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khaled zayed, Presales Team Leader

khaled zayed

Presales Team Leader·Xceltra

Egypt

Bachelor's degree, electrical and electronic Engineering

Work experience

Total years of experience: 16 years, 3 months

Presales Team Leader

December 2016 - Present

Xceltra

Cairo, Egypt

December 2016 - Present

Aligned to one or more Verticals and is responsible for supporting the sales team in winning the deal by generating solution for medium to large sized or complex deals that addresses client requirements while ensuring company’s interests are met.
• Strategy Development And Deployment
Participates in sales strategy planning.
Aligning the presales structure and goals with the strategy.
Provides a presales perspective during the account planning sessions.
• Solution Definition / Integration / Generation
Works with practice teams to create the solution.
Probes the customer and asks relevant questions to get the necessary clarifications on requirements and conveys the same to the solution teams.
• Delivery Transition
Transitions the deal to the delivery team post successful conversion - explains the agreed scope and deliverables to the delivery team to ensure a seamless customer experience.
• Commercial Architecting / Estimation
Coordinates with the different Practices and Delivery teams for the commercial estimates.
Develops understanding of the competitor pricing.
• Customer Management
Plans the entire customer visit and coordinates with multiple stakeholders to make the customer
visit success. Leads customer presentations and participates in other customer engagement activities.
• Demand Generation
Leads client presentations / workshops involved in demand generation effort.
• Knowledge Management
Works on case studies to be published to the external world
Focuses on activities like research to build further capability in the team
Creates standardized templates for replicating across RFPs.
• Team Management
Provides coaching support to team members to bridge identified development gaps
Drives organization capability/cadre building within the team Personal Development and Competence Building. Focuses on all round development that includes competency building in areas of Functional, Technology, Domain, Process and Behavioral skills

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Presales Engineer

September 2015 - Present

Xceltra

Cairo, Egypt

September 2015 - Present

•Develop and keep up to date a thorough understanding of contemporary IDC technologies applicable to the MEA region.
•Maintain up to date knowledge base of the range of products promoted by the company and those of the competitors.
•Develop the relevant knowledge, techniques and skills required by attending training and through flexible means like reading product literature and web training.
•Provide technical consultancy to company clients during presales enquiries and after sale support.
•Conduct internal sales activities such as preparing quotations and updating sales tools and systems with relevant information.
•Accompany sales team members on client visits.
•Develop and deliver technical presentations to company clients and be ready to answer questions raised.
•Act as the technical reference for the marketing and sales teams in the company and answer - or be able to fetch answers for - all technical questions raised internally to help their marketing and sales campaigns.
•Monitor and report on market and competitor activities. Proactively advise the company management - through Presales manager - on future technology trends and recommend plans to improve company position as a market leader in IDC technologies in the region.
•Develop and keep up to date short term plans detailing the practical steps towards achieving above goals, and produce regular reports on the progress against these plans and discuss with the line manager.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

Regional System Engineer

February 2011 - August 2015

NextGen Communications

Cairo, Egypt

February 2011 - August 2015

Egypt Military Project for Ain El Sokhna Road:
Design, plan and build infrastructure for wireless (Pre-WiMAX) and surveillance System (Panasonic), Real time, storage, switches, Qos and control.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Information Technology

Regional System Engineer

February 2011 - August 2015

NextGen Communications

Cairo, Egypt

February 2011 - August 2015

Security Implementation:
Cooperation with British Telecom and Allied Telesis for Italian Embassies and Consulates to build firewalls and core switches.
Security Implementation:
Cooperation with British Telecom and Allied Telesis for Italian Military to build firewalls, core switches, and secure IP telephony.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Information Technology

system engineer

May 2010 - August 2015

next gen for communications

Cairo, Egypt

May 2010 - August 2015

Pre WiMAX: (almost 100 sites, PTP, PTMP, Egypt, KSA, Sudan)
Overcome challenges in Wimax planning and design area, to ensure radio network plans and dimensions according to commercial/business requirements & license obligations, ensure coverage plans and network quality to be the first among the competitors and innovative, appealing to the Nextgen customer base, set and ensure Wimax network requirements in terms of capacity and coverage enhancements, lead, control and manage RFPs, RFQ, BOQ & SOWs, lead, coordinate, control, manage and finalize the projects with best possible solutions for benefit of company, to build strategy for different domains, support and ensure to have clear and optimized spending plans for CAPEX and OPEX, leading, managing, handling and controlling projects, teams and tasks and enrich planning experience within the department.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

Systems Engineer

May 2010 - August 2015

NextGen for Communication

Cairo, Egypt

May 2010 - August 2015

Triple Play Service: Azzura (1000 users) (Hurghada, Egypt) 2010
Plan, design and deliver Data, voice, and Video over the fiber with optimum efficiency.
Supervisor on civil work, welding, testing and measurements.
Design, configuration, deploying and maintaining an efficient scalable network.
Deliver Over-The-Top Content (OTT) broadband of Video, Audio, content management, IPTV, VOD, portal …etc. Additional precautions to safeguard the integrity of data ensure network uptime and maximize end-user productivity. Training the technical staff, troubleshooting and continue service improvement.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

system engineer

May 2010 - August 2015

next gen for communications

Cairo, Egypt

May 2010 - August 2015

modifying and implementing the telecommunications systems to support the company’s business, technical and operational requirements. Direct selection, planning, installation, configuration and troubleshooting of systems like I.P. telephony (VOIP, PBX...), pre WiMAX, network infrastructure, FTTX and M2M …etc. Builds State-of-the-Art Network with Best-In-Class Solutions. Coordinate all activities and decisions associated with Telecom solution design, development and delivery to achieve desired business outcomes. Provide competent high level telecom engineering expert level skills that are assessed widely be the organization and responsible for company-wide programs to meet corporate goals. Maintain awareness of the latest developments in telecom technology affecting the organization for the purpose of recommending changes to programs warranted by such developments. Present recommended solution architecture, delivery plan IT & Telecom Solutions performance and monitoring. Plan, and manage the execution and implementation of all new systems while ensuring system integrity and ensure high availability. Managing projects (over 1 million dollars) so as to ensure a timely completion of the project at hand according to cost, time, budget and quality cost-effective service to customers. Empower the team for decision making coach and support team members. Coordinating with vendors to ensure up to date roadmap

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

system engineer

May 2010 - August 2015

next gen for communication

Cairo, Egypt

May 2010 - August 2015

M2M fleet management: MFO (Multinational Force Observers )(400 cars), other projects (100 cars)
Install and implement the HW equipments.
Configuration, troubleshooting and verifying.
Planning the rate plan., Training the technical staff.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

system engineer

May 2010 - August 2015

next gen for communications

Cairo, Egypt

May 2010 - August 2015

Network Infrastructure: (for small medium business companies scale)
Plan, design and implement Multi internet Appliance, VOIP, IVR, IP telephony, PBX, Firewall, VPN, Vlans, load balancing, failover, Fault management, Performance Management, web filtering, web proxy, content filter, web server, IDS, IPS, BCP, NAC, DMZ and File services.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

system engineer

March 2010 - August 2015

nextgen

Cairo, Egypt

March 2010 - August 2015

Triple Play Service Phase II:
Plan, design and deliver Data, voice, and Video over the fiber with optimum efficiency.
Supervisor on civil work, welding, testing and measurements.
Design, configuration, deploying and maintaining an efficient scalable network.
Deliver Over-The-Top Content (OTT) broadband of Video, Audio, content management, IPTV, VOD, portal …etc. Additional precautions to safeguard the integrity of data ensure network uptime and maximize end-user productivity. Training the technical staff, troubleshooting and continue service improvement.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

The University District of Columbia

March 2009

March 2009

Bachelor's degree, electrical and electronic Engineering

United States

GPA (point): 3.47 out of 4

GPA (point): 3.47 out of 4

The University District of Columbia, school of Engineering Washington DC B.Sc. Degree of electrical and electronic Engineering. March 2009 Cum Lade, 3rd of alumni GPA 3.47.

Modern Academy for Engineering and Technology

March 2009

March 2009

Bachelor's degree, communication engineering

Egypt

GPA (percentage): 88%

GPA (percentage): 88%

Modern Academy for Engineering and Technology, school of Engineering Egypt B.Sc. Degree of communication Engineering. March 2009 Excellent with Honor, 10th of alumni. Graduation Project: WSCS (Wireless Sensing and Control System) Project grade Excellent.

Skills

Network Systems
Expert
Network Systems
Expert
RF systems
Expert
RF systems
Expert
Triple Play
Expert
Triple Play
Expert
Network Engineering
Expert
Network Engineering
Expert
Systems Engineering
Expert
Systems Engineering
Expert
BCP
Intermediate
BCP
Intermediate
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
Intermediate
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
Intermediate
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
ENGINEER
Expert
ENGINEER
Expert
ETHERNET
Intermediate
ETHERNET
Intermediate
FAULT MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
FAULT MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
FILE Services
Intermediate
FILE Services
Intermediate
FIREWALL
Intermediate
FIREWALL
Intermediate
FLEET MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
FLEET MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Expert
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Expert
Triple play
Intermediate
Triple play
Intermediate
Wimax planing
Intermediate
Wimax planing
Intermediate
Routing and switching
Intermediate
Routing and switching
Intermediate
ITIL & ETOM
Beginner
ITIL & ETOM
Beginner
VOIP & IP telephony
Intermediate
VOIP & IP telephony
Intermediate
Network Systems
Expert
Network Systems
Expert
RF systems
Expert
RF systems
Expert
Triple Play
Expert
Triple Play
Expert
Network Engineering
Expert
Network Engineering
Expert
Systems Engineering
Expert
Systems Engineering
Expert

Languages

Arabic

Expert

English

Expert

Memberships

TM forum

Register

July 2009

Euro comm

Register

May 2009

ZDnet

Register

May 2009

Fierce

Register

June 2009

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Allied telesis pre sales engineer
Allied telesis
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
Electronic Courses fundamental
ITTG (International technology transfer group)
Jul 2006 - Jul 2006
WiMax planning
infinet wireless
Aug 2009 - Aug 2009
VHDL
Wide World
Feb 2009 - Feb 2009
CCNA
self study
Aug 2010 - Aug 2010
Wireless communication
Systel Motorola
Jul 2008 - Jul 2008
Oracle
Cybersoft
Jul 2008 - Jul 2008
3G planning and optimization
El traax
Feb 2011 - Feb 2011
CCNP SW
self study
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012