Sameh Selim, IT Capacity Planning & Systems Performance Advisor

Sameh Selim

IT Capacity Planning & Systems Performance Advisor

Telecommunications

Location
Egypt
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
29 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :29 years, 3 Months

IT Capacity Planning & Systems Performance Advisor at Telecommunications
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2005

-Ensure that cost justifiable IT capacity always exists and that it is matched to the current and future identified needs of the business
-Monitor the performance and throughput of the IT services
-Tuning activities to make efficient use of resources
-Understand and collect the current demand for IT services and produce forecasts for future requirements
-Help to influence demands for IT resources
-Providing a capacity plan predicting the IT resources needed to achieve agreed or proposed service levels
-Demonstrate cost effectiveness during vendor and technology selection
-Understanding and absorption of current and future technology
-Building and operating a capacity management database CMDB that forms the basis for the production of all capacity management reporting
-Achieve the balance between cost and capacity from one side and between supply and demand from other side
-Elimination of panic buying and unnecessary spare capacity
-Risk reduction of performance problems and failures
- Applications such as BSCS ix Release 2, Siebel CRM, EAI Webmethods, Oracle Financial, Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management System, Pre-mediation
- Hardware and Software such as:
1-HP IA and 9000 Superdome, HP Blades c7000, BL860, BL870, BL890, BL460, rp and rx entry and mid range servers, Rack Mounted servers DLxxx and MLxxx
2-IBM pSeries p595, p570, p750, IBM BladeCenter
3-EMC DMX3, DMX4, IBM Enterprise Storage DS4000
4-HP-UX 11iv2, HP-UX 11iv3, HP MC-Serviceguard, nPar, vPar, HP integrity Virtual Machines
5- AIX 5.3, LPAR, Micro-Partitioning
6-Linux Redhat 4.x and 5.x
7-Oracle database 10g, and RAC
8-Opnet ACELive appliance
9-SightLine systems
10-HP Openview performance agent OVPA
11-VMware ESX 4.0

Performance Analyst at Amadeus Data processing Center
  • Germany
  • October 2001 to August 2005

Open systems performance analyst. HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux system planning. Purchase of H/W and S/W required for new projects and upgrade for existing projects. Performance modeling using regression analysis and queueing theory.
SAS Language version 8.0 programming.Perl and Shell scripting capabilities.

Senior Unix system Administrator at Mobinil
  • Egypt
  • December 1999 to September 2001

Administer a large site of HP 9000 servers, K, N, L class.
HP-UX 11.00 and 10.20
Administer Enterprise storage EMC, and IBM ESS (Shark)
Application is BSCSv5
Database Oracle 8, 8i, 7.3.0.4

Unix and NT system Admin at ENPPI Engineering for petroluim and chemichal industries
  • Egypt
  • July 1996 to November 1999

Administer SUN Ultra servers and workstations
SUNOS 4.3, and Solaris 2.4, 2.5.
Administer NT workstations
Administer ComputerVision and Intergraph CAD systems

System Engineer at IDSC information and decesion support the Cabinet
  • Egypt
  • February 1995 to June 1996

Develop In-House software using MS-VB and MS-ACCESS
Manage project resources, and provide support

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at University of Louisville
  • April 2000

Master Degree in Computer science from Louisville University - Kentucky (USA) GPA 3.4

Bachelor's degree, Electrical communications & Electronics
  • at Cairo Universirty - Facuilty of Engineering
  • July 1992

Bachelor Degree in Electrical communications & Electronics Engineering with Honor Degree from Cairo University Egypt 1992. Priliminary Year of Master Degree in Control system Engineering Cairo Univeristy 1996. Grade Good.

Specialties & Skills

Capacity Management
Service Delivery
Unix System Administrator
HP-UX Certified Unix IT Proffesional
Project Management
SAS V8.0. Core Programming Language
Linux System Administrator LPIC-1 Certified
IT Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning
IT Infrastructure Planning

Languages

English
Expert
German
Beginner

Memberships

Egyptian Engineering Syndicate
  • Memeber
  • July 1992

Training and Certifications

HP-UX Certified IT Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2001
Valid Until:
June 2001
Linux Institute Certified Professional LPIC-1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2005
Valid Until:
May 2005
SAS Certified Base Programmer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2003
Valid Until:
May 2003