Nancy Nasser, Research Associate- Freelance

Nancy Nasser

Research Associate- Freelance

Zawya- Thomson Reuters

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
13 years, 8 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 8 months

Research Associate- Freelance at Zawya- Thomson Reuters
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since June 2013

-Creating and updating company profiles for Zawya’s business database for different sectors.
-Maintain the company database through regular updates (news and phone calls).
-Monitor daily news published on Zawya's Website and other news sources.
-Stay up to date on all relevant corporate news and updates.
-Establish a sound understanding and knowledge of business environment in the region.
-Achieve productivity targets set by the team.
-Maintain a certain standard of quality set by the team
-Conducting online research and phone interviews with CEOs, CFOs, and Project Managers to collect information for the database

Support Solution Architect at hewlett-packard
  • Qatar - Doha
  • November 2012 to April 2013

• Provide service and support solutions to enterprise and corporate segments leveraging the core building blocks of servers, storage, software, networking and services.
• Provide optimized virtualization and cloud solutions transforming IT environments to optimize business outcomes.
• Responsible for attaching the right support care packs, and SLAs to product solutions.
• Producing technical solution documents including design, SOW, SLA, technical descriptions and contract schedules.
• Identifying solution elements, deliverables and resolving agents to meet the customer’s requirements.
• Perform implementation and services presentations and respond to any technical enquiries concerning implementation, delivery and support contracts of projects

Solutions Engineer at AS Invent
  • Qatar - Doha
  • January 2012 to November 2012

• Actively participates and manages the development of a quality and cost-effective solution that meets the client's requirements. I engage solution design resources to complete required technical deliverables.. Design and integrate the most complex, leading-edge, and business critical solutions for major, enterprise-wide companies. Demonstrate the ability to apply a consistent set of architectural guidelines in the creation of a new solution architecture. Develop/Continually improve methodology and processes.
• Projects Highlights:
 Qatar Airways Digital Signage (1.2 million QAR): participated in the set-up, configuration and installation of 13 digital signage kiosks including setting the network vlan for the kiosks and supervising data integration and migration from existing client’s database.
 Wireless Project -International School of London-Qatar ( 530, 000 QAR): completed the presales and solution engineering phase of the project in which I had to design a wireless solution for the school’s existing and newly constructed buildings. The solution was put according to the analyzed heat maps which I conducted. I have also participated and supervised the implementation of the project with 39 Xirrus wireless arrays utilizing Cisco active devices. I have also designed the structured cabling route of the wireless arrays for the newly built buildings.
 CCTV Project-Qatar International School (350, 000 QAR): actively designed the solution for 29 CCTV cameras and 5 IP cameras. I have supervised the structured cabling for the IP cameras and participated in configuring the DVR(s) and storage system for the cameras.

Teacher Assistant at Christopher Newport University, Computer Science Department
  • United States
  • January 2011 to May 2011

- Responsible for preparing presentations containing key concepts and major lessons to be taught for the course "Computers and Programming I -CPSC 150/150L)
- Grading course tests and quizzes.
- Supervising and grading the lab course where students apply key
programming concepts by creating programs using the Java programming
language.

Student Network Analyst at Christopher Newport University, IT Services Center
  • United States
  • May 2009 to May 2010

Responsible for researching, analyzing and evaluating new information systems. Provided reports on networking services issues. Managed, trouble and repaired internet connection failures across campus

Network Analyst at Christopher Newport University, PCSE Department
  • United States
  • May 2009 to May 2010

• Responsible for researching, analyzing and evaluating new information systems.
• Provided reports on networking services issues with fixes recommendations.
• Managed troubleshooted and repaired Internet connection failures across campus.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Christopher Newport University
  • December 2011

-Cumulative GPA: 3.97 -Major GPA: 4.0 CONFERENCES/CONTEST:  Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2011  OurCS-Research Workshop for Undergraduate Women in Computer Science 2011 (Carnegie Mellon University)  ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2010 (Christopher Newport University)  National Student Leadership Forum-Washington DC 2009 LEADERSHIP HONORS/AWARDS:  Awarded the Grace Hopper Celebration Conference Scholarship sponsored by the 2011 National Science Foundation (NSF)  Awarded the Best Senior Capstone Project in CPSC Department 2011 (Student Tracking Attendance System-StATS)  Member of Alpha Chi National College Honor Society 2010-present  Member of Alpha Phi Fraternity, Theta Phi Chapter of CNU 2010-present  Member of Association For Women in Science (AWIS) 2010-present  Vice President of the Arabic Club at CNU 2010-present  Recipient of Full Scholarship from the US Department of State for undergraduate Studies 2008-present  Dean’s List 2008-present

Specialties & Skills

Wireless Routers
Software Solutions
IT Solutions
Solution Design
Microsoft Office-Word,Excel,Visio,Access,Project
Web Solution Designing
Proposal Building
ERP Systems
Wireless Networks Design
Enterprise Storage, Servers and Networking Solutions
Linux Operating Systems-Ubuntu,CentOS
Business Requirements Analysis
Support Contracts and SLA(s)
Preparing Tender Response documents
Java Coding
Cisco Configuration-Networking
Technology and Business Partners Communication
Technology Solution Design
Technology Solution Design

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Xirrus Certified Wireless Networks Technical Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
Valid Until:
April 2012
Xirrus Certified Wifi Site Survey Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
Valid Until:
March 2012