Faisal Mehmood, Senior Solution Architect

Faisal Mehmood

Senior Solution Architect

Teradata Corporation

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, MBA (Information Technology Management)
Experience
22 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 4 Months

Senior Solution Architect at Teradata Corporation
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since October 2007

A skilled & diversified computing professional and data warehousing specialist with over 11 years of quality, result-oriented and demonstrated industry experiences, including:
1. Strategic management at project, program, portfolio, product, PMO, account and Business Unit level
2. Research, analysis, design and development of software applications

Faisal holds an MBA in Information Technology Management degree. He has been working at Teradata for more than 5 years as a technical project manager and solution architect, with experiences in various successful data warehouse implementations, design and analysis, data modeling and project management in the financial, telecom and travel sectors, and as well in custom application development. He carries international work experiences from clients in UK, Egypt, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

He is specialized and trained, having proven track record of end-to-end delivery and proactive, parallel management of complex projects, teams, customers and sub-contractors. Being PMP certified and a Teradata v2R3 Certified Master, Faisal possesses strong business intellect and skills, necessary to research business and technical issues, business opportunities, identify solutions, manage and deliver projects within given constraints. Faisal has managed C-level executives and stakeholders on his assignments. He has demonstrated presales and postsales experiences for fixed cost, time & material and mixed-type projects.

Through employment with industry leader Teradata, Faisal has developed a reputation for learning new systems quickly, training and mentoring staff effectively, resolving technical challenges and managing client expectations. Combined with the drive for achievement, this makes a solid base from which he can grow and contribute to continued success.

Consultant – Design And Sales at Saudi Telecom Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since June 2016

- Work closely with business analyst(s) and IT resources to decipher business requirements and translate them to a conceptual and logical data model.
- Prepare project documentations helpful during the project.
- Balancing current requirements with anticipating future business requirements.
- Transform logical data model to physical data model.
- Deliver projects in-time

Professional Services Consultant at NCR Corporation (Pakistani operation of US multinational)
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • February 2002 to September 2007

My main responsibilities were:
- Working in the scope of system integrator
- Overall project coordination, sub-contractors management and development of call centre front end Application and Integration with IBM Lotus Notes
- Developing and deploying state-of-the-art full automated complaint distribution system integrated with call center ACD and Agent Desktop
- Database design and application architecture
- Development of application using .Net framework developed in ASP.NET
- Development of front end application and integration with database tools
- Deployment plan of client site
- Gained hands-on experience of training new and existing employees, held seminars and information sessions

Education

Master's degree, MBA (Information Technology Management)
  • at International Islamic University
  • June 2001

Specialties & Skills

Solution Architecture
Teradata
Data Warehouse Architecture
Data Modeling
Teradata Warehouse Management
Data Modeling
Project Management
Solution Design Consultancy

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate

Memberships

Project Management Institute
  • Member
  • May 2011

Training and Certifications

Data Stage ETL Tool Advanced Training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
March 2011
Oracle 8 (Developer 2000) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2000
Valid Until:
November 2000
Teradata Certified Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2004
Valid Until:
March 2004
Leadership and Team challenge training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2005
Valid Until:
March 2005
Cisco IPCCE Boot Camp Completion (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2007
Valid Until:
August 2007
Teradata Factory Course Completion (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2002
Valid Until:
November 2002
Teradata Implementation Workshop (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2011
Valid Until:
April 2011
Java Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2001
Valid Until:
November 2001
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2007
Valid Until:
June 2011