Qais Suliman
Verified Expert in Engineering
VM Developer
Qais is an infrastructure specialist with five years of experience in VoIP and implementation. He has worked as a support engineer in charge of everything from IP telephony, contact center projects, installations, and implementations, to upgrades, testing, support, administration, and maintenance. Qais has worked with the Arab Bank to implement a centralized contact center solution for seven countries in the Arab League and looks forward to taking on new challenging projects.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Avaya Software, PABX
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is a centralizing contact center solution with a customized interactive voice response (IVR) and complete high-availability system.
Work Experience
VoIP Infrastructure Specialist
Arab Bank
- Worked on the Arab Bank for a centralized contact center solution and global contact center centralization project for UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Algeria.
- Handled the Arab Bank Egypt data center movement with maintaining service running at all times. Avaya Aura components were on physical servers, including AACC, AMS, AES, EPMS, MPP, SM, SMGR, CM, and ACR.
- Carried out the Arab Bank unified communication upgrade and centralization of over 75 branches all over Jordan to private automatic branch exchange (PABX) headquarters with full high-availability (HA).
Technical Support Engineer
Arab Telecommunication Trading & Maintenance Co
- Worked with the MetLife regional office in Jordan and implemented telephony, the contact center, the outbound manager, and the recording system from scratch.
- Installed and configured Avaya Aura solutions, including AACC, AMS, AES, CM, SM, SMGR, ACRA, EPMS, POM, MPP, APP server, and DB.
- Implemented and configured the Avaya Aura Contact Center and its components from scratch for an investment bank in Jordan.
Experience
MetLife Insurance
MY ROLE:
• Installed and configured Avaya Aura solution, including AACC, AMS, AES, CM, SM, SMGR, ACRA, EPMS, POM, MPP, APP server, and DB.
• Integrated Avaya Aura solutions with each other and EPMS and POM with app server and DB.
• Designed and implemented IVR and Call Flow to fit MetLife requirements.
• Handled historical report customization and real-time dashboard customization.
• Worked on agentless and agent-based outbound campaign design and customization.
• Developed a campaign to work as a call-back request and integrated it with DB to save customer numbers.
• Designed, planned, and carried out cutover with a rollback procedure in case of failure.
All Avaya Aura components were deployed on customer-provided VMware.
Investment Bank Upgrade
MY ROLE:
• Implemented and configured the Avaya Aura Contact Center and its components from scratch.
• Upgraded the telephony system from R6 to R8.1.
• Designed and implemented the interactive voice response (IVR) and the call flow to fit investment bank requirements.
• Handled historical report customization.
• Customized the real-time dashboard.
• Designed and customized agent-less and agent-based outbound campaigns.
Arab Bank of Egypt Data Center Movement
Avaya Aura components were on physical servers, including AACC, AMS, AES, EPMS, MPP, SM, SMGR, CM, and ACR. Both app servers and databases were deployed on VMware. The ACR had one physical server and one blade server.
MY ROLE:
• Moved all services to standby servers.
• Built a new ACR in the next location, and the blade server was out of support.
• Ensured to move servers in a window less than 24 hours as the AACC shadowing does not work after that, and we have to restore the active server on the backup.
• Made sure all services and integration in the location were correct.
• Conducted switchover between two physical locations and moved the rest of the servers to the new location.
Arab Bank Global Contact Center
The global contact center centralization included UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Algeria territories. I contributed to the employee self-service (ESS) installation and configuration in case of active and standby server failure. I handled installing the language server protocol (LSP) in each country to maintain the country in case of connection loss between territories.
I configured automated configuration management (CM) elite as a fallback plan in case the interactive voice response (IVR) and Avaya Aura Contact Center (AACC) fail to maintain service. I also enhanced vectoring to maintain a certain service level.
Arab Bank Unified Communication, Centralization, and Upgrade
MY ROLE:
• Handled HA CM installation.
• Configured the primary rate interface (PRI), central office (CO), and session initiation protocol (SIP) trunks.
• Collaborated with the network team for route switching and connection readiness.
• Worked with the cybersecurity team to check firewall connection readiness.
• Met with the security assurance team to ensure products aligned with Arab bank policies.
• Coordinated with the security team to resolve vulnerabilities and ensure product readiness for going live.
• Planned the cutover and test cases as well as the rollback plan in case there was a failure to go live.
• Carried out an impact assessment before going live.
• Handled the Avaya solution platform installation and configuration.
• Centralized over 75 branches all over Jordan to HQ PABX.
• Configured and tested high availability (HA) and language server protocol (LSP) in different locations.
Skills
Tools
Avaya AES, Avaya One-X Agent, Avaya DD, Avaya OD
Other
Avaya Enterprise, IP Telephony, VoIP, VM, Avaya Software, Contact Centers, Integration, SIP, VMware VMotion, Contact, Web Services, High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), PABX, Chatbots
Languages
Bash
Platforms
Linux, Red Hat Linux, Windows
Storage
MSSQLCE, Microsoft SQL Server
Certifications
Contact Center CCT and Multimedia Certified Implementation Specialist
Avaya
Avaya Certified Implementation Specialist (ACIS)
Avaya
Avaya Contact Center Select Implementation and Maintenance
Avaya
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