Mahmoud Darwish, Sr. Database Administrator

Mahmoud Darwish

Sr. Database Administrator

SBM “General Marketing & Services Representative for IBM WTC”

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Quality Control & Quality Assurance
Experience
18 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 0 Months

Sr. Database Administrator at SBM “General Marketing & Services Representative for IBM WTC”
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2013

For Mobily Project:
• Taking care of the database implementation, maintenance, planning and working closely with the project management team to achieve the customer’s deliverables.
• Currently participating in the implementation of Pre-production environment & CRM HA environment.

Senior Support Engineer at Oracle
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2011 to February 2013

• Identify, develop and execute an individual development plan with minimal management direction.
• Participate in process planning and make recommendations for improvements to the business.
• Act as a mentor in assisting less experienced engineers in isolating problems, workarounds and solutions.
• Provide training by writing and/or delivering Brown Bags and Technical Courses.
• Champion initiatives and be an advocate for support.
• Participate in team meetings and encourage knowledge sharing.
• Act as a process/technical point of contact for your product/competency area.
• Conduct Technical interviews for potential candidates.
• Network across competencies, with management & senior resources to gain visibility within the organization.
• Act as a technical lead when in communication with external customer(s), service delivery managers, 3rdparty vendors and managers.
• Manage all severity and escalated issues within guidelines; Accountable in representing customer expectations and engaging proper internal resources.
• Proactive in identifying customer needs and facilitates engagement of internal resources to ensure customer success.
• Consult with management in directing resolution of critical customer situations, including alerts to management on potential escalations.
• Engage with development as appropriate to review customer bug priorities.
• Engage in activities designed to minimize duplicate and false bugs passed to development.
• Create/modify/review knowledge content to include consultative articles.
• Participate in Beta programs and product/platform testing.
• Participate in product management and product readiness initiatives.
• Perform system administration and maintenance on support workstations.
• Participate in appointed Knowledge Management initiatives.
• Participate in additional projects as required.

Technical Consultant at Egabi Solutions
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2008 to December 2010

• Install, Clone, Patch, configure and maintain production, Test & Development Instances of Apps 11i & R12 and DB on multiple platforms like Microsoft Windows, OpenVMS, and RedHat Linux Enterprise.
• Plan for Backup, Recovery & DR Plans and implementing the Data Guard technology.
• S/W Installation, DB Upgrade, Database Creation & Upgrading and Patching.
• Install & Configure and Maintaining Oracle RAC Environments and Data Guard implementations.

Oracle Apps DBA at Giza Systems Engineering
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2007 to May 2008

• Installation & configuration of production, Test & Development Instances of Apps 11i.
• Maintenance of Apps 11i.
• Applying DB & Apps patches & Administration.
• Planning for Backup & DR Plans.
• Apps Cloning.
• S/W Installation& DB related Tasks.
• Oracle Version: Oracle RDB, 7.2, 8i, 9i, 10g and 11g on multiple platforms like Microsoft Windows, OpenVMS, and RedHat Linux Enterprise.

Applications Database Admininistrator at El-Rashidi El-Mizan Confectionery
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2006 to April 2007

• Planning for Disaster Recovery plans, Daily Backup and Recovery.
• Installation, Cloning, and maintaining Apps
• Tuning DB and Application.
• Providing a remote support to the oracle applications 11i.
• Managing SRs on the MetaLink.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Quality Control & Quality Assurance
  • at Worker University
  • May 2003

Bachelor in Quality Control & Quality Assurance.

Specialties & Skills

Oracle E Business Suite
Oracle RAC
Oracle Applications
APPLICATION SERVER
CLONING
DATABASE
DISASTER RECOVERY
MAINTENANCE
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
OPENVMS

Languages

Arabic
Expert
Chinese
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

Oracle DB 11g: Admin Workshop II (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
January 2011
Oracle DB 11g: Admin Workshop I (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
January 2011
WebLogic Customized Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
February 2011
Enterprise Manager Fundamentals for Support (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
March 2011
Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g: Administer ASM (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
June 2011
Oracle Database 11g: Performance Tuning Ed 2 (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
April 2011
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g/11g Grid Control Install. (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
March 2011
RedHat Linux Essentials RH033 (Training)
Training Institute:
Linux Plus
Date Attended:
January 2011
Oracle Application Server 10g (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
February 2011
Oracle 11g: RAC and Grid Infrastructure Administration Accelerated Release 2 (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
June 2011
Managing Your Time," Harvard Manage Mentor" (Training)
Training Institute:
Cegos UK
Date Attended:
September 2012
Oracle Database 11g: RAC Administration Ed 1.1 (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
May 2011
Oracle Database 11g: Data Guard Administration Ed 3 (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
May 2011
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g/11g DBC (EMCA) (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
March 2011
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g: Grid Control Essentials Ed 1 (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
March 2011

Hobbies

  • Reading
    Reading about new technologies all the time