CURRICULUM VITAE

Mahmood Ahmed Abdul-Latif AlBahar

Personal Profile:

Nationality : Bahraini

Date of Birth : 19th Jan, 1984

Marital Status : Single

E-mail: m_albahar@hotmail.com

mahmood.albahar@gmail.com


Current Job Status and Experience:

Network Engineer/Project Manager

Ministry of Education

Sep 2005 – until now

His Majesty King Hamad’s E-Learning Project – Main Duties

Managing the implementation of large scaled LAN, WLAN & WAN “MPLS”.

Leadership through facilitation of technical decision making in a timely manner.

Scripting tenders and evaluating vendor’s proposals.

Communicating progress and escalation of issues to seek attention and resolve issues.

Providing periodic progression reports to the Ministry’s top management.

Supervising and Administering the project teams including engineers, technicians, etc.

Tracking issues, dependencies, risks, timelines and financials aspects.

Providing schools users with technical support and troubleshooting.

Directorate of Information Systems – Job Duties

Participated in the Microsoft Windows XP migration project.

Maintaining and Managing Microsoft Active Directory Infrastructure.

Providing non-less than 1000 users with technical support of different network technologies.

  • Network Engineer – Parliament Elections – Temporary Employed
    Central Informatics Organization - Oct 2006

  • Network Technician - Trainee
    Ministry of Work & Housing - July 2004 to August 2004

  • Member of IT Help Desk - Trainee
    Bapco (c) - July 2003 to August 2003


Career Achievements:

  • Honored by Dr.Majid Al-Na’aemi the Minister of Ministry of Education “Outstanding Staff Award of 2005”.

  • Elected by the Ministry’s Under Secretaries to represent the System Informatics Directorate in His Majesty King Hamad’s Future Schools Project’s Executive Committee.


Educational Qualifications & Certifications, Training:

Academic Career:

B.Sc. Computer Networks


Napier University, Edinburgh - UK (2005)

HND Computer Networks & Systems Support

James Watt College – UK (2004)

HNC Computer Networks & Systems Support

James Watt College – UK (2003)

NC Computer Networks & Systems Support

James Watt College - – UK (2002)


Professional Degrees Achieved:

Cisco Certified Network Associate

CCNA (974/1000)

Microsoft Certified Professional

MCP(984/1000)

Microsoft Certified System Engineer

MCSE 70-290 Exam - (940/1000)

Microsoft Certified System Engineer

MCSE 70-291 Exam - (/)


Technical Skills:

Management & Administration:

  • Implementing/Maintaining Microsoft “Active Directory Infrastructure” based networks.
  • Implementing/Maintaining a reliable LAN, WLAN & WAN infrastructure.
  • Advising on purchase decision making of various types of Network Solutions.
  • Scripting tenders for network solutions & demonstrating a satisfactory level of evaluation.

Network Systems Engineering:

  • Configuring and Troubleshooting layer 2 & 3 switches.
  • Traffic filtering using Standard/Extended Access-lists.
  • Configuring VLANs in accordance to the organization requirements.
  • Familiarized with Routing Protocol “OSPF, BGP, RIP” & Routed Protocols “TCP/IP”.
  • Basic Knowledge of SQL & JAVA Programming Languages.
  • Familiarized with working on Web development applications.

Personal Skills:

  • Working under pressure and handling workload with the right approach.
  • To achieve the set milestone and deadline on projects.
  • Familiarized with project development lifecycle from analyze, design, implementation & testing through to final delivery & support.
  • Strong resemblance with business requirements, processes and goals.
  • Proven management, team leadership skills and handling business requirements changing.
  • Ability to learn and accomplish new skills and knowledge.

Languages:

Fluent in English and Arabic writing and speaking.


Hobbies:

  • Participating in I.T. related web forums.
  • Reading.
  • Football.

References: Upon request