
Galal Maghoula
IT Technical Manager | Service Delivery Manager at Fujitsu Authorized Service Partner
Cairo, EgyptWork Experience
IT Project Manager | Service Delivery Manager Infra and SecurityFull Time
Federal Tax Authority
Jan 2020 - Present -5 yrs, 6 months
United Arab Emirates , Dubai
- Job Details:Core Duties - Developed and initiated projects; managed costs and monitored performance. - Define and execute an information security policies, strategy and program. - Participated in drafting service budgeting, advising on areas of possible improvement to reduce costs and service delivery times. - Coordinated among multiple external stakeholders to gain consensus on major project milestones and prioritization goals. - Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety. - Carried out security assessments and compliance for on premise and cloud based systems. - Improved & enhanced All the IT processes & policies based on IT governance standard and the organization been awarded for first time with ISO 20001, ISO 27001 and ISO 223001 certifications. - Managed data privacy, electronic discovery and digital forensic investigations. - Propose, plan, manage and deliver security improvements. - Enhancing the ITIL process and Service Catalog such as Security management, Risk management, problem management, Asset management, Configuration management, Change & Release management and Incident & service request management. - Coordinate the execution of Vulnerability Assessments & Penetration Tests, plan the fixing and make sure all gaps mitigated. - Effectively manage highly available complex IT Security and infrastructure environment DC & DR by Directly manage more than 15+ engineers as (Security Operation, Cloud Security, Wintel, VMware, Storage, UNIX & Linux, Oracle & SQL DB, SOC & NOC Monitoring, Backup, Network, Antivirus, patching and Helpdesk End User). - Acting as IT Technology advisor, IT operations manager, Service delivery manager, and Project manager. - Design and maintain the Security and Infra IT Architecture and Infrastructure framework. - Oversee identity and access management of all projects. - Effectively manage both onshore and offshore IT resources and relationships with 3rd-party vendors.
IT Operations Manager | Service Delivery ManagerFull Time
Dubai Municipality
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020 -11 months
United Arab Emirates , Dubai
- Job Details:Core Duties - Effectively manage highly available complex IT infrastructure with 24/7 availability of the Data Centers and Server Rooms by Directly manage and responsible for more than 20+ engineers covering all IT infrastructure departments Such as (Wintel, VMware, Microsoft Exchange, Storage, UNIX & Linux, Oracle DB, SQL DB, NOC Monitoring, Datacenter, Backup, Network, Security, Antivirus, patching, SharePoint, and middleware team). - Managing, maintaining and enhancing the full ITIL process such as the Risk management, problem management, Asset management, Configuration management, Change & Release management and Incident & service request management. - Handle the day to day Operations including Organize and prioritize IT tasks and projects; maintaining the KPIs, policies, processes and monthly and weekly reports. - Developing, enhancing and re-design the full ITSM service catalog and migrated from Ivanti to BMC remedi including implementing the new SLA metrics. - Acting as IT Technology advisor, IT operations manager, Service delivery manager, and Project manager. - IT advisory, managing, and part of more than 40 projects with a budget of 80+ Million AED; Projects like (BigData, API Gateway, Private Cloud, Mendix integration, E-Mail Archiving, and Backup Solution, DR Implementation, Datacenter Migration and consolidation, Firewall and Switches upgrade, Microsoft Product upgrade, Digital strategy, ITSM & ITOM tools Implementation Ticketing and Monitoring Tools with Automation. - Effectively manage both onshore and offshore IT resources and relationships with 3rd-party vendors. - Lead Audit exercises such as COBIT, ISO 20001, ISO 27001 and ISO 223001; implement, and own the process improvement activities to improve the overall Release Management processes.
IT Technical Manager | Service Delivery ManagerFull Time
Fujitsu Authorized Service Partner
Dec 2017 - Present -7 yrs, 7 months
United Arab Emirates , Dubai
- Job Details:Core Duties - Managing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Fujitsu, HP Servers, storages, tape library, and desktops. - Leading the IT enhancement and renovation of almost 21 centers around UAE for General Directorate Of Residency And Foreigners Affairs UAE (Such as Amer, Tasheel, Tawjeeh, DED, and Tawasol) Budget 8 M$ and 96 engineers. - Technical contract writer and editor of the new and current contracts, including human resource and full infrastructure design upgrade and migration. - Designing and Implementing The IT Infrastructure and Security For Fujitsu Clients around the Middle East - (Such as NBAD, Central Bank of UAE, Al Jazeera, MBC, Ministry of Finance, Pacific Control Systems, - King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology, Ministry of Health, BMW, GASCO, and Mitsubishi). - Remotely and Onsite Support For All HP, Fujitsu, IBM, Huawei, and Hitachi IT Products, Virtualization Products (VMware & HyperV), Storage Solutions (Such as NetApp, Fujitsu Eternus, EMC, Huawei, Hitachi, and HP), Microsoft Technologies (Active Directory, Exchange, SCCM, Share Point, DHCP, DNS).
Senior Systems EngineerFull Time
Dubai Holding
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017 -1 yr, 1 month
United Arab Emirates , Dubai
- Job Details:Core Duties - Manage and administer the IT infrastructure for the whole Dubai Holding entities (Such as Jumeirah Group, TECOM Group, Dubai Properties Group, and Mall of the World) - Effectively develop and manage highly available complex infrastructure with 24/7 availability of Corporate Network infrastructure of the Data Centers and Server Rooms. - Expert for handling and managing the enterprise storages infrastructure through EMC, HP, Huawei, and NetApp solutions. - Configuring, manage and troubleshoot the enterprise backup infrastructure through Symantec NetBackup, Symantec Backup Exec and Veeam Solution for more than 440 servers. - Provides Disaster Recovery drills planned and carried out efficiently. - Configuring, manage and troubleshoot Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi, vCenter for more than 40 cluster nodes and 650 VMs. - Having experience in (SCCM, CRM, SCOM, share point, SQL, IIS, Oracle DB, RSA, VDI, and Cloud Microsoft Azure). - Hands-on experience in IT and Computer Security management (RSA, Vulnerabilities Scanning and Patching). - Design verification and supervision of all IT infrastructure related activities in the Data Centers (such as high-level network design, Storage, servers, tape libraries, and Fiber network). - Mediate between internal teams, outsourcing partners and other stakeholders to ensure an open, bright and collaborative culture to optimize performance and productivity.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems
Suez Canal University (SCU)Jan 2007
Achievements
Summary-An Expert IT Professional well-versed in infrastructure, security planning and daily operations management. Forward-thinking and strategic leader with 18 years of experience in 25 different industries. Delivering mission-critical architecture and IT Projects to support organizations growth in MENA, Gulf, Asia, and Worldwide. Tireless Service Delivery & Project Management talented in assessing client needs and developing solutions to promote business opportunities. Established decision-maker with background in mentoring others to accomplish project milestones. Offering exemplary client relationship building prowess over. Essential Skills - Acting as IT Project Manager, Service delivery manager, IT operations manager and Information Security Manager. - Manage and lead Public, Hybrid and private Cloud such as Microsoft Azure, Office 365, AWS, and EMC. - Proficiency in Microsoft AD, Exchange, SQL, Hyper-V, VMware and CRM. - Manage and lead Vulnerability scanning, Firewalls, Routers
Skills
Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
Fluent