Mazen Sharaf, Supervisor Corporate Presales Engineer

Mazen Sharaf

Supervisor Corporate Presales Engineer

Orange Egypt

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, B.Sc of Communication & Electronics engineering
Experience
14 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months

Supervisor Corporate Presales Engineer at Orange Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since April 2016

 In-charge for solution design related to Machine to Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT), technical validation, demonstrations of proposed solution and managing pilots & prototypes.
 Providing the Machine to Machine (M2M) solutions (Fleet Management, Smart metering, Point Of Sale POS, Telemetry, Sales Force automation, Surveillance…)
 Providing suitable technical solution for Business Projects
 participate in tenders during the pre-sales phase and put the appropriate technical solution
 Supporting all sales departments (Key, large, SME, governmental & multinational accounts...etc.)
 Negotiate and establish agreements with suppliers
 Providing leased line, VPN, ADSL, 3G, Wimax and microwave solutions
 Develop technology solutions to meet Customer needs.

Enterprise Networks Presales and Design engineer at TEData
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2014 to April 2016

 Develop final design of customized solution including VPN, IP transit, Pre-WIAMX, WIFI, GDS, Fiber, 3G, VSAT, IPLC, ICT products, Eye watch, ARUBA RAP and VOIP managed solutions
 Design and simulate full Pre-WIMAX solutions
 Support and validate pre-sales preliminary customized solutions design during sales process.
 participate in tenders during the pre-sales phase and put the appropriate technical solution
 Support Key Account Management technical sales with equipment’s / technology data related to technical specification, costs and usage instructions.
 Negotiate and establish agreements with vendors (when they are involved in the design and implementation process) and manage equipment ordering process.
 Coordinate with field operations installation of H/W at client premises.
 Coordinate with logistics H/W acceptance of equipment’s, perform pre-configuration Communicate vendors H/W repair/replacement and upgrades.
 Witness handing-over to clients, activate solutions commissioning and notice EMS.
 Support 2nd level support for both Provisioning team & Enterprise call center team in troubleshooting process if needed.
 Develop as-built drawings and diagrams (in case of modification after implementation).
 Communicate with Network operation for network upgrade, migrations and new solutions implementation.
 Communicate with the global partners to verify the connectivity solutions for the GDS customers.

Enterprise Problem Management (PM)engineer at TEData
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2014 to October 2014

Management of Problem investigations from start to finish by facilitating root cause investigations and managing the implementation of corrective and preventative measures, Responsibilities include the following:

 Analysis and reporting of incident trend data to identify and eliminate root causes.
 Diagnosis of faults and determining whether new incidents are related to known errors or existing problem records.
 Managing root cause analysis between technical teams.
 Initiating actions to fix interruptions to service caused by errors/faults.
 Take Pro-active actions to avoid problem occurrence

Enterprise Onsite service restore engineer at TEData
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2013 to May 2014

- working and finalize any physical problem related to any corporate customer
- configuring all types of CPEs (Modems, Routers, etc...) and have hands on:
 Cisco Routers (SOHO, 888G, 1800, 1900, 2800, 2900 series, …)
 Almost all types of modems (Adtran, Aethra, Telindous, ADSL modems, …)
 SHDSL routers (Zyxel, Telindous, …)
 Layer 1 Back-to-Back converters (Digitel, Adtran, ..)
 TDM converters (CTC, Metrodata, …)
 Almost all types of EFM modems (Zhone, Hatteras, Aethra, …)
 Aruba Wireless Solutions (RAP2, RAP3 & RAP5)
 PRI converters (PATAPSCO, DATACOM, …)

Service Operation Center Engineer at TEData
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2012 to August 2013

Monitoring and troubleshooting network failures and coordinate with different teams for taking preventive and remedy actions,
- handling and performing emergency and planned activities/outages according to company strategy
- Monitor Network stability and performance, ensuring 24x7 operations using SNMP, CISCOWORKs, ORION.
- Troubleshooting inter Autonomous systems routing of BGP/MP-BGP.
- Troubleshooting network backbone routing and QoS issues
- Level 2 of technical troubleshooting and escalations
- Troubleshooting MPLS PE issues on CISCO 7200, 7600, GSR, ESR, CRS & Juniper M7i, M10i, M320 & M960.
- Troubleshoot Complex Multi-vendor network issues in WAN/LAN, VPN’s & Global connectivity
- Troubleshooting Global Data Services issues with upstream and third party providers (Telecom Italy, Verizon Business, PCCW & TATA).

Enterprise Capacity Operation Engineer at TEData
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2011 to August 2012

Managing the Project of Enhancing TE Data Enterprise POP's
By collecting the required physical equipment (Power, Racks, shelves, etc) to ensure customers availability and minimize the occurrence of physical problems inside the POP's

Managing the Project of Transformation from Huawei ATM to IP DSALM's to fulfill customer needs and solving the utilization problems

Changing customer's solutions to avoid multi point of failure

Testing new solution and check its availability to work with TE Data Standard solutions.

Network Operation Center Engineer at TheWayOut (Morgane)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2009 to December 2011

 August’09…..till: December 2010
 Job Title :- Network engineer
 Employer: - TheWayOut (MORGANE) internet solutions.
 Company field: - Internet service provider company that works mainly in leased lines, hospitality solutions (inside and outside Egypt), as ADSL reseller, Mails & Domains, VOIP solutions, IPTV solutions, and web hosting.
 Positions:-
1. Network Operation Center Engineer :
• Tasks :-
- Handling and troubleshooting leased lines, hospitality, Mails, domains, and web hosting problems.
- Monitoring using monitoring tools (Nagios, Solar Winds, Global management, MRTG …).
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2. Resident support engineer at  Concorde Cairo hotel, Sheraton Cairo hotel, Shores Aloha hotel, Shores golden hotel, Dreams beach hotel, Dreams vacation hotel, Stella Di-Mare hotel, Ghazala hotel, Maritim Sharm hotel, T- Continental Sharm hotel, Sharm plaza hotel, Sheraton Sharm hotel, Savoy Sharm hotel, Sierra Sharm hotel, Concorde Sharm hotel, and Tiran Sharm hotel.

• Tasks :-
- Responsible for the whole Hotels Network (Wired, Wireless, IPTV, DSLAM…) and its maintenance.
- Working on DSLAM (troubleshooting and adding new nodes).
- Working on leased lines and ADSL lines (troubleshooting and extending new lines).

2nd Level enterprise technical support engineer at Etisalat-Misr
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2011 to December 2011

troubleshooting leased lines and VPN (L2VPN & L3VPN/MPLS) problems according to customer's network /connectivity solutions

Site engineer at AfroEgypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2010 to May 2010

 Job Title : Site engineer (SE)
 Employer: Afro-Egypt
 Company field: A multinational company that growth in Egypt and Africa, works mainly in microwave links planning and installation.
 Tasks : leading a team working on installing Microwave links at different places inside Egypt
to achieve vendor and operator requirements

Education

Bachelor's degree, B.Sc of Communication & Electronics engineering
  • at Helwan University, Faculty of engineering, Communication & Electronics department
  • July 2009

Ahmed Zewail secondary language school (2001-2004) Grade: 93 % B.Sc Helwan University (2004-2009) Faculty of engineering Communication & Electronics department Senior year grade: Good (72.22 %) Graduation Project grade: Excellent  Cisco certified network associated (CCNA) Cisco Certified √  Implementing Cisco IOS Network Security (IINS v2.0) CCNA Security  Cisco Certified √  Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP)  Cisco Certified √  Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Cisco Certified √  Cisco Certified Network Professional - Service Provider (CCNP-SP) Cisco Certified √  Juniper Networks. Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA) Juniper Certified √  Juniper Networks Certified Specialist Enterprise Routing and Switching (JNCIS-ENT)  Certified √  Operating Juniper Network Routers in the Enterprise ( OJRE ) National Telecommunication Institute (NTI ) Certified √  ICDL  Microsoft Certified √  Mobile Communication technologies (GSM,GPRS,UMTS)  practical and theoretical training at Afro-Egypt on GSM basics, Microwave transmission links and implementation of Microwave links and new sites (BTS's)  practical and theoretical training at Motorola on PTP wireless links planning and implementation  Summer Training at TV and broadcasting union ( Maspiroo) (2007)  Summer Training at Egypt Air (Cairo Airport) (2007)  Made in Egypt competition participation ( MIE)

Specialties & Skills

MPLS VPN
Routing Protocols
Internet Service Provider industry
Juniper Technologies
Mobile Communication Technologies
Hands-on and troubleshooting Routers, Swiitches, DSLAMs, Modems and any L2 or L3 devices
CISCO Technologies

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

Made in Egypt competition
  • graduation project competition
  • January 2009

Training and Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) (Training)
Training Institute:
CISCO
Date Attended:
January 2012
Operating Juniper Network Routers in the Enterprise ( OJRE ) (Training)
Training Institute:
National Telecommunication Institute
Date Attended:
May 2009
ICDL (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
January 2007
Cisco certified network associated (CCNA) (Training)
Training Institute:
CISCO
Date Attended:
July 2009
Mobile Communication technologies (GSM,GPRS,UMTS) (Training)
Training Institute:
Legend Training Center
Date Attended:
January 2008
Juniper Networks. Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA) (Training)
Training Institute:
Juniper
Date Attended:
January 2013
Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP) (Training)
Training Institute:
CISCO
Date Attended:
January 2011