Sherif Al-Dardery
Senior Consultant
Cairo
Summary
Senior consulting professional with proven ability to drive strategic initiatives and deliver impactful results. Strong focus on team collaboration, adapting to changing needs, and ensuring reliable performance. Expertise in project management, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement, combined with excellent problem-solving and communication skills. Known for integrity, reliability, and dedication to achieving organizational goals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
9
9
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Consultant
VMware
06.2022 - Current
- VMware vCloud Director Deployment and Upgrades: Collaborate with a team of engineers to deploy and upgrade VMware vCloud Director (vCD) components across multiple sites, ensuring seamless integration and operational efficiency.
- Worked extensively with VMware Aria Suite (formerly vRealize Suite), including components such as Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Operations for Networks, and Aria Automation, for monitoring, automation, and optimization of virtualized environments.
- Led and contributed to extensive VMware NSX projects, developing innovative automation scripts designed for generic use across VMware environments, later adopted by VMware engineers to streamline security policy and configuration cloning.
- Disaster Recovery (DR) Implementation: Lead efforts in configuring and maintaining disaster recovery environments to ensure high availability and business continuity across critical infrastructure.
- Lead complex VMware NSX V2T Migrations as a primary responsibility in the role.
- Conduct thorough Environmental Assessments, contributing to the Design and Pre Migration Reports (PMR) before initiating any migrations.
- Discuss assessment reports with customers and other stakeholders, ensuring alignment with project objectives and addressing any concerns or requirements.
- Address and overcome challenges encountered during migrations, ensuring seamless transitions.
- Elevated to oversee one of the team’s major clients, Rackspace, in the capacity of a VCN Single Point of Contact (SPOC) and leading three VCN consultants in the project ensuring a comprehensive and successful transition.
- Successfully managed other critical projects with industry giants like FedEx and JP Morgan, showcasing adaptability and expertise in diverse environments.
- Provide essential training sessions for new employees, sharing expertise and knowledge related to VMware and NSX technologies.
- Actively contribute to the improvement and optimization of migration processes within the VMware environment.
- Additional Roles: Founding Member of Egypt’s Data Intelligence Team
- Maintained and ensured the integrity of Microsoft Power BI & Incorta dashboards reflecting Team’s numbers.
- Scrutinized by both VMware and Broadcom’s executives, influencing strategic decisions during the acquisition.
- One of these dashboards played a pivotal role in shaping the future of the team.
- Enhanced the robustness and availability of the Power BI dashboards through redesign, CI and scripting.
- Managed and troubleshooted existing management’s Confluence page, reflecting the team’s weekly numbers.
- Integrated Jenkins (CI) and Python to automate processes in both Confluence and BI.
- Creator of Management’s new Confluence page with improved design and simplified UI.
- Implemented backend maintenance strategies to optimize the performance of Power BI and Incorta BI dashboards.
- Successfully transitioned existing dashboards from Microsoft Power BI to Incorta BI ensuring a smooth migration process.
- Played a key role in facilitating the transition of critical data visualization tools.
- Documented processes and procedures for maintaining and updating dashboards and Confluence pages.
- Additional Roles (Cont’d): Member of Great Atlantic Icons Team
- Collaborating with VMware’s VCF engineering team to provide continuous feedback and improvement on current Migration Workflows.
- Responsible for Creating 3 Python scripts to speed up and automate migration workflows.
- Mentored junior consultants, helping them enhance their skills and contribute more effectively to projects.
- Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
Principle Service Delivery Specialist, Managed Services
DELL EMC
12.2017 - 06.2022
- Capacity project management of new/existing DELL EMC storage within BMW across the globe.
- Responsible for Remotely Processing Capacity requests from Various BMW teams across the globe.
- Storage Coordinator for both Cairo & Munich team to ensure SLA is met in providing Storage Requirements.
- Performing tech huddles with both Cairo & Munich team members to ensure Customer’s satisfaction is being met.
- Escalation point of contact regarding storage / request related issues within internal BMW stakeholders.
- Provide trainings and shadowing for new on-board engineers.
Technical Support Engineer II, RPS
DELL EMC
01.2013 - 12.2017
- Team Leading Remote Proactive Engineers and reporting to their Supervisors.
- Subject Matter Expert; Handling and troubleshooting RPS’ global and local escalations
- Delivering essential trainings to interns/new comers.
- Handling Hot Accounts activities and ensuring that the required quality level of service is met (T-Systems, Citi Group etc.).
- Performing Huddles with the latest technical updates.
- Responsible for serving as the line technical escalation team within Remote Proactive.
- Upgrading/troubleshooting EMC VNX/VNXe storage products in SAN- based Environments.
- Responsible in working on Global Field Change orders within Miscellaneous Customers.
- Assist customers through direct calls and e-mails in troubleshooting issues before during and after changes occur on their systems.
Education
Bachelor of Network Engineering -
German University in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt01.2012
Skills
Python
Certification
VMware VCP DC 2022
Accomplishments
- VMware
- 3x Above and Beyond Certificate for my contribution in complex projects and scripts creations facilitating Workflows.
- Nominated for Vmware’s Ambassador Role.
- Double VCAP certified
- DELL EMC
- DELL EMC success story 2021.
- Culture Code Champion 2019.
- Most Valued Peer in Q2 2015
- Extra mile bronze certificate 2015
- Earned 50+ Positive Perfect surveys within different customers, globally ranked third as of Quarter 2, 2014.
- Designed several Self-Services/Automation tools to be implemented within both RPS and MS.
- 2x Employee of the month in 2015
Expertise
- Virtual Cloud Networking
- Escalation Management
- Automation
- Scripting
Timeline
Senior Consultant
VMware
06.2022 - Current
Principle Service Delivery Specialist, Managed Services
DELL EMC
12.2017 - 06.2022
Technical Support Engineer II, RPS
DELL EMC
01.2013 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Network Engineering -
German University in Cairo