Abdullah Osama, Senior Technical Services Consultant

Abdullah Osama

Senior Technical Services Consultant

ITS

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology.
Experience
16 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 11 Months

Senior Technical Services Consultant at ITS
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since July 2015

 Designing, Installing, Testing, and monitoring new IT Infrastructure services.
 Monitoring, Administration, Implementation, Support, and managed services for day to day IT operation for all ITS sites as well as ITS customers. The supported technologies include the following: Microsoft technologies “Windows Server OS, MS Exchange, MS Skype for Business, Lync, MS SQL Cluster & Always on, MS SCVMM, MS SCOM”, Symantec products “Symantec Endpoint protection & Backup Exec”, Citrix products “XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer & Citrix Netscaler”, Monitoring Tools “Zenoss Resource Manager”, Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure products “VMware vSphere, Hyper-V & Hyper-V Cluster”, HP, UCS & Dell Blade Systems.
 Manage team and multiple employees to drive success for clients by delivering outstanding costumer experience.
 Perform with company pre-sales team as necessary to assist technical services estimates for all new and existing accounts.
 Analyzing IT requirements within companies and giving independent and objective advice on the use of IT.
 Providing consultancy, design solutions, timescales and resources needed in written or oral reports on IT Infrastructure services.
 Preparing Root Cause Analysis reports in case of failures or major problems.
 Participating in CAB, DR & BCP Testing Events as IT Infrastructure Service Owner and ITIL process.
 Participating in the ISO Committee to develop solutions for enhancing security and eliminating security findings.
 Working both remotely and on customer sites where appropriate to perform tasks.
 Designing and scheduling backup plans, including restore tests and data verification tests.

Technical Services Consultant at ITS - International Turnkey Systems
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since April 2012

 Managing and administrating of Microsoft AZURE, office 365, MS Teams.
 Responsible for providing L2 “Export Service Support Line” to infrastructure services on Microsoft technologies, Virtualization technologies, Citrix technologies, Symantec Backup Exec & End Point Manager.
 Receiving and responding to the Incidents via “BMC Remedy Ticketing System” and resolved appropriately ensuring clear concise update or resolution information, assuring that achieved of service targets within SLA.
 Managing and administrating of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Lync.
 Installing, configuring, and administrating Active Directory, AD Sites & Replication, DNS, DHCP Hyper-V, Hyper-V Cluster, VMware, Backup Exec, Symantec Endpoint Manager, HP & UCS Blade Systems.
 Manage day to day operation, health check and maintain upwards of 1000 servers located at 2 datacenters.
 Assisting and answering L0 & L1 and business application operation inquiries to resolve incidents to ensure timely distribution of knowledge and positive impact on customer satisfaction.
 Writing documentation on operational, system and user procedures & guidelines.

(Senior Operation & Monitor Engineer (Senior Technical Services Engineer) at International Turnkey Systems – Global Delivery Center (ITS-GDC).
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2011 to March 2012

 Responsible for the daily real time monitoring and managing of the support operations.
 Monitor, review, and investigate notifications and errors identified through enterprise monitoring tools via Zenoss tool.
 Coordinate resources to resolve identified notifications, and errors.
 Manage and maintain the applications, database, servers, and network nodes (Routers, Switches, Firewalls) for the enterprise monitoring tool set.
 Continuously monitor and scan network for unknown and new devices.
 Manage and maintain alert notification profiles for monitored systems and devices.
 Produce weekly status reports on monitoring statistics to include system availability, usage statistics, notifications, trend analysis, and alerts.
 Manage and maintain all monitoring tool suites at the most current application levels.
 Plan, test, and deploy firmware, software, upgrades, and security patches.
 Get information and report on systems/application performance.
 Performing a preventive maintenance on some network devices “Routers & Switches”.
 Perform the Scheduled backup tasks managed by several teams on UNIX & Network devices.

Technical Support Engineer (Customer Service Engineer) at International Turnkey Systems – Global Delivery Center (ITS-GDC).
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2010 to March 2011

- Network troubleshooting, installation, maintenance remotely.
- Computers maintenance and troubleshooting remotely.
- Dealing with all Kinds of Software that target our business solution (Oracle Developer Suite and Database client, Visual Studio Suite)
- Responsible for infrastructure services on Microsoft Windows technology.
- Administrate Microsoft Windows Servers, Microsoft Workstations, for users in 18 Sites.
- Responding to all calls received by the Service Desk “Remedy, Phone, Email, Web etc.”
- Answer user inquiries regarding computers or business application operation to resolve incidents.
- Assisting in the resolution of user and support issues among company sites to ensure timely distribution of knowledge and positive impact on customer satisfaction.
- Supporting end users (up to 2400 users)
- Responsible for Administration of Kaspersky antivirus Server
- Responsible for Front End Administration of Mail server.
- Administration of Visual Source Safe and Source off-Site.
- Responsible for Front End Administration of ITS portal (E-connect).
- Managing Active Directory and File server.
- Responsible for operating system installation (WIN XP, 2003, Windows 7, 2008, 2012).
- Supporting the video Conference, Printer and Data Show.
- On-site Technical support for Data Center.
 Install Servers of the racks like HP, Sun Solaris, and DELL.

Technical Support Specialist at Loading Company
  • Egypt
  • January 2009 to February 2010

- Computers maintenance and troubleshooting.
- Dealing with all Kinds of Software.
- Network troubleshooting, installation, maintenance

Technical Support Specialist at Mubarak's Military Hospital
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • January 2008 to December 2008

- Technical and desktop support.
- Computers maintenance and troubleshooting.
- Network troubleshooting, installation, maintenance

IT Engineer at Dream Soft Company
  • Egypt
  • June 2007 to November 2007

- Computers maintenance and troubleshooting.
- Dealing with all Kind of Software.
- Generate and maintain operating systems.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology.
  • at Faculty of Computers and Information, Menoufia University
  • May 2009

• Diploma's Degree - Post-Graduate Diploma from Faculty of Computers and Information. - University: Menoufia. - Research Field: Information Technology. - Grade: Very Good (79%). - Year: 2009.

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
  • at Faculty of Computers and Information, Menoufia University
  • May 2007

• Bachelor's Degree - Faculty: B.Sc. Computers and Information. - University: Menoufia. - Major: Information Technology. - Year: 2007. - Graduation Project: Electronic Auction Web Management System. - Project Grade: Excellent (95%).

Specialties & Skills

Computer Science
Information Technology Support
Network Devices
Information Security Management
Network Systems
Programming (VB6, DAO, ADO, Crystal Report, C#, VB.net, ADO.net, Java-SE, PHP)
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Liberary)
Networking & Systems (CCNA, CCNP, MCES,MCITP-EA,MCP, MCTS)
Virtualization Technology (Vmware: VCP5 - DCV , VCA5 - DCV, VCA5 – Cloud, VCA5 - WM)
web development
system administration
windows network administration
windows networking
computer hardware troubleshooting
networking software
windows server 2008
windows 7
windows server
windows server 2003
dns administration
windows azure

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Languages

English
Intermediate
Arabic
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

ESEA
  • Member
  • June 2006
Life Maker
  • Member
  • March 2004

Training and Certifications

(Training)
Hands on Lab, Class (Training)
Training Institute:
HEROTECK Center
Date Attended:
May 2012
Hands on Lab, Class (Training)
Training Institute:
High Institute of Communication Technology in Faculty of Engineering, in Cairo University
Date Attended:
August 2006
Hands on Lab, Class (Training)
Training Institute:
COMPU-TEK Center
Date Attended:
September 2011
C++ Fundamentals & Object Oriented. (Training)
Training Institute:
Faculty of Comupters & Information
Date Attended:
August 2003
Class (Training)
Training Institute:
International Turnkey Systems - Global Delivery Center (ITS-GDC)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Programming Diploma (Training)
Training Institute:
Arab Group Center (AGC).
Date Attended:
January 2005
Java Fundamentals & Object Oriented. (Training)
Training Institute:
Alkhabeer Center
Date Attended:
August 2004

Hobbies

  • Reading, Sports, Travelling
    Reading in Historical Book, Sports (Football, Swimming), Travelling to new places(Historical, Funny)