Asim Alalwani, Service Continuity Assistant Manager

Asim Alalwani

Service Continuity Assistant Manager

Alinma Bank

Location
Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
11 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 11 Months

Service Continuity Assistant Manager at Alinma Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since December 2019

- Handling service continuity, capacity managment and availability mangment processes.
- Managing the IT service continuity function within the IT department.
- Managing the process of introducing new applications and services within the bank to the disaster recovery data center.
- Management of the of service continuity framework within alinma IT in terms of policy, standards, processes and procedure in accordance to ITIL standards.
- Management of the service continuity regular tests of the bank services in the disaster recovery with the business and IT.
- Management of the disaster recovery plans for the different applications and the overall IT disaster recovery plans.
- Management of the IT availability process and production.
- Managment of the IT capacity mangment process and procedures.

IT Lead at Farabi petrochemical company
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • May 2018 to November 2019

working as the IT lead (acting) by Lead the IT activities and Designing the Infrastructure for the IT systems in Yanbu Project (450 employees) to fulfill the global practices.
• Review the proposed designs by the contractor for the LAN, VoIP, VCS and supervise the implementation during the project implementation.
• Improve the current practices for Farabi base plant to match the global standard.
• Designing and purchase the IT systems, infra and technologies required to run the plant.
• Coordinate with the HR for IT team formation to run the plant.

Specialist II, Global IT infrastructure at Tasnee
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • October 2015 to May 2018

 Support for all Server hardware &Virtualization(VMware) incidents & Problems, including diagnosis and restoration activities.
 Engineering availability and capacity management for MENA Data Centers to meet the levels of service required by the business.
 Support for all Data Storage & Backup incidents & Problems.
 Working with Avmar Backup solution and restoration.
 Backup/restore of Server Hardware & Virtualization Host & Guest.
 Support for all projects related to all Tasnee Data centers in the Middle East.
 Backup/restore of Server Hardware & Virtualization Host & Guest using Veeam solution

System Admin, IT Operations at CRISTAL
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • March 2014 to September 2015

Managing Yanbu data center facilites.
Handling the active directory, Manging Yanbu vmware, backup.
Responsible for the provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware, software and related infrastructure.
Ensured the availability and reliability of system hardware, operating systems, and software systems.
Envolved in new IT projects with the global team for IT infrastructure upgrades.
- Projects:
1-Participate in the Implentation of the ISO20000/27001for IT procedures.
2-Upgrade Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010.
3-work closely with xerox to implement their printing solution to control and cut the costs.

IT Engineer at cristal
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • December 2012 to March 2014

Support for the Process control devices and equipment, mainly supporting the
Yokogawa Centum cs3000 admin workstations.
Preventive maintenance and updates to the System.
Do a daily Maintenance jobs for the Process control network.
Provide the support for control rooms around the plant(4 different control rooms).
- Project
1-Implement a new solution (OSI PI) to monitor the plant data.
2-works with the global process control team to provide a new system that monitors and saves the Plant Information Data (OSI PI). Work with global team to design the infrastructure for the new solution in Yanbu plant and work closely with differnet teams locally and globally to implement the solution.

IT Specialist at cristal
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • April 2012 to September 2012

Troubleshoot and solve daily problems for users as per the SLA.
Provide support for department devices and IT materials.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at King Fahd University of Petrolum and Minerals
  • June 2011

major GPA 2.48\4.0

Specialties & Skills

IT Service Management
Project Management
Active Directory and Domain controller management
system Admin

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

PRINCE2® Practioner in Project Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
PRINCE2® Foundation in Project Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
Valid Until:
January 9999
ITIL foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2017
IT Service management (ISO 20000 (Training)
Training Institute:
FAHSS
Date Attended:
August 2014
Duration:
24 hours
Internal Auditor on ISO 2000 (Training)
Training Institute:
FAHSS
Date Attended:
February 2015
Duration:
36 hours
Integrated Business Processes with SAP ERP (TERP10) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999