Ahmed Dobaby, Business Operation / Development Manager

Ahmed Dobaby

Business Operation / Development Manager

Gulf Technology Valley

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
24 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 8 Months

Business Operation / Development Manager at Gulf Technology Valley
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • My current job since October 2004

Projects assignments for big service provider names:

Jeraisy (Golden Cisco partner):

Consulting Jeraisy as senior network engineer some project involvements:

King Abdullah University Implementation for Network, Security and IP Telephony Business Edition.
Almeagel implementation for IP Telephony.
Providing network design for their projects.
Supporting there engineer in there critical situation.
Supporting presales for best design in their projects.

Al Othman Group:

Consulting there network setup and put them new design for implementation of routing protocol for all there network (over 30 router).

Goverment Sector: Al Hasa Municipality

Full Network building from scratch 2 catalyst switches with fully redundant using HSRP and 25 catalyst 2560 and 2 ASA 5540 with AIP20 and 6 Remote location Over MPLS technology from STC. Full Routing protocols Running in their network.

Controlling the full network remotly through VPN and Monitoring all the network with Cisco works 3.2 and Troubleshooting their problem and fix it on the spots.

Consultant Advisor for new Technology required on the Network and Security Solutions.


Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital

Cosultant Engineer for their network remotly controlled and wireless implementation for the whole hospital with WDS services for fast and secure roaming.

Consultant Advisor for new Technology required on the hospital.

KAUST (King Abdullah University)

IP Telephony Implementation and Security Implementation for ASA Firewalls.

PMU (Prince Mohammed University)

IP telephony upgrade from 4.1 to 8.5.
Implementation of IPCC (IP contact Center 8.5)

Business Operation and Developement Manager at Sara Group - Gulf Technology Valley (GTV)
  • Saudi Arabia
  • December 2003 to December 2018

Duties and responsibilities:
• Changing IT Department inside SARA Group to IT company GTV and change it from cost center to profit center and revenue generator.

• Building the company from scratch creating partnership with a huge company like (Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper, Brocade (previous Foundry), Trend Micro and Symantec.

• Creating Presentation for Product Portfolio with different Partners and put a business plan for the next 3 years with sales forecast.

• Creating projects for each customer requirements and hold a customer kick of meeting to get the customer requirements and convert it into the technical proposal with bill of material of the total solution, deciding the deadlines and milestones for the project and put the budget for the project and distribute the tasks for the different resources and follow up for the project progress and confirms to meet the deadlines and millstones to not have delay on the project handover.

• Implementation of huge network setup by IP Telephony System version 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, Unity server version 3, and 4, Voice gateways, MGCP, FXO, FXS, DID/DOD, Cisco Works version 2.2, 3.1, and 3.2, MPLS, BGP, MBPG, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP, RIP, IPV6, IPV6 Routing protocols, Multicast PIM, Auto RP, BSR, MSRP, QOS MQC, Priority Queuing, Catalyst QOS, CBWFQ, WRED, LLQ, Security Solutions ASA 5510, 5520, and 5540, IPS Configuration AIP10, AIP 20, VPN Technology with all its type (easy VPN, Any connect, webvpn, SSL vpn), Catalyst Switches 4005, 4500E, and 6509E, HSRP, GLBP, VRRP, IP SLA, SNMP v1, v2, and v3, Iron port Mail filter and web filter, NBAR, Trend Micro worry free, office scan 9, and 10, leak proof version 5.0, Nexus Switches for Data Center, EMC Storage, ISE Solution for Cisco, Wireless Controllers 5508 Series, UCS for Cisco and Virtualization, Oracle Virtual Machine, Redhat Linux 6.

• arranging all business legal paper work and work flow cycle for the new company to have fully managerial control of all process.

• Increasing the partner level and sustain a very good relation with the suppliers and follow the payments on time to gain supplier relation ship.

• Follow up on customers and making verification of there due payment and follow up the collection to keep cash flow with company to cover its liabilities.

• Helping customer to chose the proper solution according to there budget and build strategic trust relation ship with them to sustain the business partner relation ship.

• Ability of remote controlling of equipments and changing configuration for live equipments without loss connections and with minimal timeout services given to our customers to raise the level of our responsibility.

• Good Learner I love technology learning new things is my passion.

Network Engineer at NOOR Advanced Technologies (ISP)
  • Egypt
  • September 1999 to November 2003

Network setup for the whole company i was a network engineer resposible for building the whole network from the scratch with my team.
Provisioning user PVCs Over Stratacom WAN switches (MGX&BPX).
Provisioning user PVCs Over Paradyne DSLAMS.
Implementing ADSL for first time in Egypt and test it for 2 Months before the implementation.
Implementing new solution for the company in central connectivity reduce the cost of the company 50% and increase the bandwidths 5 times.
Follow up the user PVCs until the user is up and running.
Configuring the user network and setup ISA, Exchange or Firewhale depend on the user requirments.
Monitoring tool for the user over HP open view and MRTG.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Sadat Academy for Managerment Sciences
  • June 2000

Other Major Certifications to Credit: CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) CCSP (Cisco Certified Security Professional). CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) (Written exam) CCVP (Cisco certified Voice Professional) Course only - CVoice - IP telephony V4.1 - QOS Full Implementation for IP Telephony and our company is the biggest reference for cisco in KSA. MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) Exchange 2003 Course only. ISA 2004 Course Only. Analytical trouble shooting Course only IP traffic engineering Course only MPLS Course only Strata com WAN switches (MGX, BPX) Course only Wireless connectivity (Red Line) Course only CISSP Course Only by (ISC)2 CEH

Specialties & Skills

Enterprise Management
Layer 3
Symantec Antivirus
Microsoft Office
Business Operation and Developement Manager

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) (Training)
Training Institute:
Network Gate
Date Attended:
November 2012

Hobbies

  • Reading books, walking, swimming and GYM