Khawaja Farhan Ahmed, Key Account Manager

Khawaja Farhan Ahmed

Key Account Manager

GulfBoost IT Solutions Co.

Location
Saudi Arabia - Khobar
Education
Master's degree, MBA-Exec.
Experience
10 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 10 Months

Key Account Manager at GulfBoost IT Solutions Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since March 2016
Presales Engineer at Converged Generation Communication Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2014 to February 2016

- Engage with prospective customers to pitch Seclore’s products and solutions to meet their business requirements
- Be comfortable working in shift as per the client’s time zone
- Work with IT and Business users to map Seclore’s offerings to their business scenario, systems and applications
- Have an excellent understanding of the product features and be able to assemble a Business Solution by using various product capabilities
- Undertake client demos, user trainings and documentation during the Product Evaluation phase of the sales cycle
- Effective documentation of Proposals, RFPs, RFIs…etc.
- Create opportunities for increasing the solution scope of Seclore’s offerings during the prospecting phase
- Proactively create documentary artifacts like business cases, usage scenarios, competitive landscape, solution blue prints, FAQs, meeting notes...etc.
- Work side by side with cross functional teams like the implementation, support, product engineering and integration teams to ensure successful completion of project milestones for Proof of Concept, Testing and Sign-off during the Product Evaluation phase
- Provide regular and adequate end user feedback to the product team
- Understand competitive landscape and share the knowledge among team

Network Engineer at Soft Society
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • November 2013 to March 2014

- Establishing networking environment by designing system configuration,
directing system installation, defining, documenting, and enforcing system
standards.
- Maximizing network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting
network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with
network architects on network optimization.
- Undertaking data network fault investigations in local area network, using
information from multiple sources.

SEO Trainee at Techodig
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • April 2012 to July 2012

- Analyzing of websites for improvement.
- In-depth knowledge of keyword search.
- Understand SEO copywriting and serve a liaison between various departments,
clients and contractors.
- Maximizing the traffic to a site to improve its rank.

Education

Master's degree, MBA-Exec.
  • at Virtual University of Pakistan
  • September 2019
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at UET (University of Engineering and Technology)
  • January 2013
High school or equivalent, Engineering
  • at Pakistani International School, Al
  • January 2009

Intermediate/HSSC (

High school or equivalent,
  • at Pakistani International School, Al
  • January 2007

Matric/SSC from

Specialties & Skills

Software Engineering
Network Systems
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ATTENTION TO DETAIL
AUTOCAD
CAR DRIVER
MICROSOFT PROJECT

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

BE6K for Account Managers (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2014
Valid Until:
June 2016
Cisco Telepresence (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2014
Valid Until:
July 2016
Avaya (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2014
Valid Until:
September 2017
BE6K for Engineers (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
Valid Until:
May 2016