Data Center Engineering Chief Specialist
Tadawul
Total years of experience :17 years, 9 Months
Designation Chronology
• June 2015 - Present, Data Center Engineering Chief Specialist
• February 2013 - June 2015 Data Center Facility Management Chief Specialist
• February 2013 - January 2014, Data Center Facility Management Senior Specialist
• January 2013 - February 2013, Senior Operator
• March 2009 - January 2013, System Operator
Highlights
• Managed projects related to enhancing primary and secondary data center for the organization including enhancing power capacity for the DR data center aligned to growth objectives in role as project manager.
Responsibilities as Data Center Facility Management Chief Specialist
• Managing data centers across 4 Tadawul sites (3 owned by Tadawul and one Co-lo) consisting of HVAC, electrical power system, generators, UPSs, ATSs, PPCs and other related components.
• Involved in optimizing floor space utilization and implementing policies and procedure aligned to data center operations.
• Collaborating with other support teams in developing creative approaches for reducing operating costs and improving efficiency.
• Implementing and generating awareness on preventive maintenance, safety standards and other statutory regulations pertaining to day to day business requirements among team members.
• Ensuring prompt resolution of data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures.
Responsibilities as Data Center Facility Management Senior Specialist
• Rendered detailed technical input in the planning and deployment of all electrical and mechanical facilities equipment.
• Collaborated with various support teams in identifying and rectifying operational issues.
• Involved in skill enhancement of team members to ensure adequate support for facilities equipment.
• Implemented various process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
Responsibilities as Senior Operator
• Managed operations as senior operator in IT - Operations involved in generating awareness on procedures and policy control.
• Involved in various administrative aspects of the Facility and Data Center team to ensure smooth functioning of operations.
Responsibilities as System Operator
• Involved in monitoring systems using various tools, maintaining system backups using central backup solution from EMC or directly
• Used SiteScan system from Liebert for maintaining best environment parameters in the data center
• Discharged functions as facility and data center team leader and a project implementer for the 3rd site power room relocation.
Responsibilitiesu**
• Evaluated various systems like mainframe (MVS), windows and UNIX servers.
• Rendered first level support and collaborated with second level support in ensuring effective resolution of issues
• Ensured smooth functioning of networks, ATMs and branches, running batches in mainframe (MVS), UNIX and windows open systems.