Gaith Jarrah, SAN Storage & Backup Systems Team Lead

Gaith Jarrah

SAN Storage & Backup Systems Team Lead

Mobily

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
22 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 9 Months

SAN Storage & Backup Systems Team Lead at Mobily
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2018

Planning, Designing, Implementing and Supporting Mobily’s SAN and Backup Infrastructure as a SAN Storage & Backup Systems Team Lead.

SAN Storage Subject Matter Expert at IBM - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2013 to February 2018

SAN Storage and Backup subject Matter expert that serve IBM clients in managing their IT infrastructure in the IBM GTS department.

SAN Storage and Backup Team Lead at Mobily Telecom
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2011 to December 2012

Planning, Designing, Implementing and Supporting Mobily’s Backup and SAN, Infrastructure as a SAN and Storage Systems Team Lead.

Customer Services and Implementations Team Leader at International Turnkey systems (ITS)
  • Jordan - Amman
  • March 2009 to May 2011

Designing, implementing and supporting Various EMC, SUN and Symantec products for ITS customers, as a Team Lead for the customer services team in the professional services department.

UNIX backup and SAN storage Team Leader at Jordan Mobile Telephone Services (Zain Jordan)
  • Jordan - Amman
  • June 2006 to February 2009

Planning, Designing, administrating and supporting Zain’s SAN, storage, UNIX, LINUX and backup infrastructure using Various EMC, Symantec, Sun, HP Redhat and IBM products as a SAN and UNIX Team Leader .

Unix, Backup & SAN Storage Administartor at Royal Jordanian airlines (RJ)
  • Jordan - Amman
  • October 2003 to May 2006

Designing, administrating and supporting RJ’s SAN, UNIX, LINUX and backup infrastructure As a senior SAN, storage, and UNIX administrator.

Unix Administrator and Systems programmer at Housing Bank/Systems division
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2001 to September 2003

Working as system programmer and maintenance engineer for the Housing Bank ATM network implementing DIEBOLD Automated Teller Machines
ATM Software development:
Operating and maintaining ATM applications under platforms of OS/2 Warp 4.00.
Development and configuration of the PC ATM Controller Environment (PACE )which is the controller application on the ATM machine.
Development and configuration of the Terminal Control Software (TCS) that controls the ATM operation.
Development and configuration of the Communication subsystem (CSS)
Electronic Financial switch administration:
Working as an administrator for an EFT switch running on AIX UNIX platform with CORTEX software installed on it that uses an INFORMIX database.
Housing bank Work projects:
Installation of new ATM machines including site preparation, software installation, terminal configuration, network connection and branch training.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Jordan University of Science and Technolog
  • February 2001

Specialties & Skills

Administration
Installation
Housing
Network Administration
Computer Syatems Hardware and Maintenance
Working Experience in Unix/Linux Configuration Implementationand Support HPUX, Solaris, AIX, Redhat
Developing ATM software (PACE) and supporting ATM machines running OS/2 Warp4 operating system.
Working Experience in Implementing and Maintaining IBM SVC Storage Virtulization
Working Experience in Implementing and Maintaining EMC VMAX, UNITY, VNX & ECS Storages
Working Experience in Implementing and Maintaining Disaster Recovery Solutions
Working Experience in Implementing and Maintaining Brocade SAN Switches & Infrastructure
Working Experience in Implementing and Maintaining IBM DS8K, V7000, DS5K,XIV Storages

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008
Symantec Certified Specialist: High Availability Administrator for UNIX using VERITAS Cluster server (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
HP-UX certified system administrator (CSA). (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
Sun certified system administrator (SCSA). (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
EMC certified Symmetrix Specialist, platform engineer VMAX (EMCPE). (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2011