Alaa L Rajab, Deputy Regional IT Manager (North Africa)

Alaa L Rajab

Deputy Regional IT Manager (North Africa)

Hill International

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Zagazig University
Experience
22 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 0 Months

Deputy Regional IT Manager (North Africa) at Hill International
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since January 2009

Responsible for IT support, analysis and solutions to all projects of Hill International in the region of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt) including, but not limited to,

• Installing and maintaining servers and network equipment
• Installing and implementing Active Directory and infrastructure services
• Installing and implementing all server applications (Microsoft and third party applications such as Primavera)
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting IP telephone system facilities (Cisco & Avaya)
• Supervising helpdesk teams and site admins of all projects of the region
• Reporting to the Regional IT Manager and Global IT Corporate team of Hill International
• Installing and configuring Cisco equipment (routers and switches)
• Preparing budgets and providing TCO solutions
• Studying and filling out the IT scope of all project contracts
• Coordinating with Microsoft team about cloud and virtualization issues

System Engineer at Nile.com
  • March 2005 to December 2008

• Administrating local company system
• Planning, installing, administering, managing and designing Microsoft-based solutions (Directory service, server systems and infrastructure services)
• Designing and supporting security solutions for customers (Symantec, McAfee, Sanctuary Device Control and Application Control).
• Planning and performing backup and disaster recovery solutions
• Installing, serving and troubleshooting IBM server systems
• Providing server solutions for all kinds of business
• Configuring and troubleshooting RAID arrays for servers.
• Designing and maintaining layer 2 and layer 3 switching for customers
• configuring and supporting Cisco-based routers for customers
• Supervising Network cabling efforts at the customers sites
• Providing 2nd level of support for basic troubleshooting efforts for IT teams of the customers

Network Administrator & Instructor at Houras Institute for IT and Languages Education
  • Egypt
  • March 2004 to February 2005

• Administering all network processes and issues (Windows Server 2003-based)
• Performing H/W and S/W troubleshooting
• Working as a Network Instructor

Network Technician at Al Sakr Internet Service
  • Egypt
  • June 2002 to February 2004

• Managing and troubleshooting the LAN of the company
• Maintaining and troubleshooting internet connection problems for customers
• Installing and troubleshooting LANs for customers

Education

Bachelor's degree, Zagazig University
  • at Faculty of Commerce
  • September 2002

Studied; - Accounting - Auditing - Information Systems - HR and more

Specialties & Skills

IT Management
IT Operations