FAHAD ALTHUBAITI, General Manager for National Enterprise Architecture & Digital Maturity

FAHAD ALTHUBAITI

General Manager for National Enterprise Architecture & Digital Maturity

MCIT/Yesser

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc) in Telecommunications
Experience
20 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months

General Manager for National Enterprise Architecture & Digital Maturity at MCIT/Yesser
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2016

o Managing the development, implementation and maintenance of NEA related standards.
o Manage the development and implementation of NEA policies & processes for NEA governance across government agencies
o Establish and implement the processes for national ICT investment portfolio control
o Manage consultation services to government agencies for successful implementation of the digital transformation programs and EAO Implementations besides certifying different agencies for reaching the target maturity level.
o Managing the digital services maturity (MARSAD) and digital transformation measurement (Qiyas) & the compliance with related standards.

Enterprise Architecture Consultant/Acting Director at Ministry of Communications and Information Technology-Yesser (e-government))
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since May 2015

Provide Enterprise Architecture (EA) and IT Strategy consulting services to the governmental agencies in
order to drive successful digital transformation and enable business-IT alignment.
o Leads the development of the e-transformation strategy plan to accelerate the adoption of e-services in
some of the governmental agencies.
o Review and make quality assurance on the e- transformation plan’ deliverables to make sure the existence
of the appropriate level of details based on the enterprise architecture framework.
o Ensures the alignment between business and IT strategies in the agencies, and the alignment with Yesser egovernment
Policies, Standards, Frameworks.
o Develop and review request for proposal (RFPs) for all the initiatives related to the digital transformation.
o Evaluate vendor’s proposals for the e-transformation related projects and leading the sessions for selecting
the qualified vendor.

Enterprise Architecture Consultant / Senior Projects Manager at Hadaf Information Technology ( Tamkeen Technologies)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2014 to April 2015

Managing e-Government Transformation Strategy (Enterprise Architecture) project at Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC).

Senior Technology Architect at NIC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2011 to April 2014

- Develop and evaluate architecture standards, guidelines and reference architectures (Technology domain).
- Provide Reporting services (views and guidance) using ARIS tool to the management.
- Review RFP, SOW and design documents & checking compliance with NIC architecture principles and standards.
- Validate Technology Architecture against NIC architecture principles and against industry best practices.
- Model and design EA products/artifacts ( As-Is & To-Be) in the repository as per provided model (meta-model).
- Analyze industry, technology and market trends to determine their potential impacts on NIC.
- Develop and maintain NIC Enterprise Architecture repository (Technology Domain).
- Ensure the alignment between NIC strategy and NIC projects and operations.
- Participate in developing and maintain IT standards for NIC & MOI (Hardware Specification).
- Perform various assessments and analysis (e.g. impact analysis, risk assessment, gap analysis…etc.).

Capacity Process Manager at NIC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2012 to January 2013

- Record NIC’s current and future IT capacity requirements (NIC IT infrastructure capacity).
- Define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor and audit the process.
- Act as an expert and advisor on all NIC capacity and performance issues and needs.
- Monitoring business, service, and resource capacity utilization.
-Investigate and diagnosis all capacity-related incidents and problems.
- Maintain an accurate Capacity Management Database (CDB).
- Evaluate all changes as they might relate to performance and capacity.
- Ensuring that there is adequate IT capacity to meet required levels of service.
-Assessing new techniques or products for use by Capacity Management that might improve the process.

Senior Network Engineer at NIC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2004 to August 2011

- Provide daily operational support to the whole NIC network infrastructure (3000+ remote sites (14000+ users terminals), campus, DR sites).
- Carry out all network system requests (establishing a new circuits, upgrade or relocation…etc.)
- Perform software upgrades on switches, routers, firewall devices (Cisco -Juniper)
- Perform validation test and evaluate network solutions and communications equipment from various vendors.
- Resolve network system incidents received from NIC helpdesk and close the tickets.
- Provide consultation services to MOI sectors for their network solutions and projects.
- Generate periodical reports to the management (network utilization, links status, Network security issues…etc.)
- Perform Network monitoring and Performance Management of all NIC network devices (Router, switches, …etc.)
- Carry out WAN connectivity between NIC Network & different sites (VSAT solution, IP-VPN, Fiber Optics…etc.)
- Participate in establishing and implementing security policies on networking resources.
- carry out monitoring & analyzing links performance using different network management and monitoring systems.

Network Engineer at Saudi ARAMCO
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • March 2003 to September 2003

- Provide daily operational support to the whole Aramco network (500+ remote sites and campus).
- Design, configure, and install different kind of network solutions for new sites.
- Perform monitoring & analyzing links performance using different network management systems.
- Resolve network system incidents received from the helpdesk and close the tickets.

Education

Master's degree, Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc) in Telecommunications
  • at University of New South Wales
  • July 2011

Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc) in Telecommunications

Bachelor's degree, BSc in Computer Engineering
  • at King Fahd university of petroleum and minerals
  • May 2004

BSc in Computer Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Capacity Management
Network Systems
Telecommunications
Solution Architecture
Network Managment
Network Security
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Enterprise Architecture
Strategy Managment

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

TOGAF (Training)
Training Institute:
THE OPEN GROUP
Date Attended:
December 2011
ITILv3 Foundation (Training)
Training Institute:
ITIL
Date Attended:
May 2012
CCNP (Training)
Training Institute:
CISCO
Date Attended:
March 2008
CCNP (Training)
Training Institute:
CISCO
Date Attended:
March 2008
CCDP (Training)
Training Institute:
CISCO
Date Attended:
June 2008
NETWORK SECURITY (Training)
Training Institute:
Juniper
Date Attended:
February 2007
NETWORK SECURITY (Training)
Training Institute:
Juniper
Date Attended:
February 2007
Project Management Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI
Date Attended:
June 2013
BCS Intermediate and Practitioner Certificates in Enterprise and Solution Architecture (Training)
Training Institute:
QA
Date Attended:
June 2012
BCS Intermediate and Practitioner Certificates in Enterprise and Solution Architecture (Training)
Training Institute:
QA
Date Attended:
June 2012