Ahmed Hikal, Software Engineer – AIX Remote Technical support

Ahmed Hikal

Software Engineer – AIX Remote Technical support

IBM Egypt

Location
Egypt
Education
Master's degree, Master of Business Administration - MBA
Experience
6 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :6 years, 8 Months

Software Engineer – AIX Remote Technical support at IBM Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2013 to May 2016

This role participates in remote technical support of IBM HW/SW and may include the following:
- Managing all UNIX services and applications, Power System Support.
- Provides overall support and maintenance of operating system and network connectivity for all AIX systems.
- Monitors system performance and solve performance issue if any to ensure adequate response times for production servers/applications.
- Establish and documents procedures to ensure data integrity including system fail-over and Backup/Recovery.
- Provides reliable backup services, Conducts routine HW and SW audits for AIX servers for compliance with established standards, Polices, Configuration guidelines and procedures.
- Implementing and troubleshooting different AIX solutions like Packages, LVM, NIM, Multibos, WPAR, Ifix/APAR, Upgrade/Migrate, and Booting issue.
- Dump analysis to know reasons for Servers Crash/Hangs.
- Analysis of Performance issues and give recommendations to solve this issue
- PowerVM implementation and troubleshooting.
- Deal with Multi-Pathing between VIOS and different Storage vendors Like IBM, EMC, and Hitachi.
- PowerHA implementation and troubleshooting.

General Administration tasks:
- Training New comes on AIX basics, Administration, and troubleshooting techniques for different issues.
- Customer care training based on relation between IBM and customers.
- Monitor some agent’s metrics and find solutions to push them meeting their targets.
- Time management training.
- Training on how to Maintaining highest client satisfaction.

AIX /Redhat Team Leader at IT Valley company [IBM
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2011 to May 2013

☑ IT Valley company \[IBM partner- Oracle partner -Red Hat partner\] form ( 1-8-2011 to Now)
Job title: AIX /Redhat Team Leader.
Job description:
- AIX 7 Certified Administrator
- AIX Administration and Implementation over Power systems.
- PowerVM Virtualization implementation and Administration.
- HMC and PowerHA Administration.
- Redhat Administration and implementation over different Platforms including IBM system X and Power Systems.
- Teaching AIX "AN10-AN11-AN12-AN14-AN15-AN21-AP25-AN30-AN31-AN41-AL32" Courses covering AIX administration, Virtualization, Clustering, and Shell Programming.
- Teaching Redhat "RH124-RH135-RH254" courses covering the Redhat administration.

Administration track at MCIT
  • Saudi Arabia
  • November 2010 to September 2011

☑ MCIT Scholarship Program Unix Solaris Administration track (from 21/11/2010 to 15/9/2011)
Job title: Candidate in UNIX Solaris track.


- UNIX Solaris essential course.
- UNIX Solaris Admin. I and Admin II courses
- UNIX Solaris Network and Security courses.
- UNIX Solaris Shell programming and Performance courses.
- FreeBSD course (Essential and Administration)
- N+, Security +, and fundamentals of c# programming.

Networks, Hardware and Software Engineer at Syllabus Training Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2009 to November 2010

 Syllabus Training Company (from 1/10/2009 to 15/11/2010).
Job title: Networks, Hardware and Software Engineer.
Job description:
- CCNA “Cisco Certified Network Associate” Instructor.
- Troubleshooting the Cisco Router and Switches Problems.
- Implement Networking using Cisco Routers and switches.
- MCSE “Microsoft Certified System Engineer” Instructor.
- Implementing Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Child domains.
- Implementing Routing and Net filter on the servers.
- Implementing and Managing ISA.

Education

Master's degree, Master of Business Administration - MBA
  • at American University in Cairo
  • December 2016

I joined EBS MBA program at AUC. It is a online program by Edinburgh Business school at Heroit-Watt school in UK. It is ranked as the best online MBA program and ranked among the best MBA programs all over the world. This program sponsored in Egypt by American University in Egypt. I joined this program so I can expand my knowledge in the finical, Project Management , Marketing, and Economics. I enrolled in Project Management course May 2014 Expected date to finish the Program Dec. 2016

Diploma, ITIL Foundation course
  • at IBM Egypt with Skillport from USA
  • May 2014

This course is related to processes inside work, and how to improve our service quality and to maintain this service quality, also it contain service management and service design. This help me to sharp my skills in the filed of call centers and how you can plan and design a service that meet the customer requirements, also how to manage this server and maintain a good service quality.

Diploma, PMP - Project Management Professional 5
  • at IBM Egypt training with Skillport from USA
  • March 2014

As part from my career development inside IBM. I enrolled in Project management course to improve my skill in management and how to builds teams, to be able in the future to Lead teams and projects. I have this 50 hours course online with Skill port company from USA, including the theoretical material and some practices on project management, beside discussing how IBM look to Project managers and Project Management ?.

Bachelor's degree, Electrical communication and electronics department
  • at Mansoura University
  • September 2009

I joined Mansoura University to enroll in Electronics and Electrical communication department, I spent their 5 years studying some useful Information Like Signals, Networks, Microwaves, Math, and Programming Language. My overall grade was Very Good, My graduation project was in Micro strip antenna and I had an excellent grade in it . The project was about implementing a Micro strip antenna in the for of a Yagi antenna so we can Focus the signals come to the antenna and out from the antenna so this will give us a high range of frequencies covered and also more space to cover.

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Specialties & Skills

Team Performance
UNIX Shell Scripting
Team Supervision
Customer Service
Project Management
ENGINEER
FREEBSD
INSTRUCTOR
SECURITY
SHELL PROGRAMMING
SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

(Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2011
Valid Until:
September 2011
Unix Solaris Certified Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
February 2011
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Valid Until:
August 2011
AIX 7 Certified Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
January 2013
Unix Solaris Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2011
Unix Solaris Security Expert (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
April 2011
Unix Solaris Network Expert (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
March 2011
PMR attending course certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
Valid Until:
October 2024

Hobbies

  • Sports
    I love both watching and playing football, also I love watching basketball I love how players do dunks and so on ...
  • Reading
    I love to read in different field, like Politics, Science, Novels, and fiction. My point in love reading is that I can live too many lives through books as every book contain someone experiences when I read this book, I take his experience without been through his life.