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Peter Estephan

Senior Product Development and Lifecycle Manager at Orange Business Services

Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

Orange Business Services

  • Senior Product Development and Lifecycle ManagerFull Time

    Feb 2023 - Present -2 yrs, 4 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:• Key actor in service development projects. • Designs and adapts the processes & tools to deploy new products or product evolutions within the operational entities. • Ensures the delivery of the projects on time and on budget while ensuring the end-to-end quality of the customer and operational journeys. • Intervenes upstream and downstream of service development projects for which the purpose is to design, develop and deploy new products or product evolutions. • Responsible for the following Quote-To-Bill processes: o Quotation and Commercial Ordering o Service Transition o Service Operation including Customer Service o Billing o Digitalization (customer portals and/or processes) • Understands the business requests and analyzes the requirements to co-construct the service with other stakeholders, especially with business processes design and IT development or evolution requests. • Creates the appropriate deliverables for the evolution of existing processes and tools. • Ensures the proposed solution aligns with the organization's global process strategy and positioning. • Act as a subject matter expert for the services/product. • Act as the primary point of contact regarding the area of expertise towards marketing, along with the project duration. • Analyze impacts of new product introduction or evolution on processes, organizations, tools, and costs; propose related adaptation and seek process owners’ approval; contribute to product Business Case definition by identifying and consolidating these costs, define operational business requirements; consolidate arguments to justify required processes & tools adaptation. • Harmonize new products & services conception within commercial and technical catalogs. • Build training modules, lead & conduct training sessions to ensure operational teams can operate new products.
  • Senior Handover Project & Program ManagerFull Time

    Jul 2018 - Feb 2023 -4 yrs, 7 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Responsible for Service Improvement and Handover enhancements for end to end service delivery for designated customers in coordination with Operations Architects, VSMs, Operational Teams and Product management. Responsible to evaluate al actions from an operational perspective and readiness from Pre-sales, Design, Implementation al the way through operations as a mid-sales and after sales point of contact engaging Operations Architects and Operational contacts as needed. In addition, after site is moved over to operations; responsible to communicate with CSM and Operational teams to analyze any occurring problems or requests from the operational side to make sure it is taken through the right channels to correct any faulty processes or integrity of data across tools and documentation from the implementation phase. Involved in the initial kickoff of the project to share the vision and proposed solutions/ deadlines etc. And be able to share concerns/processes and procedures early on. Quality Assurance through periodicaly re-visiting the customer builds through operations, architects, VSMs, BOMs and CSMs colecting feedback to ensure customer success by addressing any gaps initiating internal SIP for services and interlock enhancement proactively. Acting as a catalyst for change and improvement in performance and quality of interlocks, and customer standards. Recording, analyzing and distributing statistical information based on outcome of internal enhancements (before and after) for initiated SIPs/ general improvement plans, external customer satisfaction and internal customer satisfaction. Engagement of GPO and relevant parties for process enhancement and re-structuring as needed reference to proper feasibility study and engagement of stakeholders through proper stakeholder identification with Agile Practices. Ensure Data Integrity from processes, tools and documentation ensuring constant enhancements between entities involved in a single chain See less.
  • IPT lead Solution Consultant & presalesFull Time

    Mar 2011 - Jul 2018 -7 yrs, 4 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Working as an IPT Solution Consultant - Customer requirements analysis. - Acting as pre-sales consultant for some of the organic growth activities as needed. - Low-level design deliverable (including migration scenario). - Acceptance test plan delivery. - Offline configuration. - Remote configuration. - Liaise directly with customer to obtain all relevant technical information for successful design, order validation & project delivery. - Post-implementation fine-tuning and troubleshooting. - Remote support during acceptance. - Customer training preparation. - Consistently deliver high quality billable technical service to existing and new clients ensuring that customer satisfaction is maintained or improved. - Contribute to knowledge management through documentation of completed assignments in the form of case studies, author white papers or presentations on technical solutions and services offered by Orange. - Participates in projects as part of a project organization respecting cost, quality and time constraints - Delivered solution design and supported the implementation of large and small IP Telephony solutions. - Defined migration scenario of business critical customers and sites. • Projects In progress: - World Bank • UC design based on CUCM 8.6, CUC 8.6. - Eco Bank • UC design based on CUCM 8.6, CUC 8.6. - Hapaglloyd • UC design based on CUCM 8.0, CUC 8.0, CUEAC 8.0.0.5, and CUCiMOC. • UC Roll-out based on centralized Cisco Solution. - APMM • UC design based on CUCM 8.0, CUC 8.0, CUEAC 8.0.0.5, and BE6000. - SGS • UC design based on CUCM 9.2, CUC 8.0, CUEAC 8.0.0.5. • UC Roll-out based on centralized Cisco Solution. - Heineken • B2GaaS service "Business Together as a Service to facilitate access to unified communications and collaboration services in the cloud" - AMCOR • B2GaaS service "Business Together as a Service to facilitate access to unified communications and collaboration services in the cloud"
  • Field EngineerFull Time

    Bmb

    Nov 2008 - Mar 2011 -2 yrs, 4 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Working as a Voice Engineer. (April 2009) - Significant experience in the newer VoIP technologies powered by Cisco Voice and Data Network environments. - Implementing projects with Unified Communications Manager, 4.x through 7.x and Unity Connection and Unity Unified Messaging. - Implementing projects with IP Contact Center Express, Unified Contact Center Express (IPCC Express, UCCX). •Projects Achieved: - Nestle Foods (CUCM – UCCX). - Golf Porto Marina (CUCM + Integration with Nortel) - Cove Rotana Dubai (CUCM + LAN) - AWB (UCCX) - Pharos Holding (Full enhancement & moving to new location) - Medrail (CME + LAN) - HSBC (CME for 14 branches all over Egypt) - El-Sallab Villa (CME) - AAW (Unified Meeting Place) * Stayed 5 months as a resident engineer in Rotana-The Cove resort (RAK-Dubai) Working as a Routing & Switching field engineer. (November 2008) - Responsible for Layer 2 switching technology architecture, implementation and operations including L2 and L3 switching, bridging and related functionality. This includes the use of VLANS, STP, VTP and their functions as they relate to networking infrastructure requirements including internal and external treatment, configuration and security. - Responsible for Layer Three routing protocol architecture and implementations. - WAAS project implementation using (Inline Interception & WCCP Interception). •Projects Achieved: - Middle East Courier Service (Full LAN & WAN) - CMA-CGM (Full LAN) - El-Waseet (Full LAN) - Blom Bank (WAAS Solution) - BNP Paribas (WAAS Solution) - Telecom Egypt (WAAS demo) - British Telecom (Field Engineer for most projects)
  • IT Helpdesk EngineerFull Time

    Al Ahram Beverages Company (Heineken)

    Feb 2007 - Nov 2008 -1 yr, 9 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:The purpose of this job is to solve end-users incidents, set-up new computers, repair hardware and make sure that the Helpdesk is reaching customer satisfaction. • Immediate resolution of Level 1 tickets in fast paced work environment. • Interact with users via telephone and email in a multi-lingual environment. • Identify, evaluate, and prioritize end-user problems and complaints. • Analyze problems and formulate plans of resolution by utilizing all technical resources to solve end-user problems. • Quick escalation of level 2/level 3 tickets to respective groups. • Escalate unresolved calls to appropriate support specialist. • Build/configure new desktops and laptops based on a preset schedule. • Set-up software standard images. • Repair Hardware; main focus computers and printers. • Proactive visits to ABC remote sites to check computers and make sure they are updated with the latest software. • Provide hardware break fix support, LAN’s support, and telephones. • Provide support to the chairman team based on a special preset SLA. • Focus on quality of communications (Written and verbal). • Work with other teams to understand the different projects and the impact on the Helpdesk. • Implement and follow ABC Policies & Procedures (e.g. Hiring, Termination, etc. • Initiate direct communication with external suppliers. Lead the evaluation, selection, and SLAs established with them.  Network Administration: creating users, groups & mails (Active directory & Mail administration).  Cisco phone support: Cisco call manager administration.  ACS monitoring: monitor any host can't authenticate to network.  Vulnerabilities monitoring: Mcafee foundstone.  Computers monitoring: System Management Server (SMS).  Mail Support: Excellent knowledge in Lotus Notes. • Projects achieved: - Upgrading all computers in all the company sites, plants & warehouses and updating the windows from WIN 2000 to WIN XP. - Standardizing all softwares needed to be installed on the computers.
  • IT engineerFull Time

    Siemens

    Feb 2006 - Feb 2007 -1 yr

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:The following subjects were covered: Network Concepts & Fundamentals. Basic Administration concepts of Network. Hardware Support of Siemens equipment. Repair of hardware problems. Assembly and setup of new Siemens PCs & Laptops. Software Support of common applications. Support of Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP. Support of Microsoft Office 2000 & XP. Siemens specific applications. Training in Telecom Egypt (Summer 2005) General training on electronics in Modern Academy (Summer 2002)
  • Education

    • MBA in Digital Transformation

      ESLSCA Business School

      Jan 2020 - Jan 2022 - 2 yr

    • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

      Modern Academy in Maadi (MAM)

      Jan 2001 - Jan 2006 - 5 yr

    • High School - Thanaweya Amma

      Thebes language school

      Jan 2001 

    Skills

    • Internet
    • Microsoft Outlook
    • Microsoft Windows
    • Sound Forge
    • Cisco
    • Networking
    • Sound Editing
    • Microsoft Word
    • Microsoft Powerpoint
    • Microsoft Excel
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    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Advanced
    • French

      Beginner

    Training & Certifications

    • PMP

      EMAK·2013
    • CCVP

      2011
    • CCNA Voice

      2009
    • CCNA

      2009
    • VOIP

      2006
    • HTML

      2005
    • C/C++

      2004
    • Java

      2003
    • Programming Logic & technique

      2003
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