Ahmad Shalash, Acting Professional Services Manager

Ahmad Shalash

Acting Professional Services Manager

ACT

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Automatic Control
Experience
13 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 3 Months

Acting Professional Services Manager at ACT
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2009 to September 2010

My Roles :

 Develop and execute Professional Services strategies, programs, and processes for delivering a superior customer experience for ACT customers.
 Manage full lifecycle of ACT professional services, including sales, delivery, marketing, technical capabilities, and strategy.
 Lead and manage the Professional Services teams (4 Teams of Engineers), by effectively mentoring and coaching teams members.
 Manage and own the Professional Services budget including responsibility for revenue generation, expense management, managing/leveraging resources, and securing profitable engagements.
 Lead and participate in shaping strategy that will attain professional services growth while preserving and retaining existing customer base; translate strategy into clear objectives and initiatives


My Responsibilities:

 Effectively mentor and coach teams members.
 Effective leader for the teams in managing the work of others.
 Develop and maintain strong internal organizational relationships to deliver optimum services.
 Maintain knowledge base on core Products and Services.
 Drive strong customer engagement and client satisfaction through project management - clearly stating scope of work, project deliverables, and budget
 Drive strong customer client satisfaction through Professional Support Services Delivery as the Department is supporting about 300 Service Level Agreements.
 Effectively utilize Professional Services and ACT resources to meet client satisfaction objectives
 Leverage cross-sell/up-sell opportunities where needed or appropriate

Professional Services Team Leader at ACT
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2007 to January 2009

 Evaluating and interviewing candidates for professional Services Department.
 Evaluating, planning and validating new Ideas In the Professional Services Department
 Troubleshooting and implementing the solution for complex problems that might face the Department
 Designing solutions and Supporting products for Microsoft and Oracle Databases
 Designing and editing magazine and brochures for Professional Services Department Solutions and Products
 Maintaining customers’ satisfaction by guaranteeing an efficient service that assures the smoothness in their operation flow.
 Maintaining a suitable Operating Systems, Networking Services, Backup and Disaster Recovery solution that meets the customer business needs.
 Plan, Implement, Support Software Security Solutions and integrating them with Hardware Security Solutions.
 Maintain and Design Operating Systems and Networking Services Integrated Solutions for Mission Critical and High Availability Scenarios.

Professional Services Senior Consultant at ACT
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2006 to January 2007

 Oracle Database Support.
 Maintaining customers’ satisfaction by guaranteeing an efficient service that assures the smoothness in their operation flow.
 Maintaining a suitable Operating Systems, Networking Services, Backup and Disaster Recovery solution that meets the customer business needs.
 Plan, Implement, Support Software Security Solutions and integrating them with Hardware Security Solutions.
 Maintain and Design Operating Systems and Networking Services Integrated Solutions for Mission Critical and High Availability Scenarios.

Professional Services Consultant at ACT
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2005 to January 2006

 Oracle Database Support.
 Maintaining customers’ satisfaction by guaranteeing an efficient service that assures the smoothness in their operation flow.
 Maintaining a suitable Operating Systems, Networking Services, Backup and Disaster Recovery solution that meets the customer business need.
 Plan, Implement, Support Software Security Solutions and integrating them with Hardware Security Solutions.

Hardware, Operating Systems &Networking Manager at CITE
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2002 to January 2005

 Maintaining customers’ satisfaction by guaranteeing an efficient service that assures the smoothness in their operation flow.
 Maintaining a suitable hardware, networking and operating systems solution that meets the customer business need.
 Project manager for the company’s strategic projects.

Senior System Engineer at CITE
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2001 to January 2002

 Internal trainer for system engineers.
 Networks support
 Operating systems support ( Microsoft NT technology Platforms servers \[NT - 2000\], Windows XP, Windows 2000 professional, Windows NT workstation 4.0, Windows 98)
 MSSQL 2000 & MSSQL 7 administration & support.
 Hardware maintenance & troubleshooting (Servers, PCs).
 Desktop applications support (Hotel management systems, MS office).

Reserve Officer at Army
  • Egypt
  • January 1998 to January 2001

equipment maintenance and operation

Maintenance Engineer at AIET
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 1997 to January 1998

 Hardware maintenance & troubleshooting.
 Software maintenance& recovery.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Automatic Control
  • at Faculty of Engineering
  • June 1997

1992-97 Tanta University, Engineering Tanta, Egypt B.Sc. Computer Science and Automatic Control

Specialties & Skills

Integrated Solutions
Professional Services
Science
Availability
Project Management
Active Directory
IT solutions Design
Oracle DB
Offering
Services management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
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