Qutaybah Ghunaim, it operations manager

Qutaybah Ghunaim

it operations manager

tamer Group

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
21 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 11 Months

it operations manager at tamer Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since November 2018
it operations manager at tamer Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since November 2018
IT Operation Team Leader at TAMER Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since February 2017

Streamline IT operations, including formulating budgets, supervising projects, and directing routine activities that involves Tamer IT Operation team.

Increased efficiency and improved flexibility for in-house users through development and implementation of reliable, scalable, redundant and secure cloud.

Served as subject matter expert for leading initiatives of innovation and resolutions associated with routine IT operations.

Steered the process of transforming Microsoft Exchange on Premise setup to Google G Suite Cloud Services, resulting in decreasing the OPEX for Email services by 60% over 5 years.

Reduced CAPEX for servers by 30% over 5 years though migration of data center from Physical Setup to a Custom In-House built Virtual Environment.

Ensured proper safety of intellectual property by introducing new security and data safety concepts.

Systems Administrator at TAMER Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2011 to January 2017

Performed day-to-day tasks, such as preserving data/servers safety and security. Ensured to maintain Data center safety, security, infrastructure, designing, planning, and budgeting. Managed Tape Libraries, Storages (NetApp Storage), and Shared Folders.

Developed and implemented data center policies to describe minimum requirements for designing, installing, securing, monitoring, maintaining, protecting, and decommissioning a data center.

Decreased the CAPEX by 45% over 5 years by creating a sustainable, scalable and reliable private cloud. The entire process from designing, implementing and going live was done in-house.

Managed the migration from physical to virtual by creating new virtual machines or through physical-to-virtual conversion tools.

Purchasing Officer at TAMER Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2009 to December 2011

Formulated periodic reports, prepared Business IT Budget, sold and maintained Business IT Assets, including computers, laptops, printers, scanners, servers, switches, licenses, and other equipment. Delivered expertise as Network Admin, AD Admin, Exchange Admin, and Senior Technical Support. Successfully managed IT Assets kingdom wise, IT Assets stocks and registration, IT Assets quality and varieties.

Created a record of quantity and value of equipment, computers etc. by maintaining a fixed assets register for the first time for IT Dept.

Technical Support at TAMER Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2007 to December 2009

Supported all users through provision of technical support on all environments (Windows, Linux, and Mac). Prepared monthly reports and evaluations and maintained requests made by all users to the IT Department. Delivered yearly report to the board regarding all requests received.

Improved communication by 13% in a year, resulting in achieving customer satisfaction.

Resolved large number of incidents in company history within SLA in a year to 88%.

Streamlined IT operations by introducing ticketing system which enabled us to manage, schedule, and measure time spent and its allocation as a cost over departments to decrease the cost of overhead on IT.

Technical Support at Al Noor Center for IT Services
  • Jordan - Amman
  • June 2005 to July 2007

- Performing maintenance to contracted customer.
- Fixing PCs
- Assembling PCs.

Diploma Instructor at NIIT
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 2002 to April 2003

- Teaching Diploma in Programming and Networking classes.
- Giving other networking courses.

Technical Support at International Translation House
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2000 to March 2002

Technical Support employee to troubleshoot and fix PCs and Laptops and resolve user errors and searching through incompatibilities.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Al Zaytoonah Private Univesity
  • July 2007
Diploma, Programming and Netowkring
  • at NIIT
  • March 2002

Diploma in Programming and networking in which we studied multiple programming and languages and learned networking basics.

High school or equivalent,
  • at The Saudi Arabian Institute
  • January 1999

High school - Scientific Section

Specialties & Skills

Infrastructure Projects
Group Policy
Data Center
Servers
Symantec End Point
Controlling Shared Folders
Team Work
Communication Skill
Symantec Backup Exec
Symantec Net Backup
Symantec Enterprise Vault
Siemens BMS
AVTech Monitoring System
Acronis Backup and Recovery
Data Center Infrastructur
Symantec System Recovery

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Server Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2013
Valid Until:
April 2013
Microsoft Active Directory Admin (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2013
Valid Until:
November 2013
Symantec Net Backup Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2008
Valid Until:
March 2008
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2010
Valid Until:
March 2010
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2011
Valid Until:
April 2011
Symantec Backup Exec Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2009
Valid Until:
March 2009

Hobbies

  • Football
    Competing in University tournament 2004 Competing in University tournament 2005 Competing in company tournament 2011 Competing in Company's League 2011 Competing in company tournament 2012 Competing in company tournament 2013