Expert
COMMUNICATIONS
Expert
Microsoft exchange
Expert
Microsoft exchange
Expert
VMWare
Intermediate
VMWare
Intermediate
Microsoft Active Directory
Expert
Microsoft Active Directory
Expert
VMware
Expert
VMware
Expert
Cisco products
Expert
Cisco products
Expert
Linux Redhat
Expert
Linux Redhat
Expert

Languages

Arabic

Intermediate

English

Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Certifications
EXIN Certified in Microsoft Operations FrameWork
EXIN
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
Redhat Certified Systems Administrator: RHEL 6.2
Redhat
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
ITIL Foundation V3
ITIL
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
New horizons
Mar 2005 - Mar 2005
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Windows 2003
New horizons
Apr 2005 - Apr 2005
VMware Certified Professional On VSphere version 4
Global Knowledge
Aug 2008 - Sep 2008
Microsoft Certified Professional
New Horizons
Mar 2005 - Mar 2005
Certified Ethical Hacker (V6)
Senergy
Aug 2009 - Aug 2009
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Configuration
New horizons
Jun 2006 - Aug 2006
Certified security +
COMPTIA
Oct 2010 - Nov 2010
CCNA & CCNP routing and switching
new horizons
Nov 2008 - Dec 2008
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Vista Configuration
New horizons
Apr 2005 - May 2005
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Win 2008: AD, Exchange, applications, network configs
New horizons
May 2008 - Aug 2008