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Gamal Aly

Account Engineer at Opencode systems

Sheikh Zayed, Giza, Egypt

Work 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 University

      Jan 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

      Fluent
    • Arabic

      Fluent

    Training & Certifications

    • ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate in Service Management.

      2018
    • RED HAT CERTIFIED SPECIALIST IN VIRTUALIZATION (RHCVA)

      2018
    • RED HAT CERTIFIED SPECIALIST IN HIGH AVAILABILITY CLUSTERING

      2018
    • Red Hat System Engineer (RHCE)

      2018
    • Red Hat System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack

      Linux Academy·2017
    • Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

      2016
    • • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

      2011
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