IT Manager
saudi Petroleum Services Polytechnic
Total years of experience :22 years, 5 Months
Established the Information Technology Policies and Procedures.
Spearheaded the migration of Dammam IT and Khafji IT into a single IT department.
Oversight of the ERP phase 2 project. implementation based on Oracle Fusion, which includes Oracle BPM cloud, Oracle i-Expense, Supplier Self-Service and Procurement Self-Service.
Streamlined IT operations to follow ITIL best practices.
Manpower and budget optimization of SPSP IT.
Managing the IT department of SPSP.
Digital transformation.
Directing the IT strategy of the organization. Developing the IT organization, including Infrastructure, Data Center, and Applications. Managing implementation of corporate ERP project. Implementing IT governance and compliance in alignment with ITIL V3 best practices and ISO 27001:2013 information security standard. Planning IT budgets. Insuring compliance with policies and procedures.
- Overseeing the application security of Sadara including developing Sadara Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Formalizing Sadara Access Control policies and procedures based on ISO 27001 and ITIL best practices
- Implementation of Sadara Identity and Access Management based on SailPoint IIQ
- Overseeing Sadara information security policies implementation based on ISO 27001:2013 standard.
- Liaison with Sadara Engineering and PMT to ensure proper handling and design of Engineering applications and tools.
- Information Security Awareness program initiation and handling,
- Development of Information Security code of conduct and delivery of awareness campaigns.
- Established Information Security Unit
- Leading a project for implementation of ISO 27001 Standard, preparing the organization for certification.
- Managing, maintaining, and writing IT policies and procedures, in compliance with international standards and best practices such as ISO 27001 and ITIL.
- Managing IT Governance implementation project. Development of Service Catalog, enhancement of service desk, development of Service Level Agreement, implementation of change management, configuration management, and incident management, based on COBIT and ITIL
- Supervisor, access control and SAP GRC.
- Supervisor, Systems Security Control
- Overlooking implementation of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management)
- Designing and managing setting up of the corporate LAN from scratch, which included designing the Active components such as switches, and Passive components such as the fiber-optic layout and horizontal cabling according to the best practices and Cisco recommendations for SMB.
- Leading the project for implementation of the corporate Internet e-mail and Internet gateway, including configuration of BlueCoat Proxy server, configuration of IronPort mail relay, Microsoft Exchange, and Internet domain name configurations.
- Pre-sales technical consultant
- Full design and implementation of an ADSL WAN project, through which remote branches may access our HO over IP-Sec VPN with 3DES encryption, invloving more than 60 locations.
- Designing and project leader of AlSafi Danone Factory in AlKharj campus LAN with two Catalyst 4503 backbone switches, and 14 Catalyst 3560 distribution switches, interconnected using multi-mode fiber-optic cables and using HSRP and spanning tree protocol.
- Infrastructure Support Department - Network Operations. Managing network Infrastructure support group.
- Project manager and participation in designing an IT outsourcing solution for a key customer
- Project Manager - new administration building cabling and network infrastructure development, including wireless LAN implementation and security.
- Configuring multiple routers on STC's MPLS cloud to provide full seamless redundancy between LAN and MPLS network using Internal and External BGP.
- Administering and Designing Computer Networks of Al-Faisaliah Group.
- Project Manager of a Voice over IP (VoIP) project via the Internet that reduced International calls of the company down to 40% of original costs
- Project Manager of a VoIP project kingdom-wide that eliminate intra-company national calls costs.
- Project Manager of network cabling and switching - Merging two floors in Al Faisaliah Tower.
- Successfully deployed VoIP systems between two branches of Al Faisaliah Group over a WAN link, applying Quality of Service and G729b Voice Codec.
- Upgraded the servers of one major site of the company to Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
- Configured Cisco Routers to optimally utilize and monitor leased-line and Frame Relay links.
- Configured Cisco PIX Firewall to allow gateway-to-gateway VPN connections via the Internet to remote networks.
- Configuring and maintaining Cisco IP-Telephony and Call Managers (version 3.3.2)
- 7-month Co-operative training as a Computer Engineer.
- Deployed an IIS5-based web server, and MS Outlook Web Access.
- Designed the Win2K performance monitor automation system, for monitoring company servers.
- Touched up on Cisco routers, switches, and Cisco-PIX firewall.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, with emphasis on Computer Networking.