Ali Alghamdi
Presales and Bid Management specialist
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Saudi National Extremely motivated, enthusiastic, & result – oriented IT Professional seeking a challenging and creative opportunity in a professional & competitive environment where my practical knowledge and professional experience can be highly used to enhance the efficiency and productivity while allowing growth in my skills
Presales and Bid Management specialist
Zain KSA
Since August 2016
- Supports sales productivity and deal flow by securing the “technical close” in complex solutions.
- • Face to face customer meetings and presentations of Zain ICT products.
- • Proactively scopes the technical solution required to address customer requirements.
- • managing the Western region of Saudi Arabia as presales until 2021.
- • Responsible for all sectors deals (Corporate – SME and Government) in western region.
- RFP/RFQ/RFI responsibilities .
- Bid submission for Government and non-Government agencies.
- Report tracking for RFPs and Proposals
- Team knowledge sharing.
- reporting to high management directly
Presales Senior Engineer
Mobily
December 2015
to August 2016
- Supports sales productivity and deal flow by securing the “technical close” in complex solutions.
- • Face to face customer meetings and presentations of Mobily ICT products.
- • Proactively scopes the technical solution required to address customer requirements.
- • Responsible for education and Health in South of Saudi Arabia as presales.
- • Responsible for part the Government sector deals in western region.
- • Provides coaching and professional development to team member sales associates.
System Application Specialist
Yesser
January 2012
to December 2015
- • IBM WebSphere Portal and DataPower SOA Admin
- • Best employee in the operation group of Infrastructure department.
- • Certified IBM WebSphere Portal 7 Admin (2014).
- • Received two thanks letter from the General Manager.
- • Over 20 different courses from IBM in (Portal, LDAP, Message Queue, Message Broker… etc.)
- • On job training at Yesser, building the system from scratch (install the operating system) until reaching stable clustered environment.
- • Excellent Evaluation for the first year 93.7 %. • Maintaining Five Portal Servers with their responding operating system.
- • Maintaining Four DataPower SOA appliances for testing, on‐boarding and production.
- • Documenting instructions guides and backing up files.
Network specialist
Ryerson Univeristy
September 2009
to June 2011
- Designed and documented layer 2 and layer 3 network connectivity scenarios
- • Configured different routing protocols like, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP and RIP on Cisco routers, catalyst layer 2 and layer 3 switches
- • Configured switching technologies like VLANs, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST and Ether‐channel.
- • Maintained system performance by performing system monitoring tools, and performance tuning troubleshooting of system hardware and software, escalating hardware problems to vendor.
Customer Service Officer
Saudi
July 2003
to March 2007
- Controlled and arranged flights departures and arrivals
- • Handled passengers needs and reservations
- • Arranged and administered passengers boarding and dispatch
- • Performed occasional supervisor duties when required
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Skilled negotiater
Advanced
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Course in Jeddah
Advanced
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Networking - MS
Expert
- Meeting Top management - IT and HR
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Arabic
Expert
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English
Advanced
