Mahmoud Katmeh, Service Continuity Manager

Mahmoud Katmeh

Service Continuity Manager

Alinma Bank

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Honors Bachelor of Computer Science
Experience
16 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 0 Months

Service Continuity Manager at Alinma Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since February 2014

Establish and maintain the Bank’s business and IT continuity framework, and coordination of plans to address IT service continuity risks and issues in addition to participate in maintaining the disaster recovery site and activities.

Key Accountabilities & Activities

1. Service Continuity
• Develop and maintain the framework for IT continuity to support enterprise-wide business continuity management using a consistent process.
• Participate in Minimizing downtime and the probability of IT service interruption and ensure that IT services are available as required by reducing the impact of a major disruption on key business functions and processes - including the establishment of resilience capabilities and recovery priorities for critical IT services..
• Participate in conducting regular Business Impact Analysis
• Participate in developing and maintaining IT continuity and contingency plans that supports business continuity plans
• Participate in training on and testing IT contingency plans

2. Assistance of Service Level Management
• Assist the Service Level Management and Operational Level Management teams with regular testing of the IT continuity plan to ensure that IT systems can be effectively recovered, shortcomings are addressed and that the plan remains relevant.

3. Disaster recovery site
• Participate in maintaining the disaster recovery site and activities.

Specialized Solution Consultant at Rayat Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2010 to January 2014

Summary:
Provides pre-sales technical support and expertise is analyzing customer requirements in conjunction with their current desktop/server virtualization, storage, Microsoft, and system capabilities and ensuring company design will accomplish customer's objectives.

Main Duties:
- Support the outside sales organization with the identification of customer requirements and the development of appropriate pre-sales documentation to write SOW, RFP, responses, etc.

- Communicate technical design, requirements, constrains, functionality, and implementation details verbally and in formal documentation.

- Design Proof of concept testing

- Work with Customers to define implementation projects including requirements gathering.

- Provide knowledge transfer to client.

- Create assessment questionnaires and other forms of written deliverables.

Web Developer at CompuFirst
  • Canada - Ontario
  • May 2009 to September 2009

Internship

Mobile Applications Developer at Rayat Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2008 to September 2008

Internship

Student Consultant at McMaster University
  • Canada - Ontario
  • November 2007 to April 2008
Computer Technician at SmartBuy
  • Canada - Ontario
  • January 2006 to August 2006

Education

Bachelor's degree, Honors Bachelor of Computer Science
  • at McMaster University
  • April 2010

Specialties & Skills

Service Continuity
Service Assurance
Business Continuity
Security
disaster recovery specialist
Microsoft Sharepoint
Project Management
Microsoft System Center
Business Continuity Management
Whiteboard Presentation

Languages

Arabic
Expert
French
Intermediate
English
Expert

Memberships

AMBCI
  • Associate Member
  • December 2015

Training and Certifications

CBCI (Training)
Training Institute:
Certified Business Continuity Institute
Date Attended:
December 2015
Duration:
40 hours
ISO 22301 Lead Implementer (Training)
Training Institute:
Continuity and Resilience
Date Attended:
April 2015
Duration:
40 hours
IT Disaster Recovery Specialist (Training)
Training Institute:
Continuity and Resilience
Date Attended:
December 2014
Duration:
24 hours
Certified IT Disaster Recovery Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Reading Novels
  • Soccer
  • Golf
  • Tennis