Mohamed Asal, Cisco Voice operations level 3 -- VOIP Engineer-- Unified communications

Mohamed Asal

Cisco Voice operations level 3 -- VOIP Engineer-- Unified communications

Orange

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications Engineering
Experience
15 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 10 Months

Cisco Voice operations level 3 -- VOIP Engineer-- Unified communications at Orange
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since July 2015

The B2GaaS is a fully managed telephony service solution provided by Orange.
Duties.:
- Be fully aware of Orange B2GaaS service & infrastructure.
- Be fully aware of B2GaaS services implemented on customer's site.
- Prepare release configuration for staging phase as per release plan.
- Analyze and implement release activities/configuration.
- Provide support to FOIS/on site engineer during release activities.
- Complete ATP (Acceptance Test Procedures) -within the approved time window- with FOIS and/or customer.
- Owning and fixing major issues that are directly and clearly related to the release activity.
- Share any major issues faced during the release with the project manager/release manager & operation teams.
- Provide the project manager with the list of outstanding activity or issues raised after performing the release activities.
- Provide expert support to TOC/operation teams after release activity roll-out when needed.
- Provide expert support if needed the release manager to perform feasibility study and risk assessment for release activities

IP Telephony Operation Center Engineer at Orange
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2013 to July 2015

Job Purpose:
To provide 24x7 support to end to end voice incidents.
Perform life-cycle change & release management functions. In addition to support
implementation teams.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
Troubleshoot, identify and resolve IPT (Cisco) and backbone voice
Incidents.
Troubleshoot, identify and resolve call center and access number faults.
Troubleshoot value added services (Voice Mail, Attendant console, Contact Center, Meeting Place, Telepresence etc...)
Document all troubleshooting and provide regular updates for all actions
executed to solve customer’s incidents via electronic case management
system.
Liaise with higher level support for incident escalation and resolution.
To keep management informed of any major customer or network faults.
Liaise with other internal teams to resolve faults affecting voice service.
Activate escalation procedure with vendors when needed.
Perform change management activities. (implement customer simple and
complex changes ).
Perform release management activities. (implement new release and
upgrades)
Act as escalation point for voice implement teams.
To undertake any other reasonable task as assigned by the management
team.

Senior Incident management, Network Engineer at Orange buisness service, France Telecom
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2011 to December 2013

- Incident Management activities through service failure or error restoration in order to minimize service interruption, and thereby ensure the smooth continuity of the customer's business operations .
- Troubleshooting, isolation, and restoration for faults and incidents for Cisco Unified communication (Voice domain) and Orange core voice network including multivendor backbone platforms.
- Liaise with the other Orange groups and vendors to resolve faults on the network and with the customer.
- Liaise with other technical support levels for fault escalation and resolution.
- Ensure the efficient analysis and classification of faults as they occur on the network.
- Ensure proper communication at all times.
- Keep management informed of any red alert customer and network faults and initiate escalation procedures to higher technical levels, providing them with any technical and logistics support required.
- Any tasks or projects as assigned by the group manager.
- Activate chronic procedures to respective groups and Voice Service Managers as necessary.

Incident management Specialist at orange business services, France Telecom
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2008 to April 2011

Worked as a customer technical support level-2(CTS-2) for Orange business services (France Telecom group), SITA DCSC Team, SITA Dedicated Customer Support Center.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications Engineering
  • at Arab Academy for Science and Technology
  • July 2007

B.Sc. in Electronics & Communication Engineering Arab Academy for Science & Technology, Alexandria, Egypt Graduation Project (2006-2007): "Wavelength Division Multiplexing in the infrastructure of the Telecommunication system" The Thesis was an application on the PSTN backbone in Egypt and how to replace it by the new technology of the DWDM. Thesis Grade: A (Excellent)

Specialties & Skills

Cisco Unified Communications
Cisco Call Manager
Network Operations
IT Service Management
Routing and Switching troubleshooting.
Cisco Unity Express
Cisco contact Center enterprise
Cisco Call manager
Customer Support
Cisco IPT
Cisco Telepresence
Cisco Expressway
cisco VCS-E
Implementing and troubleshooting Cisco Unified Communications

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

IELTS General training -- Over all Grade.: 7.5 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2015
CCNP VOice V. 8 ---- CVoice, CIPT1, CIPT2, TVoice, CAPPS (Training)
Training Institute:
Self study
Date Attended:
June 2013
CCNA Certified (Training)
Training Institute:
Self Study
Date Attended:
January 2010
CCNA Voice (Training)
Training Institute:
Self Study
Date Attended:
January 2011
Communication Training Telecom Egypt Technical Department, In Switching Center (SidiGaber), Alexandr (Training)
Training Institute:
Egypt Teleom Technical Department, In Switching Center (SidiGaber), Alexandr
Date Attended:
September 2006
Instrumentation Maintenance Trainee Received training on measurement instruments, cathodic protectio (Training)
Training Institute:
Arab Petroleum Pipelines CO. "SUMED", Alexandria
Date Attended:
July 2005