Hisham Zeidan, Network Consultant Engineer

Hisham Zeidan

Network Consultant Engineer

Cisco Systems

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Comunication
Experience
17 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 8 Months

Network Consultant Engineer at Cisco Systems
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2007

- Resident engineer (High Touch Engineer) on major customer premises both on large enterprise ( ie: Dubai Airports Company, emirates airline ) and Service Provider (ie: DU, Wataniya-kuwait )

- Handle cases opened by customers as part of High Touch Technical Support (HTTS) and Cisco TAC and work on cases to insure resolution in the most effective manner.

- Reactive troubleshooting

- Supporting customers during maintenance windows and critical changes to insure the business continuity

- Problem Root Cause Analysis - writing a technical document explaining the cause for critical and business affecting cases, suggesting short and long term recommendations .In addition to presenting the findings to customer’s engineers and higher management.

- Participate in Quarterly Business reviews

- Coordinate Technical learning including assistance in troubleshooting and HTTS operational procedure.

- Perform Transfer of Information sessions for customer on technical and operational subjects

- Assist customers is performing Network documentation

- Writing of several Cisco services documents and best practices

- Deploying and designing network infrastructure for enterprise.

- Involvement in Network Upgrade and Migration Activities

- Development, support, maintenance and implementation of Advanced Services lab..

- Conformance to service delivery - Advanced Services standards

- Undertaking support as designated Advanced Services engineer for a small to medium-scale network

- associate NCE training program (3 months)

Network Engineer at Ali Bin Ali Co.
  • Qatar - Doha
  • September 2006 to April 2007

 Handled day-to-day network support
 Handled upgrade and maintenance of ABA group networks (17 divisions)
 Provided proactive support
 Designed and deployed network infrastructure for new divisions / offices

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Comunication
  • at Business and Computer University College
  • July 2005

Specialties & Skills

Team Leadership
Data Center
Routing Protocols
Problem Solving
LAN Switching
Ability to articulate value-add to Customers
Network design
IP Internetworking, LAN Switching
Internetworking troubleshooting
Communication, interpersonal and team coordination
IOS - XR
cisco platforms: 6500, 7600, ASR9K, CRS-1 , 4500 , 7200 , 3600, nexus 2k,5k,7k,9k
Leadership

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

inclusion and diversity
  • I&D ambassador
  • May 2010

Hobbies

  • basketball
  • camping - off-road