Author: Mohammed Al-Jaroudi
Affiliation: IT Specialist, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Al-Jaroudi is a communications engineer and a satellite specialist working with Saudi Aramco Company. He holds a B. S in electrical engineering from King Fahad University at Saudi Arabia. Since 1993, Mohammed has been working in many satellite projects at Saudi Aramco Company to serve the drilling rigs, Seismic operations, marine vessels and barrages, Bulk Plant, Air Fueling and other remote operation. Mohammed led the effort to introduce all the types of Inmarsat system to serve Aramco remote operations and then introduced the VSAT system at the early of 1990s as a replacement to the Inmarsat network. He designed and led most of the VSAT/satellite projects being constructed at his company and currently, Mohammed has installed and commissioned a major VSAT DVB-RCS system in which he participated in the development of the Functional Specification Document (FSD) and the network’s design to replace the obsolete proprietary VSAT systems.

Mohammed has worked for one year with the Worldcom company, USA during the period of 2001 - 2002 as a satellite engineer and he presented several presentations and papers on the satellite communications systems at national and international events.