Khurram Shabbir, IT Project Manager

Khurram Shabbir

IT Project Manager

MS Technologies

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration And Computer Science
Experience
24 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 2 Months

IT Project Manager at MS Technologies
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since April 2010

Working as Project Manager since April 2010, Ensuring timely delivery of products and Services based on Microsoft, Cisco and other hardware and Software Technologies.

Major Projects
Motorola Middle East
Worked with Dimensions Data to establish support team at Motorola KSA offices, pre and post implementation services for new sites. Site connectivity with cisco devices and design & implementation of Data centers.

Ministry of Interior (MOI)
Involved as service delivery manager for MOI projects to deliver more than 60 sites in KSA. A project is implementation of cisco communication equipment on secure network of MOI on STC WAN

King Abdulaziz Historical Centre (National Museum Riyadh) - Managed Development of automation software (Microsoft .Net framework) for galleries of KAHC and managed operations and maintenance for 3 years.

King Abdullah Road Project
Management (Design and implementation) of communication network based on Cisco and Hirschman devices for Traffic Management System (TMS) of King Abdullah Road Project. About 30KM of Fiber Optic Network within 5KM logical ring to control the flow of data between Data Collection Units (DCU) and Operations Room at KARP.

Senior Supervisor at DSP and Hasoub
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2006 to March 2010

Al Najah Group - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Worked as Senior Projects Supervisor in DSP and HASOUB
Core job functions were to manage support teams deployed on different projects around the kingdom for 24/7 support needs.

Major Projects

Araqah palace, Riyadh (King Salman Bin Abdulaziz palace) Established support and deployed team of 17 resources at the project for 24/7 support in two shifts for IPTV and multimedia systems. Managed preventive maintenance, time management, work order knowledgebase, day to day operations log, site support, communication with Saudi Bin Laden management (SBG was main contractor), and other support and systems administration activities within scope and budget of the contract.

DOKAAEP (Clock Tower Makkah)
Development of King Abdulaziz Endowment Project (Abraj Al Bait, Clock Tower) Opposite haram in Makkah. DOKAAEP is the largest project of group in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia having 7 towers and about 7400 tenants’ capacity after completion. Worked as senior supervisor and managed about 50 parallel resources in multiple shifts. Responsibilities Includes Managed team for 24/7 support on this project for following services. General network operations and troubleshooting (Cisco catalyst and Nortel switches for VLANs). IPTV, IP Telephone, Public Address System, CCTV using Netavis application in Linux, NOC Service i.e. Core switching and storage etc.

Technical Manager Implementations at Integrated Solutions for Business - ISB
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2003 to August 2006

Integrated Solutions for Business (ISB) Riyadh, KSA
ISB is authorized VAR for a document archiving solution i.e. Laserfiche, in Middle East. Worked as Technical Manager in ISB. Managing LANs, internet/ intranet of ISB and clients of the company. In addition, completed tasks related to infrastructure like providing support, backup policies implementation, and security implementations, preventive maintenance plans execution and centralized resource management for company and its huge number of clients across the country.

IT Systems Administrator at Tower Technologies
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2001 to November 2003

Tower Technologies (Pvt.) Limited is a leading edge software development company operating under the umbrella of PGC. Worked as Systems Administrator

Configuration of Compaq ML 370 servers, Acer Altos servers using Windows/Linux operating systems. Implemented Digital Cross Connect (DXX) based on 512 kbps with PCBA/PICS using CISCO 1600 series router and Tellabs Data Termination Unit.

Configuration of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server in IIS 5.0. and SMPT, POP, IMAP4 via Exchange server 5.5/2000. Implementation of data backup policies and procedures of ISO certification and heading support department of about 15 people.

Complete setup of Medical Transcription Department of Tower Tech, Official Webmaster of City District Government Domain, registration, hosting and management of official website of Lahore City Government and many other domains.

Assistant Systems Administrator at University of Central Punjab - UCP
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • April 2000 to June 2001

Assistant Systems Administrator - Started professional carrier working in PCBA/PICS (UCP) as Assistant System Manager to handle the network of about 400+ computers based on Windows NT/Windows 2000 and Novell Netware 3.x platforms. Implemented Microsoft Exchange server 5.5 as Mail server and Internet Information Server 4.0 for web services. Management of Oracle 8i server based on Linux. System Administration activities like Backup/Restore, Preventive maintenance plans, heading support department of 20 people, implementation of ISO procedures in network support department.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration And Computer Science
  • at Virtual University Of Pakistan
  • November 2023

In Progress

Bachelor's degree, Computer And Communications Engineering
  • at Westcoast University USA
  • June 2006
Bachelor's degree, Arts
  • at University Of The Punjab
  • October 2000
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Institute of Computer Science - ICS
  • June 1999

Specialties & Skills

Internet
Startups
Data Center Architecture
Data Center
IT Service Management
Research and Development
IT infrastructure
Project Management
IT Support Services and SLA
Film Making
Story Telling
Problem Solving
Customer Services

Social Profiles

Personal Website
Personal Website
khurrams.com

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Urdu
Native Speaker
Punjabi
Native Speaker

Memberships

PMI
  • Member
  • December 2009

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: NT 3.51 + Internet (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2000
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Windows Server 2003 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2007
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer: Visual Studio 6.0 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2001
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: NT 3.51 + Internet (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2000
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2000
MCP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 1999
MCSE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 1999

Hobbies

  • Penmanship
  • Pencil Sketch
  • Story Telling
  • Film Making
    Film Making (Did Film making course from LUMS Lahore in 2023)