Houda Dassa, System Site Officer,Translator & Editor/Online Editor

Houda Dassa

System Site Officer,Translator & Editor/Online Editor

ARGAAM Business Info

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology (System & Network Engineer)
Experience
29 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :29 years, 6 Months

System Site Officer,Translator & Editor/Online Editor at ARGAAM Business Info
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2007

System Site Officer, Translator and Editor of news and reports at ARGAAM Business Info Company (ARGAAM is a leading media company specialized in economic, business, financial and new technology news). With a very good experience in translation in three languages “English, French and Arabic”, in addition to a good knowledge in data and news analysis, long experience in developing and editing stories on a variety of topics with excellent presentation skills. My tasks include:
- Editing business news, new technology news and economic articles, with a good experience in translating economic, financial and complex concepts in three languages “Arabic, English and French”
- Analyzing and translating researches, editing news and reports and making use of the information provided by the rating agencies & research companies in their coverage of the listed companies; such as (recommendations, fair values, profit estimates, earnings outlook…etc)
- Prepare and edit markets’ reports (daily reports, weekly reports, monthly…etc), financial (quarterly, annual …) results of the listed companies (in the GCC stock markets &big international companies), and monitor their progress and their latest business trends, in addition to publishing news online.
- Developing and editing stories on a variety of topics, and follow up of the economic reports and their analysis especially those covering the different economic sectors in the GCC region.
- Preparing Argaam’s press releases in English and Arabic.
- Preparing the listed company’s profiles, which contain the most important data; such as the companies’ capital, activities, subsidiaries, major shareholders, Investments, developments, dividends, trends...etc, and update regularly.
- Prepare content for Argaam web portal and publish it online.
- Prepare and edit press releases in Arabic & English & follow up with PR agencies.
- Replace the IT engineer during his vacation and maintain the server/ Active directory/backups and reply/solve user’s IT requests/problems
- Define the business unit's needs and translate them into IT specific requirements
- Train recently hired people & contribute with HR Department in the recruitment process

IT support/ Helpdesk Engineer at IBTEK Co.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2006 to March 2007

IT Engineer In charge of system support and trainings; providing support to users /clients and provide trainings for the use of the company’s SMS software, in addition to:
- System administration & support, Hardware/Software installation, support & troubleshooting
- Installing Windows 2003 server operating system and applying upgrades/patches
- Configuration and Managing Windows 2003 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Firewall...etc
- Maintaining Servers hardware and software to ensure high level of data integrity and availability
- Backup & Restore, System / Network Performance monitoring & Reporting, System Audit / Security Logging & Reporting, and setting users group policies
- Follow up clients’ requests till satisfaction
- Installation and configuration of Windows XP Operating System
- Define the client’s needs and translate them into IT specific requirements
- Participate in the process of Hiring IT engineers along with the HR department.
- Prepare appropriate training material & provide trainings and system support to clients & train new hired engineers

"UNIX System engineer" for Schlumberger Information Solution (SIS) Company at SCHLUMBERGER Oilfield Services
  • Algeria - Algiers
  • July 2004 to July 2006

“UNIX System engineer” for Schlumberger Information Solution (SIS) Company; providing system support to internal and external clients for Solaris Operating System, Geosciences & Geophysics Company’s software’s and licensing, in addition of providing trainings to users for different clients such as (SONATRACH, AGIP, ANADARKO, TOTAL, REPSOL, BP), and involved in:
- Installation and administration of UNIX Operating System for Solaris platforms (Solaris 9, 10) and RedHat, with a good working knowledge of Solaris 10 and Linux.
- System support, administration, upgrades and patch installation.
- Enterprise Software and hardware installation, administration and support of SUN servers and Workstations (Sun Fire, Sparcs, Ultra, SUN Blades...etc).
- Installation, configuration, licensing and support of Geoquest softwares’ (Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics) like GEOFRAME, Eclipse, OFM, logDB ...etc.
- Installation of Oracle databases for Schlumberger Data Management software’s.
- Perform daily support activities as Application Administrator and ensure regular updates
- Hardware maintenance, administration and troubleshooting of system and network problems & Administration of system backup and recovery solutions.
- Hands-on knowledge of Veritas NetBackup; and backup hardware DLTs, SDLTs, L8 - Experience of administration and troubleshooting.
- Regularly provide either on-site or remote support to end users (internal and external customers)
- Evaluate customers’ needs and advise for the best hardware and system configuration.
- Prepare weekly/Monthly reports, clients reports, and technical offers.
- Excellent analytical as well as written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple assignments with minimal supervision.
- Define the client’s needs and translate them into IT specific requirements
- Prepare project’s status reports to be handled to the management and clients
- Prepare appropriate training material & provide trainings and system support to clients & train new hired engineers

"IT Engineer and Network Administrator" at "EMB/FBF Holding"
  • Algeria - Algiers
  • January 2003 to June 2004

“IT engineer and network administrator”; In charge of system support to the company’s employees and managing a network of more than 50 PCs and involved in:
- Local Area Network hardware and software administration, installation, configuration and network maintenance.
- Install and configure Windows servers and Setup and configure network wide antivirus.
- Prepare appropriate training material & provide trainings and system support to clients & train new hired engineers
- Define the business unit's needs and translate them into IT specific requirements
- In charge of new server deployment, routine backups; Server management and maintenance, server performance and up time monitoring; system upgrades including OS patches and virus definition updates; failed hardware replacement; and power monitoring and allocation.
- Prepare network documentation and weekly reports.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting (hardware and software) and resolving PC hardware, software, network and application issues.
- Demonstrated capacity in administering the company's Help Desk and providing support to clients and end users remotely, by phone, web and on-site.
- Outstanding customer service skills and ability to successfully articulate solution steps to customers of varying degrees of product knowledge and problem-solving competency.
- Participated in the process of Hiring IT engineers along with the HR department.
- Developed team mentoring abilities; noted ability to train and assist others, coupled with an ability to be mentored by more experienced team members to gain efficiencies.

Trainee Engineer at The Algerian National Oil Company "SONATRACH" at SONATRACH (Oil & Gas)
  • Algeria
  • November 2001 to November 2002

Trainee-engineer at the IT department of the Algerian National Oil Company “SONATRATCH”, during the preparation of my graduation project, it was a web Helpdesk application for the Division "DATA CONTROL" of the Algerian National Oil Company (SONATRACH).

The Application was a database accessible through a web interface, under PHP and MySQL, and accessible too from Different Platforms (Solaris & Windows), I was working with the Help Desk team and involved in providing support to the employees and end users remotely, by phone, web and on-site.

Secretary/Assistant at Centre de Formation (Training Centre)- Blida (Algeria)
  • Algeria
  • January 1995 to January 2001

Part time Secretary/Assistant (PA) (from 1994 to 2004 while studying at University and after graduation) in a government training centre, in charge of maintaining diaries, arranging appointments, taking messages, typing and word processing, filing, organising and servicing meetings (producing agendas and taking minutes), managing databases, prioritising workloads, recruiting, training and supervising junior staff, handling correspondence, implementing new procedures and administrative systems, liaising with relevant organisations, coordinating mail-shots and similar publicity tasks …etc.

Teacher / Trainer at Centre de formation (Training Centre)
  • Algeria
  • January 1994 to January 2001

Part time teacher (from 1994 to 2004 while studying at University and after graduation) in a government training Centre, in charge of teaching students of different levels, Math, Physics, Chemistry, ICDL, networking, Programming languages, website conceptions and English/French/Arabic Languages.

I had to evaluate the student’s level, prepare appropriate content/program for them & evaluate their improvement.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology (System & Network Engineer)
  • at University of Sciences and Technology- BabEzouar
  • September 2002

• 2002: Graduated as "IT & System Engineer" from "Faculty of Information Technology & Computer Sciences" at "University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB) " - Bab Ezzouar- Algiers/Algeria.

Bachelor's degree, English
  • at University of Algiers- Faculty of Foreign Languages
  • June 2002

• Bsc in English; University of Algiers/ Faculty of Foreign Languages (ENS) -Algiers, Algeria ( to be completed by 2013)

Bachelor's degree, Physics
  • at University of SAAD DAHLEB -Blida
  • September 1997

Preparing Bsc in Physics; at University of SAAD Dahleb/ Physics faculty - Blida, Algeria ( to be completed by 2013)

High school or equivalent, Math, Biology
  • at Algerian Ministry of Education
  • July 1994

Bacalaureate Certification (BAC), Is the French Format of the Certification to pass to study at University. - 1994- BAC Mathematics. - - 1995- BAC Biology. - 1996- BAC Biology. - 1997- BAC Biology.

Specialties & Skills

On site Support
Solaris
Translation
Editing
Oil and Gas
MS Word
MS Excell
MS Power point
MS Access
Javascript
language C
Frontpage
OMT( Object modeling technique for database design)
Namo web editor
Gif Movie Gear (animation softaware)
Animation Shop (animation softaware)
bluefish web editor (Linux)
quanta+ web editor (Linux)
Netscape composer (web editor -Linux)
LINUX (mandrake OS 8.0, 8.1, 8.2)
UNIX (SOLARIS operating system)
WINDOWS operating system
Engineer
Translation
Editing (News,Technical, Economic...)
Business Analysis
Windows ( Active Directory... etc)
Geoframe
Eclipse

Languages

Arabic
Expert
French
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

CERN (European Center of Nuclear Recherche)
  • subscribed since 1996 and -receive the Courier CERN monthly revue
  • February 1996
INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
  • subscribed since 1998 and -receive the INFN revue
  • January 1998
INMAC
  • subscribed and receive the INMAC French software and hardware revue
  • March 2000
Pierron
  • subscribed for two years and receive the PIERRON French different material revue
  • March 1997
Fitness First Sports Club
  • Annual Membership (renewed annually)
  • November 2011
MEED (Middle East Economic Digest)
  • Receive the monthly economic magazine
  • March 2007
Arabian Businees
  • Monthly enonomic & business magazine
  • January 2007

Training and Certifications

Solaris System Administration Part I (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2004
Valid Until:
December 2004
Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2004
Valid Until:
April 2004
Forex (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2013
Valid Until:
May 2013
MCITP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2013
Valid Until:
April 2013
Design,configuration & administration of networks (peer to peer & Client / Server)+ the admin of acc (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2002
Valid Until:
July 2002
Implementation and administration of Active Directory Windows 2000 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2004
Valid Until:
March 2004
IELTS Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2009
Valid Until:
September 2009
Schlumberger upstream petroleum industry Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2004
Valid Until:
October 2004

Hobbies

  • Reading, Gardening, Horse-riding, Sports,Travelling