Ahsan Tariq, IT Manager

Ahsan Tariq

IT Manager

KSA

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Systems Engineering
Experience
17 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 7 Months

IT Manager at KSA
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2018 to February 2018

(Company Profile: Renowned company providing ICT services like
Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC), Hosted Manage Servers
(HMS) and Public Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, BaaS).
Organizational Deliverables:
r Leveraged strong analytical skills in assessing business
requirements and organizing cross-functional team of Sales
Planning, Account Management, Web Content and Marketing.
Successfully scheduled weekly meetings to enhance complete
system and performance to accomplish SLAs and KPIs.
r Leading technology refresh initiative with involvement in end-
to-end strategy development and migration of 50% customers
from On-Premises to cloud with ‘zero’ or minimum possible
downtime.
r Successfully onboarding 1000+ customers, including Ministry of
Health, Ministry of Finance, Shaqra University, Saudi Post,
Saudi Aramco, Kempinski Hotels KSA, McDonalds KSA, Saudi
Electric Company, Saudi Railway Company.
r Negotiated IT vendor service, support, licensing and
maintenance contracts, equipment leases and cloud
subscriptions. Forecasted and tracked annual IT departmental
Opex of $475K and Capex of $250K, reduced total annual
expenditures by 25% through infrastructure consolidation and
cloud app/service migration initiatives. Significantly increased
IT platform/service resiliency and uptime by eliminating major
system deficiencies and single points-of-failure.
r Ensuring adherence to project management methodology
word-wide and establishes PMO processes and policies that
comply with organizational standards.
r Identifying trends and areas for improvement in project
performance by tracking customer satisfaction results,
conducting project reviews and monitoring project metrics.
r Conducted comprehensive security assessments on all IT
networks and systems, implemented policy and control changes
per cyber security best practices.
r Accomplished growth of 500% by onboarding 180 new customers from existing 35, by working closely with marketing, product
and service delivery managers to deliver complex and accurate solutions against customer’s business needs.
r Extensively contribute in reducing 80% unplanned outages by efficiently migrating core enterprise application and services from
legacy to cloud enabled environment.
r Demonstrated skills in releasing 30% datacenter space by decommissioning legacy hardware and migrating their services to
cloud enabled environments. Accredited with ‘Hajj Excellence Award’ for the year 2018.

IT Manager at nPREVIOUSENGAGEMENTS & H IGHLIGHTS
  • Saudi Arabia
  • January 2015 to December 2017

Organizational Deliverables:
r Managed on-premises, collocated and cloud IT infrastructure and services. Partnered with stakeholder groups to ensure all
solution proposals met business requirements and remained within budget. Deployed highly-available compute, cloud,
virtualization and SAN technologies that optimized CA workloads, increased efficiencies and reduced IT costs.

IT Manager at State Street Bank
  • United States
  • January 2011 to December 2014

r Leading transformation of current On-Premises services to cloud including the infrastructure and networking design, selection of
Platform-as-a-Service offerings.
r Initiated the DevOps culture including Continuous Integration & Delivery, bringing the automated infrastructure tools to existing
teams and setting guidelines and standards to promote the new software conventions.
r Capitalized on using Kanban and Scrum methodology, providing coaching to new members of the team and setting the
development standards.
r Work with DevOps for generating quality dashboards to provide insights on full applications and microservices, including traffic
and resources.
r Optimize overall system performance, by identifying the bottlenecks and put execution plans accordingly.

Software Development Manager at McKesson
  • United States
  • June 2007 to December 2010

Organizational Deliverables:
r Helped introduce a new, reproducible software development methodology that contributed to higher-quality product releases
and a 27% reduction in errors.
r Championed the implementation of coding reviews that detected programming errors early in the development process,
accelerating product go-to-market time by more than 15%.
r Documented workflows and executed comprehensive training plan to medical staff that more than doubled EMR access (from
48% to 100%) and usage (from 35% to 80%).
r Created automated daily stats report that reduced errors and is now used by records associates organization-wide. Earned an
“Ace Player” award for outstanding customer service and teamwork.

MD at Lockheed Martin
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 2004 to May 2007

Education

Master's degree, Systems Engineering
  • at Johns Hopkins University
  • January 2007

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Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Salisbury University
  • January 2003

Bachelors in Computer Science.

Specialties & Skills

Conflict Management
Agile Project Management
IT Infrastructure Management
Planning
Project Management
Network Security
NETWORKING
PROCESS ENGINEERING
CUSTOMER SERVICE
DOCUMENTATION
Storage
Virtualization
Hardware

Training and Certifications

Project Management (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI
Date Attended:
March 2015