Mohammed Albazli

I was responsible to expand the business for Saudi Arabia market and maintain the relationship with clients and partners. Encourage partner to invest with a development team for HostFront Web-to-Host training and expand their business offering with added value of professional services. Developed integration services opportunities with key strategic clients to integrate a web application with legacy (Mainframe & AS/400) application and data for online services

I worked as a Systems Manager in Distributed Processing Operations & Support section, managing a group of professional members who are operating IT LAN and supporting interconnected SV LANs, and providing more services to Saudia departments/offices around the world.

I was responsible for distributed environments and networks LAN/WAN, As I worked in integration/consolidation projects of scattered networks (LANs), and upgrading servers to the centralized services (i.e. Mainframe gateways). I worked in LANs interconnectivity projects in & out of the kingdom, and modernizing LANs from IBM OS/2 LAN Server/Token-Ring to Microsoft Windows LAN Server and fiber and fast Ethernet smoothly and sucsessfuly. Also, I shared with Network and Planning groups in implementing, configuring, and operating firewalls, switches, and routers.

Support & Automation: I worked in Technical Support Group in Mainframe automation projects, and we successfully transformed many tasks, jobs and manually entered commands to the automated initiated jobs/routine list. Developed programs and traps for expected and non-expected systems/applications messages and errors and execute the right actions against it.

In Reservations Coverage Group, I was responsible about controlling and rolling-in new applications into Reservations Systems through staging environments. On-Call for systems availability and outages of Saudia real-time systems, managing loads and change management decisions. During that time, many SV sales and reservations offices around the world have been connected to SV Data Center in Jeddah.

I started working with Saudi Airlines in Information Technology depatement as Computer Operator (C, B, A) in computer operations room. I was working on Mid-range system (Four-Phase Systems). After completing the training with Boeing Computer Services BCS institute (Seattle-USA), I worked on MVS environment as MCO on Mainframe IBM, Hitachi Data Systems (NAS), and Amdahl systems (S/370 & z/OS). Then I selected to be a member of the team of moving SV reservation systems from BA- London and operated it locally in Jeddah. We moved the Real-Time systems (Reservations, Departure Control System (DCS), Ticketing, and Fares) smoothly and successfully.