Wadah Sayyed, Director of engineering, Scalability and Azure Stack Solutions

Wadah Sayyed

Director of engineering, Scalability and Azure Stack Solutions

HPE

Location
United States
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
29 years, 1 month

Share My Profile

Block User


Work Experience

Total years of experience :29 years, 1 month

Director of engineering, Scalability and Azure Stack Solutions at HPE
  • United States - North Carolina - Raleigh
  • My current job since May 2017

- Executive sponsorship for Azure Stack Solutions program leading the core team composed of Engineering, Supply Chain, Deployment, Support, Product Management, TCE&Q, and other HPE value chain members
- Collaborate with Microsoft Azure Stack engineering to deliver HPE solution which is holding 50% of market share amongst all other OEMs
- Lead all engineering efforts related to SimpliVity scalability development across 4 geographies and 13 scrum teams

Director of engineering, Hypervisor Integration & Security at SimpliVity
  • United States - North Carolina - Raleigh
  • January 2016 to May 2017

- Deliver quality features in hypervisor integration through Agile development cycle
- Executive sponsor for hypervisor integration and security scrum teams
- Collaborate with other Product Owners to enhance fungibility of our engineering teams and better align with business priorities
- SME in HCI, Storage, and Virtualization technologies serving as voice-of-the-customer within engineering
- Lead several initiatives to scale our organizational design as the engineering org grow in numbers and sites
- Lead an initiative to develop V2MOM and Empowerment Survey for the engineering org, which used to communicate our values to the rest of the organization and establish a two-way conversation between management and all team members
- Collaborate with CTO and Architects to develop strategic roadmap
- Engineering site manager for the RTP facility

Product Owner -- USD Performance & Health Monitoring at EMC Corporation
  • United States
  • January 2012 to December 2015

• Responsible for market definition, product definition, scheduling, team building, and project execution
• Manage a distributed vertical engineering team in design and development of monitoring solutions in VNX/VNXe product lines
• Interface with senior management to report on project and program milestones and to present project needs and technical knowledge
• Product Owner responsible for prioritizing roadmap content based on external and internal customers
• Develop and provide challenging yet appropriate assignments, evaluate work, communicate progress toward career development and goals
• Accountable for HR processes and actions
• Accountable for managing a budget

Senior Software Development Manager at EMC Corporation
  • United States
  • December 2009 to January 2012

• SME in the area of statistics and monitoring within the NAS organization
• Develop work plans, establish technical objectives, assign tasks, and manage the daily activities for a distributed team
• Maintain schedules and coordinate activities of the entire team
• Collaborate across engineering, business, test, and program management groups to deliver business objectives with high quality, on time
• Provide guidance to employees doing engineering design, development, and implementation work by establishing goals that are aligned with established policies and standards
• Monitor the completion of tasks within time and cost constraints and ensure that technical and functional objectives are met
• Regularly interact with supervisors, peer managers, and employees within and beyond a particular function
• Monitor and mentor employees performance per corporate’s guidelines

Software Feature Lead - Statistics Framework at EMC Corporation
  • United States
  • June 2007 to December 2009

- Started and lead a development team to develop a new feature in the Celerra (EMC NAS) product
- Interviewed and hired new members into the team
- Defined the feature's roadmap and lobbied upper management to acquire funding for the work and team
- Managed the features over three major releases delivering each project on-time and according to specs
- Author of all functional and design specifications for the delivered projects
- Managed a conversion initiative across the entire Celerra development organization to bring all product modules to compliance with the new framework

Storage Performance Engineer at EMC Corporation
  • United States
  • July 1999 to June 2007

- Member of the NAS Performance group
- Prepare and teach NAS Performance Workshop material
- Conduct NDMP Data Recovery studies on Celerra NAS product lines
- Provide field engineers with disaster recovery (backup/restore) best practices
- Provide field engineers with performance best practices for Celerra NAS product lines
- Provide design requirements for new performance tools developed internally
- Engage in escalated support and pre-sales calls
- Conduct and publish performance studies of NAS/SAN devices
- Engage development in performance improvement initiatives

Systems Engineer at Monolith Corp
  • United States
  • October 1996 to July 1999

- All in-house DBA duties
- Second-level support for databases, NT and Unix OS’s.
- Member of the Professional Services team.
- DESQTOP Product Manager: DESQTOP is an Office Productivity application that is written for MultiValue-compliant databases. My role is to guide the product through the development cycle. This includes the following tasks: plan and coordinate alpha & beta test sites, coordinate with our test team to assign tasks for my team, make sure upgrade/install path is clearly defined, insure documentation is ready for final release, brief management on progress.
- On going training for internal staff on OS and both MultiValue and relational database concepts.

Programmer at Magna Systems, inc
  • United States
  • February 1995 to October 1996

- Systems administrator for internal network
- Provided customer support on hardware, databases and software issues
- Implementation lead of new sites

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at The Ohio State University
  • September 2005

The course introduces techniques on how to engage in successful negotiations. In addition, it offers helpful hints on reading personalities, which would come handy in a negotiating situation.

Master's degree, Computer Networking
  • at NC State University
  • December 2004

Currently enrolled in the above program and expect to graduate in December 2005. The focus is on design of connection-oriented networks.

Diploma, Business Writing: Write to the top
  • at EMC Corporation
  • November 2004

Business writing course which improves writing skills for white papers, e-mails, instant messages, etc.

Diploma, Presenting for Impact
  • at EMC Corporation
  • October 2003

Professional development course which focuses on various presentation skills and how to utilize them for maximum impact on your audience(s).

Diploma,
  • at MICROSOFT
  • May 2003

SQL Server 2000 design and implementation

Diploma, Effective Communication
  • at EMC Corporation
  • March 2003

Professional development course which focuses on improving visual, spoken, and written communication skills.

Diploma, Management Essentials
  • at EMC Corporation
  • August 2002

Management essentials focuses on management as a professional trait both in terms of managing projects and people. It introduces the approach that, from individual contributors to VP's, each one should take an active role and ownership in accomplishing each task (s)he is involved in.

Diploma,
  • at Microsoft
  • August 1996

MCSE including NT4 track, SQL Server 6.5 design, SQL Server 6.5 Admin, IIS and TCP/IP certificates

Bachelor's degree, Information Systems
  • at Ohio State University
  • December 1994

Computer and Information Science with concentration on Computer Information Systems (relational database systems)

Specialties & Skills

Agile Project Management
Performance Analysis
Storage
Team Building
People Management
Storage Attached Network (SAN) - EMC CLARiiON
Network Attached Storage (NAS) - Celerra
SQL Server
Linux RedHat
Windows NT4.0
Windows 2000
Cisco switches - 4000 & 6500
UniVerse RDBMS
PICK Development
Backup/restore - NDMP and Legato
Windows 2003 Enterprise
Windows XP
Shell scripting

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert