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Mehdi BENALI

DUBAI

En résumé

I would like to work in a multicultural company which gives me the opportunity to use my language skills and help me to evolve professionally. Regarding my technical skills, I would like to get more experience in the security field (firewalls Checkpoint, Juniper...) as well as in the networking field. I am CCNA certified and am currently undertaking the CCNP.

Spécialités : Security and Management solutions, Firewall, Network and Host IPS solutions, Network Access Control, Mobility Management solution...
Good knowledge in Network Management, EIGRP, RIP, IGRP, OSPF BGP, LAN, Wireless LAN, WAN (MPLS, Frame Relay, PPP, VPN…), IPV6, Policy based Routing, NAC, Netsight Policy Manager, Windows server 2003, Linux Ubuntu (beginner), IAS, Active directory, Free Radius, SSL, SSH, Mac authentication, dot1x, pwa, COS, TOS....

Mes compétences :
Languages
Network
Support
Technical Support
technician
Network Access Control
Microsoft Office
good communication skills
VMware
Staff Development and Training
Radius
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Outlook
IGRP
Good language skills
EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol)
CCNA
Active Directory

Entreprises

  • McAfee - Channel Technical Enablement Engineer

    2013 - maintenant * Establishing relationships with McAfee channel partners in emerging regions (56 territories) ;
    * Delivering face training on McAfee products
    * Demos and POCS on site ;
    * Organizing partner events ;
    * Validating POCS and helping partners engineers to get certified ;
    * Developing courseware for ACE training delivery when new products versions are released by liaising with the products and development team ;
    * Upgrading the lab and VM's and sharing with the rest of the team ;
    * Working closely with account managers in different regions to set up events.
  • McAfee - Sales Engineer

    2011 - 2013 * Technical presentations on McAfee portfolio products in miscellaneous languages (French, Spanish, Italian, English) ;
    * Webinars on various products for the French and Spanish markets ;
    * Customer and technical support; Educating customers & partners on the products ;
    * Maintaining the LAB environment, providing POC (Proof of Concept) to customers & partners & following up (support, feedback, interest...)
    * Working closely with Sales representative to detect opportunities and develop the turnover
    * Training co-workers on McAfee products ;
    * Training delivered to McAfee partners on Network security products ;
    * Sales Engineer of the Quarter (Q1)
    * EMEA Channel & Commercial SE of the year ,
  • McAfee - Sales Engineer

    2011 - maintenant Technical presentations on McAfee portfolio products in miscallaneous languages (French, Spanish, Italian, English)
    Customer and technical support; Educating customers & partners on the products
    Maintaining the LAB environment, providing POC (Proof of Concept) to customers & partners & following up (support, feedback, interest...)
    Working closely with Sales representative to detect opportunities and develop the turnover
    Training co-workers on McAfee products
  • Enterasys - Network Technician

    2007 - 2010 * Support for English, Spanish and French partners (Telindus, Emetel, Sermicro, Dimension Data, DCI, Seven one...) & customers (El Corte Ingles, AENA, Telefonica, SNCF...)
    * Educate customers and partners for equipment configuration (OSPF, RIP, VRRP, DVMRP, IGMP, NAT, LSNAT, policies, ACL, SPANNING-TREE....)
    * Troubleshooting, recreating issues in the lab and creating knowledge base articles when needed
    * Dealing with switching, routing, wireless issue, security issues (Netsight console management)
    * Creating RMA when needed and following up deliveries liaising with Logistic department
    * Work closely with 3rd line engineers
  • Enterasys - Network Engineer

    2007 - 2010 Network Engineer-2nd Line troubleshooting
    ESE (Enterasys System Engineer) & ECIE-C (Enterasys Certified Interneworking Engineer for Infrastructure) Certified
    Support for English, Spanish and French customers
    Educate customers and partners for equipment configuration (OSPF, RIP, VRRP, DVMRP, IGMP, NAT, LSNAT, policies, ACL, SPANNING-TREE....)
    Troubleshooting and recreating issues in the lab
    Dealing with switching, routing, wireless issue, security issues (Netsight console management)
    Creating RMA when needed and following up deliveries liaising with Logistic department
     Work closely with 3rd line engineers
  • Verizon Business - Technical Executive

    PUTEAUX 2006 - 2007 Verizon Business (Reading/UK) * Providing technical 1st and 2nd line support to French, UK and Spanish customers (occasionally) and dealing with emails in a B2B environment.
    * Resolving customer issues and requests within SLA, involving any other departments in order to provide a quality service to customers
    * Contacting local providers (France Telecom, Telefonica, Telecom Italia) when the problem has been detected on their side
    * New staff training (systems, products, customer interaction...)
    * Taking ownership of issues/tickets ;
    * Night shift: Availability from 07h00 to 23h00 and weekends as well
  • BlackBerry - Telemarketing

    2006 - 2006 * Turnover improvement
    * Opportunities creation (leads)
    * New staff training (products)

    Technical skills
    * OS: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Windows server 2003, Active directory, Radius, Linux Ubuntu (beginner) ;
    * Network: EIGRP (tune metrics, authentication, summarization, redistribution....), RIP, IGRP, OSPF (tune metrics, authentication, redistribution, configure in multi-area environment, summarization...) BGP (distribute list, influence route choices), LAN, Wireless LAN, WAN (Frame Relay, PPP, VPN, MPLS...), IPV6 (Configuration, redistribution, co-existence with Ipv4...), Policy based Routing, SSL, SSH, Mac authentication, dot1x, pwa, COS, TOS...
    * Security: Network Access Control, Netsight Policy Manager, Network IPS, Next generation firewalls, SIEM, endpoint security, compliance tools ;
    * Tools: Netsight Console, RASM (Roam about switch manager & Roam about RF planning tool), Wireshark, Vmware, Virtual PC, VNC, go-to-assist, Cisco Webex ;
    * Other: Samba, Thunderbird, Outlook, Microsoft Office & Open Office (Intermediate)
  • Verizon Business - Tier 2

    PUTEAUX 2006 - 2007 Providing technical 1st and 2nd line support to French, UK and Spanish customers (occasionally) and dealing with emails
    Resolving customer issues and requests within SLA, involving any other departments in order to provide a quality service to customers
    New staff training (systems, products, customer interaction..)
    Taking ownership of issues/tickets
    Night shift: Availability from 07h00 to 23h00 and weekends as well

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