Qassam Diab, Technical Operations Manager

Qassam Diab

Technical Operations Manager

Equipment & Technical Services Company

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
17 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 0 Months

Technical Operations Manager at Equipment & Technical Services Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • My current job since April 2016

 Maintenance Contracts bid participation in costing, estimation, and terms & conditions review/add/modify to approach mutual understandings with customers’ expectations.
 Successful manpower control and planning on the OnCall/Duty teams achieving 30% cost reduction.
 Successful team members Leave/Holiday technical planning to assure smooth operations without interruptions
 Developed data acquisition logic and flow charts within customized Customer Relation Management system (CRM) to generate downtime reports, spare parts consumption reports, and technical topics reports against customer accounts
 Built full Knowledge Base (KB) library on the CRM as experience bank avoiding oneman show
 Organized the users requests through User Authorization approval flow exposing privileges in simple checklists
 Continuous alignment of the enterprise systems with the latest versions with zero downtime
 Succeeded to manage Test Environment and resources to deliver systems alignment activities with latest patches and hotfixes prior production deployment.
 Ontime alerts to customers for the latest patches and their prerequisits with sufficient manufacturer newsletters about the importance of the patches and impact of avoiding them.
 Implemented efficient Data Surveying, Performance Monitoring, and Health Check Analysis system to produce effective reports to all decision makers for needful actions
 Developed gap analysis Compliance reports with HCIS standards vs. Enterprise IT standards over via scheduled auditing activities.
 Implementation for High Availability NEC ExpressCluster installation and administration
 Implementation plans for High Availability Microsoft Cluster 2012 installation and administration
 Zero downtime plans for Servers Migration and Consolidation projects
 Zero downtime plans for PhysicaltoVirtual Servers transformation
 Delivered various solutions by architecting customer requirements to the Professional Engineering Services for customizations processes.
 Set effective standardized troubleshooting steps which if failed to be accepted to continue by Network, Cyber Security, and Infrastructure teams to handle after our report.
 Effective solutions search
 Built effective interview checklist to evaluate candidates in different technical fields

IT Engineer at Equipment and Technical Services Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • August 2013 to March 2016

- Platinum Certified for LENEL Enterprise Systems & LEVEL 2 support of LENEL OnGuard Enterprise solution of Big Oil, Gas, Petrochemical companies in SAUDI ARABIA
- Administrator for MS SQL 2008
- Administrator for NEC ExpressCluster
- Custom Reports using Crystal Report v 11.X
- CCTV systems (Geutebruck, THOMSON, GoVision, LENEL NVR)
- Access Control System ( LENEL OnGuard, Rosslare, Remsdaq)
- Intrusion Alarms ( LENEL OnGuard, Remsdaq)
- Responsible for all the company internal IT issues
- Preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly reports of achievements, in progress tasks, and future IT Plans.
- Maintain all related IT concerns of the security systems such as backup and restore, scripts, antiviruses, etc.

Computer Engineer at Arab Gulf Technology, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Arab Bank Group, and the IT Hub of Arab Bank in
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2011 to March 2013

- ITIL standards.

- Work Orders Logs.

- Cases work flow and teams assignment as per SLAs

- KPIs reports and monthly performance and productions reports.

- Communication with hardware items vendors and log calls with follow up

Computer and Network Engineer at Arab Bank Group - Al Arabi Capital Ltd
  • Other
  • July 2009 to February 2011

 Server Administrator in Windows Server 2003-2008 and Microsoft Exchange 2003 - 2007.
 Disaster Recovery Site to have business continuity, function continuity of the systems and Data recovery using Symantec replication methods.
 Numara Track-IT Service Desk.
 Shifting servers between Arab Bank branches.
 Follow up with the Vendors for maintenance.
 BRI AVAYA telephony system that have 200 extension numbers.
 Blackberry Server installation from A to Z
 SQL and Exchange Backup Solution project using Arcserve CA product.
 Cisco routers, switches, firewalls configuration and maintenance.
 ISA Server 2004-2006.
 Symantec Antivirus, Symantec Mail Security for Exchange, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP.

Computer Engineer at Scope Information Systems
  • Other
  • March 2008 to July 2009

Outsource and Support Engineer:

- Backup/Restore cycles
- Antivirus Deployment and Updates
- Users Creation of different systems
- PCs/Laptops hardware and software troubleshooting
- Network and Local Printers Installation
- Network connection and Security

Customer Services and Technical Support at Emirates Computers Company
  • Other
  • January 2007 to February 2008

PCs Installation
Laptop Installation
Hardware replacement and spare parts assembly
Servers Installation

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at University of Sharjah
  • January 2008

Specialties & Skills

Automation
Microsoft OS Scripting
Programming
Systems Integration and Compatibility

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (Training)
Training Institute:
SitesPower
Date Attended:
June 2009
Duration:
56 hours
LENEL CR7000 ENTERPRISE EDITION (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Valid Until:
May 2018
LENEL CR300 ADVANCED ACCESS CONTROL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Valid Until:
May 2018
LENEL CR4000 DIGITAL VIDEO (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Valid Until:
May 2018
LENEL CR1000 ACCESS CONTROL HARDWARE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Valid Until:
May 2018
LENEL CR4000 DIGITAL VIDEO (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Valid Until:
May 2018
10174 - Configuring and Administering Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 (Training)
Training Institute:
SitesPower
Date Attended:
March 2012
Duration:
56 hours
MCITP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2009
Valid Until:
September 2009