Senior Cloud Consultant
Octalpha Business Solutions
Total years of experience :19 years, 0 Months
• Reporting to the Group CEO on policies and procedures as well as yearly budgets
• Managing a team of 10 cloud engineers and adhering to SLAs and KPIs defined by my department
• Responsible for the running and maintenance for our Private/Public (Hybrid) Cloud hosted in Kuwait and Dubai Region
• Planning, Design and Implement for On-Premise and Cloud Infrastructure Services (Cloud Computing, Microsoft Services and VDI)
• Implementation a first of its kind in the country for Huawei VDI using FusionStorage Block Software in Ethiopia
• Playing a lead role in terms of managing and implementing VMware Migration projects for high values customers in Dubai
• Finalizing the solutions for customers (Pre-sales /Post-Sales)
• Responsible for Projects Pre-sales and Post Sales tasks (Cloud and On-Premise)
• Projects deployed across Kuwait, Dubai, Sudan and Ethiopia regions
• Team Management & Guiding the team, motivating and support them to develop themselves
• Enhancing the IT Infrastructure with latest technology and Disaster Recovery
• In-depth product study before proposing, getting approval and deployment
• Budgeting for IT Infrastructure
• Managing Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP and E-Commerce Website Deployment
• Directly reporting to COO
• Planning, Designing and Implementation of the Network Infrastructure
• Planning, Designing and Implementation of the Microsoft Services and other LV Products (IPTV, Digital Signage and CCTV).
• Providing On-Site and Off-Site support to clients for the signed SLAs
• Working on tender documents, shop drawings and preparing BOQ
• Worked on proposals, costing and quotation for clients and providing system status reports to the client
• Working in-line with Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operations Officer and reporting them directly
• Planning, Designing, Deploying and Maintaining the Complete Network & Microsoft Infrastructure (Hyper-V) which is deployed over a Wide Area Network (WAN) which includes Ajial Educational Company (HQ), Ajial Bilingual School (Main Data Centre- Riggae), Indian Central School - Jleeb, Pakistani English School - Jleeb and Al-Safwa Ideal School - Jahra.
• Preparing Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Annual IT Infrastructure Reports.
• Leading the Team for 4 Technical Support Engineers.
• Outsourced to Ajial Bilingual School as a Systems Administrator (Aug 2005 - Jul 2008).
• Involved in Planning, Designing, Implementing and Managing the projects running over Microsoft Services and LV Systems (IPTV, Digital Signage and CCTV)