ahmed reda, Senior System Specialist

ahmed reda

Senior System Specialist

Etisalat

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
15 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 6 Months

Senior System Specialist at Etisalat
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2015

Implementing and operating IT infrastructure servers and operating systems in Linux, Solaris and other operating systems.

acting as offline service desk team leader at Etisalat Misr
  • Egypt
  • September 2014 to August 2015

- Leading a team of offline service desk specialists to deliver high level of support to our customer.
- Reporting the team's performance to the upper management.
- Coaching and guiding the fresh team members
- I have been selected to be part of quality team for the online service desk calls and cases.

IT Service Desk Specialist at etisalat-misr
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2011 to September 2014

- In Etisalat: learned how to work in a big corporate that is one of the largest mobile operators in MEA area, if not the largest. With at least 10, 000+ employees, being the 1st line of support for in-house applications, vendor applications, operating system issue, printing services, ERP, POS and other departments and issues taught me to interface with different situations and different environment with different vision, especially with a programmer point of view. I’m proud to be the 1st and only member in Etisalat Misr’s 1st line of support who handles the inquiries through phone, Emails and live chat through MS Lync 2010 (Online, Offline and live chatting support) add to that the time management skills I learned from working on shifts, meeting deadlines, assuring SLAs at the same time doing my masters in Liverpool University.

Software Engineer at ipmagix
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2010 to June 2011

- In IPMagix: worked on Cisco IP-Phones, enhanced my software designing, DB and Silverlight skills.
I’ve programmed: IP-Reminder, Guest feedback survey for Cisco IP-Phones.
I’ve re-engineered Phone-Lock, Stocks and Wakeup-Call.
I’ve participated in acceptance tests where we, my company and the customer, agreed to test certain scenarios to assure the delivered software specifications.
I’ve participated in programming ticketing & queuing software, windows phone 7 developments, windows Azure, and R&D of Visual studio 2010, responsible for TFS deployment, investigating LINQ vs. SQL, Microsoft Lync2010 and Microsoft Unified Communication.

Technical Support Soldier at Egyptian Armed Forces
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2008 to December 2009

I worked in establishing computer networks from scratch; stretching out cables, making face plates, fibre optic cables, configuring IP cameras, setting up maps for computer network elements' locations, testing quality of the connections.

and sometimes we were maintaining the existing network's infrastructure through analysing it to be able to detect the malfunction, document, and then fix.

besides working with AVAYA experts in the IP Phone system they had for the call centre. and working with network analysing spectrum tools.

Education

Master's degree, Software Engineering
  • at University of Liverpool
  • April 2014

modules studied: Academic writing Computer Structures (CT) Professional Issues in Computing (PI) Software Engineering (SE) IT Project Management (PM) Object Oriented Analysis and Design (AD) Object-Oriented Programming in Java (JV) Managing the Software enterprise (MG) Scheduled modules: Software testing and QA Management (QA)

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at ElShorouk Academy
  • July 2008

Studied 4 years of computers science. Studied subjects like: computer graphics, computer networks, logic design, mathematics ( 1, 2 ,3), research operation, object oriented programming, computer structures, statistics and others. Graduation project was remote control framework, application of this framework was implemented on windows mobile 5 using the WCF.

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Programming
Applications Support
Troubleshooting
Silverlight
ITIL Foundation
virtualisation

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Sharepoint development (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2013
Valid Until:
March 2013
ITIL Foundation V3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012
Valid Until:
December 2012
ITIDA UML 2.0 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2011
ITIDA Object Oriented Analysis and Design (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2011