Usamah Mahaifood, Service desk Technician Team Leader  " Mobily project"

Usamah Mahaifood

Service desk Technician Team Leader " Mobily project"

IBM

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
Experience
18 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months

Service desk Technician Team Leader " Mobily project" at IBM
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since June 2014

- Being accountable for the outcomes of the SD Field technicians' team in central region.

- SPOC for all Field technicians' team technical issues and escalations.

- Monitor the team performance on daily basis. And seek always for improvement practices.

- Maintain the work load among the team weekly or monthly, in addition to the attendance tracking and reporting.

- Coordination with other departments or SD units, for all issues concerning the team operational, escalations, and managerial issues.

- Preparing performance reports for the team.

- Second level support for technical issues. This is to keep him always improve his technical abilities.

- Troubleshoot and resolve technical support issues (through Remedy & Maximo) while assuring high service standards.

- Create documentation for all support actions, via Remedy tickets.

- Assure full compliance to ITIL best practices, or practices approved by the SD Supervisor.

- Mentor and train new joiner's, through the Induction list form.

- Facilitate the team with proper equipment’s, and be the SPOC with the concerned departments.

Service desk Technician Team Leader - Mobily project at Wipro
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2011 to May 2014

- Being accountable for the outcomes of the SD Field technicians' team in central region.

- SPOC for all Field technicians' team technical issues and escalations.

- Monitor the team performance on daily basis. And seek always for improvement practices.

- Maintain the work load among the team weekly or monthly, in addition to the attendance tracking and reporting.

- Coordination with other departments or SD units, for all issues concerning the team operational, escalations, and managerial issues.

- Preparing performance reports for the team.

- Second level support for technical issues. This is to keep him always improve his technical abilities.

- Troubleshoot and resolve technical support issues (through Remedy & Maximo) while assuring high service standards.

- Create documentation for all support actions, via Remedy tickets.

- Assure full compliance to ITIL best practices, or practices approved by the SD Supervisor.

- Mentor and train new joiner's, through the Induction list form.

- Facilitate the team with proper equipment’s, and be the SPOC with the concerned departments.

Service Desk Technician "On Mobily Project" at Wipro
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2010 to October 2011

• Resolve incidents and Service Requests assigned within SLA
• Diagnose and resolve technical hardware and software issues
• Research questions using available Knowledgebase
• Advise user on appropriate action
• Follow standard IT Service Desk procedures
• Experience with any incident & problem management system
• Log all IT Service Desk interactions
• Administer IT Service Desk approved software to user’s computers
• Redirect problems to appropriate resource
• Own, follow up, and escalate till closer of any incidents
• Identify and escalate situations requiring urgent attention
• Track and route problems and requests and document resolutions
• Prepare activity reports
• Stay current with system information, changes and updates

Service Desk Technician at International Turnkey Systems Group - ITS
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2005 to October 2010

• Resolve incidents and Service Requests assigned within SLA
• Diagnose and resolve technical hardware and software issues
• Research questions using available Knowledgebase
• Advise user on appropriate action
• Follow standard IT Service Desk procedures
• Experience with any incident & problem management system
• Log all IT Service Desk interactions
• Administer IT Service Desk approved software to user’s computers
• Redirect problems to appropriate resource
• Own, follow up, and escalate till closer of any incidents
• Identify and escalate situations requiring urgent attention
• Track and route problems and requests and document resolutions
• Prepare activity reports
• Stay current with system information, changes and updates

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
  • at Arab Open University
  • July 2011
Diploma, CCNA
  • at Cisco
  • July 2008
Diploma, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
  • at AlFaisal International Academy
  • November 2005

Specialties & Skills

Team Leadership
Customer Service
Troubleshooting
Good in spoken and written English. • Implementing, Managing and Troubleshooting Hardware Devices an

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Installing, Configuring, Troubleshooting, and Maintaining Windows Vista (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
June 2008
Duration:
24 hours
Support users running applications on Microsoft Windows XP (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
March 2007
Duration:
20 hours
+A (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
November 2007
Duration:
40 hours
Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2005
Planning and administering Windows Server 2008 (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
June 2010
Duration:
40 hours
ITILv3 : Service Management Foundation (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
June 2012
Duration:
24 hours
Project Management professional - PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
June 2014
Duration:
40 hours
Windows 7 , Enterprise Desktop support technician (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
April 2011
Duration:
40 hours
Deploying, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Lync Server 2010 (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
July 2012
Duration:
40 hours