arafat natsheh, Services Development Manager - EMEA (Partner-Led)

arafat natsheh

Services Development Manager - EMEA (Partner-Led)

NetApp

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Experience
24 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 4 Months

Services Development Manager - EMEA (Partner-Led) at NetApp
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2021

• Support sales, by increasing product sales, solution adoption, and profitability by offering value-add services and delivering high-quality solutions to achieve customer satisfaction and business growth.
• Services Subject-Matter-Expert for EMEA Channel partner services, actively contributing to develop NetApp’s services Go-to-Market strategy, partner services portfolio, and promoting inter-collaboration to extend service and solution availability and coverage in EMEA.
• Manage relationships with critical business alliances; to expand NetApp's geographical services and solutions coverage. (Covering MEA, Turkey, Eastern Europe, DefiNo, the Baltics, and Iceland)

Partner Services Development Manager - MEA at NetApp
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2018 to January 2021

• Manage and oversee NetApp’s Services Certified Partners Program in alignment with NetApp's Sales and Channel strategy.
• Coordinate with Education Partners to develop and launch partner service enablement programs
• Facilitate planning with internal stakeholders to support partners enablement.

Senior Manager Global Professional Services at Juniper Netowrks
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2016 to October 2018

• Grow overall professional services sales by actively aligning partners to Juniper’s services-led-selling and go-to-Market methodology, and promoting professional services best practices as a competitive differentiator for the company and its channel partners.
• Improved the project management team's ability to resource professional services by identifying a global ecosystem of "highly-capable" outsourcing providers capable of delivering a dynamic workforce to augment Juniper's teams while maintaining competitive costs.
• Develop and implement a professional service outsourcing strategy, complete with KPIs, best practices, and performance measurements. This strategy has helped Juniper to better manage and optimize its professional services outsourcing efforts, gaining a competitive edge in the market and driving business growth.

PMO Program Manager at Juniper
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2014 to January 2016

• Led key internal Service Development Programs, including:
o Juniper Project Management Methodology.
o Consolidation of best practices and workshops into a Service Assets Library.
o Juniper's Partner Professional Services program (PPS) in EMEA.
o Co Project Managed a program with Education Services to develop and launch Juniper’s first design-oriented courseware and certification track.
• Supported Channel Partners in selling and delivering professional services to customers by establishing a global governance model to provide access to templates, tools, and processes.
• Increase the value proposition of projects by motivating channel partners and promoting collaboration with internal stakeholders and business leaders.

Professional Services Manager at Juniper Networks
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2011 to January 2014

• Maintain strong rapport and collaboration between Juniper Services, Channel, Partners and Customer to drive successful outcomes and optimal customer satisfaction.
• Lead Juniper's professional services team for KSA service providers to deliver consulting, onsite engineering, project management, and managed services.
• Launch Juniper Network's Technical Support Services contract for Saudi Telecom to deliver 24x7 operation and managed services for Saudi Broadband services and the Internet Gateway. This included quoting, planning, team building, and implementing the necessary processes and procedures to ensure smooth and efficient delivery of the service to STC customers.
• As acting program manager for Mobily's Mega Project, I successfully supported "Mobily" to achieve a record-time delivery to their national distribution network upgrade and expansion.

Professional Services Team Lead at Juniper Networks
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2007 to January 2011

• Led Juniper Network Professional services team responsible for Saudi Telecom’s solution planning, design, implementation and migration services, and oversee key project deployments.
• Scaled up Saudi Telecom's rapidly expanding wholesale Broadband Services, National Broadband Network, and subscriber management.
• The Successful migration of Saudi.Net (STC incumbent ISP) from a Cisco to a full Juniper-based architecture.
• Launching Saudi Telecom’s Internet Gateway, including complete customers migration in less than 8 months.
• Developed Juniper O&M processes for Saudi Digital transport network services as acting member of STC Multi-vendor operations. Including STC Support Center team training program to operate and maintain KSA Broadband customers.
• As a member of their network planning and expansion team, led the upgrade of Saudi Telecom's Mobile Value-Added Services and Mobile broadband services.

Network Operations Section Chief at Orange - Jordan
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2000 to January 2007

• Senior member of Jordan's National Data Network pilot design and deployment team overseeing the designing, deploying, and operating the national network infrastructure and digital services in coordination with various hardware and software solution suppliers.
• Led three teams, managing the implementation, operations, and maintenance of Orange-Jordan's wholesale and retail broadband services, as well as digital services and subscriber management for ISP customers.
• Orchestrated a multi-million-dollar systems integration and digital transformation project for the Ministry of Education, resulting in the successful rollout of Jordan’s education solution across 3600 schools in Jordan within a 10-month period.
• Won a 250K USD annual contract between Orange and the Ministry of Education, to deliver colocation and managed services.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
  • at The University of Jordan
  • September 1999

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Specialties & Skills

Portfolio Management
Services Development
Managed Services
Channel Programs
Professional Services
BROADBAND
COMPUTER HARDWARE
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
MARKETING
Resource Management
Team Leadership
Change Management
Delivery Management
Customer Success Management
Business Development
Channel Development

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Memberships

Jordanian Engineers Association
  • active member
  • September 1999
Saudi Council of Engineers
  • member
  • January 2009

Hobbies

  • Woodworking, digital design