Abdulrahman Abdullah Ababtain
Also Known as Abdul. However, my family call me "Dahoomy" a nickname for Abdulrahman , and my friends usually call me Salo or Salito my childhood nickname!
About me
An optimist guy who's welling and dreaming to make a difference everyday. Happiness is my number one priority, I get happy when I see/make people around me happy. I live for my wife and family, my relatives, my friends, and my neighbors!
Places I visited
Asia & Africa
Bahrain
Egypt
Kuwait
Malaysia
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Oman
Japan
Philippines
Türkiye
Mauritius
Maldives
Indonesia
Thailand
Americas
Canada
Dominican Republic
Mexico
United States
Puerto Rico
Europe
England
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Scotland
Switzerland
Netherlands
Wales
Life Timeline
- 2016 - Present
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Back to IT, but differently
December 2022 - Present
I decided to be heavily involved in serving Saudi Vision 2030, so I moved to the Ministry of Tourism as a director of Execution Support team, in Digital Transformation and Technology’s deputyship. Overseeing RFPs, Annual budgets, and Vendor management. -
STC Procurement?!
January 2017 - October 2022
As a new year resolution, I decided to try something new. I joined Saudi Telecom Company, the biggest telecom company in the Middle east, to work as a technical supervisor in Technical Procurement department. I rapidly became the leader of the procurement team who's responsible of closing Enterprise Agreements with big vendors such as IBM, VMware, Microsoft, Software AG and Oracle. -
Home Sweet Home! II
September 2016
After a great journey in the Silicon Valley, I decided to move back to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for my next chapter. It is always great to be home!
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Preferred Savings Guides
January 2016 – August 2016
I started working as Web & Mobile Application Developer for Preferred Savings Guides a non-profit organization.
- 2013 - 2015
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Getting Married
December 31, 2015
On New Year's Eve, I got married to the love of my life. I finally decided to settle down and get rid of my single life for good! -
Officially an Engineer!
December 18, 2015
I graduated form SJSU after two and a half years in the program! I loved every moment of it. -
SJSU Spartan!
August 2013
I started my masters program in SJSU, I must admit it was a "wobbly" start but I was able to manage to get back on track pretty fast!
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Leaving home again!
August 2013
I got admitted at San Jose State University to do my Masters in Software Engineering, So I moved to San Jose, CA the capital of the Silicon Valley were geek dreams come true!
- 2011 - 2013
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Future Elite Tourism Services
June 2011 - August 2013
I started working for a tourist company setting up their IT infrastructure and developing a multi-lingual web application and financial analysis solution. It was very Fun environment!
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Home Sweet Home!
June 2011
After I have done my degree, I moved back home with the passion to use my knowledge to serve my family and my country. I started to teach my relatives, espcially the older ones, how to use computer and smart phones.
Meanwhile, I was applying for my Masters degree and looking for the right school! - 2007 - 2011
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Getting a degree!
June 2011
I got my Bachelor in Scince degree in Applied computing with Second-Class Honors! -
Northumbria University
September 2007
I started my Bachelor degree in Applied Computing at Northumbria University in the city center of Newcastle, Very exciting and great experience!
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
April 2007
I moved to the north-east of England. The initial plan was to improve my English language and do my Bachelor degree if possible! - 2001 - 2007
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Leaving Home!
April 2007
After all the struggle at school, finishing just a little more than half of the course requirement, I decided with the help and support of my dad to quit University and go study abroad! So, I decided to move to Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK.
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King Saud University II
2003
I transfered to the Business school majoring in Business Administration. It was a big struggle for me since I wasn't really interested in the course itself! I did pretty good in Statistics, Economy, and Marketing but that wasn't enough!
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Start my own business? Why not!
late 2002
I took a break from school on 2nd semester because I decided to start my own business, I decided to open a small shop for computer parts and electronics with the financial and huge emotional support from my family. But for several reasons I didn't make it to the first year! I shut it down.
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Alhilalclub.com
2002 - 2007
I started working for alhilalclub.com in full time and part time on and off depends on my school schedule and other projects.
I Developed a soccer statistics web application for team and players full game statistics, and Developed "Wap" website to be accessed through phones. Updated content for tables and design with HTML and Photoshop. Modified and updated PHPNuke and vBulletin templates and content. -
King Saud University I
2001
After graduating from High school I couldn't get into the computing school at the university, So I joined the community college, which was part of King Saud University in Riyadh, doing Computer Scince. I failed to stay for more than one semester! I was really bored and frustrated from the way the course was delivered. I have had "core" classes on how to use a mouse and keyboard, and how to open a new document in MS Word in the same semester where you have to take programming in C++!!! I got A+ on programming and English language but failed all other classes!
- 1995 - 2001
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First website designed!
2001
Late 2001 I have designed my first website ever calling it the Smurfs! Using Microsoft FrontPage Although it was a static, basic HTML with tons of photos.
However, this website has never been published because my dad has decided to take the PC to the shop to format it because it was so slow :(! -
First glimps of the Internet
1999
Again with the help of uncle Mohammed and the support of my dad, we got internet connection at home. Dial-up connection which was very expensive and slow, but hey why complaining when you can surf the interent!
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Secondary & High school
My secondary school years was in 2 different schools, First year was in a public school then I moved to Alrowad private school for the rest of my secondary and High school
- 1989 - 1995
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Got my first PC!
1994
In summer 1994, My uncle Mohammed came back from the United States with the first PC that has ever got into our house!
It was love at first sight, I was amazed of how much I could do with this machine! -
Primary school
My 6 years of primary school was in 4 different schools, I made lots of friends during those years since I never sattled down in one school.
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More siblings
During those years my family kept growing up, I have had more lovely sisters Deema, Deena, Nida, and Raghad. - 1984 - 1989
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Growing up!
I grew up where my parents were living in the same house as my grandparents (my dad's parent). My childhood was impacted enormously by being the youngest in the house. I really appreciate how my grandparents, parents, uncles and aunties upbringing me in all aspects.
The play crew in the house along with my siblings, is my uncle Hisham, he was few days older than my sister Ghadah. We all grew up very close to each other, and still are, I am very blessed to have such a strong connected family. - March 1984
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I was born
March 2, 1984
On the early morning of March 2nd, at the National Hospital my lovely mom was delivering her 3rd baby in the middle of the Arabian desert in a city called Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. I was born after my older sister, Ghada, and brother, Khalid.