Charbel Aoun, Senior Systems Engineer

Charbel Aoun

Senior Systems Engineer

CIS

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Master's degree, Computer and Communication engineering
Experience
16 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 6 Months

Senior Systems Engineer at CIS
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since February 2015

• Providing advanced technical support for clients in the Banking, Telecom and Government sectors in Lebanon and abroad through the company’s subsidiaries.
• Preparing and providing advanced technical trainings to multiple customers.
• Communicating and escalating cases with vendors and follow-up.
• Coordinating the project team; planning the project phases, Setting Milestones, agreeing costs and standards to be monitored and controlled during Execution.
• Supervising, assigning tasks and advising Junior Engineers.

IT Analyst Consultant at Cleartag
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2013 to July 2015

• Monitor existing IT systems overseeing implementation of new systems and data migration
• Analyze systems requirements and implement feasible solutions
• Liaise and report to internal and external clients, including colleagues and developers and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction
• Provide trainings and user manuals
• Domain registration and Hosting account management (Windows / Linux)

Technical Support Engineer at CIS
  • Lebanon
  • February 2013 to February 2015

• Identifying problems; Anticipating requirements; Evaluating trends;
• Installation and support of HPE Proliant Servers (ML/BL/DL), Blade Enclosures including SAN infrastructure (FC Switches, Storage Systems, StorageWorks Tape Libraries).
• Storage installation, configuration and support HPE (P2000, MSA, EVA, 3PAR)
• Implementation and support of High Availability Clusters Hyper-V and VMware
• Installation & Configuration of Microsoft Windows server 2003/2008/2012 (Active Directory & DNS, Group Policies, DHCP ...) RedHat Linux 6 and 7.
• Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010/2013 Installation, configuration and migration
• Riverbed WAN optimization implementation and support.
• HPE Data protector, Acronis Backup, Veritas Backup Exec, Kaspersky Security, Symantec Endpoint Protection and Sophos Antivirus installation and configuration.

IT Administrator at Bellevue Medical Center
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2011 to December 2012

• Maintaining and monitoring the functionality and state of all network devices including radius, VLANs, VPN, firewall ACLs, web interfaces (Cisco switches, router, ASA firewall, WLAN controller, IP telephony, CallManager, access points), network monitoring (prtg, spiceworks).
• Managing virtual infrastructure's workstations & servers configuration, migrations, upgrades, patch management, maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting (VMware ESXi 4.1, vCenter server, vSphere Client, vShield, update manager, VMs, Sun Solaris Servers and thin clients)
• Mail server (MDaemon 11), Sharepoint 2010 and Active Directory Domain Administration (DNS, DHCP, ISA firewall, File server, users and policies)
• Perform Preventive Maintenance, Backups and Disaster Recovery jobs on Sun and IBM SAN storages. Provide support on MS SQL Database.
• Provide user training and support, account creation and management; analyze and troubleshoot reported problems and recommend solutions.
• Study and advise new solutions to the management and implement improvements to optimize the overall IT infrastructure performance.

Private Tutor at Freelance
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • October 2007 to January 2012

Teaching Particular Lessons in both scientific and literary materials for school students from various educational levels.

Systems Engineer at MGG linux experts
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • April 2010 to March 2011

• Provide IT solutions for small to medium sized enterprises.
• Install and configure Windows Server 2008 and active directory domains.
• Set up LAN, FTP server, Samba File Server, DNS Server, DHCP Server, Postfix mail server, Mail scanner, Endian Firewall, Print Server…
• Work on Koha, under Ubuntu and Centos.

Technical support Specialist at Telesupport international
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • January 2010 to April 2010

• Handling network, ADSL, Broadband, domains and email problems.
• Fixing problems through troubleshooting procedures.

Education

Master's degree, Computer and Communication engineering
  • at Universitee Antonine
  • February 2011

Specialties & Skills

Blade Servers
Storage Solutions
Microsoft Technologies

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Memberships

Les Scouts du Liban
  • Former Member
  • April 2004
Order of Engineers and Architects
  • Member
  • March 2013

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
Promastar
Date Attended:
October 2015
Duration:
35 hours
PMI PMP - Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2015
HP Technical Certified II - P6000 EVA Disk Array [2012] (Certificate)
Riverbed Technical Sales Specialist - WAN Optimization (Certificate)
Symantec technical specialist in Backup-exec (Certificate)
Managing HP 3PAR StoreServ I (Training)
Training Institute:
HP
HP ATP - BladeSystem Solutions Integrator V8.1 (Certificate)
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) (Certificate)
RHEL Clustering and Storage Management (Training)
Training Institute:
HP
HP Virtual Connect (Training)
Training Institute:
HP
HP Blade System Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
HP
Managing HP 3PAR StoreServ II (Training)
Training Institute:
HP
Riverbed Sales Associate (Certificate)
HP ASE - Server Solutions Integrator V8.1 (Certificate)
HP ATP - Server Solutions V1 (Certificate)
HP ASE - Server Solutions Architect V8 (Certificate)
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) (Certificate)
HP ATP - Storage Solutions V1 (Certificate)
Certified System Administrator HP-UX (Certificate)
Riverbed’s WAN200 Optimization Essentials (Training)
Training Institute:
Riverbed
Date Attended:
July 2013
HP ATP - Server Administrator V8 (Certificate)
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) (Certificate)
HP Support Certified - Industry Standard Server Solutions [2013] (Certificate)
Riverbed Technical Sales Associate - WAN Optimization (Certificate)
HP ASE - Storage Solutions Architect V1 (Certificate)
CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
Antonine University
Date Attended:
October 2006

Hobbies

  • Reading, surfing the web, and multiple kinds of sports like Hiking, Skiing, Football and Swimming