Sleiman El Awar, Technical Sales Manager, Presale Manager GCC

Sleiman El Awar

Technical Sales Manager, Presale Manager GCC

Alcatel-Lucent

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Master of Business Administaration MBA
Experience
19 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months

Technical Sales Manager, Presale Manager GCC at Alcatel-Lucent
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since May 2008

- Working closely with the sales team in identifying new opportunities and proposing new solutions for the customers.
- Monitor and address new upcoming opportunities
- Customer engagement and consultancy before RFP/RFI/RFQ is released.
- Customer Oriented: Face to face customer meetings to identify customer needs.
- Expert in Telecommunication networking.
- Customer technical presentations showing new and future technologies/solutions
- Design and presales of optic network (SDH, WDM, OTN, Ethernet, MPLS-TP, and GMPLS
- Working on the optic tenders in the Gulf hub (covering UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain) covering carrier and Strategic industries customers (Oil & Gas, Utilities, etc...)
- Bid Management: Handling Multi Business Division offers including services (Deployment, Maintenance and Professional Services)
- Answer to RFI, RFP and RFQ for the design and supply of optical networks.
- Focused on technical and commercial aspects.
- Offer preparation: Design, Statement of Compliance, Scope of Work, Bill of Quantities and defining customer prices.
- Offer defense meetings with customer showing advantage of the proposed solutions.
- Post Sales activities: checking order, following project implementation g.
- Working on ME major carrier account (Qtel, Omantel, Zain, DU, etc…) and SI accounts (UAE Army, ADCO, GASCO, QP, TRANSCO, and other EPCs)

Financial Analyst-Pricing Analyst at Lucent Technology ; Alcatel-Lucent
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 2005 to May 2008

-FPC planning and analysis.
-Business case analysis (Preparing Business cases for all MEA project and preparing the quotation to the customers.
-Training on Quote to Cash and SAP System.
-Supporting the Bid and Proposal team and the contract administrator team.
-working on reports for higher level managers.
-working with the RAC Committee(Risk Assessment Committee) and assessing the risk in all the bids to be worked, preparing the Income Statement ad cash flow and ensure the profitability of the project.
-working on project controlling and revenue recognition for in process project.

Electrical Engineer at Jubaili Bros.
  • United Arab Emirates
  • September 2005 to December 2005

Ref: www.jubailibros.com.
-HEUI and MEUI engines trouble shooting.
-Electronic governors trouble shooting and Software adjusting.
-Synchronization Projects assembling and trouble shooting.

Electrical Engineer at Jubaili Bros.
  • Lebanon
  • April 2005 to September 2005

Ref: www.jubailibros.com.
-Training on all generators sizes (mechanical and spare parts side) from 27KVA to 1250KVA.
-Woodward electronic governors.
-ProAct electronic governors.
-Training on HEUI engines, sensors and software (1300 EDI software)
- Training on MEUI engines, sensors and ECM software (EST service tool).
- Training on synchronization

Computer Engineer at Alcom
  • Lebanon
  • February 2004 to July 2004

-Computers (hardware, technical services, windows troubleshooting

Trainee at Rafiq Hariri Airport
  • Lebanon
  • August 2002 to September 2002

Training at the maintenance department in the Civil Aviation.
The basics covered: RADAR, AFTN, FIDS, NAVAIDS, AIRFIELD LIGHTING, VHF, TELEPHONE CENTER

Education

Master's degree, Master of Business Administaration MBA
  • at Lebanese American University
  • August 2005

Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the Lebanese American University (LAU) – Lebanon with GPA of 3.61

Bachelor's degree, Computer and Communication Engineer
  • at Lebanese University
  • August 2003

Computer and Communication Engineering Diploma at the Lebanese University (Lebanese University branch 2- Roumieh- Lebanon) with GPA of 3.2

High school or equivalent, Mathmatics
  • at Saint Antoinee School
  • August 1998

Baccalaureate in Mathematics (Saint Antoine School (Hammana)-Mont Lebanon)

Specialties & Skills

Target Oriented
Business Development
Customer Orientation
Teamwork
MS Office(Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint ), SPSS
Programming languages :AutoCAD (2D), Visual Basic.Net, Visual Basic, Assembly, Turbo Pascal, SQL, Ma
Sales and Presales skills: Business Development, Business Strategy, Customer engagement, Customer Or
Certificates for training course in “Customer satisfaction and delight”, “Sales Techniques” in The L

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert
French
Intermediate