Khalil Ahmed, Senior IT Manager

Khalil Ahmed

Senior IT Manager

Al Mada Group for Media , Culture and Art

Location
Iraq
Education
Master's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
12 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 4 Months

Senior IT Manager at Al Mada Group for Media , Culture and Art
  • Iraq - Baghdad
  • My current job since February 2015

Responsible for the execution of IT functions and support. This includes managing IT operations to meet customer\group requirements as well as the support and maintenance of existing applications and development of new technical solutions.

Responsibilities and Duties:
- Manage Information Technology resources within budget with the ability to manage those resources in an emerging environment.
- Participate on all hardware and software evaluations.
- Maintains vendor contracts.
- Organize the technical solution and perform the analysis.
- Design and implement software systems, test, debug, provide technical support and maintenance.
- Represent the IT function at customer review meetings when appropriate.
- Assess systems and technology across multiple divisions, providing integration direction and support.
- Facilitate successful implementation of new software systems.
- Maintain quality service by recommending and enforcing organizational standards.
- Ensure the consistency and maintainability of existing applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions
- Manage operations in executing production tasks according to a documented schedule that meets or exceeds customer expectations.
- Perform liaison duties between users, operations, and programming personnel in the areas of systems design, modifications or trouble shooting.
- Assist in recruiting, hiring, and providing appropriate training for IT support staff.
- Provide vision and management to the IT department

Experienced Software Development Engineer at SmartPeer
  • United States
  • October 2015 to November 2016

- Execute full life cycle software development.
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
- Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
- Writing and testing code and then refining and rewriting as necessary.
- Consulting clients and colleagues concerning the maintenance and performance of software systems with a view to writing or modifying current methodology.
- Working closely with other staff, such as project managers, petroleum engineers and other developers.
- Investigating new technologies.

Lecturer at Lecturer at Nadeen Institute
  • Iraq - Baghdad
  • October 2014 to March 2015

Responsible for teaching, training and coordinating college materials with
postgraduate and undergraduate students. Also provide support and training
for government employees.
Responsibilities and Duties:
* Performs work according to the software quality process through
the execution of module, subsystem and system software
development, unit test and software integration procedures,
including creation and maintenance of standard software
documentation
* Provides general guidance, mentors and trains support and/or
professional staff

IT Site Engineer at Al Sadiq Group
  • Iraq - Baghdad
  • January 2014 to January 2015

Responsible for performs information systems administrative procedures and maintains documentation that covers two or more functional areas including data control, applications training, data coordination and scheduling, data security administration, etc.

Responsibilities and Duties:
- Provide IT client services and operations in support of desktop and central computing and standard office applications services.
- Perform hardware and software installs and upgrades.
- Install new operating systems; repair desktop systems.
- Perform equipment, network and software maintenance.
- Help desk and operations support.
- Analyze and resolve inter-connectivity and other problems that occur in a network environment.
- Test and evaluate products and applications associated with departmental administrative applications.
- Installs, tests, and maintains all types of cables and/or wiring found in a networked environment.
- Perform other duties as assigned

Lecturer and Software Engineer at Software Engineering Centre for Software Solutions
  • Iraq - Mosul
  • January 2012 to September 2014

Responsible for teaching, training and coordinating college materials with
postgraduate and undergraduate students and for designing, installing,
testing and maintenance of software systems.
Responsibilities and Duties:
* Teach and motivate students.
* Draw and think about giving new learning technologies to simplify
complex materials.
* Provide support for both undergraduate and postgraduate students
* Translates customers' needs and system level documentation to
appropriate software engineering requirements.
* Performs full range of standard software development work typical in
the professional field.
* Completes and presents reports of technical feasibility and
development results.
* Performs work according to the software quality process through the
execution of module, subsystem and system software development,
unit test and software integration procedures, including creation and
maintenance of standard software documentation.
* Provides general guidance, mentors and trains support and/or
professional staff.

Education

Master's degree, Software Engineering
  • at College of Computer Scinece and Mathmatics
  • July 2013

Master's degree in Software Engineering (First on the class)

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at College of Computer Scinece and Mathmatics
  • July 2011

Database Design , Real Time Systems , Project Management , Quality assurance

Specialties & Skills

Information Technology
Software Project Management
SQL Server
Software Development
Software Development
Software Engineering
Software Planning
Software Quality
Information Technology
Project Management

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Memberships

Soutuna - NGO
  • IT Counsultant
  • January 2016
Arab Human Rights Academy (AHRA) - NGO
  • IT Counsultant and Web Developer
  • May 2016

Training and Certifications

IELTS (6.5) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2017
Valid Until:
October 2019
IC3 (Certificate)
Personal Setrategic Planning , (IAPTLD) (Certificate)
edX Honor Code Certificate for Introduction to Project Management (Certificate)
English Lanuguage Course (with Honor) , ELC Prime Minister Office (Certificate)
TOEFL - ITP (533) (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Tennis
  • Reading
  • Swimming