Mohammad Taha Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Oversee designs and implementations of technology strategies across diverse business units, and ensure IT infrastructure and systems align with the organization's strategic goals, integrating various technologies to optimize efficiency and scalability. My role involves evaluating and recommending technology solutions, managing enterprise architecture frameworks, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive innovation and support business growth.- Develop and maintain the enterprise technology strategy in alignment with the organization's business goals and objectives.- Design and oversee implementation of scalable, secure, and efficient IT architectures that integrate across different business units and technology platforms.- Ensure seamless integration of new technologies with existing systems and processes, facilitating smooth operations across the organization.- Establish and enforce architecture standards, policies, and best practices to ensure consistency and compliance across all technology initiatives.- Work closely with business leaders, IT teams, and external vendors to understand requirements, address challenges, and align technology solutions with business needs.- Identify emerging technologies and trends such as AI, recommending innovative solutions to enhance business performance and maintain competitive advantage.- Assess and mitigate risks associated with technology investments, including security, compliance, and operational risks.- Develop comprehensive architecture documentation and effectively communicate architectural decisions and their impact to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.-Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of technology solutions, driving continuous improvement initiatives to optimize performance and efficiency.- Provide guidance and mentorship to IT teams, fostering a culture of excellence and ensuring alignment with architectural principles and practices.

Dubai

Duties and responsibilities in Policies and Compliance:• Plan and implement and annually review IT systems policies in liaises with the organization general police based on ITIL, COBIT, APQC, ISO/IEC 27001 recommendations;• Maintain current and complete documentation for projects plans (using MS-Project and/or ODOO), references, KBs, configurations, diagrams (using MS-Visio), and others;• Provide IT services to end users and guests as per TRA regulations.• Issue the quarterly IT auditing reports including critical users accounts, internet access reports, firewalls policies, systems access logs, and whatever IT Auditors may request;Duties and responsibilities in managing systems & Networks:• Install, configure, administer and maintain organizations servers and related hardware and software, including documentation and support, Servers include DCs, DNSs, DHCPs, IISs, Application Servers, File Servers, Exchange Servers, ADFS, ADSync, … etc • Plan, install, configure, administer and maintain organizations virtual environment on Hyper-V and VMWare.• Administer and maintain back-end Citrix environment.• Install operating system updates, upgrades, patches, and make and document configuration changes;• Escalate data center and DR hardware issues to suppliers and follow up the repairs;• Initiate and maintain support contracts to various hardware in the data center; • Monitor, troubleshoot, update, enhance and fine tune systems performance;• Analyze servers logs and identify potential issues to ensure that all servers are up and running optimally;• Design, setup, administer, and maintain email systems through Exchange 2013 and Office365 including the migration from on-premises to cloud of mailbox and PST files.• Add, remove, and update user account information;• Install, configure, administer, maintain and monitor network related hardware including routers, switches, VPN gateways, and UTMs;• Administer and maintain on-premises SMS gateway ser

Unrwa - Damascus Training Centre

- Plan and implement Internet and systems security policy;- Install, administer and maintain the main organization servers and related hardware & software;- Document the configuration of services & servers;- Ensure that all servers are up and running optimally;- Ensure the confidentiality and security of company information through proper utilization of authentication and authorization procedures;- Identify relevant quality indicators and develop a plan for data collection, analysis and reporting;- Install operating system updates, patches, and make configuration changes;- Introduce and integrate new technologies into the existing IT environment;- Load and configure the standardized desktop;- Maintain current and complete documentation for configurations;- Monitor, operate and conduct maintenance of ICT security systems, including firewalls, spam filters, anti‐virus software, intrusion detection/prevention, authentication and any other security features of all ICT systems and services;- Perform daily backup operations of vital servers’ configurations;- Provide and manage an easy access to information resources needed by end users and other managers;- Test new versions of software before using it in production environment;- Design, implement, and configure disaster recovery plans;- Provide services in a customer‐friendly approach;- Prepare developmental plans for the Vocational Training Instructors of the course or group of courses in specialization;- Cisco Networking Academy Instructor and Main Legal Contact of Damascus Training Centre Academy (ID: 4928967);- Maintain and monitor Cisco Academy Quality Assurance Plan;- Perform necessary survey of the local market regarding IT issues, including jobs, vendors, pricing, potentials targets… etc;- Advise Engaging Youth project manager regarding IT related issues;- Advise and assist all staff on unresolved issues;- Participate in the recruitment and selection of trainees and staff;

 Performing the necessary study before accepting manuscripts; Handling, organizing and archiving all the manuscripts before and after publishing; Editing the manuscripts and performing linguistics operations such as spell and grammar check and amend; Designing advertisements and printing the prototype books for the establishment; Designing Covers and handling the interior graphics for the books; Performing the necessary maintenance and backup for the computers in the working environment;  Performing the necessary research over the Internet; Member of the Editing media counsel;

Half time 1997 - 2008Teaching the subjects of specialization;Maintaining the center's computers and network; Participating in various exhibitions held by the centre; Designing advertisements and printing materials for the establishment;

the center's PCs; Designing advertisements and printing materials for the establishment on Macintosh Systems;

Certificate, Cisco Ccna Security

Bachlor, Electronics

Study included Computer Science and Communication