Hassan Ajan, Deployment & Operations Engineer

Hassan Ajan

Deployment & Operations Engineer

Tradeshift Network Inc

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, IT Security
Experience
10 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 2 Months

Deployment & Operations Engineer at Tradeshift Network Inc
  • Denmark
  • October 2010 to August 2012

Who is Tradeshift? A global business powered network, focusing on small and large corporate electronic invoicing and business transactions. (www.tradeshift.com)

Main Responsibilities: To build and develop a competent IT operational team based on 5 IT staff to meet future business demands. Part of my responsibility is managing all aspects of a traditional IT Operations department, this included but not limited to strategizing IT-Budgets, capacity planning, ensuring security and data privacy compliance, disaster recovery plans, drills etc.

This resulted in a well-designed cloud-based customer-centric platform, auto-scalable & self-healing infrastructure running in a cost-effective manner with minimum downtime for thousands of users worldwide. In addition, developing a fully automated deployment pipeline saving the corporate time and money in software releases and becoming more agile and flexible when changes are required

Other Responsibilities: Risk Assessment, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Business Impact Analysis, Crisis Management Plan, Information Governance incl. Information Lifecycle Management

Achieved Business Outcomes: • 300% faster project development (commit-to-release)
• No major business interruption caused by internal problems in two years
• 15% cost savings on infrastructure
• SAS70 certification of Tradeshift Inc.

IT-Consultant (VMware) at Noitso A/S
  • Denmark
  • December 2009 to October 2010

Noitso A/S, Denmark Dec 2009 - Oct 2010
IT-Consultant (VMware)

Who is Noitso? A consulting & software house specialized in financial solution for the Danish Market. (www.noitso.dk)

Main Responsibilities: Advising client on how to use information technology in order to meet their business objectives and overcome problems with focus on cost reduction and ROI optimization on current IT hardware and Service.
Further more, supporting with virtualizing and migrating from physical servers to virtual machines running on VMware ESXi planning, implementing virtualization strategies, network design and migration of various systems. Running learning sessions and handovers.

Achieved Business Outcomes: • Reduced TCO and lower operating expenses
• Improved service level and customer service by having a lower Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and higher resiliency

Partner - IT-Consultant at BeeSphere (SkyPaz), Morocco
  • Morocco - Rabat
  • December 2008 to June 2009

Who is BeeSphere? BeeSphere offers a SaaS platform where customers can import data from various cloud applications, build new applications online and deliver services based on the imported data. (www.skypaz.com)

Main Responsibilities: Conducted a comprehensive global market study on data centers, requirements, technology (hardware & software), related services and geographic location. Planning, designing and deploying a highly cost effective data center in the region.
• Define requirements
• Developing and reviewing RFI & RFP
• Purchasing Hardware & Software
• Managing SLA's with Vendors
• Designing, testing, installing and monitoring new systems
• Profiling & tuning of software

Achieved Business Outcomes: • Minimal upfront costs & low operating costs
• A well-designed exit strategy that increased the overall business valuation for investors

System Manager at NeoConsult A/S
  • Denmark
  • June 2006 to July 2008

Who is NeoConsult? A software company leveraging best in class "number portability solutions" worldwide. They are the official strategic partners and original architects behind the National Danish NP authority platform (OCH) "Operators Clearing House" in Denmark. (www.neoconsult.dk)

Main Responsibility: I was responsible and heavily involved in the development/implementation process of the IT infrastructure for a global TELCO client (Tele2/SFR) carrying the "Nomad solution" which focuses on getting rid of IT waste that affects customer service, customer growth and launch of new services.
Customized and aligned Tele2/SFR's requirements with the SOA-based solution executing various IT challenges such as billing, CRM, number portability for mobile/landlines, payment services, credit rating services, etc., work as stand-alone functions and not as business processes. Below are some of the key tasks:
• Advice and assistance to Tele2's project managers on system implementation
• Develop, maintain and facilitate the implementation of the infrastructure
• Managing Nomad Order Workflow system for TELE2 Denmark & France
• Infrastructure & Service Level Management
• Release & Availability Management
• Problem & Incident Management
• Documentation & Training

Achieved Business Outcome: • Consolidated complex systems and got rid of non-valuable processes
• Automated and improved manual workloads/workflows
• Reduced number of Customer Service Representatives (CSR's) by 75%
• Implemented cost saving methodologies and frameworks via the new system

Co-Founder / Oracle Technical Consultant at Apian IT Partner ApS, Denmark
  • Denmark
  • February 2004 to May 2006

Responsibility: Designed, implemented & managed Oracle E-Business Suite environments for various clients, mainly on Linux and Dell servers. Ask for appendix for list of projects.

Co-Founder / Web-Developer at NightCom, Morocco
  • Morocco - Rabat
  • February 2002 to December 2003

Responsibility: Windows Client-Server support, developing CMS & portals, and LAMP installations, Tender and RFP engagement.

Conference-Call Coordinator at British Telecom, UK
  • United Kingdom - London
  • September 1999 to January 2000

Responsibility: Managing system of 85.000 users on Intel Conferencing, BT MeetMe and Buzz-in Service

Education

Master's degree, IT Security
  • at University of Liverpool
  • January 2008

Msc in IT Security (Studying Online - Paused) University of Liverpool - Copenhagen, DK

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Copenhagen Business College
  • July 2006

AP Degree Programme in Computer Science Niels Brock, Copenhagen Business College - Copenhagen, DK

Bachelor's degree, BA Multimedia Systems & Marketing
  • at London Guildhall University
  • July 2001

BSc/BA Multimedia Systems & Marketing, partial London Guildhall University - London, UK

High school or equivalent,
  • at Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College
  • July 1998

Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College - Copenhagen, DK

Specialties & Skills

System Administration
Database Administration
BILLING
CLIENTS
CUSTOMER SERVICE
E-BUSINESS
FRAMEWORKS

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Danish
Expert
French
Intermediate