Elie Saad

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  • Timeline

    Current Company
    Mar 2015 - now

    Business Development Manager

    Crystal Networks ME
    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • About me

    Development Manager @ Crystal Networks | Cisco CCIE# 67232 - Project management Professional PMP# 2781433 - Customer Success Manager - Business and Technical Development Manager.

  • Education

    • Université antonine - ua

      2010 - 2015
      Telecommunication and networking engineer telecommunications and networking
  • Experience

    • Crystal networks me

      Mar 2015 - now

      - Customer Experience and Customer Lifecycle 1- Managing the customer experience team of 3 customer success managers and 1 renewal manager. 2- Executing customer experience activities on high touch accounts: - Applying the customer lifecycle, by studying requirements, executing deep dive IT infrastructure technical discussions and leading PoC activities. - Applying the customer journey starting by setting business outcomes and KPIs, to the adoption, onboarding, and renewal phases. - Engaging technically when required to support the technical team in solving complex technical cases. - Aligning with project managers on projects status in accordance with the agreed-on customer success plan.- Business Development and Technical Development 1- Managing the business development team of 3 business development managers. 2- Managing the pre-sales team of 3 system engineers. 3- Designing and validating complex solutions BoQ (Bill of Quantity) and financial offers. 4- Managing and developing relationships and partnerships with strategic multinational vendors by aligning with vendors Partner Account Managers, Account Managers, System engineers and services teams. - Preparing for, and successfully passing the Cisco Gold Partnership Audit 2021, and 2022 5- Managing main and niche products on the company portfolio. 6- Expanding company portfolio through business and technical development with multinational vendors. 7- Developing internal processes, enablement, appraisals and KPIs related to sales, pre-sales, technical, project management, CRM, ticketing and support, renewals, services, marketing and customer experience.- Account Management 1- Monitoring internal CRM for pipeline tracking and customer success activities planning. 2- Contributing to increasing company sales by supporting the commercial team, internally and with customers, to initiate and validate opportunities. Show less - Establishing and managing the delivery, pre-sales and project management teams that grew to 24 members within the same year.- Enabling and mentoring new presales engineers, project managers and implementation engineers.- Executing pre-sales activities (consultancy, designing and technical proposals) with “A” customers.- Executing project management activities for turnkey IT projects – PMP standards.- Monitoring project management activities for Turnkey IT projects.- Supporting implementation team in complex customers technical IT cases, specifically for Cisco Unified Communications solutions.- Executing appraisals for the team in addition to setting and monitoring short and long term KPIs.- Developing internal operation process for the technical team.- Developing a project management process and tools.- Developing Ticketing management process and system.- Ensure technical knowledge development.- Full technical alignment with multinational technology vendors.- Supporting commercial team in technical discussions with customers. Show less - Leading VoIP (Collaboration) and Contact Center implementation team of 3 engineers.- Implementation of critical and advanced Cisco VoIP and Cisco Contact Center (Call Center) projects – over 7500 users and 100 agents- Implementation of solutions based on Cisco Call Manager (CUCM), CUC, IMP, UCCX, PCCE, Expressway, SIP voice gateway, Imagicle Billing, Recording, Budget control solutions.- Layer 3 technical support on all Cisco Networking, Cisco Unified Communications and Contact Center projects. - Supporting pre-sales team with Cisco VoIP and Cisco Contact Center solutions designing. Show less

      • Business Development Manager

        Feb 2021 - now
      • Technical Team Manager

        Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
      • VoIP Team Leader

        Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
      • Network Engineer

        Mar 2015 - Dec 2016
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Project management professional (pmp)®

      Project management institute
      Jul 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • Cisco certified network professional collaboration (ccnp collaboration)

      Cisco
      View certificate certificate
    • Ccnp collaboration

      Cisco
    • Understanding of cisco network devices

      Cisco
      View certificate certificate
    • Cisco customer success manager (csm) certification

      Cisco
      May 2022
      View certificate certificate
    • Ccna routing and switching

      Cisco
    • Understanding of cisco collaboration devices and video network devices

      Cisco
      View certificate certificate
    • Cisco certified internetwork expert collaboration (ccie collaboration)

      Cisco
      Apr 2023
      View certificate certificate
    • Rcsp-w

      Riverbed technology
    • Black belt certification (bb)

      Cisco
      May 2020