Karam Al-Omari, Network Engineer

Karam Al-Omari

Network Engineer

C4 Advanced Solutions

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Diploma, Cisco Certified Design Associate - CCDA
Experience
19 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months

Network Engineer at C4 Advanced Solutions
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since May 2007

- 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

Senior Network Engineer at C4 Advanced Solutions
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since January 2013

- 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

NetworK Administrator at MultiNet IT Solutions
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • September 2005 to 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

Technical Support/Lab Assistance at Dalhousie University
  • Canada
  • August 2004 to 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

Education

Diploma, Cisco Certified Design Associate - CCDA
  • at Self Study
  • May 2008
Diploma, CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)
  • at Self Study
  • March 2008

Cisco Certified Network Professional

Diploma, CCNA
  • at Al Khawarizmi
  • March 2007
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Dalhousie University
  • April 2005

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.

Specialties & Skills

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

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
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