Mohammed AlGhuson

Experience

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  King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

  Jul 2005 - Dec 2005

  Graduate Assistant

  Teaching microcomputer systems design lab, covering: Microprocessor architecture and organization, bus architecture, types, and buffering techniques. Memory and I/O subsystems, organization, timing, and interfacing. Peripheral controllers and programming. Practice the design of a microprocessor system testing, debugging, and reporting.

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  Saudi Aramco

  Dec 2005 - Jul 2009

  Manages deployment projects for large scale HPC systems Configuring and optimizing HPC environments Works with a variety of HPC tools and technologies (xCAT, ganglia & PBS). Install and configure HPC interconnects and GPUs (InfiniBand & NVIDIA). Configuring, installing, tuning and maintaining scientific applications. Worked effectively in fast-paced environments. Worked as 1st and 2nd level Linux/Unix systems support. Proactively maintain Linux/Unix infrastructure systems to maintain 24x7 uptime. Monitoring systems performance to improve availability. Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes. Collaborate with other teams to develop automation strategies and deployment processes. Tuned system performance to optimize efficacy of new and existing hardware components.

  • High Performance Computing Engineer

    Jul 2007 - Jul 2009

  • Linux System Adim

    Dec 2005 - Jul 2007
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  Saudi Aramco

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2014

  GPFS clusters deployment and operations NetApp FAS storage architecture, optimization, deployment, and operations Works on different HPC technologies including GPFS & Luster file systems, high-speed interconnects (InfiniBand & OminPath) , cluster scheduler and configuration management (UGE & Puppet)Works with multiple high-performance storage solutions (DDN, Panasas, IBM & NetApp)Hands on Red-Hat Linux operating system and High proficiency experience programming and scripting in HPC environment using Bash, C, Perl or PythonWork effectively in a team environment to investigate and resolve complex problems Show less Managing and maintaining data protection and backup environments across four data centers. Working with tape libraries and tape management systems (IBM TS3500 and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager). Develop disaster recovery and data replication plans and testing scenarios. Working with NAS, SAN, iSCSI and GPFS storage based systems to protect their hosted data. Developing framework to integrate HPC environment with tape infrastructure within jobs lifecycle. Configure and implement business continuity NAS based storage and Oracle RAC SAN based storage. Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness through development of innovative solutions. Show less

  • Computer Storage Systems Specialist

    Oct 2013 - Jul 2014

  • Data Storage Management Group Lead

    Mar 2013 - Sept 2013

  • Data Protection Engineer

    Jan 2012 - Mar 2013
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  DDN Storage

  Aug 2014 - Sept 2014

  Fellowship

  Extensive GPFS based hands on trainingAdvanced GPFS design and tune conceptsAdvanced technical support experienceWork with developers, support and technical personnel

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  Aramco

  Oct 2014 - now

  Demonstrated leadership skills in managing operations and data center facilities teams.Control CapEx and OpEx costs to keep business operating within budget and increases ROI.Monitors and analyzes business performance KPIs to identify areas of improvement and make necessary adjustments.Manages enterprise infrastructure technologies and architecting solutions.Works with major technology providers (Intel, AMD & NVIDIA), system integrators (Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Huawei & IBM) and storage vendors (NetApp, Huawei, HPE, IBM, DDN & VAST) to develop organization's technology roadmaps.Overlooks on-prem cloud, AI/MLDL and high performance environments technologies' on-boarding.Responsible for capacity planning process, budgets planning and forecasts and manages procurement of resources.Conducts the capacity planning process, planning budgets and forecasts and manages the procurement of the resources. Show less Manages operations in the storage team (140PB of online disk storage and 250PB of offline tape storage) Optimize and forecast disk storage environment requirements Looking for open source solutions alternatives, like beeGFS, Grafana and TrueNAS Implemented ILM framework to recycle data storage Conducts IO profiling for high scale HPC applications Defines new storage PoC projects scopes and success criteria. Tested and evaluated new storage solutions, Huawei NAS storage, NetApp Solidfire, DDN Lustre, and DDN IME Burst-Buffer Show less

  • Technology Planner

    Jul 2021 - now

  • Senior Computer Storage Systems Specialist

    Jul 2017 - Jun 2021

  • Computer Storage Systems Specialist

    Oct 2014 - Jun 2017