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Ahmed ElZahaby

Ahmed ElZahaby

Regional Cybersecurity Presales Manager And Senior Solution Architect
New Cairo

Summary

Resourceful Presales Manager and Solution Architect with 15+ years of customer relationship management and implementation support. Highly skilled in managing Cybersecurity Solutions performance and upgrades for ongoing efficiency and achievement of corporate objectives.

Excellent communication skills and extensive experience working with clients and partners.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Regional Cybersecurity Presales Manager

CyberKnight distributor
Cairo, C
01.2023 - Current
  • Regional Cybersecurity Presales Manager and Senior Solution Architect for Egypt and Africa.
  • Managed over 100+ customer.
  • 11 SOC have been achievable and 2 Global SOC.
  • Translate customer business requirements into integrated technical.
  • Articulate and document how Security solutions provide increased business value and improved technical capability.
  • Establish healthy business relations with customer's & Vendor's for securing repeat business and long-term customer loyalty.
  • Establish healthy business relations with customer's & Vendor's for securing repeat business and long-term customer loyalty.
  • Act as customer's primary point of contact for all Presales technical needs related to Security Solutions.
  • Deliver presentations and demonstrations on relevant Security Solutions.
  • Respond to RFP/RFI/RFQs.
  • Proactively enhance product knowledge, explore market trends and new technologies and transfer Knowledge to account managers, support team, and customers.
  • Build documents (Bill-of-Materials, Solution Description, Competitive Analysis, Design Document).
  • Maintain/ Achieve certifications with major technology partners.
  • Participate in opportunity assessment, qualification, competitive, positioning and pricing, develop Response
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering tailored pre-sales presentations and demonstrations.
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering tailored pre-sales presentations and demonstrations
  • Participated in industry conferences and trade shows, showcasing company products and expanding brand awareness
  • Worked closely with product management teams to relay customer feedback, driving continuous improvement of product offerings
  • Collaborated with sales teams to develop winning strategies for complex deals, resulting in increased revenue
  • Conducted market research to identify new business opportunities and strengthen competitive positioning
  • Trained junior pre-sales team members, improving overall team performance and knowledge base
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, allowing for proactive adjustments in strategies as needed
  • Evaluated customer feedback to identify areas for improvement, leading to more effective pre-sales process and greater client satisfaction
  • Provided technical expertise during client meetings, addressing concerns and ensuring successful product adoption
  • Established credibility with clients through subject matter expertise, leading to increased trust and stronger partnerships
  • Developed comprehensive understanding of product offerings, enabling effective communication of value propositions to clients
  • Partnered with marketing teams to develop targeted campaigns and materials that resonated with potential clients
  • Assisted in closing deals by presenting compelling business cases and demonstrating value of products to prospective clients
  • Guided customers through proof-of-concept projects, ensuring their needs were met while showcasing product capabilities effectively
  • Reduced sales cycle times by developing streamlined pre-sales processes that expedited client
  • Created detailed solution proposals based on unique customer requirements that addressed specific challenges faced by customer
  • Actively sought opportunities for upselling or cross-selling additional products or services during pre-sales engagements
  • Demonstrated products to show potential customers benefits and advantages and encourage purchases
  • Achieved sales goals and service targets by cultivating and securing new customer relationships
  • Engaged in product training, demonstrations, consumer awareness, branding, and acquisition initiatives to raise awareness and revenues
  • Developed compelling presentation decks to gain approval for ideas and communicate results
  • Built relationships with customers and community to establish long-term business growth
  • Achieved established KPI for company, regional team and individual performance through teamwork and focus on customers
  • Collaborated with upper management to implement continuous improvements and exceed team goals
  • Resolved problems with high-profile customers to maintain relationships and increase return customer base
  • Managed accounts to retain existing relationships and grow share of business
  • Facilitated business by implementing practical networking techniques
  • Aligned company goals with customer outcomes and increased satisfaction by automating contact management systems
  • Enhanced profitability by developing pipelines utilizing marketing and sales strategies
  • Mitigated risks associated with solution implementations by conducting thorough assessments of potential vulnerabilities prior to deployment

response to proposal development, follow up till opportunity close.
-Sandbox Solution.
-Web Security Solution and workloads.
-Endpoint Protection Solution.
-Endpoint Detection & response Solution.
-Data Security Solution.
-Network Packet Broker solution.
-Network Detection & response Solution.
-DDI Solution.
-Vulnerability Management.
-Fraud Prevention Solution.
-Network Assurance System Solution.
-Firewalls Management System Solution.
-NAC Solution.
-SOC Designs.
-SIEM & SOAR Solution.
-PAM & IAM Solution.
-Threat Intelligence Solutions.
-Deception Solutions.
-People and Identity Solutions.

-Private Cloud and MSSP designs.

  • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
  • Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for applications.

Cyber Security Pre-Sales Consultant (Solution Architect)

Fiber Misr Systems
Cairo, C
07.2021 - 12.2022
  • Translate customer business requirements into integrated technical.
  • Managed over 50+ Clients.
  • Articulate and document how Security solutions provide increased business value and improved technical capability.
  • Establish healthy business relations with customer's & Vendor's for securing repeat business and long-term customer loyalty.
  • Establish healthy business relations with customer's & Vendor's for securing repeat business and long-term customer loyalty.
  • Act as customer's primary point of contact for all Presales technical needs related to Security Solutions.
  • Deliver presentations and demonstrations on relevant Security Solutions.
  • Respond to RFP/RFI/RFQs.
  • Proactively enhance product knowledge, explore market trends and new technologies and transfer Knowledge to account managers, support team, and customers.
  • Build documents (Bill-of-Materials, Solution Description, Competitive Analysis, Design Document).
  • Maintain/ Achieve certifications with major technology partners.
  • Participate in opportunity assessment, qualification, competitive, positioning and pricing, develop Response
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering tailored pre-sales presentations and demonstrations.
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering tailored pre-sales presentations and demonstrations
  • Participated in industry conferences and trade shows, showcasing company products and expanding brand awareness
  • Worked closely with product management teams to relay customer feedback, driving continuous improvement of product offerings
  • Collaborated with sales teams to develop winning strategies for complex deals, resulting in increased revenue
  • Conducted market research to identify new business opportunities and strengthen competitive positioning

Senior Security Architect

Systems Engineering of Egypt (SEE)
Cairo, C
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Translate customer business requirements into integrated technical.
  • Managed over 50+ Clients.
  • Articulate and document how Security solutions provide increased business value and improved technical capability.
  • Establish healthy business relations with customer's & Vendor's for securing repeat business and long-term customer loyalty.
  • Establish healthy business relations with customer's & Vendor's for securing repeat business and long-term customer loyalty.
  • Act as customer's primary point of contact for all Presales technical needs related to Security Solutions.
  • Deliver presentations and demonstrations on relevant Security Solutions.
  • Respond to RFP/RFI/RFQs.
  • Proactively enhance product knowledge, explore market trends and new technologies and transfer Knowledge to account managers, support team, and customers.
  • Build documents (Bill-of-Materials, Solution Description, Competitive Analysis, Design Document).
  • Maintain/ Achieve certifications with major technology partners.
  • Participate in opportunity assessment, qualification, competitive, positioning and pricing, develop Response
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering tailored pre-sales presentations and demonstrations.
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering tailored pre-sales presentations and demonstrations

Senior Pre-Sales Specialist (Network & Security) Commercial- Oil &Gas Sector

Systems Engineering of Egypt (SEE)
Cairo, C
01.2016 - 01.2019
  • Translate customer business requirements into integrated technical.
  • Managed 50+ Clients.
  • Articulate and document how Security solutions provide increased business value and improved technical capability.
  • Establish healthy business relations with customer's & Vendor's for securing repeat business and long-term customer loyalty.
  • Establish healthy business relations with customer's & Vendor's for securing repeat business and long-term customer loyalty.
  • Act as customer's primary point of contact for all Presales technical needs related to Security Solutions.
  • Deliver presentations and demonstrations on relevant Security Solutions.
  • Respond to RFP/RFI/RFQs.
  • Proactively enhance product knowledge, explore market trends and new technologies and transfer Knowledge to account managers, support team, and customers.
  • Build documents (Bill-of-Materials, Solution Description, Competitive Analysis, Design Document).
  • Maintain/ Achieve certifications with major technology partners.
  • Participate in opportunity assessment, qualification, competitive, positioning and pricing, develop Response
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering tailored pre-sales presentations and demonstrations.
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by delivering tailored pre-sales presentations and demonstrations

Security Technical Manager (Implementation and Professional Service)

Systems Engineering of Egypt (SEE)
Cairo, C
01.2015 - 01.2016
  • Supervised team of 10 security personnel during shift.
  • Created and implemented security network framework across 20 devices.
  • Oversaw software configurations and updates for 50 systems across 5 departments.
  • Meet customers, discuss the current solution and the required features in the new solution as per the SOW.
    • Create a Technical Action Plan for project tasks
    • Create Low Level Design
    • Configure & Implement NAC Solution
    • Configure & Implement NGFW
    • Configure & Implement NDR Solution
    • Configure & Implement Web Security Gateway
    • Configure & Implement LTM & WAF
    • Configure & Implement Email Security
    • Configure & Implement Endpoint security Solution
    • Configure & Implement Firewall Policy Management
    • During the Implementation phase, we consider communication with customers, smoothly applying changes on their environment, minimum downtime without affecting the business and supporting the customer during/ after the project with any related incidents, keys to achieve customer satisfaction
    • Project Handover and knowledge transfer with
    customer
    • Provide documentation for project tasks.

Education

BSC. In Electronics Engineering, Communication Major - Engineering Technology

Modern Academy For Engineering & Technology
Cairo, C

Skills

Proposal Development

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Roles And Responsibilities

  • Identifying New Opportunities
  • Selling cybersecurity products and services to clients
  • Long-term strong relations with Customers
  • Long-term Partnership relations with Vendors and Distributers
  • Working on Demos and POCs
  • New Customers Knocking Doors
  • OT, IOT Knowledge (Firewalls, Endpoint, Vulnerability, Nozomi, Xage, Armis)
  • Helping Customers to build their SOC, Cloud and MSSP (Built 11 SOC in Egypt, One Global SOC, and a lot of MSSP Solutions)
  • Provides solutions that protect and defend organizations against cyber security attacks
  • Doing Demos and POCs
  • Lead the market to advanced IT solutions to serve core business needs
  • Provide IT customers with distinguished Services in Pre-sales: (Network Security, Information Security and Cyber Security)
  • Doing Network & security solutions
  • Security Designs and presentations
  • Security Assessment
  • Awareness of Threat Protection, Secure Access, Security Analytics, Data Protection and Security Governance & Compliance
  • Offering Cyber Security Solution
  • Developing strategies to increase awareness of cybersecurity products and services among clients
  • Evaluating the client’s security posture, identifying potential vulnerabilities, and recommending solutions
  • Providing technical support to clients by providing advice on how to secure their networks and data
  • Consulting with clients to determine their needs, goals, and priorities
  • Developing proposals that clearly outline the scope of work, timeline, costs, deliverables, and other key details
  • Meeting with clients to discuss their specific security challenges and needs to identify customized solutions
  • Identifying potential clients and contacting them to determine their needs and interest in purchasing cybersecurity products or services
  • Helping clients to deploy new security technologies by working with them to develop plans, identify challenges, and find solutions
  • Conducting training sessions for employees on topics such as phishing scams, malware removal, and best practices in password protection

Summary Objective

Regional Cybersecurity Presales Manager and Senior Solution Architect with various knowledge of Cyber Security, OT, IOT, SOC Building, MSSP, Network & Security tools, technologies, and best practices. Identifying New Opportunities Experience in designing, Implementation, Administration, support, and management for various Information/Network Security solutions experience. I am looking for an active & ambitious career in Sales Security Consultancy, seeking for a well-organized organization where my experience and interpersonal skills that could be utilized and improved.

Technical Experience

  • Solution Architect from 2016 (Built 11 SOC in Egypt, One Global SOC, and a lot of MSSP Solutions)
  • Security Technical Manager for Implementation & Professional Service Team (2015-2016)
  • Senior Security Specialist Professional Service (2013-2015)
  • Security Engineer Implementation (2011-2013)
  • Senior Routing & Switching Engineer (2010-2011)
  • Routing & Switching Engineer (2009)

Security Certificates Trainings

  • CISM
  • Counter Craft (Deception Course)
  • ZTNA Appgate
  • Bluecat
  • Cyware (Cyber Fusion Center)
  • Seclore (Data Rights Management)
  • Netwiteness (SIEM, SOAR, EDR & NDR)
  • CCNA Security (Cisco Certified Network Associate - Security)
  • CCNP Security (IPS, ASA, VPN, FW)
  • Cisco ASC
  • CCDP
  • CCIE Security
  • Mcafee IPS
  • Mcafee EPO
  • Trend Micro TFC
  • Fortinet (NSE4, NSE5)
  • Palo Alto (Course)
  • F5 (WAF & LTM)
  • Kaspersky Endpoint
  • IBM Q-Radar
  • Kaspersky EPP & EDR
  • Mandiant
  • Group IB
  • Beyond Trust

Networks Certificates

  • CCIP (Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional)
  • CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)
  • CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)
  • CCIE (Security)

It Mgmt Certificates

  • WAAS (Wide Area Application Service)
  • Life-Cycle Services for WAAS
  • Cisco Business Architecture Analyst
  • F5 Sales

Communication Certificates

  • GSM
  • CDMA

Marital Status

Divorced

Military Status

Exempted

Passport

Valid

Place Of Birth

Saudi Arabia

Cisco Id

CSCO11694422

Activities

Fitness, SPORT, and Reading

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 09/16/86
  • Nationality: Egyptian
  • Driving License: Valid

Timeline

Regional Cybersecurity Presales Manager

CyberKnight distributor
01.2023 - Current

Cyber Security Pre-Sales Consultant (Solution Architect)

Fiber Misr Systems
07.2021 - 12.2022

Senior Security Architect

Systems Engineering of Egypt (SEE)
01.2019 - 01.2021

Senior Pre-Sales Specialist (Network & Security) Commercial- Oil &Gas Sector

Systems Engineering of Egypt (SEE)
01.2016 - 01.2019

Security Technical Manager (Implementation and Professional Service)

Systems Engineering of Egypt (SEE)
01.2015 - 01.2016

BSC. In Electronics Engineering, Communication Major - Engineering Technology

Modern Academy For Engineering & Technology
Ahmed ElZahabyRegional Cybersecurity Presales Manager And Senior Solution Architect