ahmad Mohamed Al-Hady Al-Sharief, Solution lead architect

ahmad Mohamed Al-Hady Al-Sharief

Solution lead architect

IBM

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Diploma, Business Administration
Experience
19 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 0 Months

Solution lead architect at IBM
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since December 2010

• Leading IBM’s network delivery team managing complete end-to-end networking and security infrastructure business and play a primary leading role in the design and implementation for multi-million dollars deals.
• Persuaded in developing innovative solutions, business development and Pre-sales.
• Act as subject-matter-expert to train senior engineers throughout the engagement cycles.
• Synthesized complex or diverse project and work with different global cloud teams.
• Drive continuous integration and deployment of secure cloud- solutions.

Technical Solution Manager - MEA at IBM
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2010 to December 2012

• Produce end to end IT infrastructure solutions and services encompassing networking and security infrastructure, service resiliency and cloud.
• Develop detailed solution artifacts, dependencies, costs cases, SOWs and maintain end to end responsibility and accountability for the entire engagement
• Chaired client meetings to collect requirements and present solutions/proposals and lead the development of the overall technical solution
• Captain deals and manage strategic presales activities; Ensure quality of the solution specific proposals (presentations, demonstrations, innovation workshops etc.)

Network Design and Planning Consultant at Du
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2010 to November 2010

Provided consultancy on innovating an end to end solution for bitstreaming all services for both residential and business customers between Du and Etisalat networks

Network Consulting Engineer (NCE) at Cisco Systems
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2007 to March 2010

Full time Contracted via Thrupoint where successfully handled various projects with Cisco’s biggest clients such as Saudi Telecom Company, Mobily and Zain.
Engaged in the whole project cycle, from building the Low Level Design, working closely with the system engineers to finalize the Bill of Quantities (BOQ), complete implementation and testing.

Main Projects worked on:
1. 10G Data Center Expansion at RCJ
2. ISP Redundancy at STC
3. MPLS 2009 Expansion at STC
4. MPLS 2009 Migration at STC
5. Malqa Data Center at Mobily
6. Network Infrastructure for IPTV rollout at STC
7. MPLS 2008 Expansion at STC
8. Core MPLS at Zain

Data Network Business Unit Manager at Finger Print
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2006 to October 2007

Pioneered in establishing the Data Network Team by hiring the right candidates, training and qualifying them and delegated perusing many of opportunities

Involved in the presales activities, conducting presentations to the customers, preparing the HLD and helping on the projects delivering. Commissioned as a Technical key point of contact

CCIP Network Engineer at Equant/Orange
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2005 to September 2006

• Troubleshoot Routing protocols deployed on the SP network (BGP, M-BGP and ISIS), MPLS (MPLS-VPN and MPLS-TE) and Quality of Service.
• Equant Network has over 70, 000 Cisco Routers and Switches all over the world.
• I was supporting VIP customer in WE Region (Western Europe Region)

Education

Diploma, Business Administration
  • at Leicester University
  • June 2015

Business Administration Diploma

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication
  • at Zagazig University
  • June 2004

•Communication department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University. (July-04) Accumulated Grade: Very Good with degree of honors. (83%). Rank: Third place out of 260 students. Project Grade: Excellent

Specialties & Skills

IP Networking
Cloud Computing
Data Center
Routers
Switches
End to end solutions architecture and design with deep architecture competency in the large data c
Architecting and designing solutions for both Enterprise and Service providers
AWS Cloud Architecture
Cloud Computing
Cloud Security
Designing multivendor solutions such as Cisco, Juniper, Avaya, A10, F5,

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker
French
Beginner

Memberships

cisco
  • CCIE SP No.18434
  • June 2007
Juniper networks
  • JNCIE
  • December 2008

Training and Certifications

CCIE RS (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2008
jncie SP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2009
CCIE SP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2007
AWS CS Architect Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2019