Zelalem Fanta, Senior System and Presale Engineer

Zelalem Fanta

Senior System and Presale Engineer

Tence Professional Service Ltd

Location
Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
18 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months

Senior System and Presale Engineer at Tence Professional Service Ltd
  • Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
  • My current job since April 2021

▪ Deployment of OEM products/solutions, administration, and support across the enterprise verticals.
▪ Prepare and make presentations about the products or services with relevant values for sales use.
▪ Coordinate and organize demand generation activities like tradeshows, roadshows, company events or customer workshops.
▪ Engage with customers and interpret needs, advice for prospective products that are aligned with the customers' demands.
▪ Prepare proposals, RFP and RFI responses.
▪ Lead generation activities from prospects.
▪ Research, recommend and implement system enhancement techniques.
▪ Design & deploy Solaris LVM, Hyper-V, Azure and vSphere virtualization infrastructure solutions.
▪ Manage key customer accounts within the Enterprise verticals.
▪ Devise technical solutions as per client expectations and requirements.
▪ Implement enterprise and wireless network and network solutions.
▪ Build customer relationships, drive customer satisfaction, evaluation, plans, and follow-through.

IT Infrastructure Head at ALTA Computec PLC
  • Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
  • June 2018 to March 2021

Assisting large existing and potential customers with complex systems requirements capture, solutions architecture, system design and technical project management relating to IT infrastructure solutions as well as occasional custom development projects. Lead and supervise infrastructure teams which are responsible for the implementation and operations of all technology infrastructures which includes data center, network and server computing services. Reports to the solutions department manager.

Systems Administrator at Vivacell (Network of the World)
  • South Sudan
  • April 2015 to April 2018

• Deploy & manage Red Hat Linux and Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 server OS
• Manage infrastructure servers such as AD, DNS, DHCP, FTP & File servers
• Prepare documentations and manuals for all system administration tasks and activities
• Oracle VM Server, VMware vSphere (ESXi ) and Hyper-V deployment and management
• Plan and design the IT service management of the company which helps to achieve the KPI set by the management and IT audit firm
• Administer and manage Veritas NetBackup backup system
• Administer and manage McAfee VirusScan Enterprise anti-virus application

Solutions Architect at Transnational Computer Technology (TCT)
  • Ethiopia
  • January 2012 to March 2015

• Leading System Section teams in preparing technical proposals for system implementation and integration solutions
• Assign & monitor tasks that are meant to System Section
• Implementing Oracle Virtual Machine server and Oracle Solaris Cluster.
• Implementing and installing SPARC T4 & T5 based servers
• Implementing and installing Sun Fire X2 & X4 Series Servers
• Installing, managing and administering Oracle Linux & Oracle Solaris
• Implementing and installing Oracle Database 11g
• Deploying and administering Windows Server 2008 & 2012 systems
• Install, deploy and manage Sun Storage 6000 Series Arrays
• Provide clients general product support
• Consult clients on installing, configuring and managing AD, DNS, DHCP, File, Terminal, Exchange, Anti-virus and ISA servers

IT Specialists at ZOHA Information Systems PLC
  • Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
  • October 2010 to December 2011

• Prepare proposals and tenders
• Meeting with clients to determine requirements
• Designing, installing and monitoring computer networks projects.
• Analysing IT requirements within companies and giving independent and objective advice on the use of IT
• Assist clients on selecting and purchasing various kinds of IT equipments
• defining software, hardware and network requirements

IT Support Engineer at Softech Integrated Solutions
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • August 2008 to September 2010

•Provide technical assistance to network and system users in the use of all equipment, hardware and software applications
•Install, troubleshoot, repair and/or support the operation of personal computers, laptops and peripheral equipment networks
•Integrating hardware and software components
•Monitoring and fine-tuning operating systems performance
•Defining and maintaining physical network architecture and infrastructure
•Installing, Configuring and optimizing network servers, hubs, routers, switches and wireless access points
•Administering Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003
•Installing, testing, maintaining, and upgrading network operating systems software and application software’s

Database Administrator at Development Bank of Ethiopia
  • Ethiopia
  • February 2005 to March 2008

•Installing, configuring and administering Globus, banking software and T24 Core banking
•Execute the daily operation tasks (Start of Day & End of Day) of the IT Back Office as designed by the IT Operations manual.
•Monitoring and tuning database performance
•Backup and restore process for the database
•Creating and managing system users
•Creating and customizing reports and enquires
•Administer and manage Windows Server 2003, Windows NT Server and SCO Unix
•Performing patches search, patches installation, bug fixing, antivirus and back up system management, upgrades and package installation for Microsoft products
•Installation and ongoing maintenance of all software and package specially Microsoft Platforms. Windows, 98/2000/M/XP/ Vista and Server 2000/2003

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Sri Sai College
  • April 2021
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems
  • at Addis Ababa University
  • July 2004

Specialties & Skills

Virtualization Solutions
Linux platform
Cloud Computing
System Administration
Solaris
Red Hat Linux Enterprise
Windows Server 2008
Sun x86 Servers
Veritas NetBackup
Tape Autoloaders
VMware vSphere
Windows Server 2012
Oracle Linux 5, 6 and 7
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Oracle Solaris 10 and 11
SPARC Servers
SAN Switches
Windows Server 2016
Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle 11g Database
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Social Profiles

Languages

English
Expert
Amharic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2022
MCSA Windows Server 2008 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) – Windows 2000 Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2004
Valid Until:
January 2005
Oracle Certified Assosciate, Oracle Solaris 11 System Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2016
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Windows Server 2016 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2017
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Certified Architect Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2021
ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2017
MCSA Windows Server 2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2016
Valid Until:
January 9999
Oracle Database 11g Implementation Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
Valid Until:
April 2014
Oracle Database 11g Support Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
February 2013
Oracle VM Server 3 for SPARC Implementation Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Valid Until:
February 2014
SPARC T4-Based Servers Support Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2012
Valid Until:
October 2012
Oracle Linux 5 Technology Support Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2012
Valid Until:
October 2012

Hobbies

  • Reading Books, Playing and watching football, running and socializing with friends and families