Omar Abdel Malak, IT Quality Manager

Omar Abdel Malak

IT Quality Manager

Abdullatif Alissa Group Holding Co

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineer
Experience
34 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :34 years, 1 Months

IT Quality Manager at Abdullatif Alissa Group Holding Co
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since February 2016

 Develop IT processes;
 Develop IT Policies;
 Develop Job Descriptions;
 Define AITD operating model;
 Align IT workflow with standards and best practices;
 Assist PMO department to improve maturity;
 Assist all the departments through different scenarios to improve the day to day operations;
 Assist in IT strategy in defining some components like SWOT analysis and others;
 Improve the customer satisfaction by working to achieve ISO certifications like ISO20000 and ISO9000;
 Monitor and control IT team performance through defined KPIs and implement corrective controls;
 Advise all the department heads through proved methods and frameworks;
 Work with IT System Audit Department to improve IT operations by defining objectives and controls;

Network & Datacenter Manager at Abdullatif Alissa Group Holding Co
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2015 to February 2016

 Manage the IT Infrastructure Department;
 Instruct and manage the Infrastructure team;
 Prepare budgets and define roadmaps;
 Oversees the enterprise architecture practice and frameworks;
 Define IT policies, procedures and processes;
 Govern the implementation and align it with the architecture building blocks;
 Align with business and improve the customer satisfactions;
 Assess the gaps and define improvements based on best practices and standards;

IT Operations Manager at National General Automotive Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2014 to August 2015

• Manage the IT Operations Department
• Implement the IT operational plan aligned with the IT strategy
• Develop operating model and org structure
• Develop standards, policies and procedures
• Instruct and manage the operations team
• Assist in IT strategy development
• Develop and implement ISO standards such as ISO 20000
• Develop IT processes aligned with the department’s vision
• Maintain continues improvements to align with the business and
technology trends
• Develop the governance framework in line with a hybrid operating
model
• Assist in digital content development and change management

PMO Manager at Shift Technologies - AWRostamani
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2013 to November 2014

Manage the Project Management Office for the company

• Ensure on-time, on-budget and on-quality standard delivery of related projects;
• Manage and direct team of consultants;
• Manage effectively milestone deliveries to ensure on-time invoicing;
• Resolve project issues, control scope of work, and manage project risks;
• Review and validate project contracts;
• Manage weekly project progress review.

Practice Manager - IT Consulting at Shift Technologies - AWRostamani
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2011 to January 2013

My job is to manage the IT consulting practice. Managing the team (25 Consultant) through preparing the resources capacity plan, annual leaves, training requirements and projects pipeline.

• Preparing training materials for the practice.
• Establish client relationship to ensure smooth completion of current projects and develop future business opportunities;
• Ensure on-time, on-budget and on-quality standard delivery of related projects;
• Manage and direct team of consultants;
• Manage effectively milestone deliveries to ensure on-time invoicing;
• Resolve project issues, control scope of work, and manage project risks;
• Review and validate project contracts;
• Manage weekly project progress review.
• Manage pre-sales activities

Practice Area Head - IT Best Practices at Shift Technologies - AWRostamani
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2010 to June 2011

My job was to manage the IT best practices practice. manage the team and projects, ensure target achievement, conduct project progress meetings, develop practice methods and concepts, client management.

Senior Consultant - IT Best Practices at Shift Technologies - AWRostamani
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2008 to July 2010

My Job was mainly through participating in different projects like: IT Strategy, ISO 20000 Service Management, IT Governance, preparing the deliverable, writing proposals and helping in pre-sales activities.

Senior Support Specialist at International Computer and Communication Systems (ICC)
  • Lebanon
  • January 2005 to November 2008

• Planning, design and implement Projects, Software migration, implementing active directory, policies, exchange and ISA servers, and internet security.
• Handle large and complicated sites; implement firewall (PIX) and internet web filtering and security systems.
• Installing and configuring a wide range of softwares including all Microsoft Server and Client products, Symantec Veritas products, McAfee Server and Client products, GFI products, F-Secure Server and Client products and others.
• Providing solutions and high level technical support for medium and enterprise level companies.
• Installing and configuring a wide range of hardware from low-level entry servers to Blade Servers, Clusters, Cisco firewalls and McAfee Security Appliances.
• Doing research and finding solutions for unresolved technical issues

Workshop supervisor & customer engineer at International Computer. ICC
  • Lebanon
  • November 2000 to December 2005

Assigned as workshop supervisor, my work is to organize the workshop and support the customers for the hardware and software problems (Indoor-Outdoor), Microsoft products, Computers, servers, Alfa servers, switches, printers, scanners, (Compaq, Fujitsu, Genicom, Enterasys, HP, PCS, and DTK), network support plus designing and administrating the company's web site.

Technical Manager at Al Eqtessad Est. (Saudi Arabia-Jeddah)
  • Saudi Arabia
  • February 1998 to July 2000

My work was to organize and handle the technical department, instruct the technicians and follow up the service contracts, in addition, organize the technical trainings and make the necessary updates.

Technical & sales Support Engineer at Al Eqtessad Est.
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • June 1994 to February 1998

My work was to install and maintain high-end wide format scanners, digital imaging and plotters software and hardware from Oce’, Panasonic and Encad. Expert at Xerographic type of printing, installing PCs and Mac software and drivers plus network digital systems, in addition to the software and hardware rip solution, Making demonstration and give technical information to the customers in software Such as: AutoCAD, Signlab and Rasterex.

Electronic Department Supervisor at Najjar Continental
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 1993 to June 1994

My work was mainly to maintain office machinery such photocopier, fax, scanners, computers and microfilm machines from Toshiba, Panasonic and Compaq in addition, to organize the department and establish a good relation with the customers.

Electronics design at Self Employed
  • Lebanon
  • January 1990 to May 1993

I was doing some designs according to customers need such as uninterruptible power supplies (UPS-APS-SPS), battery chargers based on relay-scr or triac, water monitor level, automatic power regulators (AVR) and others.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineer
  • at Computer & Engineering College
  • September 1993

Specialties & Skills

IT Operations
IT Governance
Service Management
IT Planning
Enterprise Architecture
Windows 95/98
NT3.51, NT 4.0
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP
Windows 2000 Server and Advanced server
Windows server 2003
ISA Server
Clusters
Exchange Server
Mail Servers
Proxy servers
Microsoft Access
Visual Basic 6.0
MS FrontPage
Adobe Photoshop
Archiving Software's
Antivirus software
Scanners
Wide Scanners
Laser Plotters
Inkjet plotters
Printers
Computers
Servers
Notebooks
Switches, Hubs
Backup-Tapes
Technology Architecture
IT Planning
ISO 27001
ISO 20000
Project Management
IT Governance
Enterprise Architecture
IT Operations
IT Service Management
Server Consolidation

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

McAfee: technical professional : messaging and web security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
Certified ISO 27001 Lead Auditor (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
March 2011
McAfee: technical professional: Vulnerability Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
TOGAF 8 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2009
Valid Until:
August 2009
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2008
Valid Until:
April 2008
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2008
Valid Until:
May 2008
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) Windows Server 2008 Active Directory (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2008
Valid Until:
April 2008
ITIL V3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2010
Valid Until:
March 2010
McAfee: technical Professional: System Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
McAfee: technical professional: Data loss prevention (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
COBIT 4.1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2010
Valid Until:
August 2010
Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2008
Valid Until:
April 2008
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) Business Desktop Deployment with the BDD (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2008
Valid Until:
April 2008
McAfee: technical professional: Network Intrusion (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2005
Valid Until:
May 2005
McAfee Security Solutions (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2007
Valid Until:
July 2007
PGP Certified Technician (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2007
Valid Until:
September 2007
Q01-Servicing HP LaserJet Solutions (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008
Valid Until:
January 2008
McAfee: technical professional: network access control (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
Q01-Servicing HP Desktops, Workstations, and Notebooks (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2007
Valid Until:
November 2007