Mohamed Fadel

Head of Solution Architecture/Pre-Sales (Technical Sales)

6th of October, Cairo, Egypt

About

• 19 years of experience in the IT and Telecom field. • Expert in Network Design and Cybersecurity. • Has ability to respond to commercial requirements and help them to achieve forecasted revenue by providing the required reliable solutions to support best commercial offers for the customers. • Has ability to run RFQs/RFPs for supplier selection. • Superior networking skill with many connections in Egypt Market (Vendors/Dist./Partners/Telco Operators). • Strong in building new relationships and ability to communicate at all levels. • Excellent in communication and presentation skills. • Has strong negotiation and influencing skills. • Deliver challenging targets in a dynamic environment. • Excellent in problem solving, analytical & reasoning, decision-making, and leadership skills. • Has the ability to gain the respect and trust of the management team and staff. • Team player and pro-initiative. • Self motivated, enthusiastic, dynamic, hard worker and creative. • Flexible, can work under pressure and ability to meet challenging deadlines. • Strong organization and time management skills with excellent attention to details • Has a high level of intensity and positive approach to embrace change. WORK EXPERIENCE with: Cisco, Juniper, Sandvine, F5, Infoblox, Vmware, Fortinet, Zscaler, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, OpenWave, Opnet, Solarwinds, Splunk, Zhone, Nomadix, Alcatel-lucent Enterprise, Minerva Networks, and TandbergTV. AREAS OF EXPERTISE •DPI •IP Networking •MPLS &VPNs •TCP Optimization •DNS •Fixed-Mobile Convergence •2G,3G and LTE •Broadband Access(e.g. xDSL, EFM and GPON) •Mobile backhaul and Microwave •Optical Systems •Triple-Play Networks •Enterprise Voice, Video and UC •IPTV/VoD •VoIP •Contact Center Solutions •Caching/ CDN/Peering •IPv6 •WiFi Technology •Security and Radius •Service Providers Market •Project Management Started: •Big Data science and ML&AI courses working with Python, R, PostgreSQL and Hadoop. •IoT Specialties: Solution Architecture, Network designing and consultancy, understand customer requirements, Delivering targets in time.

Experience

  • Mideast Communication Systems-MCS (3 yrs 9 mos)
    • Head of Solution Architecture
      Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Solutions Architect
      Nov 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

      **Responsibilities: -Solution lifecycle (Collect Business/Technical Requirements, Env. Assessment, Gap Analysis, Design Solution, Design Verification, Technical &Financial offer). -Act as be the technical design authority for infrastructure architecture services for project delivery streams across a complex greenfield technology transformation program. -Demonstrate full system lifecycle ability in order to solve problems and meet business requirement. -Working with Sales and Business Development team, serve as a central point of contact for technical architecture across the project. -Ensure that customers solutions are delivered within budget to the quality standards required. -Participate in creating strategies and in the definition of process and policies based on Experience with enterprise system architectures. -Ensure that all technical issues and risks are managed. Provide rapid and economical pre evaluations and estimates for business ideas and change management. -Must lead in approval, decision making and planning of the most appropriate technical solutions. **Deliverables: Solution Design, Scope of Work, Technical writeup, HLD with logical connectivity, Consolidated P&L and Different Design options. **Vendors List: Juniper, F5 , PaloAlto Networks, MicroFocus, Trellix, Mandiant, Gigamon, Ivanti, Forcepoint, TrendMicro, Infoblox, Arista, Citrix, Darktrace, Netscout, NexThink, Tenable, LogRhythm Group-IB and Supermicro.

  • Vodafone (11 yrs 2 mos)
    • Core networks design Sr. Technical Lead
      Jul 2018 - Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    • IP Network Design Senior Engineer
      Oct 2011 - Jun 2018 · 6 yrs 9 mos

  • BARQ Systems (4 yrs 11 mos)
    • Network Architect
      Apr 2010 - Oct 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Responsible for supporting sales team on proposal and solutions to customers. * Meet customers to understand their requirements and come out with proposals. * Prepare solution proposals and generate Bill of Materials for quotations. * Assist sales in gathering 3rd party pricing and liaising with 3rd parties, if required. * Customers presentations and clarifications. * Support sales in tendering and bidding process. * Continued Searching on the new and latest technologies that will help the customers to increase their revenue. * Specialized in xDSL/EFM/GPON Technology, IPTelephony, Contact Centers, IPTV complete solutions, Triple-play Network (Data, Voice and Video), Collaboration/Unified Communications, Video Surveillance and Tele-presence/Video Conferencing.

    • SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
      Apr 2009 - Mar 2010 · 1 yr

      Some seniority and leadership management, Added to my previous responsibility.

    • SYSTEMS ENGINEER
      Dec 2006 - Mar 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Responsible for new installations, customers support for the installed base and involved in demonstrating the new products at the customer sites. Also providing solutions, preparing tender documents, presentations, and providing technical information to other technical and sales engineers. Wide knowledge in installing, configuring and supporting the following products: Vendors Products -Juniper Networks: E-series router, Radius SBR -Alcatel-Lucent: OXE IP-PBX, Contact Centers -Zhone: xDSL, EFM, GPON (Triple Play Network) and public outdoor WiFi SkyZhone -Cisco: Collaboration, IPTV, Video Conferencing and Video Surveillance solution -Minerva Networks: Middleware for IPTV -TandbergTV: Encoders, Decoders -Quintum: VoIP Gateway -3Roam: Microwave Routers -Nomadix: Hospitality products