Karim Radwan, Presales Analyst

Karim Radwan

Presales Analyst

Xerox Egypt

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Communications Engineering
Experience
13 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 10 Months

Presales Analyst at Xerox Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since October 2014

Provide technical consultation, assessment, solution recommendation and delivery of professional services in the areas of presale.
• Supports sales productivity and deal flow by securing the “Technical Close” in complex solutions.
• Collaborates with sales, service, engineering, and technical support resources to ensure proposed deals include technical solutions that accurately address customer needs that appropriately supported by key customer technical decision-makers
• Implementation, and ongoing account maintenance for integrated solutions comprised of Xerox printers (office/production), Xerox Software, 3rd party Application Software.
• Customized software and/or hardware offerings.
• Provide Training to customers in Xerox Solutions after execution
• Support and enable revenue for office/production solutions and contributes to the achievement of Professional Services revenue plan.
• Supports new business, presale and implementation activities.
• Supports all accounts growth.
• Leads or coordinates implementation activities regularly with internal sales and technical services organization and externally with customers, vendors
• Analyzes the business, application, and technological needs of the client and works with the Sales Professional to propose the optimal technical solution to fit those needs.
• Uses appropriate system analysis procedures and tools, determines and recommends the most appropriate system configuration, settings and components for Xerox hardware/Digital Front Ends, software applications and Xerox Operating Systems software to ensure optimum utilization of customer total solution.
• Advice / counsel customers and internal Xerox personnel as to the specific computer and network related infrastructure requirements to ensure optimum security and network performance when using Xerox Solutions. Provide onsite and / or remote technical support as required.
• Interface with customer’s IT personnel to determine functional specifications and recommend solutions and alternate system design for complex hardware and software computer driven printing systems.
• Prepare and present appropriate technical content for sales presentations and proposals to C-level and IT managers that aids in influencing customer’s purchasing decisions

SENIOR PRODUCT-CHANGE MANAGER at Samsung UK
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since July 2010

Liaise between Samsung, operations, training and quality team and leading a team of product specialists in the pursuit of managing the transition of products that need to be supported by the various technical product teams in TPEGY’s site Cairo.
 Apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the people side change caused by projects and change efforts.
 Develop a change management strategy based on a situational awareness of the details of the change and the groups being impacted by the change.
 Identify potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance, and develop specific plans to mitigate or address the concerns.
 Conduct readiness assessments, evaluate results and present findings in a logical and easy-to-understand manner.
 Develop a set of actionable and targeted change management plans - including communication plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan and resistance management plan.
 Support the execution of plans by employee-facing managers and business leaders.
 Be an active and visible coach to executives and leaders who are change sponsors.
 Create and manage measurement systems to track adoption, utilization and proficiency of individual changes.
 Identify resistance and performance gaps, and work to develop and implement corrective actions
 Create and enable reinforcement mechanisms and celebrations of success.
 Work with project teams to integrate change management activities into the overall project plan.
 Work with communication, training, HR and OD specialists in the formulation of particular plans and activities to support project implementation

Education

Bachelor's degree, Communications Engineering
  • at Bachelor’s Degree in Communications Engineering
  • July 2004

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications Engineering, Cairo University Accumulative Grade is: GOOD Graduation-Project:  Smart Antenna For Mobile Satellites Systems  GSM, Satellite, Smart Antenna, Analysis of Smart Antenna

Specialties & Skills

Operations Management
Telecommunications
Electrical Engineering
Project Collaboration
Team Management
Communications Engineering

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Cisco
  • Cisco Certified
  • March 2008

Training and Certifications

Engineering Department (Training)
Training Institute:
Vodafone
Date Attended:
June 2003