Ahmed Lateef, Member Technical Services

Ahmed Lateef

Member Technical Services

eBay

Location
Canada
Education
Master's degree, Conputer Science
Experience
18 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months

Member Technical Services at eBay
  • United States - California - San Jose
  • My current job since August 2014

Big Data Platform Management
Data Ware house Architect
Lead EDW - Hadoop migration team
Agile Methodology
Hadoop Access and Security Framework
Framework for Big Data administration.

Technical Lead at Royal Bank Of Canada
  • Canada
  • December 2010 to August 2014

• Setup, Administer and Manage Analytics Eco System (Hadoop, Teradata and Aster systems).
• Acted as a Project manager for EDW projects.
• Work with business departments to document business requirements and design solutions to meet their goals.
• Worked with various cross functional teams to ensure SLAs are met.
• Work closely with Enterprise architects to develop and implement best practices for different functional groups.
• Work with on site and offshore teams to implement solutions for business.
• Support Data Architects in data modeling activities.
• Developed tools to support Big Data administration using shell and perl scripting.
• Developed Disaster Recovery strategy for EDW.
• Designed and Developed dashboards for Disaster Recovery, integrating BAR and Data Mover progress.
• Managed and optimized various components of echo system for example Data Mover, BAR, Unity solutions.
• Conduct POCs with various SaaS vendors to evaluate their products against business needs.
• Work with Data Architect to implement MDM and develop best practices.
• Managed BAR solution (setup, upgrades, operations, reporting).
• Conducted technical training across teams for new and existing technologies.
• Workload Management, System & User level Performance Tuning and participate in Capacity Planning.
• Work with customers to identify, troubleshoot and resolve their issues related to different services offered by infrastructure group.
• As a member of Service Focus team, work closely with vendor to improve their customer services and product.

Senior Consultant at Teradata
  • United States
  • June 2005 to December 2010

Kickoff and Manage various projects - Architecture, Operations, Performance

• Managed team across different geographic regions to support EDW administration 24x7.
• Kicked of Managed Services practice and developed best practices to support global customers.
• Present overview of service offering to Clients. Identify their needs and develop Functional Specification Document and develop solution offering that meets Business requirements.
• Develop applications to improve the system management by automating various processes and evolving best practices.
• Work with Data Architects to design and implement high performance databases.
• Architected and developed Auto Stats engine that later on became part of View point.
• Work on ETL development and Deployment Projects.
• Established framework for echo system management and administration.
• Established and executed processes for Capacity Planning and performance tuning.
• DHW administration and management for multiple clients.
• Develop and maintain Risk Management register for multiple projects and clients.
• Develop and establish System Performance reports (scorecards and dashboards) for various client systems. Review the results on frequent basis and take appropriate action if required.
• Work with customer to identify and resolve issues faced related to existing deployment and feed lessons learnt to best practices.
• Develop and Train the team - (off shore) before transitioning the responsibilities.
• Time to Time On site visits to client to identify and implement improvement opportunities. The objective was to build long term customer relations and customer satisfaction and create demand.
• Train NCR Employees from other countries / offices.

Education

Master's degree, Conputer Science
  • at Lahore University of Management and Sciences
  • March 2001
Master's degree, Total Quality Management
  • at Punjab University
  • December 2000
Bachelor's degree, Civil
  • at University Of Engineering and technology
  • January 1998

Specialties & Skills

Team Leadership
Teradata
Workload Management
Data Warehousing
ASTER Management
Performance Tuning
System Administration
Work Load Managemnet

Languages

Arabic
Beginner
Urdu
Expert
English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Teradata Certified Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2005
Valid Until:
January 9999
ITIL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999