bassam merhej, EMEA Support Renewals Rep.

bassam merhej

EMEA Support Renewals Rep.

Symantec Corporation

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Master's degree, Degree of Master of computer science in engineering
Experience
24 years, 0 months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 0 months

EMEA Support Renewals Rep. at Symantec Corporation
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since September 2013

Renewal representative covering Levant and Pakistan, follow up with the resellers/distributors and customers to insure and offer the support to renew their due renewal licenses, up-sale/cross-sale

Project lead at Cisco Networking Academy at Cisco
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • March 2011 to August 2013

- Engage in live customer transactions via phone and instant messenger
- Resolve incoming emails and web submissions using dynamic knowledge base and technical knowledge
- Maintain excellent working knowledge of general practices and procedures to apply them to customer inquiries

Sales Area manager (ISO) at Symantec Corporation
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • March 2010 to February 2011

Customer service representative, Sales area manager, (ISO) for Egypt and Libya, follow up with the resellers/distributors and customers to insure and offer the support needed for closing all the existing opened deals and create new opportunities.

Telesales and customer service (CIC) at Computer Associate, (CA)
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • October 2007 to February 2010

Customer service representative, Renewals department, telesales for Russia and Middle East, support and follow up on every renewals to execute any discount or/and support for closing and renewing the licenses

Regional Manager at Satelco
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 1999 to January 2002

Human resources, account manager, strategical planning.
Team Leader, Daily Follow Up, Area Monitor, Responsible of the monthly money collection - presenting weekly reports about the employees

Hardware Technician at Tidex Group
  • Lebanon
  • May 1998 to May 1999

Technician of Photocopies, typewriters and computers.

Public Relation / Sales at Platinum
  • Lebanon
  • July 1997 to April 1998

Customer relation, advertising.
After each presentation done for the customers, we pass by each couple and try to convince them more about our product in order to make them buy our offer.

Marketing and P.R. at Beradran Co.
  • Ukraine
  • June 1996 to May 1997

Advertising creativity, market study and telemarketing officer in the marketing and P.R. department.

Sales and marketing at Beik Company for Trading
  • Ukraine
  • January 1995 to May 1996

Sales and marketing: marketing planning, sales and advertising

Education

Master's degree, Degree of Master of computer science in engineering
  • at Krivoy Rog Mine University
  • June 1997
High school or equivalent, Experimental science
  • at St Joseph High School
  • June 1991

Specialties & Skills

Science
Human Resources
Creativity
Marketing
MS office
Internet Browsing
RightNow program
Basic understanding of Photoshop and Macintosh
C++; cobol; pascal

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Russian
Expert

Hobbies

  • Fishing, Basketball, Reading, Chess.traveling, Hiking.