Hatem Farag CCIE RS #, Enterprise Solution Provisioning Sr. Engineer

Hatem Farag CCIE RS #

Enterprise Solution Provisioning Sr. Engineer

TEDATA

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Doctorate, CCIE R&S Certified #54446
Experience
16 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months

Enterprise Solution Provisioning Sr. Engineer at TEDATA
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since November 2014

• Responsible on Key Account customers such Banking, Government, Manufacturing & Telecom Sector activation.
• Design the customer enterprise network solution (Internet & VPN) as per the customer needs.
• Design alternative solutions to maintain customer service level Agreement SLA.
• Provision new customer circuits as per the pre-defined policies, SLA and procedures to deliver customer requirements.
• Configure and troubleshoot MPLS VPN L2 & L3 on PE (Cisco & Juniper) platforms.
• Configure PE-CE routing protocols (OSPF, RIP, EIGRP & BGP).
• Configure LDP sessions, MP-BGP, VRF instance & Traffic Engineering in IP/MPLS cloud.
• Configure Cisco routers at the customer site (3640, 2811, 1941 & 888) platforms.
• Configure SHDSL local loop terminations on DSLAM Devices (Huawei IP & ATM DSLAM, Alcatel ISAM, ZTE & MSAN).
• Configure Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) such (Routers, modems, firewalls, Switches, voice gateways & wireless equipment).
• Implement different network redundancy techniques like HSRP, VRRP & GLBP; in addition to load balancing using Ether Channels and Multilink interfaces.
• Apply QOS for enterprise customer to achieve high level of performance.
• Coordinate and follow up with concerned departments such as Core, Capacity planning, Pre-Sales, technicians, supply chain and project managers to ensure that customer's technical solution will be successfully delivered.
• Cultivating strategic customer relationships and ensuring that the customer perspective is the driving force behind all value-added business activities.

KA Enterprise Operations Engineer at Etisalat
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2012 to November 2014

 Provide a premium support and maintenance of our Key Account (KA) and large enterprise (LE)
customers.
 Provide a second line support for VIP customers trouble tickets till solving the problems to ensure that
the service is running in the customer satisfactory level.
 Respond to all technical needs and requests of the LE customers to insure proper & professional
handling for LE customers.
 Handle LE customers’ critical and highly escalated problems and complains with full privilege on all
network devices on spot to ensure timely and proper solving of problems.
 Follow up with vendors TAC and support teams to manage complex faults that affect technology &
services boundaries.
 Perform service acceptance for the new installed connections for LE customers to grantee delivering
our customer the requested service within the high quality and performance standards.
 Perform a periodically test LE customer connections and apply corrective actions to ensure high
quality and best service performance and SLA and KPIs fulfillment.
 Responsible for the Operation & Maintenance of customer connections "copper, fiber, 3G & MW links".
 Perform configuration related to that technologies "MPLS, VPLS, L2VPN switching technologies,
L3VPN, Data over 3G and Microwave links, GRE Tunnels, VLAN Ethernet technologies, BGP, EIGRP, RIP,
OSPF, QOS techniques, Load Balancing".
 Provide onsite training for inexperienced customers with full documentation about their networks and
variant troubleshooting procedures to help the fast and proper problem solving.
 Dealing with Huawei Routers (NE40’s), Cisco routers (2800, 800, 1800 & 1900) and Catalyst switches,
ATM switches (MGX & BPX), Huawei ATM & IP DSLAM, Modems and Juniper routers (M10i, M120).

Enterprise Technical Support Engineer at Etisalat
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2009 to September 2012

• Receive enterprise customer complaints via phone or mail.
• Perform professional level troubleshooting of customer problems aiming at solving the problems, or
properly indicating the source of the problem and forwarding it to the right entity through the right
channels to ensure that the service is running in the customer satisfactory level.
• Troubleshooting all supported services (VPN MPLS, Layer 2 VPN, International VPN and internet connections) through Etisalat's network.
• Handling customer configuration requests on their routers.
• Troubleshooting customer’s physical and logical problems and helping customers in designing and configuring their networks.
• Configuring CPE devices and also troubleshoot configuration problems related to customers from both customer and service provider sides.
• Troubleshooting advanced customer PE to CE routing problems.
• Working on shift basis 24/7.
• Dealing with Huawie Routers, Cisco routers (7200, 3600, 1700, 1600) and Cisco Catalyst switches, ATM switches (MGX & BPX), ATM & Huawie IP DSLAM and Modems and Juniper routers (M10i, M120).

Network engineer, NOC Team at NOOR Advanced Technology, ISP
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2009 to November 2009

That Team is responsible for performing a professional level E2E troubleshooting of customer problems to ensure the customer's connectivity and satisfaction 24/7.
During my work at NOOR, I gained experience in dealing with:
• Many types of DSLAMS like Paradyne, ZTE and D-link.
• Cisco WAN switches (MGX 8850 and BPX 8600) and Cisco routers (7500, 7200, 3640, and 2600).
• Tracing and creating Cross connections on DSLAMs and BPXs.
• Follow up with Technicians on site while fixing hardware and physical issues.

Network Engineer at Arma Food Industry
  • Egypt
  • May 2008 to August 2009

• Design and implement a network infrastructure plus a data center to support LAN (over 1000 nodes) and WAN (over a 20 branches).
• Solid experience in Cisco routers (2821), catalysts (3750-3560), Firewall (ASA 5520) And Cisco VPN.
• Network Cables installation & maintenance (optic fiber, UTP).
• Perform IT checklist to ensure min. interruptions and failures and max. Business Efficiency.
• Monitor Network Performance by using Some Management tools (Solar Winds).
• Support and administer Microsoft servers (ISA, Active directory and Exchange).

Network Engineer at ELAN
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2007 to April 2008

perform a Technical Support for all technical issues related to ADSL services, VPN connections, IP Camaera, Internal network (LAN).
Network Devices Installation and configuration (ADSL Routers, VPN, IP Camera).
Perform the required survey and plan the network setup before proceeding on installation.

Education

Doctorate, CCIE R&S Certified #54446
  • at Cisco
  • October 2016
Diploma, JNCIA
  • at Juniper Networks
  • December 2015
Diploma, Six Sigma Yellow Belt
  • at PMI
  • December 2015
Diploma, CCNP-SP
  • at Cisco
  • April 2015
Diploma, CCNP-R&S
  • at Cisco
  • June 2009
Diploma, CCNA
  • at Cisco
  • May 2008
Bachelor's degree, Communication and Electronics Engineer
  • at Helwan University
  • June 2007

B.SC in Communication Engineering (June 2007) Faculty : Engineering University : Helwan Grade : good Graduation project : Voice over power line Graduation project grade : Very good

Specialties & Skills

Cisco Routers
LAN WAN
MPLS VPN
Computer knowledge
Problem Management
Project Management
Presentation Skills
Hard Working
Dealing with Microsoft Visio

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Huawei Access DSLAMs Operation and Maintenance (Training)
Training Institute:
Huawei
Date Attended:
May 2010
Duration:
80 hours
Alcatel-Lucent ISAM operation & Maintenance (Training)
Training Institute:
Alcatel-Lucent
Date Attended:
May 2014
Duration:
80 hours
Fundamentals of Project Management (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI
Date Attended:
June 2013
Duration:
40 hours
JNCIA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
CCNP-SP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2015
Valid Until:
April 2018
CCNP-R&S (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2009
Valid Until:
May 2012
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2008
Valid Until:
April 2018

Hobbies

  • Play Station
  • Read historical books
  • Read about technology