Khalid Afsar, Senior IT Support Engineer

Khalid Afsar

Senior IT Support Engineer

Zuhair Fayez Partnership

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Higher diploma, Electronic (3 Years Associate Engineer)
Experience
40 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :40 years, 7 Months

Senior IT Support Engineer at Zuhair Fayez Partnership
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since February 1997

Working as a Senior IT Support Engineer in Engineering and Information Systems Department of Zuhair Fayez Partnership Consultants, one of the leading Consultants, Engineering and Systems ISO Certified Company.

The Organization comprises of different operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Novell Netware, Linux, SQL Database and Web Serves. Providing to end-users support to over 3500 users based in 15 locations.

1997-2005 Network Administrator at Royal Saudi Air force (Jeddah, Riyadh, Hail, Jouf and Hail) Air Bases projects under supervision of British Aerospace were my responsibility was included LAN, WAN structural cabling, network and system administration, hardware, software installation, troubleshooting and end-user support.

1996-2010 Sr. System Administrator Jeddah municipality projects were my responsibility was included supervised structural cabling, network and system administration, network, hardware, software installation, troubleshooting and end-user support.

2011-2016 Sr. IT Systems Engineer responsibilities included smooth running of all IT systems, Analyst/ budgeting networking, hardware, software as per projects requirement. Supervised system and network administrators at different locations in the KSA, monitor correct systems configuration, optimizing of servers, structural cabling, network, hardware installation, troubleshooting and end-user support, Backup/Restore Projects Data and SQL Database. Establish connectivity between.

MIS Manager at Al Alamiah Electronics co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • May 1993 to January 1997

Manage maintenance department, Client support, Analyst/budgeting networking/hardware/software as per client requirements, planning/design network architecture and implements.

Sr. Systems Support Engineer at Al Alamiah Electronics
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • October 1983 to April 1993

Worked as Support Engineer in Eastern province region responsibility was included Maintenance of electronics devices, Installing, Upgrading, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Hardware and LAN, On-site technical support to the clients such as Saudi Aramco, Saudi American Bank.d

Worked as Eastern province region technical department manager region responsibility was included monitor staff activities, assign task, test installed electronics and computer/ network equipment, etc.

Worked as Sr. Systems Support Engineer in western region responsibility was included analyst/budgeting networking, hardware, software as per client requirements, installing, upgrading, troubleshooting and maintenance of computer hardware and LAN, WAN, On-site technical support to the clients, developed inventory and maintenance management system application.

Education

Higher diploma, Electronic (3 Years Associate Engineer)
  • at Punjab Board of Technical Education
  • January 1981

3 Years Associate Engineer in Electronics

Bachelor's degree, science
  • at Punjab University Lahore
  • October 1979

Bechelor of Science from Punjab University Lahore

Specialties & Skills

Programming
Network Systems
Systems support
Maintenance Management
On Site
IT Support Engineer
Systems and Network Administrator
MIS Supervisor/ Manager

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Native Speaker
Arabic
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

MCSE, MCP+I, CCNA, CNA (Training)
Training Institute:
Numbers of trainings/Seminars attended in USA, Japan, Cyprus, KSA
Date Attended:
January 1984

Hobbies

  • Reading, Programming/development
    Reading articles about information technologies, Programming/development using unique technique.