Ashraf alTahir, Petroleum Engineering Information Protection Team Lead

Ashraf alTahir

Petroleum Engineering Information Protection Team Lead

ARAMCO

Location
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
20 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months

Petroleum Engineering Information Protection Team Lead at ARAMCO
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • My current job since September 2010

I established and led “Petroleum Engineering Information Protection Team”. It is a team that works with all Petroleum Engineering departments within Saudi Aramco and advises computer groups in order to enable Petroleum Engineering business processes. The team manages a well-controlled access to Petroleum Engineering data in different repositories while maintaining data confidentiality, Integrity and availability.
The team carries several tasks and activities under the following areas:
• Develop and implement Information protection guidelines, frameworks, processes, & Procedures.
• Risk Assessment and Business continuity planning.
• Compliance management
• RBAC management
• Provide reliable support to upstream users.
• Increase the awareness of information protection among upstream users.
• Promote best practices for all data-related activities among upstream users
• Data Leakage Prevention.
• Unstructured data management and security.

Petroleum Engineering Business Systems Analyst at Saudi Aramco
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • October 2008 to May 2010

Initiate and manage software solutions development projects. This job responsibility included project management tasks as well as requirements elicitation, producing system specification, develop initial system design, provide technical support to programmers during the coding phase, evaluate the system through comprehensive QAT, and facilitate User Acceptance Test, develop user manual and project documentation.
We also handle second line support and perform periodic evaluation to identify possible changes/enhancements.
In addition to that, we do review, monitor and contribute in the data models quality, data consistency, data integrity, and the business intelligence components.
We also support users and application in Drilling & Workover, Exploration, Petroleum Engineering, Unconventional Resources and other fields within oil & gas industry (Upstream)

3) Business Solutions Manager –New Horizons CLC, at Al-Khaleej Electronics
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • March 2006 to July 2008

Manage and lead the work in several areas related to IT services. My job responsibilities included:
• Planning and implementing of additions, deletions, and major modification to IT.
• Implement network security
• Oversees the administration and maintenance for New Horizon's infrastructure and directing activities when necessary
• Oversees troubleshooting, system backups, archiving and disaster recovery and provide expert support when needed
• Work with project teams to help implement internal systems.
• Manage help desk activities and respond to escalated help desk issues.
• Deliver IT Service as per Service catalog and service delivery policies

Oracle Core Technologies Trainer / Consultant, Oracle University & New Horizons, CLC at Al Khaleej for Training & Education / Oracle Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • August 2003 to February 2006

Deliver Oracle training courses in the following areas
1- SQL Fundamentals, Advanced and PL/SQL
2- Oracle DBMS Administration
3- Backup & Recovery
4- Performance Tuning
5- Oracle Forms Developer
6- Oracle Reports Developer

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals KFUPM
  • January 2012

In Progress

Diploma, Customer Support Specialist
  • at HDI
  • April 2006

Customer Support Specialist Help Desk Analyst

Diploma, OCA DBA 10g
  • at Oracle University
  • June 2005

Oracle Database 10g: Workshop I Oracle Database 10g: Workshop II

Diploma, OCP DBA 9i
  • at Oracle University
  • January 2005

SQL & PL / SQL Oracle 8i Database Server Administration Backup & Recovery Performance Tuning Network Administration

Diploma, OCP Developer 9i
  • at Oracle University
  • January 2005

SQL & PL/SQL Develop Program Unit Oracle 9i Forms Builder Oracle 9i Report Builder

Diploma, Sales Skills
  • at Taqniyat - Division of Al-Khaleej Institute
  • January 2004

presales analysis Effective pre sales activities Effective Sales skills

Diploma, OCP DBA 8i
  • at Oracle University
  • July 2002

SQL & PL/SQL Oracle 8i Database Server Administration Backup & Recovery Performance Tuning Network Administration

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at CMCCS
  • August 1998

- GPA 3.00 out of four - Honor degree - Graduaation Project: Integrating GSM exchange with Computer S/W to locate GSM devices.

Specialties & Skills

IT Management
IT Governance
oil gas
Information Access
Information Security Management
Form Builder, Reporting
Data Migration
Help Desk knowledge & skills
Team management & supervision
System Analysis & Design
pre sales activities and sales skills
Portal & portlet & Oracle eBusiness suite
SQL Performance Tuning
Oracle Networking & OID
24/7 setting and maintenance (standby DB)
RHEL AS 4.0
DB & AS Security plus Identity mgmt ,
App Deployment and maintenance
Backup& Recovery Procedures
Database Tuning
Installation, Configuration and Setup DB Server
Data Export / Import
Data Load with sqloader
Customer Support Specialist
Comm skills & Team Working
Presentation skills
Siebel CRM
MS Windows 2000, 2003 Server family
Risk Assessment
ISO 27001
Project Management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

• Sudanese Society of IT (SSIT)
  • Member
  • May 2007
British Computer Society (BCS)
  • Chartered IT Professional
  • June 2008
American Information System Audit And Control Association (ISACA)
  • Member
  • December 2008
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
  • Member
  • December 2009