Safwan Talab, Engagement Manager

Safwan Talab

Engagement Manager

Cryptika

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business and Technology
Experience
21 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 1 Months

Engagement Manager at Cryptika
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since January 2017

Working with the sales team in order to win the client's business. Build and maintain excellent client relations. Has ultimate responsibility for a client’s entire experience with Cryptika. Managing a portfolio of clients and revenue accountability, profitability and success of such customer relationships. Acting as the primary escalation point for any issues. Understanding the client’s specific needs and requirements. Interviewing middle management to assess how their projects can be best implemented. Creating action plans for project implementation. Acquiring the client’s agreement with every major initiative through projects. Leading the engagement team, keeping them fully updated in regards to all feedback coming from the client and ensuring that they adhere to the client’s expectations. Assigning team members with specific tasks within the project and deploy resources from other teams i.e. specialist consultants in order to work with the client.

Pre-sales engineer at IRIS Technology
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2016 to December 2017

Working with the sales team in order to win the client's business. Build and maintain excellent client relations. Understanding the client’s specific needs and requirements. Interviewing middle management to assess how their projects can be best implemented. Creating action plans for project implementation. Acquiring the client’s agreement with every major initiative through projects.

Acting IT Manager, System Admin at Handicap International
  • Jordan - Amman
  • November 2013 to January 2016

An emergency response mission, Handicap International is assisting Syria crisis affected populations in Jordan since May 2012. I joined the mission to implement a strategic technology initiatives to facilitate data management, security, and safety;

Main Duties:

- Provides leadership in planning, scheduling and managing IT operations, held multifaceted responsibilities to implement and administer enterprise network infrastructure that support more than 250 users, having high availability database servers, in clustered environment and 4 remote locations ensuring uptime and load balancing. Leading full physical installation of the network

- Plan and implement network security, including building firewalls, applying cryptography to network applications, managing host security, file permissions, offsite and cloud backup and disaster recovery plans, file system integrity, and user management

- Install, configure, and maintain database servers, backup servers, file servers, exchange server, Ethernet networks, and other related equipment, devices, and systems;

- Install, configure and administer a high available Microsoft Exchange 2013 utilizing DAG infrastructure.

- Install, configure and administer Microsoft SQL server with high-availability in clustered environment, implemented complete life cycle; client/server and database applications

- Engineering a virtual private network solution between four sites utilizing Fortigate, and cisco routers

- Establishing IT policies, which defined acceptable use of IT assets within the organization

Executive at Aseel Computer Center
  • Jordan - Amman
  • May 2011 to November 2013

* Core Responsibilities:

- Provides leadership in planning, scheduling and managing the Administration & HR activities.
- Maintenance of the official organizational repository for all policies.
- Manage and organize day-to-day operations by establishing priorities, organizing assignments, and taking necessary steps to ensure assignments are completed in a timely and efficient manner.

Network Administrattor at Aseel Computer Center
  • Jordan - Amman
  • October 2009 to May 2011

* Core Responsibilities:

- Manage the Data Server
- Maintain the servers and the ADSL line in a good shape and in always on condition. (IPCop)
- Do maintenance for the PC’s and network equipment on the company

Maintenance technician at Aseel Computer Center
  • Jordan - Amman
  • September 2008 to October 2009

* Core Responsibilities:

- Do maintenance, repairing, upgrading, & assemble Personal computers and Laptops.
- Install new device and internal cards.
- Implementing and design Network infrastructure.

Network Administrattor at Hani Darweesh AlKhalili
  • Jordan - Amman
  • May 2007 to September 2008

* Core Responsibilities:

- Manage the data server.
- Manage HDK website.
- Maintain the servers and the ADSL line in a good shape and in always on condition. (IPCop)
- Do maintenance for the PC’s and network equipment on the company.

Maintenance technician at Corner Computer Center
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2006 to April 2007

* Core Responsibilities:

- Do maintenance, repairing, upgrading, & assemble Personal computers and Laptops.
- Install new device and internal cards.
- Implementing and design Network infrastructure.

Maintenance technician at Maher Elictronics
  • Jordan - Amman
  • February 2003 to April 2006

* Core Responsibilities:

- Do maintenance, repairing and upgrading TV, Tapes recorder, Radio.
- Manage student’s electronics & digital projects.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business and Technology
  • at Arab Open University
  • September 2006

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Operating Systems
Leadership
Information Security
Business Continuity
Fortinet
Hyper-V
Acronis
Virtualization
Microsoft licensing
Solutions Selling
Business Continuity
Disaster Recovery
Managed Services
DHCP, DNS, WSUS, WDS
Firewalls
Project Management
Servers, SAN, NAS
Microsoft Systems, (OS, Serv, Exchange, SQL)
Active Directory
Vulnerability Management
Remote support
High Availability Solutions
Proposals
Carbon Black Cb
Business Process Improvement
Cisco MERAKI
Sales Management
ICT Compliance Management
IT Audit
Solutions Design
Symantec backup Exec - Veritas
Disaster Readiness
Customer Success Management
ISO27001
Backup Solutions
Network Infrastructure
Data Centers
Business Development
Management
Cloud Solutions
Qualys Platform
Double-Take
SOC Management
Documentation
Threat Hunting tools
Encrypted Communications
Email Protection, encryption
Mail Gateways

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker