Senior OT Program Architect
Qatar Foundation
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :17 years, 3 أشهر
• Program and Architecture for Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS).
• Writing Strategic OT documentation.
Developing Enterprise Architecture - Reference Architecture Artifacts (Documents) for Operational Technology (OT) and IT Business networks (Shared services).
• Writing strategic documents for Network Security and Wireless technologies.
• Developing designs and providing guidance for migrations.
• Significant savings and improvements on hybrid cloud integration, around 70%.
• Improving the network security architecture within the public cloud architecture.
***This is my CURRENT Position***
Responsible for Low/ High-Level Design + Implementation of Network Solutions.
•Managing and leading a team of architects from a range of technologies, these include but not exclusive to; Cybersecurity, Cloud technologies, Network security, Network performance.
•Working very closely with all Implementation teams to ensure successful Implementation of my design. Each LLD is a detailed network design of the proposed solution; the design document contains all physical and logical components of the solution.
•Designing multi-tenant data center networks incorporating hybrid cloud.
•Cloud specialist providing Network (and overall cloud) expertise to Cloud solutions.
•Taking ownership of Low-Level Design and taking it through the DAB processes and procedures for approval.
Fujitsu Services (www.fujitsu.com) provides expertise in the provision of integrated, end-to-end, next generation, network solutions from initial design, to Implementation and lifetime support.
Post Sales -Lead Customer Solutions Architect - 2013 -2017 -
Responsible for Low-Level Designs and High-Level Designs.
• Worked on major accounts including one of the biggest accounts in Fujitsu, the MoD contract.
• Developed and Lead a team to migrate 10 core data centers (including MoD PoPs) from the incumbent international service provider. The migration also included over 100, 000 users.
• Private and Public cloud design, working with major Cloud providers, AWS, Azure etc.
• Working very closely with all Implementation teams to ensure successful Implementation of my design. Each LLD is a detailed network design of the proposed solution; the design document contains all physical and logical components of the solution.
• Working with Security (McAfee, Juniper, Checkpoint) and Networking (Cisco, Juniper) vendors to establish End of Life (EOL) devices and identify product roadmap products that have superseded the EOL products.
• Formulate Internal and customer-facing CAB slides for leading or assisting in a presentation to the CAB board.
• Taking ownership of Low-Level Design and taking it through the DAB processes and procedures for approval.
Pre-Sales Technical Customer Solutions Architect - 2010 - 2013
Responsible for High-Level Designs building a Bill of Materials (BOM), attending Customer appointments, providing customer/competitor information to the sales team, other core activities are as follows:
• Network solutions to support the qualification of customer opportunities.
Work with internal customers (Sales, Customer Solutions Team) to provide product, business and technical knowledge in support of pre-sales activities and leadership for customer solutions.
• Working as part of a Bid team, to provide a component solution and provide authorized and approved cost model.
• Ability to understand business processes and problems as well as capturing business and technical requirements.
• Strong analytical skills, and the ability to understand data relationships and how data can be used to solve business problems.
• Multi-tasking and being able to represent multiple subjects and products.
• Develop a broad awareness of the client's technical architecture and emerging technologies with enough knowledge to determine what is and is not possible.
• Knowledge of strategic, conceptual, consultative selling and able to develop marketing messages.
• Work with customers to understand their requirements
• Liaison with Product Managers for Cloud Services, WAN, ISP, Security, Third party Solution and Service Providers to understand details of product direction and design, communicate information back to the sales team
• Responsible for providing feedback from the market to Product Management and Development regarding products including coordinating gaps between product functionality and market/customer demands.
Solutions:
• IPT - Cisco - Mitel
• Private/Public Cloud - Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) Nexus-ESX servers, VMNexus VM 1000-,
• WAN
• LAN
• Fibre Optic Networks
• Data Centre Design
Mitel
•Resource Planning
•Hosting Solutions
•WAN Design
•LAN Refresh
•Working across the various Business Units within Civica to pull together Resources, to promote Cross Team Working.
•Regular meetings with Stakeholders(Directors and Developers) within Civica, to recommend and Improve Development of the Civica Parking System
•Working within the ISO 27001 environment, Civica is a Bureau Veritas Certified Partner, Civica provided training on the Guide Lines, on maintaining and Improving documentation security, Information Management etc.
•Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks.
Looking at all aspects of Computer Sicence - hardware + software.