Enterprise Solutions Architect & Programme Manager
Saudi Business Machines
Total years of experience :26 years, 5 Months
Enterprise Solutions Architect & Programme Manager,
Saudi Business Machines June 2011 to date
SBM is the market leader in the delivery of Enterprise Infrastructure and Application based solutions within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. SBM has provided technical services and solutions to government, financial and industry sectors for the past 65 years.
Providing technical consultancy services to Saudi Business Machines on Key Customer Accounts ensuring project scope definition is translated into Enterprise application and infrastructure solutions that meet the client's requirementsExamples?
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Providing technical consultancy services to Saudi Business Machines on Key Customer Accounts ensuring project scope definition is translated to the correct infrastructure and application product sets
• Develop Low Level infrastructure design specifications in response to client RFP requirements delivering Enterprise SAN, WAN and Firewall solutions.
• Develop Low Level application design specifications in response to client RFP requirements delivering Enterprise class applicationsStopped here
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Enterprise Solutions Architect & Programme Manager,
Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority June 2011 to date
Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), is the central bank of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was established in 1952 to act as a banker to the government, supervises commercial banks, manages Kingdom's foreign exchange reserves, Conducts monetary policy for promoting price and exchange rate stability and promotes the growth and ensures the soundness of the financial system.
Programme Manage critical challenging, complex systems and transformation programmes, Developing strategic solutions application and infrastructure design as Enterprise Solution Architect.
Enhance RFP structure focusing on policies and procedures, approach and evaluation criteria.
(180 staff, 22 projects, $120m capex)
• Construction of technical requests for proposal (RFP) documentation for the three data centre infrastructure and business critical applications.
• Develop Low Level design specifications for an Enterprise WAN infrastructure supporting multiple virtual Cores, supporting global Class A IP schema. Design global VLAN schema supporting interdepartmental segregation as outlined in bank trading standards.
• Develop Low Level design specifications for an Enterprise SAN and Fabric infrastructure, supporting multi disk controllers with up to 500+ TB of SAN disk per site.
• Develop Low Level design specifications of an Enterprise Virtual infrastructure to support business critical systems (Equity, derivative trading system, inter-Bank fund transfer systems, and Fund Management in addition to traditional business systems) . Infrastructure design to PCI requirements
• Specifying design requirements for enterprise monitoring across all infrastructure solutions
• Specifying design requirements for business application monitoring
• Develop design specifications for the Data Centre Mechanical and Electrical infrastructure providing 8+KVA per rack, supporting Enterprise hardware.
• Load balancing of infrastructure within the Data centres
Bord Gáis (Contract) Nov 10 - May 11
A leading Irish energy provider, Bord Gáis is a dual-fuel supplier and transmission distribution of natural gas and Electricity in Ireland.
Technical Consultant, Project Manager
Business Continuity/ Operational testing on business operation systems within Bord Gáis (Dublin and Cork)
Project Manage Business Continuity and Disaster Recover testing, on Bord Gáis Billing system, Client Payment system, Gas Trading system, Wind Turbine management/ monitoring system and credit control system/ applications.
Active Voice & Data Oct 09 - Nov 10
A Leading voice and technology solutions provider to the Irish Market Place, provided integrated communications and technology solutions for small to medium size business.
Technology Director
Technical director of Active Voice & Data charged with the responsibility of developing new business services for the Irish market place.
• Responsible for technical project delivery, resources management and client relationships. Budget management, pricing and third party negations ensuring opex cost are maintained within the business financial plan.
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Infrastructure (WAN, SAN, Firewall) Design and Implementation services, to support Client business systems hosted in Virtual and Cloud environments. Providing integrated business application addressing Business continuity requirements.
• Project Management and stake holder reporting of contracted projects
• Management of Technical Team which includes Staff appraisals, performance improvement plan, staff and team coaching, Salary and Bonus reviews.
(Project vales ranging from €.3m to €.5m)
Norkom Nov 08 - Oct 09
Norkom Technologies provides financial crime and compliance software to the global financial services industry.
Head of Information Technology
Employed to manage Norkom Global Technologies business infrastructure, from Head office Dublin, including regional office located in USA, Europe, and Australia. Develop and reline the business WAN & SAN infrastructure to meet the business product requirements and the business development strategy plan. Develop the relationship between key stakeholders and management. Reporting to management on yearly budgets Opex/ Capex), strategy business investments.
In addition to manage global technical infrastructure team, regional and global budgets, manage relationships between different business entities/ units.
Infrastructure: Design and Implement Virtual WAN infrastructure that supports Global business units allowing full utilization of Enterprise SAN infrastructure. Providing a Single global support system available 24x7x365 in all time zones.
Communication: Implement a Private IP Global Network (PIP) allowing regional offices utilize the Enterprise infrastructure, Integrated Global Voice Solution, Global Source depository and Global Help Desk.
Project Management and stake holder reporting of Board of Norkom
(Project vales ranging from €1m, €2m)
Management of Technical Team which includes Staff appraisals, performance improvement plan, staff and team coaching, Salary and Bonus reviews. Vendor contract negotiations and delivery management.
Landsbankinn - CS-IT Dec 06 - Aug 08
Landsbankinn is a leading Icelandic financial institution. Landsbankinn offers a full range of financial services and is the market leader in the Icelandic financial service sector with the largest branch network
Enterprise Solutions Architect & Project Manager
• Construction of technical requests for proposal (RFP) documentation for the three data centre infrastructure and business critical applications.
• Develop High & Low Level design specifications for an Enterprise WAN infrastructure supporting multiple virtual Cores, supporting global Class A IP schema. Design global VLAN schema supporting interdepartmental segregation as outlined in bank trading standards.
• Develop Low Level design specifications for an Enterprise SAN and Fabric infrastructure, supporting multi disk controllers with up to 500+ TB of SAN disk per site.
• Develop Low Level design specifications of an Enterprise Virtual infrastructure to support business critical systems (Equity, derivative trading system, inter-Bank fund transfer systems, and Fund Management in addition to traditional business systems) . Infrastructure design to PCI requirements
• Specifying design requirements for enterprise monitoring across all infrastructure solutions
• Specifying design requirements for business application monitoring
• Develop design specifications for the Data Centre Mechanical and Electrical infrastructure providing 8+KVA per rack, supporting Enterprise hardware.
• Load balancing of infrastructure within the Data centres
Global Projects high level phasing overview: Phase One: Design a Enterprise WAN infrastructure support Big IP
Phase Two: Migration of four financial institutions into one Enterprise Data Centre.
Phase Three: The implementation of a second data centre providing Active- Active capability.
Phase Four: the implementation of a Third Data Centre providing Active/ Passive capability
Project value Phase One:$18m, Phase Two $4m, Phase Three $16m Phase Four $16m
Operational Capex $22m
EARLY CAREER INCLUDES:
Merrion Stockbrokers
Technical Consultant: Crescent Computers (Contract)
Technical Consultant Jacobs Engineering (Contract) 1996 - 1997
Technical Consultant: IBM Treasury Ireland (Contract)
Technical Consultant: Cable & Wireless (Contract) 1994 - 1995
Covell Matthews Wheatley Architects
Technical Operator;
Course is undertaken remotly based over a five year period