Faisal Almadani

Preparing and maintaining various NOC reports including, but not limited to daily availability, daily, weekly, monthly trouble ticket analysis and root cause, historical and repetitive failure reports, etc.
Monitoring team performance including SLAs and KPIs, and provide enhancement solutions
Developing and implementing automation tools to increase team efficiency and productivity by +15%
Analyzing historical trends and determine problem sites/technologies, and provide permanent enhancement solutions to repeated failures, and improving efficiency/reducing power consumption
Working with internal and external stakeholder to develop more efficient operational instructions
Developing and implementing various network operation and performance dashboards
Working with multiple vendors on implementing and integrating various ITSM tools to meet NOC needs
Presenting finding and solutions to internal (High Level Management) and external (Customer) stakeholders
Working on optimizing Remote Monitoring System (RMS) and analyzing historical data from RMS to provide enhancement opportunities
Member of Safety Empowerment team, responsible for Emergency Response, providing Health and safety trainings for employees, ensuring HSE procedures are met throughout the office
Responsible for collecting and reporting Carbon Foot-Print data for IHS Kuwait Office as part of IHS’s Carbon Net Zero Initiative

Working in Product services providing support to power-plants and resolving (100+/year) issues
Working in the front-line Quick Response Center (QRC), providing quick initial troubleshooting to Engineering Response cases, ensuring 4-hour touch time to resolution for cases solved by QRC, and dispatching to tier 2 as an effort to increase quality and responsiveness of Engineering Response cases and technical support
Supporting on site field engineers
Focusing on MarkVIe (GE Proprietary controller) controls platform and hardware related issues
Experienced in troubleshooting and configuring Cisco network switches for internal and external communication via OPC-DA, EGD, and Modbus
Job included site visits to troubleshoot and resolve issues

Undergoing multiple 6-month rotations within GE Power
First Rotation: Monitoring and Diagnostics Department (Dubai, UAE)
Analyzing +5 years’ worth of data to determine failure patterns and develop predictive analytics to reduce failures in Gas turbines
Second Rotation: Controls Simulation (Belfort, France)
Developing and optimizing power plant simulation model for testing controls software
Third Rotation: Electrical Control Systems (Belfort, France)
Developing and creating database for electrical system connection to cloud server
Fourth/Fifth Rotation: Power Services; Accessories and Controls (Sulaibiya, Kuwait)
Providing support on engineering cases for site issues regarding controls and network hardware
Completed Advance Courses in Engineering and several technical and leadership trainings including Teardown, Eng@GE and Activating your Leadership Journey