Sherif Shemis, IT Operations Manager

Sherif Shemis

IT Operations Manager

Universal Payment Services

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, OCP 10g Administration- Performance Tuning - Data Modeling –
Experience
13 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 9 Months

IT Operations Manager at Universal Payment Services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2015

Support Manager role:
• Manage teams of helpdesk and Live Support teams
• Improve the operational systems, processes and policies in support of organizations mission -- specifically, support better management reporting, information flow and management, business process and organizational planning.
• Coordinating IT projects
• Implementing new software and technologies
• Training subordinate and management staff
• Providing guidance for problems and questions
• Participating in business meetings
Incident Response Manager Role:
• Receives Major Incident notification from Incident Management
• Determines IT Services and CI’s affected
• Confirms that Problem Management will engage with incidents as necessary
• Discusses the root cause analysis and Known Error
• Discusses options for resolving the Known Error with Technical Experts and Finance team members
• Presents proposed Resolution options to Decision Authority
• Discusses the proposed options in terms of risks, costs, timescales, etc.
• Observes the implementation of the Request for Change and receive information on the outcome via the Release Management process
• Decides whether the implemented Change has successfully resolved the Problem/Known Error
• Discusses Problem Management’s activities during the Major Incident
• Applies Lessons Learned to the Problem Management process as necessary
BCP Coordinator role:
• responsible for ensuring the execution of procedures documented within the UPS BCP
Change Manager Role:
• Review and update urgency, size and priority in collaboration with the requester.
• Reject any RFCs that incomplete.
• Accept and register RFCs and assign to the change Coordinator
• Coordinate and convene the CAB for review and authorization of change. Issue CAB Minutes of Meeting.
• Liaise with all necessary parties to coordinate

Database Manager Role:
• Provide necessary consultation to Database team, lead strategic actions, and ensure availability & performance

Database Administrator at UPS
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2006 to February 2009

Install, configure, and administrate various oracle products 10g R2 like
oracle cluster ware, RDBMS, ASM, oracle application server.
 Install, administrate UNIX (IBM Aix 5.3 64-bit).
 Setup, administrate and monitor Data Guard between two sides Kuwait
& Egypt on various Oracle versions (10g, 11g) on different platforms Unix
(IBM Aix) & Windows Server
 Install, maintain, monitor, and manage various business applications
including middleware applications, deploying web services, etc…
 Responsible for Installation, configuration, administration for oracle
Server/client
 Contributes in applying change management processes
 Performing database maintenance, technical support, supporting on-
going application plus administration tasks.
 Installation of oracle generic & security patches.
 Manages, monitors, and maintains Oracle databases.
 Responsible for creating users and manage their privileges
 Responsible for setup and maintain documentation for all used oracle
products and databases.
 Establishing procedures for databases performance monitoring and
tuning, disk space management and backups.
 Recovery and reorganization of databases.
 Establishing the procedure for a Database disaster recovery plan.
 Plans for the increased capacity of databases.
 Develops and enforces security guidelines for test, development, and
production database access.
 Evaluates test results and documentation prior to the implementation of
any system that affects the test, development, and production databases
 Ensure standards are met and the system is ready for test, development
and production operations.
 Daily support for all implementation, Business Operation and bank users'
requests related to database and application administration.

Junior Database Administrator at Damietta Port
  • Egypt - Damietta
  • December 2005 to December 2006

Damietta Port Authority
Application Technical Support

Sector Supervisor / Implementer at Damietta Port
  • Egypt - Damietta
  • February 2004 to December 2005

Installation, configuration Oracle Products (server/client/oas...etc.)
 Responsible for creating users and manage their privileges
 Monitoring performance, disk space management, examining the
databaselogs.
 Monitoring Backups
 24*7 support- on Call shift
 Dealing with end users in various Damietta Port sectors and introduce
the complete technical support for any problem related with their
applications.
 Reporting daily reports for the Team leaders and Headquarters.
 Supervising load & Discharge real operations for general cargo.
 Filtering & Training end users and follow up cycle automation.
 Distribute the work among end users and evaluating their performance.
 Implanting new applications and detecting Obstacles.
 Suggesting convenient solutions for handling exceptions and countered
cases.
 Preparing daily, weekly and monthly reports for the Headquarters.

Education

Bachelor's degree, OCP 10g Administration- Performance Tuning - Data Modeling –
  • at IT MCIT scholarship @ Orascom Training & Technology
  • December 2008

IT MCIT scholarship @ Orascom Training & Technology including these courses (OCP 10g Administration- Performance Tuning - Data Modeling – Database Data Base Design - OCP 10g development) Faculty of Commerce– Accounting Department Mansoura University B.Sc. in Accounting

Specialties & Skills

Change Management
Incident Management
Oracle Database
IT Operations
AUTOMATION
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING
DOCUMENTATION
TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Languages

English
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