- Act as the Deputy CIO.- Manage the performance appraisal process for the IT line managers.- Act as a link between the IT functions and the operations functions internally.- Setting Technical objectives for the IT line managers.- IT Projects (Planning, Technical design, Implementation, delivery, and operation).- IT Quality and improvement areas (Availability management, Problem solving, Root cause analysis, design revision, technology refreshment and key changes).- New products Planning, designing and implementation follow-up.- Ensure following vendors’ best practices and getting the Maximum ROI from any implemented solution.- Address Operational issues, and its related improvements plans and remediation.- Ensure matching the SLA with customers and OLA with other internal Departments.

- Acting as the CIO delegate in his absence.- Manage and supervise database and application team.- Define database and application team annual objectives according to management vision.- Review and follow up on team assigned tasks and ensure proper delivery.- Design and size all databases and applications new projects.- Validate and approve system updates based on internal or external requests.- Provide full support to team members- Manage communication with all database and applicatio vendors - Provide technical support for internal and external clients when escalation is required.- Ensure system availability, reliability and scalability. - Ensure database and application security and applying required database and applications controls and provide evidences during the security audit.- Enhance systems performance and ensure that the environment is updated with the latest technologies.- Responsible for hiring, performance appraisal, training and development plans for direct subordinates.

- Managing and Supervising for a Team of experts in Database and System Administrators- Implements new enterprise systems and apply enhancements on it - Instructs and provides guidance and assistance to less experienced systems administrators, database administrators and other computer system personnel as required.- Performs capacity planning required to design, develop, test, implement and maintain databases, applications and systems.- Designs and implements action and policies and procedures for efficient system utilization.- Responsible with my team for Designing, Implementing, Hardening , Administrating, Monitoring, Tuning, Backup, Patching and Enhancements Planning for :1- Database Platforms 2- Applications Platforms3- Web Servers Platforms4- Linux / Unix Boxes- Plans and develops disaster recovery procedures.- Administrating HSM Key Management for securing MSCC web Servers - Develops and maintains standards, procedures, and documentation related to assigned systems.

Responsible for:- All Linux Enterprise Platforms.- Oracle Database Platforms.- Disaster Recover Platforms Oracle & Informix- IBM Informix Database Platform.- 10g Oracle RACs.- All WebServers Platform (Apache - Tomcat - IIS ).- Creating any Scripts (Linux & Windows)for automating tasks.

- Installing Oracle server and client software, creating, upgrading and patching databases in Linux and Windows- Upgrading and Migration of oracle database to higher version (from 9i and 10G) in multi platforms.• Periodic Patching of database.- Upgrading and patching databases in Linux and Windows- Periodic Patching of database.- Tuning Oracle databases and tuning applications (SQL), for tuning SQL working closely with development team.- Planning, scheduling and taking Oracle backups.- Backups and Recovery strategies using RMAN, Export/Import. - Managing physical standby databases using Oracle Data Guard feature for High availability configuration. - Installation, Configuration and deployment of Oracle 10g database and Real Application Clusters (RAC) on different nodes with Automatic Storage Management (ASM). - Fulfilling DBA daily activities including user management (creating users, privileges, roles, quotas, table, index, sequence etc.), space management (table space, undo segment), monitoring (alert log, memory, disk I/O, CPU, database network connectivity). - Working closely with developers, provided Oracle DBA support and technical support for multiple applications in development, Test, QA, UAT and production environments.- UNIX/Linux SHELL Scripting.- Windows Servers (AD, DNS, DHCP, License Servers)- Linux / Unix Servers- Change Control System (Tripwire)- Centralized Log Management System- Citrix ( XenApp / XenVirtualization )- IDS/IPS Systems (SourceFire)