Sherif Ali, Regional IT Support Engineer – IT Projects

Sherif Ali

Regional IT Support Engineer – IT Projects

Ashurst

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
Experience
15 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months

Regional IT Support Engineer – IT Projects at Ashurst
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2021

• Handling IT project for the Middle East Region.
• Handling the daily IT support for the Middle East users.
• Networking and system administration.
• Managing IT projects and vendors, including procurement, contracting, project plan and progress.
• Maintaining and updating technical documents and procedures.
• Preparing maintenance plans and upgrading schedules for the organization’s systems.
• Coordinating with the corporate IT operations teams to align with the corporate IT policies.

Senior Regional IT/VC Engineer at Alliance Renault Nissan Mitsubishi
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2017 to January 2021

• Setup, maintain and operate the Video Conference rooms and A/V equipment.
• Contribute to events organization, by providing safe and relevant solution to the business.
• Managing and monitoring Executive board meetings on Cisco Telepresence MCUs.
• Managing the Cisco Telepresence Management Suit.
• Installing and troubleshooting Cisco Telepresence Endpoint (SX10, SX20, DX80, and more).
• Installing and configuring Telepresence software on users’ devices such as (Jabber, Polycom, and Zoom).
• Providing daily IT Support to the Senior Executives in AMI Pacific region.
• Inform and advice the users on best security practices to ensure internal and external confidentiality for data and communication.
• Liaise with local and corporate IT operations team.
• Managing local IT projects and vendor management.

Senior Systems Engineer – Senior Executive Support/Project Delivery at Al-Futtaim - Enterprise IT
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2014 to September 2017

• Providing daily IT support to the Senior Executives and their PAs.
• Leading a team of 15 System field engineers (supporting all Al-Futtaim group users in all different businesses).
• Documenting all reported incidents in Remedy force.
• Responsible for technical procedural documentation and relevant reports.
• Handling IT projects implementation (software upgrades, Imaging and new office setups).
• Performing root cause analysis on repeated incidents for permanent resolution.
• Assisting in the maintenance of Desktops, Laptops, Microsoft Surface, Mobile devices, Tablets, POS Machines, and RDTs/PDAs.
• Conducting technical training sessions for the team members and business users.
• Coordinating with different IT teams to improve the IT services delivered to the business.
• Coordinating with third party vendor, when needed.
• On-Site support for the core business regions of Al-Futtaim group in Dubai (DFC, Shaikh Zayed Road).

IT Service Desk Team Leader at Al-Futtaim - Enterprise IT
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2013 to October 2014

• Providing technical guidance to the team members.
• Implementing ITIL best practices to approach best service level.
• Coordinating with other teams to work on process definition.
• Handling complete control of Service Desk operations and escalated tickets to ensure users' problems are handled efficiently.
• Conducting weekly meeting with Service Desk Manager to review the weekly statistics and forecast daily efforts required.
• Generating monthly reports to ensure that the team meets KPIs.

IT Service Desk Analyst at Al-Futtaim - Enterprise IT
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2012 to October 2013

• Provide 1st level of support to ALL Al-Futtaim operational divisions (Automotive, Retail, Real Estate, Electronics, Engineering, Financial Services, General Services and Joint Ventures).
• Managing users' profiles on Active directory, Exchange Server, SAP, VPN console, FTP Server, and Blackberry BES5 and BES10 servers.
• Hands on experience with IT ticketing systems; Tivoli Service Request Manager (TSRM) and Remedy force.
• Hands on experience with Network Monitoring Systems; Solar winds.
• Experience in Secure FTP software; Tumbleweed.
• Provide 1st level of support to business applications (RetailPro, CarPro, Fastrack).

IT Support Consultant at Cisco System - Outsourced from Sutherland Global Services
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2011 to November 2012

• Providing client support and technical issue resolution for Home and Small business Cisco Users via E-Mail, phone and remote access.
• Providing on-site support to users when required.
• Hands on experience with Cisco consumer routers, switches, Access points, Wireless Expanders, and Power Lines.
• Hands on experience with Cisco WebEx Support Services.
• Conducting training and coaching sessions for the team members and new joiners.
• Testing the new devices before releasing it to the market.
• Providing technical advice to the business users with the recommended network design which suites their business needs.

Internet Technical support Agent at Etisalat UAE
  • Afghanistan
  • July 2010 to July 2011

• Handling internet problems for all internet connections (ADSL, GPON, WI-MAX, HFC cables and Dial up).
• Troubleshooting IPTV issues for (HFC, Wireless “BWAS”, and GPON) IPTV connections.
• Handling mail, domain name and web hosting issues.
• Hands on experience with different operating systems (Windows and MAC).
• Providing excellent customer service to the customers and provide them with all the required information about our products and services.

IT System Administrator at The engineering Authority of the Armed Forces
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2009 to June 2010

• Providing analytical and technical solutions for all IT related issues.
• Implementing IT policies to define user's privileges as per their roles.
• Hands on experience in Active directory and Exchange server.
• Installing operating systems and configuring network printers.
• Full installation of Cisco routers and cabling for routers, switches and access points.

Radio Systems Coordinator at Vodafone Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2009 to March 2009

• GSM network Planning.
• Testing.
• Optimization.
• Setting the sites’ configurations and Attributes.
• Solving the problems of coverage and quality.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
  • at Faculty of computers & information
  • July 2008

IT ( Information Technology ) major department IS ( Information system ) minor department GPA: 2.9 out of 4

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Office
Telepresence
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
Radio Network Planning
HTML programming
MS Office
Oracle PL/SQL
Oracle Forms & Reports
Oracle SQL
Network Engineer - CCNP
Microsoft Dynamics

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Students Conference of Computers and Information - Cairo University
  • Networks Instructor
  • July 2007

Training and Certifications

(Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2009
Valid Until:
November 2009
Cisco Certified Network Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2013
Valid Until:
April 2015