Ahmed Fared, IT Infrastructure Service Manager

Ahmed Fared

IT Infrastructure Service Manager

DHL

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Communication and Electronics
Experience
17 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 8 Months

IT Infrastructure Service Manager at DHL
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2015

Accountable for managing the network and operations and deliver of critical projects, and for providing managerial support for all IT Team and projects
conducted by the company, Also responsible for applying the global projects and standards in country and technical updates of any known issues/risks to Senior Managers.

MENA Project Manager at Thomson Reuters
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2013 to April 2015

• Responsible for migrating Thomson Reuters client’s from Satellite connection to Internet Connection Delivery options.

• Handling Africa and Middle East internet connections to Thomson Reuter’s servers in UK.

• Responsible to thoroughly understand and communicate client’s requirements to appropriate team members, and manage all requirements accordingly to realize each for the client.

• Coordinate and facilitate delivery of project objectives.

• Track progress and review project tasks to make certain deadlines are met appropriately.

• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and client’s goals.

• Conduct regular status meetings with all clients, keeping the client’s needs and Requirements continuously in view.

• Work collaboratively with development staff and support to ensure that all communications between Account Managers and its clients are precise.

• Troubleshoot technical issues when the need arises, and escalating appropriately as needed

Solution Provisioning Senior Engineer at linkdotnet
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2011 to June 2013

• Responsible for understanding and designing customer standard/non-standard solutions as per his
Requests by calls or meetings including physical connectivity methods and providing recommended configuration for both CE and PE equipments.

• Responsible for managing enterprise customer projects, implementing the new solutions (Internet
Connectivity, VPN Connectivity L3 and L2, VPN Over ADSL, VPN Over 3G, Motorola Wimax
Connectivity)

• Network configuration related to customer solution and implement and manage customer solution on site
• Responsible of provisioning customer solutions from Access & Core side

Enterprise Support Senior Engineer at LINKdotNET
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2008 to March 2011

• Senior Enterprise Support Engineer

Network Operations Centre

• Job Description - Senior Enterprise Support Engineer ( NOC Department )

The Network Operation Centre (NOC) has three main roles:

1. to ensure maximum possible service availability and performance
2. to provision customer network services on core equipment
3. to provide support services for Engineering and other technical teams


We interact frequently with technical support, service provisioning and sales teams so it's important that we are clear and concise in our communications. We also work very closely with the Engineering team and as such need to develop a good all-round understanding of systems and networks.


Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain the LDN Core network (MPLS, BGP and OSPF).
• Failure handling and escalation.
• Provisioning (IP assignment, core network configuration, DNS setup, monitoring and graphing for Data Consumed, leased lines, customer backup and other customer network services (VPN over DSL, 3G and WIFI) and supporting the customer technically 24x7.

• Responsible for Configuration, Monitoring and troubleshooting the IP/MPLS core network at LDN. Vendors are (Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel, Paradyne )

• Supporting the installation & troubleshooting of lease lines from the network operations aspects.

• Following up on CRM tickets flow with other teams.

• Familiar with Juniper ERX BRAS, Juniper M/T series, Juniper MX series, Cisco CRS, 878, 2600, 7500, 3000 routers, Cisco 3500, 2900 switches, Alcatel Lucent ISAMs FD & XD, Alcatel Lucent ASAMs, AWS & AMS, ZMS access management, 3com switches, Zohne, Paradyne, Adetran, OneAccess 1421 and 1431 SHDSL routers.

Network Engineer at Quadra Tech
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2008 to October 2008

Working as System Engineer installing and troubleshooting Networks
Routing and Switching Division

• Familiar with Core Switches 6500 Series and 4500 Series.
• Familiar with Edge Switches 3560 and 2960Series.
• VTP, Vlans and Port-Channels at Khalda Petroleum on 6509 and 3560 .
• Upgrading 6509-E From Supervisor 2 to Supervisor 720 at Qaron Petroleum.
• Supervising For NSGB Bank Branches Cabling and Switching.
• Configuring two Tunnel interfaces Between two sites Cairo and Suez on 2800 Router at IFFCO on two different ISPs
Main and Backup.
• Basic ASA Configuration and Site To Site VPN on ASA 5510 Cairo and Suez at IFFCO.
• WebVPN and Group Policies at IFFCO.
• Responsible for Switching and Cabling infrastructure for new and old NSGB branches.
• Talaat Mustafa New Building mounting 21 Edges Switches and 4509 Core Switch with basic configuration

Network Engineer at MTA Networks
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2007 to March 2008

➢ (24/11/2007 - 31/2/2008): MTA Networks www.almasa-eg.com

About MTA: Cisco Registered Partner
• Network Engineer

Working as Technical Engineer installing and troubleshooting Networks

• Cisco Switches and Routers
• HP Switches
• LinkSys Switches
• Motorola WIMAX
• Barracuda Spam Firewall
• Aruba Wireless Network
• LAN/WAN environments Setup

Trainee at Synergy Cairo (Global Knowledge)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2006 to October 2007

➢ (30/12/2006 - 30/10/2007): Synergy Cairo (Global Knowledge), MCIT
Scholarship 2007: including the following:
• Trainee

• CCNA Course & Certification ( R 2610 / SW 2950)
• CCNP Course & Certification (Remote Laps R 2611, R 1700, R 2811 / SW 2950, SW 3550)
• Graduation Project: Centralized IP Telephony System using IP Phones and CallManager 4.1
• Material used CVoice v4.2 and CIP.
• English (Berlitz) and Soft Skills (Dale Carnegie) Courses.

Trainee at National Bank Tower
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2006 to December 2006

➢ (17/9/2006- 17/12/2006): National Bank Tower: including the following:
• Trainee
• Installing and configuring IP Phones and CallManager (IIS Project)
• Supporting Windows XP and Network issues troubleshooting for users distributed over all the tour.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Communication and Electronics
  • at Modern Academy for Engineering and Technology
  • January 2006

• B.Sc. in Communication and Electronics, Modern Academy for Engineering and Technology - Cairo, Communication Section, with a grade Very Good and Graduation Project in the topic of "Sniper Robot" (Grade: Excellent) (2000 -2006)

High school or equivalent,
  • at Al Zahrat Language School
  • January 2000

• Graduation School: Al Zahrat Language School (1990 - 2000)

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional CCIP
Server 2003
Security +
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Network +
MARKETING
MCSE 2003
PROBLEM SOLVING
IP Phones and CallManager
Project +

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

• CCNA Course & Certification ( R-2610 / SW 2950 ) • CCNP Course & Certification (Remote Laps R-26 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2006
Valid Until:
October 2007