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Qais Ali Mohsen Alfareh

 

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OBJECTIVE: To obtain an IT managerial position in the Computer Information Systems industry.

EXPERIENCE: 11/2000 - Present
Intel Corporation / CA
Project Manager / Release Manager / Systems Analyst/ SAP R3 Release Manager/ Quality Assurance Manager/ SQL Server DBA / Systems Engineer

IT Release Manager:
Responsible for managing release to production deployments. Managing and tracking of all release to production activities including ensuring that all content have gone through successfully testing and received proper board approvals. Creating and publishing the deployment dates, develop and track milestones, and develop and track deployment Go/No Go criteria. Chair stabilization meetings to ensure production deployment has caused any issues. Ensure exit criteria is meet before closing stabilization.

IT Quality Assurance Manager:
Responsible for supporting the quality testing phase of the software development life cycle of application projects. Responsible for reviewing the requirements documentation and functional and technical specifications to ensure the requested functionality has been clearly and effectively documented to ensure testability. Coordinate the migration of the application to the test environment. Prepare the Master and Detailed Test Plans for functional, integration, regression, consolidated, fail over, and/or benchmark testing. Execute the test plans, working closely with the project team to identify, report, fix, and validate any discrepancies.

Systems Engineer:
Responsibilities include monitoring, maintaining, upgrading, testing, troubleshooting and recycling of NT computer servers in a distributed computing environment. Monitoring usage, load and performance of remote or locally sited servers. Execute production processes. Provide first, second and third level support for customer purchased services. Install and test operating systems, databases and/or supported enterprise applications. Responsible for troubleshooting errors, performs recovery steps remotely or on site. Research, recommend and/or implement system enhancements that will improve server/OS/application reliability, security and performance. Formulate, recommend and/or monitors policies, procedures, and standards relating to database management. Plans and schedules daily tasks; use judgment on a variety of problems requiring deviation from standard practices. Train personnel on system usage.

SQL Server DBA:
Responsible for design, plan, and implementation of database systems and programs. Responsible for administering several aspects of a project such as access methods, device allocation, and security. Provide technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures as they relate to databases. Design of data dictionaries, database structure and layout, installing, upgrading, and managing database applications.

EDUCATION:
05/2009 - 05/2011 Boston University      Boston, Massachusetts
Masters of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems

10/1997 - 10/2000 DeVry University     Phoenix, Arizona
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems

CREDENTIALS:
Project Management Professional (PMP)

SKILLS:
SQL Server, R/3 SAP, Veritas, SAN Technology, Cobol, C++, CICS, Access, IMS/DB2, MS Office, HTML, JCL/MVS, Unix/Linux, Visual Basic, Networking Lan/Wan/Man, Windows NT, Java, ASP, Visual Interdev, MS SharePoint, .NET

ADDITIONAL
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Awards/Recognitions:
Intel IT Division Recognition Award, Intel e-Computing Recognition Award, and numerous Intel Spontaneous Recognition Awards.

Languages:
English, Arabic, and Spanish