Ahmed Hamdy, System Engineer Manager (Pre-Sales)

Ahmed Hamdy

System Engineer Manager (Pre-Sales)

EMC

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Power
Experience
19 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months

System Engineer Manager (Pre-Sales) at EMC
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since July 2014

-Manage a team of 28 system engineers that provides technical and consultative
support to EMC Field Technology Solutions, Sales, and Marketing on specific solutions
for a range of consulting projects.
-Defined strategy and business plan for the sizing desk
Initiated program that standardized employee training and led to increase in customer
satisfaction .
-Rollout new services; help define service, create/enforce SLAs, define key skill set
requirements, assist in staffing and recruiting efforts.
-Utilizing in-depth knowledge of SE Analyst functions, recommend and implement
innovative approaches to driving efficiency and process improvement.
-Develop robust forecasts and variance analysis for production planning, training to
meet SLA's.
-Hold regular meetings with Presales Shared Services Senior Management providing:
updates on the team and performance; updates on any product changes; feedback on
any issues and escalation within the team Measure and manage customer satisfaction
with regard to responsiveness and accuracy Help adopt and drive initiatives into the
local team.
- Establish and maintain relationship with Customers, Corporate, Pre-Sales and Account
Managers across EMEA

Global Account Team Lead (Supervisor) - Technology Consultant (Pre-sales) at EMC
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2010 to July 2014

Global Account Team Lead (Supervisor) - Associate Technology Consultant - Technology Solutions Support Office (TSSO), EMEA Central

 Manage implementation of customer technical solution
 Technical Scope Management (subset of project scope)
 Ensure technical solution is implemented as designed and in compliance with technical specifications
 Develop implementation/migration plans in compliance with the overall project plan
 Manage site delivery in accordance with the implementation schedule
 Works autonomously to ensure service delivery within committed time-frames and meeting major milestones.
 Pro actively identifying and resolving problems that can potentially jeopardize the service due date and service quality
 Drive resolution of technical implementation issues
 Provide implementation status reports
 Responsible to update HQ customer on their orders through conference calls and by sending weekly status reports.
 Coordinate and manage Customer Acceptance Testing
 Produce technical documentation

Implementation Manager (Technical Project Manager) at Orange Business Services (Equant)
  • Egypt
  • January 2008 to February 2010

-Manage implementation of customer technical solution
-Technical Scope Management (subset of project scope)
-Ensure technical solution is implemented as designed and in compliance with technical specifications
-Develop implementation/migration plans in compliance with the overall project plan
-Manage site delivery in accordance with the implementation schedule
-Works autonomously to ensure service delivery within committed time-frames and meeting major milestones.
-Pro actively identifying and resolving problems that can potentially jeopardize the service due date and service quality
-Drive resolution of technical implementation issues
-Provide implementation status reports
-Responsible to update HQ customer on their orders through conference calls and by sending weekly status reports.
-Coordinate and manage Customer Acceptance Testing
-Produce technical documentation

Solution Delivery Specialist at Orange Business Services (Equant)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2006 to January 2008

-Provide end-to-end ownership for all service orders delivered within country of responsibility within committed timeframes to include order entry, order validation, order tracking, scheduling, HQ customer ownership for organic growth orders
-Accountable for order management of all customer orders from the receipt of valid service requests, to the handover as per predefined milestones.
-Responsible to update HQ customer on their orders through conference calls and by sending weekly status reports.
-Works autonomously to ensure service delivery within committed time-frames and meeting major milestones.
-Proactively identifying and resolving problems that can potentially jeopardize the service due date and service quality
-Help other Team members in any work field
-Make technical presentations to help team members

Solution Delivery Manager at Orange Business Services (Equant)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2005 to December 2006

-Provide end-to-end ownership for all service orders delivered within country of responsibility within committed timeframes to include order entry, order validation, order tracking, scheduling, HQ customer ownership for organic growth orders
-Accountable for order management of all customer orders from the receipt of valid service requests, to the handover as per predefined milestones.
-Responsible to update HQ customer on their orders through conference calls and by sending weekly status reports.
-Works autonomously to ensure service delivery within committed time-frames and meeting major milestones.
-Proactively identifying and resolving problems that can potentially jeopardize the service due date and service quality

Sales Technical Support at ALKAN Consult
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2005 to October 2005

-Identifying customer technical requirements from tender books.
-Preparing the Bill of Material and providing quotations from different vendors.
-Preparing tender proposals

Pre-Sales Technical Support Transmission Line Department - Trainee at Siemens Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2002 to August 2002

-Assist in upgrading the network in Egypt.
-Assist in preparing the Bill of Material.

Trainee at Arab Contractors Co & SL-Rush Co.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2001 to August 2001

One month training in the project of El Hussein Mosque Umbrellas working with the installation team for the automatic and electrical circuits in the site of the project.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Power
  • at Faculty of Engineering– Helwan University
  • June 2004

-Overall Grade: Good. -Graduation Project Grade: Excellent.

High school or equivalent,
  • at Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule (DEO)
  • July 1999

Graduated from DEO (German School) Dokki-Cairo

Specialties & Skills

Handover
Order Management
Management
Technical Support
Fast Learner
Internet
communication, organizational, and managerial
MS Word, Excel, Access, Power Point,Lotus Notes
German, English, Arabic

Languages

German
Expert
French
Beginner
English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Routing (CCNP) (Training)
Training Institute:
NTI (National Telecommunication Institute)
Date Attended:
July 2006
CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
NTI (National Telecommunication Institute)
Date Attended:
March 2006
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Training)
Training Institute:
EMC
Date Attended:
November 2011
Project management methodology from SYNERGY project management centre of excellence (Training)
Training Institute:
Orange/Synergy
Date Attended:
May 2009
LSS YB (Lean Six Sigma YB) (Training)
Training Institute:
EMC
Date Attended:
April 2011
Deutsches Sprachdiplom (German Language Diploma) (Training)
Training Institute:
German School (DEO)
Date Attended:
September 1998
PMP Project management professional (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI
Date Attended:
May 2008
Goals and Goal Setting (Training)
Training Institute:
Sita
Date Attended:
July 2007
Customer Satisfaction Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Sita
Date Attended:
December 2006
High Impact Presentation Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Dale Carnegie
Date Attended:
January 2012
ISM Certified - Information Storage and Management (Training)
Training Institute:
EMC
Date Attended:
February 2010
ITIL® version 3 (Training)
Training Institute:
EMC
Date Attended:
July 2011