
Gamal Aly
Account Engineer at Opencode systems
Sheikh Zayed, Giza, EgyptWork Experience
Account EngineerFull Time
Opencode systems
Dec 2018 - Present -6 yrs, 7 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Project Engineering (installation, integration, testing, commissioning, live activation). • Account Engineering (live support, helpdesk, change requests, customer technical follow-up). • Operational Support (system monitoring, heath-care, preventive maintenance, training). • Emergency Support (first level emergency, incident reporting and follow-up). • Linux Administration. • Insure work delivery on-time. • Insure up-to-date and high quality documentation. • Insure company/product documentation benefits from specific documentation and customer experience. • Work internally with project and product managers and teams. • Help build, maintain strong customer relationships through kind and professional communication. • Insure full Customer satisfaction while preserving the Company. • Identify and escalate sales needs. • Presales Support (upon availability participate in sales tenders, proposals and meetings). • Ability to grow as the team grows. • Reporting to: - Support/Field Group Leader (as part of support/field team). - Project Manager (for pending projects) . - Country Manager (when in OC subsidiaries for any employment issue). • Handle Vas applications operations and configurations. • Follow up with Operator to solve trouble tickets and incidents. • Prepare and execute test scenarios and test Plans of Vas services (UAT, APT). • Trace and analysis problems between RBT platforms and other network elements mainly MSC and IN.
Senior VAS Engineer Operations.Full Time
OnMobile Global for Telecommunication Services.
Jul 2015 - Nov 2018 -3 yrs, 4 months
- Job Details:Specialties: VAS Systems: CRBT • Experienced on SS7 (User Parts [ISUP) and SCAP Diameter charging protocol, SMPP with Excellent troubleshooting skills. • Experienced on in Value Added services and systems RBT, SMS, USSD, IVR. • Experienced on IP Networks and configuration of CISCO/HP equipment [CCNA level of routing and switching & VLANs]. • Operating Systems skills: • Red Hat Expertise High Availability Clustering (PaceMaker/Redhat Cluster suite). • Virtualization technologies - RedHat Virtualization RHEV 3.5. • MySQL & Oracle 11g & 12c database system administration. • Experienced on (Tomcat, Apache, Nginx, Squid proxy, HA Proxy load balancing). • VAS Operations, Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Development USSD, SMS, IVR provisioning channels. • Shell scripting programming language. • Working in VAS Level-2 support department and responsible for Operations & Maintenance of VAS nodes specially CRBT. • Work closely with RBT platform engineering teams to update, upgrade, and enhance systems availability, continuity, and performance. • Handling issues & critical alarms escalated from VAS 1st line related to VAS RBT provisioning channels (USSD, SMS, IVR, OBD) within the agreed SLA/TAT, closure of the NOC Trouble Tickets and carrying out routine maintenance activities. • Deploy, configure and test E2E VAS provisioning services like USSD, RBT, IVR, SMS products, troubleshooting server related Issue/Connectivity, maintenance, monitoring & also coordinate with team(s) for Deployment and Expansion of the Linux and Windows servers & E1’s etc. Operations responsibility: • Ensuring all VAS nodes in network availability at all time. • Develop tools and scripts for monitor systems and make automated reports. • Second line support with necessary expertise to solve issues escalated from first line diagnostics. • Provided guidance and implementation for software delivery and upgrades. • Troubleshoot on HW/SW fault for All VAS Nodes. Advanced troubleshooting skills across Mobile network • Performed and tracked on Preventive Maintenance on VAS Nodes. • Provided technical reports to identify cause of problems. • Fulfilled the Service configuration and activation according to plan for Service Provisioning • System and service performance data collection • Prepare implementation and rollback plan and call a review meeting for configuration request. • Fulfill the configuration plan for configuration request, Record and report the process and final effect for configuration request. • Resolve customers’ Trouble Tickets, SLA Management and NOC Environment.
VAS Engineer Operations.Full Time
Onmobile Egypt for Telecommunication Services .
May 2012 - Jul 2015 -3 yrs, 2 months
- Job Details: Provided 24/7 on call support and Respond to the network and platforms alarms through the different monitoring tools. • Experienced implementing and configuring activation, Grace and Suspension periods with RBT subscription manager platform single point ‘Managed Service’ for all VAS applications requiring subscription management and charging. • Performs activities related to implementation, maintenance and support of Linux Platform and systems • Provide system administration for critical servers, install software, manage file systems and monitor performance, System failure analysis and recovery. • Vendor and Suppler Management. • Handle Vas applications operations and configurations. • Follow up with Operator to solve trouble tickets and incidents. • Prepare and execute test scenarios and test Plans of Vas services (UAT, APT). • Trace and analysis problems between RBT platforms and other network elements mainly MSC and IN. • Prepare and submit activity reports for projects and day to day operations (daily, weekly, monthly, and on demand). • Monitor system capacity (HW, SW, licenses) to meet business requirements.
Network Infrastructure Engineer (Resident Engineer in EGYPT).Full Time
Sysnet Middle East LLC ( Dubai ).
May 2010 - Apr 2012 -1 yr, 11 months
Egypt
- Job Details: Deployment of System Infrastructure for OnMobile Global Ltd(4 sites, 2010). Visiting operator site (Vodafone EGYPT) for deploying Onmobile project CRBT and maintenance hardware failures. Server management, database management and troubleshooting. Configuration & Management of HP, IBM & Dell Server. Maintaining and troubleshooting E1’s related issue. Configuration of new E1’s in our server and establishing SS7 signaling between server and MSC. Configuration of SS7 signaling link at MTP 1, 2, 3 level and ISUP level. Configuration of channels to make the calls & testing of calls with respect to each E1. Projects: Infrastructure and Structure Cabling (Installation and Termination) May 2010 – Sep 2010, Network Ring Back Tone (NRBT) Vodafone (Egypt). Jan 2011 – April 2011, British Petroleum (BP) Company new sites deployments. (Iraq).
Education
BSc (Bachelor of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering. May 2008.) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering
Al-Azhar UniversityJan 2004 - Jan 2008 - 4 yr
Skills
- Linux
- MySQL
- Technical Support
- Telecommunication
- Value Add Services(RBT,SMS,IVR,BILLING)
- USSD
- CCNA
- OpenStack
- Redhat HA PaceMaker
- Oracle
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Languages
English
FluentArabic
Fluent
Training & Certifications
ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate in Service Management.
2018RED HAT CERTIFIED SPECIALIST IN VIRTUALIZATION (RHCVA)
2018RED HAT CERTIFIED SPECIALIST IN HIGH AVAILABILITY CLUSTERING
2018Red Hat System Engineer (RHCE)
2018Red Hat System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack
Linux Academy·2017Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
2016• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
2011