Information Security & infrastructure Specialist / IT Manager
Al Jaber Group
Total years of experience :24 years, 9 Months
Directing, establishing, and implementing strategies, policies, and procedure to support the organizations IT infrastructure & Security;
Keeping corporate identity management solution (softerra Adaxes, Active Server roles) to adhere latest security best practice, policy and process in place;
Working closely with enterprise IT and the GCIO to define how technology might assist in addressing business problems. Helping to determine both technical and business goals in consultation with top management and making detailed plan for accomplishment of these goals;
Providing infrastructure vision, problem resolution on an enterprise-level, and anticipating IT industry future direction and trends;
Using best practices (ITIL framework) in order to deliver flexible and advanced IT infrastructure solutions that enable mobility, productivity, performance, and scalability;
Ensure information security adherence by updating security device includes, perimeter and data center firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet, SonicWALL Cisco firewalls), IPS (MacAfee), endpoint security (Symantec, MacAfee, Nod32), application delivery controllers (Net scalar), identity management system (Adaxes, active server roles);
Leading, planning, and designing highly available, reliable, scalable, and secure computing infrastructures including networks (Cisco Nexus & IOS, HP, Dell switches), servers (Cisco UCS, HP/IBM Blades), databases (Microsoft SQL, Oracle RAC), storage (EMC VNX, Net App AFF), middleware (WebLogic, JDE Application ), web servers, and security. (Total of 40+ sites, 270 servers, 8 Core switches, 250 edge switches, 40 Security appliances, 6 SANs, 3 tape libraries...etc.);
Leading a team of System engineer by providing leadership, coaching, training, mentoring, and overall development of the employees.
Evaluating and recommending products, operational/design guidelines to accommodate new application computing requirements to align the business needs to current and future infrastructure requirements and projects. Analyzing and assessing technical requirements and utilization trends to set growth projections and targets for infrastructure utilization and efficiency;
Documenting and building processes that accelerate execution time and improve efficiencies;
Implementing change control methodology and participating in management of change control process;
Leading cross-domain IT projects and infrastructure upgrades. Developing requirements, budgets, and schedules for those projects. Coordinating projects from inception through implementation, working with internal and external suppliers, vendors, consultants;
Designing and developing key infrastructure objectives and KPIs for the team;
Ensuring compliance to defined SLAs for various IT services provided by the vendors and providing service delivery reports to management. Confirming that the vendors follow defined guidelines, security protocols agreed by business practices, and adhere service benchmarks or uptimes;
Responsible for securing the network of Al Jaber Group and sister concerns.
Responsible for the design, installation and integration of IT infrastructure, Servers, SAN Storage across the enterprise
Maintain 150+ windows servers ensure security patch compliance.
Maintained Microsoft SCCM to support configuration and patching for 2000+ end-user systems.
Spearhead in designing and implementing state of art data center for the group.
Maintain exchange email solution across the group.
Up keeping of group, AD domain spread across the Middle East.
Lead major project including consolidation of Al Jaber group data center and application hosting infrastructure spread across the middle east, Centralized IT support operations.
Successfully achieved non-disruptive implementation/upgrade of the business solution includes ERP (Oracle JDEdwards), AD infrastructure, Database consolidation, Security restructuring, Exchange and virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Oracle VM) projects.
Responsible for the design, installation, and integration of IT infrastructure throughout the enterprise.
Redesigned group network to meets its security and availability goals.
Pioneered to consolidate project-based IT domain to a fault tolerant and cost-efficient centralized computing environment. Redesigned Network, cater dynamically growing company’s business requirement.
Re-engineering of Al Jaber Energy Services IT domain to a centralized secured stable and scalable environment to support the group business wings stretched across the Middle East.
Troubleshooting and problem resolution of elusive network difficulties.
Preparation of new network technology strategies and implementation recommendations.
Evaluation of new network technologies, management and analytical tools.
Responsible for design and implement and maintain secured IT infrastructure to manage the project execution. Created Windows AD based domain with Microsoft exchange mailing solution.
Responsible for all aspects of 200+ user’s project office network.
Installed and managed multiple windows hosts, Exchange servers, Cisco network equipment PABX etc.
Analyzed and corrected network trouble and performance issues.
Examined new technologies and made recommendations.
Design and implemented solution to manage project office’s .
• Installed various network technologies to provide reach ability across offices located on different location of the project.
• Implemented windows 2000 AD and Microsoft exchange solutions.
Responsible for installing and managing desktop systems based on windows 98, NT for the project office consisting more than 100 users.
• Responsible for up keeping the domain and network for the project.
• Installing and maintaining office software (Ms office, Primavera, Auto Cad, Microstation etc)
MCSE 2003 with Messaging