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Karam Al-Omari, Senior Network Engineer

Karam Al-Omari

Senior Network Engineer·C4 Advanced Solutions

United Arab Emirates

Diploma, Cisco Certified Design Associate - CCDA

Work experience

Total years of experience: 21 years, 10 months

Senior Network Engineer

January 2013 - Present

C4 Advanced Solutions

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

January 2013 - Present

- Projects Team Leadership provide own team with a clear direction; delegate work, motivate staff, and ensure good team work
- Extensive hands on experience with Cisco routers and switches (2900 routers, 3900 routers, 7200 routers, Catalyst 2960, 3560, 3750, 4500 and 6500 switches)
- Experience with Cisco Unified Communications technology (Communications Manager, Unity, CCME, and Unity Express)
- Experience with Blue Coat Proxy & WAN Acceleration devices
- Experience with Juniper (EX8200, EX2200, SRX650, SRX240)
- Experience with FortiGate Firewall
- Expertise with routing and other protocols such as BGP, OSPF, MPLS, etc.
- Act as a consultant and position the simplest and most effective solution to the customer with a focus on standard offerings
- Experience gathering customer requirements, white boarding/presenting solutions, developing a Bill of Materials (BOM) and preparing project Statements of Work (SOWs)
- Direct involvement in the preparation of RFPs/ RFQs with the respective correspondence
- Expertise using Cisco tools to develop a project Bill of Materials, including proper software licensing
- Independent network troubleshooting and support
- Documentation Management

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Network Engineer

May 2007 - Present

C4 Advanced Solutions

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

May 2007 - Present

- Projects Team Leadership provide own team with a clear direction; delegate work, motivate staff, and ensure good team work
- Extensive hands on experience with Cisco routers and switches (2900 routers, 3900 routers, 7200 routers, Catalyst 2960, 3560, 3750, 4500 and 6500 switches)
- Experience with Cisco Unified Communications technology (Communications Manager, Unity, CCME, and Unity Express)
- Experience with Blue Coat Proxy & WAN Acceleration devices
- Experience with Juniper Access Switches
- Expertise with routing and other protocols such as BGP, OSPF, MPLS, etc.
- Experience gathering customer requirements, white boarding/presenting solutions, developing a Bill of Materials (BOM) and preparing project Statements of Work (SOWs)
- Expertise using Cisco tools to develop a project Bill of Materials, including proper software licensing
- Direct involvement in the preparation of RFPs/ RFQs with the respective correspondence
- Independent network troubleshooting and support
- Documentation Management

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Engineering

NetworK Administrator

September 2005 - April 2007

MultiNet IT Solutions

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

September 2005 - April 2007

- Configure and troubleshooting of Routers & Switches
- Set up and maintaining Dell Server (Power Edge 1800) and IBM Server (xSeries 206)
- Install and configure Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP (Windows 2000, and 2003)
- Install and configure Windows 2000, 2003 (45 users plus)
- Maintain the Domain Controller running under 2000, 2003
- Configure Routers and Switches

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Engineering

Technical Support/Lab Assistance

August 2004 - August 2005

Dalhousie University

Canada

August 2004 - August 2005

- Troubleshoot hardware problems and carry out necessary rectification
- Assisted users to solve technical problems in laboratories, offices of faculty members, and in classrooms; by analyzing the problem, extracting information from the user and then take the right action to solve the problem
- Troubleshoot software problems (MS Office) and carry out necessary adaptation
- Maintained lab computers, printers and troubleshoot problems encountered by users
- Shared ideas with lab manager to introduce new systems, extra software and suggested ways to improve network management

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Support Services

Education

Self Study

May 2008

May 2008

Diploma, Cisco Certified Design Associate - CCDA

United Arab Emirates

Self Study

March 2008

March 2008

Diploma, CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)

United Arab Emirates

Cisco Certified Network Professional

Al Khawarizmi

March 2007

March 2007

Diploma, CCNA

United Arab Emirates

Dalhousie University

April 2005

April 2005

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Canada

I have graduated from Dalhousie University (Canada) with GPA: 3.0. While in school I have worked on a lot of projects that gave me a lot of experience and build up my Technical and Non-Technical Skills.

Skills

Routing Protocols
Expert
Routing Protocols
Expert
Troubleshooting Hardware
Expert
Troubleshooting Hardware
Expert
WAN
Expert
WAN
Expert
Switches
Expert
Switches
Expert
VoIP
Expert
VoIP
Expert
High level of analytical and problem solving abilities
Intermediate
High level of analytical and problem solving abilities
Intermediate
Strong knowledge of Wireless LAN
Intermediate
Strong knowledge of Wireless LAN
Intermediate
Good knowledge of routing protocols
Intermediate
Good knowledge of routing protocols
Intermediate
Good knowledge of TCP/ IP protocols
Intermediate
Good knowledge of TCP/ IP protocols
Intermediate
Excellent attention to details
Intermediate
Excellent attention to details
Intermediate
Good knowledge of IPT technologies
Beginner
Good knowledge of IPT technologies
Beginner
Basic knowledge of Security technologies
Beginner
Basic knowledge of Security technologies
Beginner
VoIP
Expert
VoIP
Expert
Switches
Expert
Switches
Expert
WAN
Expert
WAN
Expert
Troubleshooting Hardware
Expert
Troubleshooting Hardware
Expert
Routing Protocols
Expert
Routing Protocols
Expert

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert