Information Technology Manager

DR ADNAN M. ALBAR

General Supervisor for E-Administration

x-Vice Dean of Student Affairs for Development

Information Systems Dept., x-Chairman

College of Computing and IT,

King Abdu Aziz University

Po Box 80221, Jeddah 21589

Email: *****@***.***.**; ******@*****.***, ******@****.***

Office Tel: +966 (0) 2 6951675

Office Fax: +966 (0) 2 6951691

Mobile: +966 (0-500******

ITIL Foundation Certified

DOB: 17/6/1965

Martial status: Married

O BJECTIVE

To be a professional IS and IT consultant, based on both academic

research and industrial practices and experiences supported by professional

IT training and certification. To be an IT service management expert.

E DUCATION

1999-2004 University of Sussex Brighton, UK

DPhil. Mobile Computing and Adaptive Applications. Thesis title

Camel: A Mobile Adaptive Applications Framework

1995-1997 George Washington University D.C, USA

Ms.c, Software Engineering, December 1997

1987 1990 King AbdulAziz University JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA

Bs.C., Computer Science, graduated summer 1990.

W ORK E XPERIENCE

November 2009 now General Supervisor for E -Administration at

King AbdulAziz University. Taking the following responsibilities:

Vice chirman of the Automation committee for administrative

and finance at King AbdulAziz University

Chirman of the e-workflow business process of King AbdulAziz

University.

Initiating modernaization process of KAU legacy system which to

be replaced by an ERP system.

Taking charge of ERP project which include ERP readness,

preparing RFP document, building project charter.

Novemb er 2007 2009 Vice Dean of Student Affairs for

Development, King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah.

September 2005 Present, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah.

Assistant Professor, Information Systems Department, Faculty of

Computing & IT

September 2006 present, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah Saudi

Arabia.

Information Systems Dept. Chairman

Department trustee.

Member of the consultant committee for the College.

Member of the College council.

Teaching CS 201 Introduction to Computer Science

Teaching CS453 Management Information Systems

Teaching CPIS 220 Introduction to Information Systems

Reviewing IS curriculum plan according to International academic

standards based on ABET and ACM.

Interviewing and recruiting Academic and technical staff.

Prepared IS computer labs specifications.

March 2007, Supervisor of the Quality Program Unit (Academic and

Administrative)

October 2006 present, Arab Open University, Jeddah Saudi Arabia.

http://www.arabou.org.sa/en -site/index.php

Part-time Instructor, Information technology, Faculty of Computing

Teaching Software Systems & their Development (M301).

Courses taught in English.

Using E-learning methods and technologies (Moodle).

(http://arabcampus.arabou.org.sa/fall07/login/index.php).

1993 1994 King AbdulAziz University JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA

Demonstrator

Teaching Introduction to Computer Science, Data Structure .

Awarded a scholarship for PhD degree.

1990 1993 Jeddah Telecom College JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA

Trainer Manager

Implemented training course for Windows family products.

Implemented training course for programming in Pascal.

Designed course material for Assistant Engineer program.

Designed the college LAN for 50 users using NOVELL 3.11.

Undertook extra curriculum activities of managing and teaching.

P OSTGRADUATE SUPERVI SION

2007

Master Thesis, E-Supervision in Educational Environment, Computer

Science Dept., Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, King

Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

2008

Master Thesis, Using Mining Techniques to Enhance the e -Learning Process,

Computer Science Dept., Faculty of Computing & Information

Technology, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

C ONSULTATION ( IT, ISO20000, ITIL)

2006 - present GulfSabir, consultation firm in Business & Education

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Senior IT consultant, providing professional advice for IT projects

presented to the office.

Team member, defining IT procedures and policies for Jeddah

Municipal IT center.

Team member, financial study for establishing private Computing

College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Implementing ITIL for Umm Qura'a University IT center and

providing ITIL foundation training.

2009 - present ITIL foundation training for Deanship of

Information Technology of King AbdulAziz University.

F UNDED P ROJECTS

Principal investigator, E-Government scientific chair, Institute of

Research & Consultation, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi

Arabia, 2008.

Principal investigator, Discovering Water Leakage in the public water

pipeline using artificial intelligence techniques, presented to King

Abdul-Aziz city for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,

2007.

Principal investigator, Best Practice service management for IT

center .

Principal investigator, Business Rules work flow to support E-gov

applications in Higher institutes, presented to the King AbdulAziz

city for Science and Technology in the National plan for science and

technology for the year 2009.

P ROFESSIONAL T RAINING

"Effective Strategic Leadership", four weeks course, LMI, Dr Mazin

Balilah, 2008.

"Effective Management Leadership", six weeks course, LMI, Dr

Mazin Balilah

Effective Personal Management, one day seminar, Center of

Educational development, King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah.

Key Performance Indicator, one day seminar, Program of Total

Quality, King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah.

"Strategic planning", two day seminar, Center of Education

development, King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah.

"Academic assement program", One day seminar, November 2006.

"Thinking-based-Learning", 4 days course, December 2006, King

Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah. Professor Robert J. Swartz, Director of

NCTT, USA. http://www.nctt.net/index.html

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

July 2006

foundation certificate, 5 days course plus BCS examination, distinction

mark. I am also planning to finish the certification path of ITIL IT

Service Manager Track.

July 2003 Redhat Linux System Administration course (RH133)

4 days Redhat Europe center for 4 days.(RH133)

June 1992 Jeddah Telecom College, 5 day course in LANs

December 1991 Jeddah Telecom College, A short course in Training

methodologies.

P ROGRAMMING E XPERIENCE

Java technologies

Distributed programming

Object-oriented analysis and design using UML modeling

Web technologies

HTML and web development tools

XML

PH P

Databases

MySQL, MS Access

P UBLICATIONS

Adnan Al-Bar and Wajde Aljedaibi, "Applying IT Infrastructure Library

Processes to IT Services in Higher Educations", ACM 2008 SIGUCCS

Management Symposium (SMS), Tucson, Arizona April 6-8

Adnan Al-bar, Moral and Values challenge in the era of globalization

and the Internet: an Analytical vision and a framework to deal with

internet filtering techniques, the Seventh Educational conference,

Educational College, Alyarmouk University, Jordan.

Adnan Al-bar, E-payment systems and its protection techniques, the

first Saudi IT and national security conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Adnan Al-bar, "Camel: a Mobile Adaptive Applications Framework",

University of Sussex DPhil thesis 2003.

Adnan Al-bar and Ian Wakeman, "Camel: A Mobile Application

Framework", proceeding of the International conference on computer

networks and mobile computing ICCNMC, Shanghia China 20-23rd

October 2003.

Adnan Al-Bar and Ian Wakeman, "A Survey of Adaptive Applications in

Mobile Computing", IEEE International Workshop on Smart Appliances

and Wearable Computing, Phoenix, AZ US, April 2001.

C ONFERENCES & WORKSH OP

International conference on computer networks and mobile

computing ICCNMC, Shanghia China 20-23rd October 2003.

IEEE International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable

Computing, Phoenix, AZ US, April 2001.

The seventh Educational conference, Educational college, Alyarmouk

University, Jordan.

The first Saudi IT and national security conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

P ROFESSIONAL M EMBER SHIP

ACM Professional member since 2006.

IEEE Professional member since 2006.

ACM student membership since 2000.

Saudi Computer Society since 1994.

I NTERESTS

Running, reading, exploring new ideas, Cultural tourism, self-motivation

strategies and training.

R EFERENCES

Dr Abdulah Moherjy, Professor, Dean of Student Affairs, King

AbdulAziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Email:

********@***.***.** .

Dr Ian Wakeman. School of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK.

Email: ****@******.**.** .

Professor Khaled A. Fakeeh, Professor, Dean, Faculty of Computing &

IT, King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,

Email:*******@***.***.**.

Dr Abdullah Alharbi, Professor, Faculty of Science, Statistics Dept.,

Head of the Scientific council, King Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah,

Saudi Arabia, Email: *******@*****.*** .

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