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Karim Kassem

Professional

Experience - Freelance Senior Consultant (Hewlett-Packard EMEA)

Jan 2014 - Present

Title: Senior Consultant

Working as a consultant for HP EMEA (Europe, Middle East &

Africa).

Delivering training at Clients location.

Handled technical queries and responded enthusiastically.

Providing I.T Business continuity consultancy.

- Qatar Datamation System (QDS)

March 2011-December 2013

http://www.qdsnet.com/Pages/default.aspx

Title: Senior Sales Consultant

Handling 20 key Enterprise regional accounts under sales

professional life cycle.

Initiating new sales deals and opportunities.

Working along with the company Sales pipeline.

Working along with the Pre-sales team and the technical team to

meet customer needs.

Working on RFP, RFQ & RFI communications with customers.

Selling Enterprise Software Solutions for Enterprise customers

and SMB's.

- Online Modem Solutions (OMSME)

Jan 2006 - Feb 2011 http://www.omsme.com/

Title: Senior Consultant.

Working as an HP consultant for HP EMEA region.

Working with customers to define new opportunities & deals.

Supporting the Sales Team under the standard Sales Life Cycle

approach.

Understanding customer needs & requirements and providing the

best approach to meet customer requirements.

Running presentations for customers to explain proposed

solutions.

Working side by side with sales team in attending meetings with

potential customers.

Delivering professional courses to HP Europe support engineers.

(In HP France site).

Delivering professional courses & Pre-Sales courses to HP Middle

East support engineers. (In HP Dubai site).

Delivering professional courses & Pre-Sales courses to HP Middle

East support engineers. (In HP Egypt site).

- International Business Machine (IBM WTC) March

2002-December 2005 http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/eg/

Title: Systems Administrator,

Worked as an IBM support Engineer for:-

British Petroleum Corporation (BP) March

2002-July 2004

http://www.bp.com/

Provided support for BP Egypt system serves and for 800+ users.

Provided support for 29 Cisco LAN Switches, 9 Compaq Servers,

Support HP SAN & HP DLT Backup station with 4 SDLT drives.

Designed new WAN network connections & routes for 4 new

locations.

Assembled & Configured 2 Nokia Checkpoint firewall devices for BP

WAN connections.

Built VLAN environment on 28 Internet work switches and 2 Cisco

Routers, with 2 Nokia Box firewall devices at BP Corporation.

Configured BP network Switches & Routers for VTP domains, AAA

security protocols & internal routing.

Built a Remote Access Server for private networks [RAS servers -

Cisco VPN concentrators]

Implemented 4 different WAN projects for remote connections using

HDSL Point-to-Point technologies.

Worked within BP Middle East regional team providing support for

several locations within 15 countries & 20000+ users.

Egyptian Liquefied Natural Gas (ELNG) July 2004-December

2005

http://www.egyptianlng.com/elng/

Title: Systems Administrator,

Managed an environment of 15 HP & IBM servers.

Managed a Network environment consisting of Cisco routers, PIX,

IDS & 3Com switches.

Implemented new anti-virus & mail security systems for ELNG (3

remote locations) based on McAfee & Symantec products.

Built MS back office 5.2 servers, with mail system.

Configured LAN connection for two remote sites with 40 users

each.

- Cairo University Center of Communications & Electronics

November 2000-July 2002 http://www.cuhtc.org/

Title: Network Instructor

Implemented Cairo University Faculty of Engineering

Communications Department CUHTC center's Network Infrastructure

Taught MCSE & MCSA tracks, and the first two tracks of MCDBA.

Taught CCNA track & lab building.

Certification

NetApp Certifications

NetApp Accredited Storage Architect Professional

NetApp Accredited Sales Professional (NASP)

Cisco Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Building Scalable Cisco Internet Works (BSCI)

Microsoft Certifications

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA)

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE 2000)

Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT 2003)

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Certifications

HP ASE - Storage Solutions Architect V1 [2014]

HP ATP - BladeSystem Solutions Integrator V8.1 [2014]

HP ATP - Server Administrator V8 [2014]

HP ATP - Server Solutions V1 [2014]

HP ATP - Storage Solutions V1 [2014]

AIS - HP Data Protector

AIS - HP ProLiant ML/DL Servers [2007]

APC - HP ProLiant Server Solutions [2010]

HP APC - StorageWorks Solutions Architect [2011]

APP - HP Enterprise Solutions [2010]

HP Advanced Sales Certified - Cloud and Converged Infrastructure

[2012]

HP ASC - Storage Solutions [2011]

ASE - HP BladeSystem [2007]

HP ASP - Enterprise Solutions [2011]

HP Master ASE - Storage Solutions [2011]

HP Sales Certified - Enterprise Solutions [2012]

HP Sales Certified - IT Operations Management [2012]

HP Certified Instructor.

Technical Skills

Enterprise Software Solutions:

HP BSM - IBM Tivoli - BMC Software -

Remedy - Cloud Solutions

Virtualization Technology Solution:

Microsoft Hyper-V solution.

Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

Microsoft System Center.

Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Microsoft App-V solution.

Vmware GSX Server. (High Level Knowledge)

Citrix Xen Server Solution. (Basic Knowledge)

Servers:

MS Exchange 2000&2003 - ARC Serve - Symantec/McAfee Antivirus

- MS SMS

MS ISA 2004 - Backup EXEC - MXtreme

Mail Firewall - MS DNS

MS IIS 6 Security - McAfee AS - McAfee

ePo Server - MS AD

McAfee Group Shield - Symantec EV6 - MS SQL

Networks:

Cisco 801, 805, 2620, 3200 Routers & DSL serial devices & ISDN

modem 2950/1924

VTP domains & VLAN's (Cisco Devices)

IBM Network Tivoli, Object Planet Network Probe, NetScout Probe

Nokia IP530 Checkpoint - Cisco PIX 525, NAT Service on Cisco

routers

Router Protocols (RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS) & Cisco VPN devices

Brocade SAN switches

Cisco MDS SAN switches

HW Servers & Storage System Products:

HP 3PAR Storage System - HP Proliant DL & ML

servers

HP StorageWorks EVA - OS of Proliant servers &

HP RDP solutions

HP StorageWorks XP - HP Proliant

servers

HP Backup Library (MSL,EML & ESL) - HP Data Protector

HP Blade System - HP Integrity

& HP9000 servers

HP-UX Unix operating system. - NetApp FAS & V

series.

HP Storage Essentials SRM. - NetApp data recovery

solutions

Project Management:

MS project management

Pre-Sales Tools

Sales Builder for windows. - HP

Integrity design solution tool.

NetApp Field Portal Sales tools. - HP Storage work

sizing tools.

HP Storage Works Design tool. - HP Product

bulletin.

HP Design Enterprise Backup tool. - HP care-pack

selector tool.

HP Blade System Design tool. - HP solution

e-selector tool.

HP SAN design ref. guide. - HP Data

Replication performance Estimator.

HP Service Media Library. - MS Visio

design tools.

Education

Bachelor degree in Accounting, June 2000

Faculty of Business & Commerce, English Department, Egypt.

Languages and

Social Skills ? Fluent in English & Arabic.

? Intermediate in French.

? Possess a professional work demeanor, strong teamwork skills,

associated with highly

Developed interpersonal and organizational skills and

cross-cultural understanding.

Health & safety

environment ? Attended basic Fire Fighting training.

-HSE- courses ? Attended first level CPR training.

References: Available upon request.

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