Younus Ali, IT Project Manager

Younus Ali

IT Project Manager

Emdad Solutions

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, General Buissness
Experience
23 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 2 Months

IT Project Manager at Emdad Solutions
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since February 2015

Handling turnkey Projects for Huawei IT Cloud Storage, IP, UC and VC, from Design to implementation for varied array of clients in Saudi Arabia. Handling wide range of IT personnel (in-house Engineers and Contactors) to deliver projects
Project: Al Jouf University, IT Cloud Storage
Ministry of Culture and Information (MOCI), IT Could Storage and Infrastructure upgrade
Umm ul Qura, IT Cloud Storage and Infrastructure upgrade
Al Hasa Ministry of Agriculture, Infrastructure and VDI Upgrade
Ministry of Health, ITSM upgrade
Shoura Council, Infrastructure upgrade
Al Kharj Ministry of Education, Infrastructure Upgrade

IT Consultant at Free Lancer
  • India - Hyderabad
  • February 2014 to December 2014

Provided IT consultation on setting up IT infrastructure for two startups.

TIS Infrastructure Support at Credit Suisse
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2006 to December 2013

Led recruitment for building complete IT Platform for brokerage bank and later upgraded obsolete technologies
Executed gamut of tasks like full design, installation, engineering, implementation, support, training, administration, etc. Administered the infrastructure environment including Data Centre
Operations encompassing managing activities, strategies, objectives and executing plan with clients
Implementing appropriate action in problem situations, including both hardware and software problems
Executing solutions to ensure high performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex environments, data centre, storage or voice networks
Coordinated activities with IT Operations and user departments to ensure the integrity of the production environment
Spearheaded risk management, continuous improvement, lifecycle management, best practices and service level agreements
 Led documentation of process to ensure integrity of production environment, review production metrics
with staff
Significant Accomplishments
Efficaciously resolved the problems in datacentre upgrade
Essayed a stellar role in upgrading the datacentre from 0 to higher level without any downtime
Instrumental in managing the technology to help the front office in generating revenue
Efficiently worked with Brokerage House and resolved issues pertaining to collections
Credited for proposing new datacentre for whole new location and upgrading system for higher standards
Successfully managed 4 Datacenter shutdowns
Acknowledged for executing datacentre project & shutdown/
reboot process
Took part in in-house training like Money Laundry, Change
Management, etc.

Network Support Engineer at The National Commercial Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2001 to December 2006

NCB is the one of the largest and premium bank of Saudi Arabia. Working under IT department for western Support Services unit, I was responsible for providing user related and remote access strategies, solutions and support. Recommend software and hardware configurations and acquisitions. Developed and implemented training plans for end-users. Managed a high availability, high capacity department file, print and web server. Evaluate performance capacity and improve bottlenecks. Evaluate and implement anti-virus solutions, procedures, and tools to minimize virus impact on group. Planning, designing and installation of Networks at different branches. Install, connect, configure and relocate data communication equipment’s as per requirements, co-ordinate with concerned departments for data communication problems. Installing and troubleshooting all Microsoft Operating Systems (Server 2003 & 2000, windows XP pro & legacy O/S), Data warehouse Software with Oracle 9i, Bank Trade, BEAM10 and various other Banking application. Documenting tasks assigned procedures and plans for user support management.
Troubleshooting all WAN/LAN Network problems.

Installation & Troubleshooting all Microsoft software- Windows2003 server, XP Pre-staging and Troubleshooting branch Servers (HP and DELL). Installation, configuration and troubleshooting all network devices (Routers, Firewalls, Peribit and NTU) and its troubleshooting. Installation and troubleshooting of all computer accessories (printers, scanners, combo drives, portable devices). Co-ordinate with other IT departments for data communication problems. Installation and maintenance of Microsoft Exchange server 2003 and client user rights. Available on call for emergencies and Disaster Recovery management.

Education

Master's degree, General Buissness
  • at ICFAI, Hyderabad
  • January 2012

Master of business Administration (IT) ICFAI, Hyderabad

Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at Osmania University
  • April 1998

Bachelors Degree in Commerce Osmania University, India

Specialties & Skills

Training
IT Infrastructure design
Project Management
BACKBONE
BANKING
DISASTER RECOVERY
DOCUMENTING
ENGINEER
EXCHANGE
SOLUTIONS
TRAINING
ITIL V3
Team Building

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Hindi
Expert

Hobbies

  • Oil painting
    Have done painting of high quality that were sold to individuals in Saudi Arabia.
  • Solar Power - system intergarion
    Have managed to design and build 1 to 3 KVA solar power plants. Have conducted solar power awareness programs for varied communities.