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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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