Technical Services Section Head
Sudanese Petroleum Corporation
Total years of experience :19 years, 8 Months
- Managing SAP Basis Team.
- Managing Infrastructure Team.
- Provide SAP services for four (4) Petroleum companies.
- Ensuring availability and system high performance for the system’s clients.
- Providing IT services for the support team (Functional consultant, Technical consultant and management team).
- Ensure high-security measures in place and all staff and system’s clients are compliance with it.
- Perform periodical system audit to ensure information security and data integrity.
- Communicate with all service providers (ISP, Vendors, etc).
- Overall responsibility for the HQ networks, communication, and stand-alone devices.
- Keep up to date with technology.
- Propose forward looking solution.
- Participate in setting the overall ICT strategy with the top management.
- Manage the ICT support team to reach excellence in service.
- Set yearly budgets and forward looking projections.
- Maintain the Company e-mail and internet systems.
- ERP Administration (SAP Basis).
- Managing Application and system team.
- Managing company’s applications and systems.
- Coordinate with applications/systems vendors.
- Identify business needs and suggest solutions.
- Review and monitor applications and systems incidents reports.
- Ensure company BCP policies in place.
- Installation, configuration and upgrading of Database (Oracle) server software and related products
- Implement and maintain database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges).
- Perform database tuning and performance monitoring
- Plan growth and changes (capacity planning)
- SCHLUMBERGER Softwares administration (eSerach and Merak)
- Full Administrating Accounting System (Quick Books).
- Developing the HR Department System (Two Systems).
- Developing Exploration Department Data Store System.
- Responsible for all the systems and applications inside the company.
- Provide Support and Training for the End Users.
- Backup and Recovery.
Projects:
ERP (SAP) Implementation Project in the Oil Operating Companies (SUDAN):
In May, 2011 I have been nominated by my company (Sudapet) to join the core technical team in UBIS project. UBIS is a project holding a national strategic vision for oil & gas industry in Sudan by developing and implementing a unified and integrated business information system that can cover all the operational and financial activities to support both government and Contractors ability to execute and monitor the agreements provisions.
In April 2012 project teams successfully met the go-live date and now the SAP system is running in Three operating companies.
My role in the project was to look after system administration (Role Creation, Authorization management, Users administration, performance monitoring and backup monitoring).
After the go live the ministry of oil (Sudan) form a new organization to manage the system across all the companies and to enrolling new companies. and I attached from my company to the ministry of oil as "SAP BASIS Consultant" with the following responsibilities:
• Installation may include SAP R/3, ECC, Net weaver, Net Weaver components, Solution Manager etc...
• Handle SAP user administration includes creates and delete users, assign and reset passwords, lock and unlock username.
• Client administrator.
• Create and restore data backups.
• Printer or spool configuration and administration.
• Create RFCs and configure TMS (Transport Management System).
• Monitor and manage the servers, background jobs, performance of the system.
• Create, Modify authorizations roles.
• Analyze and fix missing authorizations issue.
• SAP license management.
• Monitor the status of work processes, application servers and system logs etc…
• Analyze the ABAP dumps.
• Manage the database space allocation.
• System copies.
• Configure SAP GUI at client computers.
• Identify network, OS, systems application troubleshooting for client and server
ISO 27001 Implementation:
In June, 2012 I joint internal team to implement to work with ISMS consultant to implement the ISMS standard.
My responsibility in the team was to provide all related information and assets identification & classification in the side of the system administration; in addition to that I was the coordinator between the organization and the consultant.
- System Programmer.
- Computer Maintanence.
- Network Monitring.
B.Sc in Computer Science