IT Application & System Engineer
ETIMAD Security Strategic Solutions
Total years of experience :17 years, 3 Months
Etimad Holding is a leading UAE Company combining and governing key operating companies and skills that together provide an end-to-end fulfillment, control and assurance for any type of national security model. It supports the army, petrol and critical infrastructures facilities.
Accomplishments:
• Contributed to ETIMAD as a thought leader- managed construction and maintenance of complex and critical IT infrastructure.
• Operationally responsible for ensuring the availability, integrity, and security for all IT systems and infrastructure.
• Provided technical leadership; managing, mentoring and developing the technical engineering team.
Key Responsibilities:
• Directing deployments of mission critical systems, replication and performance tuning.
• Presiding over day-to-day operations, delivery and continuous improvement of IT services, processes and systems coordination that facilitate business enablement.
• Dexterously managing end-to-end development life cycle right from determining the requirements, design/develop application solutions (C#, WPF Mvvm MS SQL, Tshark), SQL developing as well as development of QA/UAT to ascertain functionality, security, deployment and resolving problems reported.
• Leveraging best practices in technology landscape whilst suggesting IT solutions to systems problems.
• Configuring/ administering Windows Servers, Storage NetApp, VMware & ESXi,
• Owning networking support troubleshooting as well as design, configuration and escalated problem management.
• Troubleshooting Custom Application (Service Oriented Architecture).
• Proffering Mobile Surveillance Units software and hardware support. Troubleshooting cameras, Radars and Fences.
Is the UK’s premier parcel and carrier management company with their main branch in England / UK.
Accomplishments
• Hired as an IT engineer, software support-development, QA tester for the Greek branch. Managed the delivery of single and multidisciplinary projects, balancing demands and priorities.
• Directed the efforts of team in the achievement of the strategic and operational objectives of the department.
• Instrumental in developing the GFS Checkout API (WCF Web Service) system which automatically provides the best distribution options to retailers based on their drop point providers and preferences.
Key Responsibilities:
• Spearheaded entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including preparing detailed technical specifications by conducting collaborative systems and business analysis, design, development and test plan reviews to the final delivery of quality code and post-production support.
• Played a key role in supporting new projects and systems upgrades.
• Addressed business users’ needs whilst creating a web-based application using WCF, Rest.
• Accountable for the successful execution of the System/software migration and/or integration phase/ planning processes.
• Managed database design, maintenance & reports SQL.
• Administered bug fixing/ extending in existing internal Silverlight c#.NET Webservices, development-maintenance web site of GFS, VB.NET applications, C#.NET applications.
• Supervised software testing (Soap UI, manual testing), designed test cases, created test scripts and identified data for integration, system, performance and regression testing to the highest standards.
• Configured and administered VMware - ESXi, Network and Server of the Company.
Accomplishments
• Provided technical vision to complement the business vision, implemented best technology strategies were those that were fully integrated with the business strategy.
• Accomplished key project objectives - successfully developed, maintained, tested and managed consulting of ERP insurance system.
Key Responsibilities:
• Owner of the technical side of the business and set the technical roadmap for future features. Developed new projects in VB.NET, C#.NET and consulted on ERP system and other software systems.
• Maintained an estate of windows and ISA servers running mission critical applications.
• Configured, developed, integrated, tested, implemented and operate Active Directory Solutions to ensure high levels of architecture quality and availability. Created reports, data analysis as well as SQL scripts.
Member of the OTE Group of Companies, provides Inmarsat & Iridium satellite telecommunications services worldwide, both on land & sea, and integrated telecommunication solutions to the Hellenic & international maritime industry.
Accomplishments
• Successfully developed an E-invoicing system and Online Manager Service (C#.net, db2).
• Supported the telecommunication systems (CDRS, Billing), Inmarsat and Iridium satellite telecommunication services.
EUROPEAN DYNAMICS provides a wide range of services in the field of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) to the public and private sector, in 47 countries world-wide
Key Responsibilities:
• Developed programs using Classic ASP, JavaScript, HTML, MS SQL, Oracle 9i as well as Visual basic 6.
• Handled Technical Document Writing, created and maintained high-quality user documentation.
Key Projects to Credit:
MARS: Web Application, a Document Management System, to be used by the European Army, Database Oracle 9i
Technology used: Asp, javascript, vb6, java
EUR-LEX. Client: OPOCE. The project was concerned with the implementation of an advanced online service allowing direct access to EU law through Europa server at http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex.
technologies. Software used: SunOS 5.6, Oracle 8.1.3, Web Server-JSP/servlet engine: iPlaNET 4.1, JDK 1.3.1.
Professional Development: • CompTIA Security, pursuing