Ahmed Mohamed Taha, Technology Sales Consultant

Ahmed Mohamed Taha

Technology Sales Consultant

ALKAN Arabia

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY | COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Experience
19 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 2 Months

Technology Sales Consultant at ALKAN Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2013

Role Description:
Provides direction and specialist knowledge in applying the technology/application to client business. Facilitation of customer product/application understanding through presentations demonstrations and benchmarks; provision of support throughout the sell.
Doing Consultation activities to identify new opportunities and develop a larger, more qualified pipeline; execute opportunities more efficiently; turn opportunities into closed deals more frequently; ensure that each closed deal is as large and broad in scope as possible; increase our stature in accounts; and provide vision and leadership in enterprise architecture.
Responsibilities:
> Serving the entire GCC region with professional services, consulting, delivery, technical advisory or solution architecture.
> Solution Preparation/Proposal based on Customers Requirements.
> Product demonstrations.
> Proof of Concept Creation.
> Scoping assessments, with the aim of ensuring a comprehensive test and highlighting
opportunities for cross selling.
> Providing technical support to colleagues, both in general terms and in conference with
clients/prospects.
> Answering technical and scoping queries from clients/prospects.
> Developing an understanding of risk and the types of technical testing that can be used
to highlight this risk.

Solution Architect at Esri North EastAfrica
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2006 to March 2013

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
➢ Design and implement enterprise systems and solutions from requirements gathering phase to system implementation.
➢ Member of ESRI NeA R&D (Research and Development) department.
➢ Head of architecture committee at ESRI NeA.
➢ Member of Geographic Security System committee at ESRI NeA.

Responsibilities:
• Coordinate and perform design security infrastructure, testing systems performance, testing systems vulnerabilities, tuning systems performance, performing system security hardening, system deployment, and maintenance activities.
• Researching for the new and the next technologies that will enrich the market with new solutions.
• As one of R&D department members and founders, we are the driving power to the company to move steps forward ahead of the market technologies.
• Administrate the projects development environment and security policy development for the company.
• Understand the customers’ needs and gathering information to design the system architecture and work side by side with the development team to find out the best technology to use in the project.
• Making internal sessions and training for knowledge transfer to familiarize our internal team with new technologies.
• Work closely with the sales department and pre-sales department to develop and implement customer solutions as primary technical contact with the client.

Linux System Administrator / Security Engineer at MARIDIVE & OIL SERVICES
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • March 2005 to August 2006

Responsibilities:
> Implementing Proxy Server running on Linux Redhat Enterprise AS 4 server.
> Implementing and Designing Security system to secure Inbound/ outbound data
Transactions.
> Administrating Domain controllers Running on Windows Server 2003.
> Administrating ISA Server running on windows server 2000.
> Applying Security Polices.
> Designing the Network infrastructure.
> Designing the Security infrastructure in the HQ and Remote Sites.
> Planning the Hardware/Software Recommend for the company new sites.
> Implementing and design VPN Connections between company different sites
Locations.

Education

Bachelor's degree, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY | COMPUTER ENGINEERING
  • at ARAB ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND MARITIME TRANSPORT
  • March 2005

Specialties & Skills

Performance Tuning
Security Architecture Design
System Tuning
Solution Architecture
System Requirements
Database
Security Engineer
Linux System Administration
Systems Design
Data Administration
Pre-sales

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Instructor-Led (Training)
Training Institute:
ESRI System Architecture Design Strategies
Date Attended:
December 2009

Hobbies

  • Digital Photography
    Professional Level
  • Graphic Design / Photo Editing
    Photoshop Master Collection