Hossam Farouk, Sr. PreSales Consultant- Data Protection

Hossam Farouk

Sr. PreSales Consultant- Data Protection

Dell

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration
Experience
32 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :32 years, 0 Months

Sr. PreSales Consultant- Data Protection at Dell
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2019

Senior PreSales Consultant- Data protection

Sr. PreSales Consultant at VERITAS
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • July 2015 to April 2018

Sr. PreSales consultant (Data protection and High Availability)

Sr. Principle Presales Consultant at Symantec
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2011 to July 2015

I am in senior position, providing presales consultancy solution for Symantec Enterprise customers environments in terms of Data Protection, high availability and DR solution to ensure the efficiency of the IT infrastructure services acoording to the company RTO & RPO.

I am covering Symantec Enterprise customers in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.

Sales Manager (Oil & Gas sector) at STME (Egypt Branch)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2008 to June 2011

• Sales Manager (Oil & GAs Sector & some General Business)
• Software Presales Consultant for:
Veritas Products (Data protection & High Availability & Storage Management & Archiving)
StorageTek Small & Medium Tape Libraries

- Responsible for Egypt and Levant
- Focal point of communication with Symantec Regional Manager in Egypt for Egypt and Levant business.
- Technical help and follow up for the running deals
- Doing prove of concept at customer sites when needed

Sales Manager (Oil & Gas sector) at STME (Egypt Branch)
  • Egypt
  • February 2008 to June 2008

• Sales Manager:
Responsible for Oil & Gas sector and Some General business
From: Feb. 2008 - till now

Software Presales Consultant at STME (Egypt Branch)
  • Egypt
  • September 2005 to February 2008

•Software Presales Consultant for:
-Veritas Products (Data protection & High Availability & Storage Management & Archiving)
-StorageTek Small & Medium Tape Libraries

- Responsible for Egypt and Levant
- Focal point of communication with Symantec Regional Manager in Egypt for Egypt and Levant business.
- Technical help and follow up for the running deals
- Doing prove of concept at customer sites when needed

Senior Systems Engineer at STME (Kuwait Branch)
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • November 2002 to September 2005

-(Technical Support) for EMC S/W and Veritas products
Have undergone and implemented the following tasks:
• KNPC-Kuwait (Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation)
I have contributed in the EMC implementation for (Solution Enabler, Time Finder, SRDF, Powerpath, ESN Manager and Control Center), SRDF configuration between Main site at Mina Abdullah and DR site at Mina Ahmadi. Configured SRDF groups for the 2 sites, BCV groups at the DR site.
Testing SRDF failover and failback between the 2sites in SUN Cluster environment.
I have implemented Veritas Netbackup master server and Clients connected to STK L700 & L20 Tape Libraries in the Main and DR sites.
I have written 2 scripts for 2 BCV groups to automatically Synchronize and Split the BCVs and mount the file systems before the backup start, I have integrated these scripts within the Veritas Netbackup policy.
I was responsible for the EMC S/W monthly preventive maintenance.
I was responsible for testing SRDF groups failover and failback between main and DR sites.
Responsible for all EMC S/W upgrades in the Main and Dr sites
Installation and implementation for Netbackup using STK L700 Tape Lib. in SAN environment and shared Tape drives for 4 SUN machines in the main site and 5 SUN servers in the DR site
• GBK-Kuwait (Gulf Bank)
Responsible for the EMC S/W maintenance and customer requests (Solution Enabler and Time Finder).
Due to repeated power outage for the production Symmetrix at the bank, I configured SRDF groups between the production Symm. and backup Symm. Connected back to back, synchronized all the data to the backup box an tested
•PWC-Kuwait (Public Warehouse Company)
I was responsible for the EMC S/W maintenance and customer calls (Solution Enabler, Time Finder, Powerpath, and SRDF)
Installed and configured EMC Control Center.
Installed and configured Powerpath for Windows servers.
•MTC-Kuwait (Mobile Telecommunication Company)
Installation and configuration for EMC control Center.

My Training History at Training History
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 1991 to November 2002

TRAINING HISTORY
YEAR PROGRAM
2013 Netbackup 7.5 Advanced Administration
2013 Netbackup Appliance 5220 SDRK
2012 Enterprise Vault 10 Administration
2007 Sun Fire 15K Server Maintenance & Exam (Dubai)
2005 Veritas Partners Training (Dubai)
2004 EMC Software Workshop, Sol. Enabler, RDF (Dubai)
2004 EMC Control Center (Dubai)
2004 Veritas Cluster Server for Solaris (Dubai)
2003 Netbackup 4.5 for Unix ( Veritas, UK)
2003 Advanced Netbackup 4.5 for Unix (Veritas, UK)
2001 Introduction to SQL
2001 ORACLE 8 Database Administration
2000 SAP Administration
1999 Sun Solaris 2.x Admin.II (Sun, Dubai)
1999 Sun Solaris 2.x Network Admin. TCP/IP (Sun, Dubai)
1999 Sun Solaris 2.x Veritas Volume Manager (Sun, Dubai)
1999 Sun Solaris 2.x Cluster High Availability Admin. (Sun, Dubai)
1998 Internet Security and Firewall Planning (IBM, USA)
1998 Advanced Internet Business Skills (IBM, USA)
1998 AS/400 Internet Access and TCP/IP (IBM, USA)
1998 AS/400 Internet Access and Secure Web Server (IBM, USA)
1998 NV/6000 on RISC System (IBM, Egypt)
1997 AIX Shell Programming (IBM, Egypt)
1997 AIX Security (IBM, Egypt)
1996 AIX Advanced Administration (IBM, Egypt)
1996 AIX TCP/IP (IBM, Egypt)
1995 Introduction to AIX (IBM, Egypt)
1995 AIX Administration (IBM, Egypt)
1995 Network Concept (IBM, Egypt)
1994 Introduction to Local Area Network (IBM, Egypt)
1994 Network Hardware (IBM, Egypt)
1994 AS/400 System Facilities (IBM, Egypt)
1994 AS/400 PC/Support (IBM, Egypt)
1993 TCP/IP Architecture (IBM, Egypt)
1993 Hardware Technical Support (IBM, Egypt)
1992 AS/400 System Operation (IBM, Egypt)

Systems & Network Section Head (Technical Support) at Belayiem Petroleum Company
  • Egypt
  • August 1991 to November 2002

•AIX & UNIX SunSolaris & AS400 System Administrator,
•SAP Administrator

Administration tasks for all the main servers (As400, SUN, Risc/6000) serving the business.
Responsible Backup startegy.
Responsible for acces control to all the systems
Responsible for systems Health check and follow up
Maintain business continuity needs
Manage End Users connectivity to servers

Software Technical Support at IBM (Part Time)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 1997 to November 2002

Software Technical support (Part time) for the AS400 & AIX (Installations, OS Upgrades and configurations)

Solaris Instructor (Part Time) at Tri-Tech
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 1999 to October 2002

SUN Solaris Instructor for the Solaris Administration training courses.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration
  • at Faculty of Commerce-Cairo University.
  • July 1991

Specialties & Skills

Administration
Netbackup
Very High computer Hardware & Software skills
Software Presales Consultant

Languages

English
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