Bader Khalaf, Industrial Computer Engineer

Bader Khalaf

Industrial Computer Engineer

Saudi Aramco

Location
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information and Computer Science
Experience
19 years, 4 Months

Share My Profile

Block User


Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 4 Months

Industrial Computer Engineer at Saudi Aramco
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • My current job since October 2012

- Project manager for Plant Network upgrade project.
- Member of IT Plant Security Compliance Review team.
- Participate in Plant Automation Network Internal Audit for two cycles 2008 and 2013.
- Participate in developing, evaluating and revising new Engineering Standards with Saudi Aramco Engineering Departments.
- Deployed best practice IT solutions within Plant Network which include the Anti-virus ePO, AD, ArcSight SIEM, Data Diode, DMZ.
- Department Representative to perform IT Risk Assessment on the Plant Network and System infrastructure which include PEN Test.
- Conduct assessments for IT system monitoring solutions.
- Maintain IT change management records and documentations.
- Develop several Operational Internal procedures related to the IT Plant Network and Systems, like Access Control management and Anti-virus management procedures.
- Assist to close Audit items, Security compliance review items and Risk Assessments findings.

Business System Analyst at Saudi Aramco
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • July 2006 to October 2012

- Project Manager Representative for Firewall implementation/installation Project, IT Servers Consolidation Project, Directory Optimization Project, and Oracle Database Migration Project.
- Develop several end user web applications using different programming languages and Oracle Database.
- Maintaining and enhancing website and web applications with different type of technical manner.
- Administrate and manage web server and its contents.
- Lead the organization and re-construct of File Documentary Online System.
- Evaluate and solve the end user issues related to web applications.
- Study and research for new technologies that would enhance the usage of web applications.
- Evaluate and test new technologies that would be used by end user.
- Documentation of development of end user web application and procedure.
- Lead and provide training and on-hand courses about new Online System.
- Participate in Windows Vista Testing Project in order to implement this OS.

System Analyst - Internet Service Administrator at Saudi Aramco
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • September 2005 to July 2006

- Administrating several types of Internet Service including Sun proxy, Internet Website filtering Software, Load Balancing Software, Socks service, Streaming service, DNS and IP Filtering.
- Lead the testing for several types of new Internet Softwares service to increase the performance of the production environments.
- Installation and configuration of Blue Coat Servers as to be used by the Internet service.
- Investigation and analyzing the Internet user problem related to different Internet Infrastructures.
- Leading and managing Internet projects related to High Availability service.
- Diagnose the problems betweens the subnets including routers and switches.

Cooperative Program Trainee at Saudi Aramco
  • Saudi Arabia
  • July 2004 to January 2005

- Lead development of a J2EE user LDAP password management application to assist with the management of LDAP users. Application design comprised of Model 1 architecture with JNDI (secure) connections.
- Lead development of a J2EE server management application to assist with the management of Sun ONE J2EE servers. Application design comprised of MVC architecture with DOM.
- Development of Java Database query command line utility to assist database maintenance utilizing JDBC.
- Administration of Aramco J2EE Infrastructure comprising of Sun ONE Web Server 6.X and Sun ONE Application Server 7.X running on Solaris 9 operating system.
- Testing of new technologies including Java RMI and RPC to determine suitability to Aramco requirements.
- Assisting other Aramco developers in diagnosing errors and providing best practice suggestions.
- Documentation of application development and maintenance procedures.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information and Computer Science
  • at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
  • May 2005

Specialties & Skills

Network Security
Network Administration
IT Audit
IT Security
Network Design
Cisco IOS
Cisco Firewall
IT Auditing
MS Windows Server 2008

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert