Mohamed Ali Kada Karkar

Lead large-scale customer onboarding and enablement for Oracle’s Dedicated Region Cloud
at Customer (DRCC) and Alloy deployments, driving seamless cloud adoption for clients across
the Middle East in addition to other markets e.g., Japan. Support end-to-end implementation,
including technical workshops, product training, and operational readiness:
• Manage multi-phase cloud infrastructure data center projects, ensuring alignment
with customer needs and seamless solution integration across diverse geographies.
• Facilitate technical discussions on API integrations, cloud services, and data center
installations, ensuring projects meet timelines and service excellence.
• Organize training session, testing activities, and staffing guidance, equipping clients
for successful cloud operations.
• Act as a key advisor, collaborating with engineering and service teams to ensure
smooth onboarding and ongoing support.
• Successfully enabled clients in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and beyond, consistently
exceeding project goals and customer expectations.

Led regional and international customer engagements across the Middle East and Africa, driving
digital transformation initiatives and facilitating cloud adoption for a diverse range of clients.
Collaborated closely with leading cloud hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google
Cloud to deliver tailored cloud solutions that align with client needs and business objectives:
• Developed and implemented customized customer engagement strategies, ensuring
alignment between cloud solutions and client-specific requirements to maximize
value and drive digital transformation success.
• Partnered with cloud providers to optimize service offerings and ensure seamless
integration, maintaining high-quality standards and enhancing the customer
experience.
• Led strategic initiatives to support sales teams by providing product expertise and
leveraging data-driven insights for upselling and cross-selling opportunities,
contributing to increased revenue.
• Facilitated cloud migration and transformation projects, enabling clients to modernize
their infrastructure and improve operational efficiency through scalable cloud
solutions.

• A client facing role managing the delivery of mobile Apps for brands like H&M, Boots and Mothercare managed by a prominent franchise operator in the region.
• This is part of a major USD 16MM Digital Transformation initiative to improve the E-Commerce capabilities of the brands managed by the said client.
• The project includes multiple technology tracks including the development of Backend Microservices, Mobile Framework for Mobile Apps as well as Design Systems

I headed programs that contribute to a strategic corporate-level initiative aiming at separating Baker Hughes from GE (post divestiture) as well as accelerating its transformation into an Energy Technology Company and enabling it to achieve its objectives (especially with its merger with GE Oil & Gas part of the divestiture).
• Focusing on separating hundreds of locations (i.e., bases, offices …) across more than 65 countries from GE’s management and Network
• Activities include among others the migration and/or redesign of:
o Network (SD WAN, LAN, Wireless, VPN, OT …)
o Compute (Physical Servers, VMs …) & Application Environments
o Storage & Backup
o Unified Communication (Voice, Video …)
o Physical Security (CCTV, Badging Systems …)
• Managing the involvement of hundreds of internal employees (Project Managers, Technical teams, Business teams, C-Suite …) and external contractors with global presence
• Total budget of more than $ 18MM over a 2-year total schedule

A multi-phase implementation of a newly acquired solution called Advent Syncova (a collateral management and cost control) expected to help Emirates NBD group (A group of multiple leading banks and financial institutions in MEA region with presence in multiple countries i.e., UAE, Kingdom of Saudi, Egypt, UK and Singapore) automate and improve multiple aspects of its operations including and mostly Lombard Lending.
The project was budgeted at more than $ 3.2MM over 9 months schedule

Managing the integration and migration of multiple small to medium
business systems of an acquired company to the Cloud (user community
spread over North America, Latin America and Europe).

The process comprises multiple stages including:

• Architecture & Security reviews and recommendations
• Coordination of Infrastructure provisioning
• Governance and other qualification processes (Data privacy, Trade &
Customs, Cloud Security and Penetration testing ...)

I managed a project with a scope to reflect a corporate-level large-scale organizational transformation on more than
78 applications and dashboards across multiple business
systems portfolios. 18 resources dedicated to the project with
around $ 1.5M Budget.

I Managed multiple Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) instances
acting as a Product Manager in support to the Logistics operations. With
around 20 developers (multiple Scrum Teams) assigned separately in both
sustaining and project modes. With more than $ 3.3M P&L, the role required
Licensing and data center hosting activities management, contract
supervision, performance reviews and SDLC / Release management.

I designed and managed integrations to / from OTM, validated development
solutions covering enhancements and bug fixes and acted as OTM
Technical Subject Matter Expert while managing multiple short term
projects in what marked the transition to Agile in Schlumberger.

I managed and handled business requirements, support to
internal clients as an OTM admin, documentation and training
materials and QA testing of application changes.

In addition to the daily operations of handling IT infrastructure
(servers, network …) and providing IT Support to core segments
users, I managed a 2 years CCTV installation project with scope
covering 10 bases across Algeria and Tunisia with $ 2M Budget.

Internship for the fulfillment of the degree Project (projet de fin d'étude) within ESI (l'Ecole nationale Supérieure
d'Informatique ex. INI) (Highest National Computer Science School) entitled -Design and implementation of an information system for billing management- using Oracle 10g, ASP.NET and C#.