Amr Sohil, R&D Manager

Amr Sohil

R&D Manager

International Security & Safety Systems Co.

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, ICT Degree
Experience
18 years, 8 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 8 months

R&D Manager at International Security & Safety Systems Co.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since January 2016

Managing and leading R&D Team in the field of Fire Fighting & Pumps Solution, Adding and adapting new technologies while creating cutting edge technology products to serve current company products.

IT Manager at City Stars Tours
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2015 to December 2015

Was responsible for managing Maryland - United States Branch with 3 Branches in Cairo - Egypt.

I was responsible for creating & maintaining a secure, permanent VPN connection between all branches, implementation of VOIP Solution for the company.

Alongside Building a standard Datacenter within Egypt HQ and Maintaining Server Backups, installing firewall devices, and integration between MS active directory & Linux LDAP.

Managing a team of 3 Junior Engineers in multi remote sites.

ICT Department Manager at ITAS
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2012 to October 2014

Worked as IT Manager in ITAS Egypt and was responsible for:
- Managing a team of 5 Engineers
- Speaking with clients to find out what they want
- Advise clients objectively on where IT might make a difference to the business
- Planning the stages of the project and how each affects the business
- Agreeing costs, timescales and standards to be met and monitoring these through the project
- Adjusting the plans where needed
- Making sure there is a smooth change over from the old system to the new one
- Keeping management and clients updated on progress
- Evaluation of each project stage and once completed

Microsoft Technologies R&D Engineer/Pre-Sales Engineer at IT Synergy
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2012 to December 2012

Worked as R&D Engineer at IT Synergy, was responsible to research and develop in Microsoft cutting edge technology products especially (LYNC) and compare it to open source VOIP Solutions, also worked on Microsoft private cloud & Clustering over cloud and I did some work in the sales department as a pre-sales engineer with good record of success for 4 months

Enterprise System Engineer/Team Leader at Technology Gate Int.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2011 to August 2012

Worked as Enterprise System Engineer at Technology Gate, was responsible to manage, develop and sell current products. Was responsible to train & prepare new employees on new systems and was responsible to provide technical support for end users for 20 months.

Microsoft System Engineer at IT Synergy
  • Egypt
  • October 2010 to December 2011

Worked as Microsoft System Engineer at IT Synergy, was responsible to Install, Maintain and Develop in installed systems and manage to monitor running systems for 15 months

IT Dept. Supervisor (Outsourcing) at Allied Soft
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2010 to December 2011

Worked as IT Dept. Supervisor (Outsourcing) at Allied Soft Egypt, was responsible to Manage current operations & fellow team members for 15 months.

Microsoft System Administrator at iEARN Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2009 to May 2010

Worked as Microsoft System Administrator and was responsible for windows servers within the network for 18 months.

Technical Support at El Arab IT Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2008 to September 2009

Worked as a technical support engineer at El Arab IT Group, was responsible to interact with end users, provide troubleshooting for employees and customers for 24 months.

Technical Support/Pre Sales at Trendy Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2008 to December 2008

Worked as a technical support and pre-sales at Trendy group for 5 months.

IT Instructor Assistant at BU Training Center
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2007 to January 2008

Collaborated on curriculum and exam development, met with students upon request, and graded all written work, including final exam papers.

ICDL Course Instructor at Omar Ebn El Khatab School
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2007 to October 2007

Overall course structure, including weekly lab practice and administered examinations.

Education

Bachelor's degree, ICT Degree
  • at Cambridge University
  • October 2010
High school or equivalent, IGCSE
  • at Cambridge University
  • June 2010

Specialties & Skills

Embedded Systems
IT Management
Hosted VoIP
Microsoft Technologies
Linux Server Administration
Linux Virtualization Technologies
Microsoft Software & Technologies
Open Source VOIP & Security Solutions
Leadership & Management Skills
Communication Skills
Team Managment
Technical Support
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET)
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
Embedded Systems
Team Building

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Python Development (Training)
Training Institute:
Cambridge University
Date Attended:
February 2017
Duration:
8 hours
Awareness on Human Resource & Training Polices (Training)
Training Institute:
MH&P-MGI
Date Attended:
November 2016
Duration:
103 hours
CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI Institute
IELTS (Certificate)
MCSE (Training)
Training Institute:
Hero Tech
Date Attended:
April 2014
Elastix 101 (Training)
Training Institute:
ITSynergy
CCNA (Certificate)
Ubuntu Zentyal - Linux (Training)
Training Institute:
Online Course
Ethical Hacker (Training)
Training Institute:
Hero Tech
VB Programming (Training)
Training Institute:
Not Courses - Egypt
MCITP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2011
Valid Until:
November 2011

Hobbies

  • Home Automation
  • Electronics - Embedded Systems
    Self learning for Embedded Systems & PCB Designs