Raed Saif, Director of Information Technology

Raed Saif

Director of Information Technology

Nawras

Location
United States
Education
Diploma, Linux
Experience
25 years, 10 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 10 months

Director of Information Technology at Nawras
  • Philippines
  • My current job since April 2010

• Oversaw the information technology strategy for the company by developing and implementing the policies and goals for the IT department.
• Led a team of IT professionals to create a company IT platform and infrastructure, including staff, servers, security solutions, equipment, telecommunications infrastructure and development plans, policies and procedures.
• Managed the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, telephones, software applications, and peripherals.
• Analysed the business requirements and conducted feasibility studies.
• Purchased, base-lined and configured servers, hubs, routers and mail systems.
• Oversaw the development of an on-line Portal application and data bank from the initial assessment through development, deployment and support.
• Developed and implement all IT policies and procedures, including those for architecture, security, disaster recovery, standards, purchasing, and service provision.

Principal Software Engineer | Architect at AOL
  • United States
  • June 2005 to January 2010

• Principal engineer and architect in numerous, complex and mission-critical projects, including multi-million dollar, high visibility, global web applications.
• Gathered requirements, defined needs, analyzed technologies and selected and base-lined hardware and built environments for numerous mission critical applications.
• Define architecture, drive projects through the entire Software Development Life Cycle.
• Designed, built, installed, configured and supported critical applications that serve billions of daily impressions with millions of dollars of daily impact.
• Worked closely with users, engineers, development teams, supporting groups, and executive-level management.
• Fine-tune systems, established key monitoring and metrics, improved performance and documented processes.
• Ensure smooth operation of servers and applications: monitoring, alarming, troubleshooting, analyzing and applying solutions.
• Build entire infrastructure of Quality Assurance and Production environments
• Designed, configured and troubleshoot VIPS, Netscalers, DNS, Firewalls, load-balancing, redundancy, and Host Management Systems.
• Provided 24X7 operational support for numerous mission-critical enterprise systems.

Information Technology Consultant/Senior Software Engineer at ICONMA
  • United States
  • February 2004 to May 2005

• Supported projects through full Software Development Life Cycle.
• Supported Ad Delivery on key portals for AOL, Time Warner, CNN, MapQuest and Time.
• Extensive work with Apache, Tomcat, load balancing, databases and scripting tools .
• Developed software and scripts to automate and support numerous daily operations tasks.
• Set up NFS mounts, SAN storage, directories, users, permissions & file systems.
• Install new software releases and system upgrades.
• Evaluate and install patches and resolve software related problems.
• Monitor server health and performance: memory, processes, files system, etc.
• Develop software and tools to automate processes, and provide enhanced application and host monitoring

Consultant: Senior Technical Analyst/Lead at Freddie Mac Corporation
  • United States
  • October 2002 to February 2004

• Developed Freddie Mac’s MetaData Repository; a Web based application used to generate online dynamic reports and research Data Warehouse metadata.
- Designed and developed the entire application, using SAS IntrNet integrated with MVS DB2, UNIX, Java Scripts, SQL, and HTML.
- Expanded the application to handle over 9000 DB2 tables and data models.
- Maximized SQL efficiency and speed, added search capabilities, reports, graphics, templates and style sheets.
- Led the application to become one of the most used sites in the company. Application was eventually expanded into an enterprise-wide, multi-million dollar solution.
• Participated in three releases of Freddie Mac's Project Enterprise Integration:
- Studied database modifications, researched and analyzed impacted components, developed, tested and implemented hundreds of SQL jobs.
- Designed, implemented and executed Data Quality applications using UNIX, SAS and complex SQL to extract and transform massive amounts of data, generate reports, and maintain data integrity.
- Performed extensive data mapping, analysis and transformation of databases and application structures.

Software Engineer III at Sprint | Nextel
  • United States
  • March 1998 to October 2002

Promoted from Software Engineer Level I to Software Engineer Level II to Software Engineer Level III

• Participated in the development of a client-server, on-line system for the Federal Government's suite of web based applications under the Federal Telecommunications System (FTS2001 Contract).
• Supported, maintained and fine-tuned an online Data Warehouse application that stored Federal Government's telecommunications data under the FTS2001 contract.
• Provided 24X7 production support for mainframe applications, including an 800 thousand line of code billing system that is written in COBOL and DB2 to process, validate and invoice over 20 million dollars monthly worth of data.
• Delivered presentations, overviews, and training in classroom setting in technical subjects and application functions and architecture.
• Acted as Sprint liaison and Subject Matter Expert by providing training, support and guidance to Earnst & Young personnel during the development of the FTS 2001.
• Supported system users by analyzing, researching and solving technical problems.

Education

Diploma, Linux
  • at Sun Microsystems
  • July 2009

Red Hat Linux Enterprise System Administration, Advanced Systems Administration, Networking & Security Administration

Diploma, IT
  • at AOL University
  • April 2009

Multiple Courses: Perl, PHP, Weblogic, Change Management, Apache, Tomcat, Linux Administration.

Diploma, Software Engineering
  • at Sprint University of Excellence
  • February 2004

Numerous courses, seminars and workshops in a wide range of technical subjects, project management, leadership, productivity, personal effectiveness, communications and customer focus.

Master's degree, Information Technology
  • at The Chubb Institute
  • February 1998

"Top Gun" Program. Intensive, Masters-Degree equivalent, Information Technology Engineering, programming and relational database program.

Bachelor's degree, Aeronautical Engineering
  • at FEATI University
  • October 1988

Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Databases
Programming
Software Engineering
System Design
Unix Administration
• Apache, Tomcat, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Weblogic, Web Development
• Firewalls, Security, DNS, Networking, load-balancing, Virtualization.
Software Engineering
• UNIX, RedHat Linux, CentOS, Shell scripting, Perl, PHP, SAS, SAS/IntrNet.
• RedHat Administration, Security and Networking.
• Product Development, Requirements, Monitoring, Metrics, Alarming, Documentation.
• DB2, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL
• Autosys, Ab Initio, RapidSQL, DB Artisan.
IT System Analysis, Architecture, Design and Implementation
Development and implementation of IT platforms and infrastructure

Languages

Tagalog
Intermediate
Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Jordan Engineers Association
  • member
  • May 1989