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Raed R. Abaza

Amman

Summary

Senior customer support engineer with 7 plus years of experience in product fixes and troubleshooting various network technologies with global customers. A team player willing to assist customers and other team members to achieve more. Seeking a challenging career with a progressive organization that provides an opportunity to capitalize on my technical skills & abilities in Computer Systems, network engineering, and Cloud Computing.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Enterprise SDWAN Team Technical Team Lead

Estarta Solutions (Cisco TAC)
03.2023 - Current
  • Use available tools to generate automated reports to monitor KPIs and come up with strategic plans with internal management team to help achieve targets
  • Identify the technical knowledge gaps within the team and provide them as an input to the team manager along with the training plans to address these gaps
  • Provide input to the team manager about team readiness to support certain keywords, complexity levels and priorities
  • Own and provide technical training for basic and advanced for SD-WAN solution
  • Encourage knowledge sharing and maintain internal escalation procedures to assist engineers before escalating and engaging further resources
  • Assist in the hiring cycle by leading technical interviews and provide input to the hiring manager about the technical abilities of the candidate(s)
  • Minimize the number of escalations by conducting proactive technical reviews, assisting the engineers to resolve the cases and/or by taking over the cases when needed

Senior Customer Support Engineer in SD-WAN Team

Estarta Solutions (Cisco TAC)
02.2021 - 03.2023
  • Helping Customers with the deployment of their overlay, and underlay Including deploying new devices and configuring them
  • Troubleshooting issues related to vManage, vBond, vSmart, cEdges, and vEdges
  • Troubleshooting connectivity issues, QoS, Templates, and policies
  • Fixing problems and compatibility issues with 3rd party technologies
  • Perform root cause analysis for complex problems and find solutions promptly
  • Re-producing issues seen in customer's environment to file new bugs for the same
  • Training and mentoring new hires
  • Using debugging tools and lab simulations to recreate analyze and identify solutions to complex issues
  • Experience with (routing protocols, GRE, IPSEC, NAT, ZBFW, AAR, DPI, Cflowd, SNMP, API, ACL, OMP)

Senior Customer Support Engineer in Core and Architecture Team

Estarta Solutions (Cisco TAC)
09.2017 - 02.2021
  • Mentoring Juniors and assisting them to improve technical and communications skills
  • Using diagnostic tools to identify the sources of certain customer issues
  • Creating technical materials and training junior members to troubleshoot customer issues
  • Provided support in the form of email, phone, and Webex sessions
  • Supported solutions/technologies include but are not limited to: Cisco routers and switches (ISR2k, ISR4k, ASR1k, Cat4k, Cat3k, Cat2k, Nexus, IOS, IOS-XE, NXOS)
  • Network protocols:(QoS, NTP, STP, NetFlow, VRF, HSRP)

Social Worker

AL JEEL AL JADEED CLUB
01.2005 - 12.2011

Education

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert -

Routing And Switching / Enterprise Infrastructure
01.2024

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) -

Routing and Switching
01.2019

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) -

Routing And Switching
01.2017

Bachelor’s Degree -

In information & Computer Engineering
01.2016

Skills

  • Troubleshooting network issues
  • Ability to build and maintain good relationships with customers
  • Highly organized and efficient
  • Problem-solving
  • Independent work
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Excellent written and spoken English language
  • Excellent written and spoken Russian language
  • Work Planning and Prioritization

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 04/05/93

Expertise and knowledge

  • Worked on routing protocols; RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.
  • Cisco SD-WAN Solution.
  • Good knowledge in Cryptography.
  • Good knowledge in IPsec and GRE VPNs.
  • Good knowledge in Linux.
  • Good knowledge in Cloud Computing and Virtualization.

Languages

Arabic
English
Russian

Timeline

Enterprise SDWAN Team Technical Team Lead

Estarta Solutions (Cisco TAC)
03.2023 - Current

Senior Customer Support Engineer in SD-WAN Team

Estarta Solutions (Cisco TAC)
02.2021 - 03.2023

Senior Customer Support Engineer in Core and Architecture Team

Estarta Solutions (Cisco TAC)
09.2017 - 02.2021

Social Worker

AL JEEL AL JADEED CLUB
01.2005 - 12.2011

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) -

Routing and Switching

Bachelor’s Degree -

In information & Computer Engineering

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert -

Routing And Switching / Enterprise Infrastructure

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) -

Routing And Switching
Raed R. Abaza