Mohammed Zahran, Cloud Solutions Architect

Mohammed Zahran

Cloud Solutions Architect

Microsoft

Lieu
Jordanie - Amman
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Industrial Engineering
Expérience
22 years, 11 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :22 years, 11 Mois

Cloud Solutions Architect à Microsoft
  • Jordanie - Amman
  • Je travaille ici depuis décembre 2016

- Advising and working with high profile enterprise clients in Middle East and Africa in their IT, digital transformation, datacenter modernization and cloud adaptation journey

- Building digital transformation roadmap and enterprise architecture for clients in Banking, Telco, Pharmaceutical, Government and other industries.

- Helping clients in taking their businesses into the next level using artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive services, big data, high-performance compute, application modernization through containerization and microservices.

Chief Architect à IBM
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • novembre 2015 à novembre 2016

Chief Architect for Mobily:
• Reviewing and aligning with Mobily's Enterprise Architecture
• Management of team of infrastructure architect, capacity management architect, technical solution architect and security architect on Mobily KSA account.
• Ownership of Technology Plan for Mobily
• Ownership of Technology Refreshment
• Ownership of Technology Assessment (Software & Hardware)
• Ownership of cloud, Watson Analytics, Mobility and other initiatives
• Ownership of technical and infrastructure solutions

Head of Proposals - Lead Solutions Architect à al-elm
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • juillet 2013 à octobre 2015

• Delivered engagement model, costing, vendor selection, solutions architecture and proposals for mega-size e-government projects in KSA (over than 150 million $USD)
• Diverse technology experience including: BI, DMS, IDM, ESB, SOA, Security, Middleware, DB, Portals, CRM, Archiving, BAM
• Vendor solution/cost/license negotiation (IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, TCS, Wipro, etc.)
• Proposal and technical solution delivery
• Delivery model and price negotiation
• Capacity build and team management
• Played a key role in the following opportunities:
1. Ministry of Interior - Trusted Traveler Program
2. Al-Madinah Municipality eBusiness transformation
3. Detainee and prison management
4. Ministry of Finance - properties management system
5. Ministry of civil services - Employee classification
6. Ministry of Finance - Employee Payroll
7. Ministry of Interior - Civil affair / Special security forces ERP enrollment
8. Ministry of Finance - ePayment enhancement solution

Consulting Manager à Deloitte and Touche
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • août 2010 à juin 2013

Delivered IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and Solution/Infrastructure Architecture for major clients in KSA and UAE including:
• Public Security Department in KSA
• Ministry of Economy and Planning in KSA: Was part of the team in charge of delivering the eServices Transformation Plan (Architecture Vision, As-is architecture, To-be architecture, etc.)
• Ministry of Finance in UAE: was part of the team developed IT strategy for the Federal Tax Organization, the new entity in charge of tax in UAE (delivered organization chart for IT department, IT delivery model, security architecture, hosting and infrastructure sizing)
• Union Railways in UAE: delivered Infrastructure architecture as part of the enterprise architecture.

Solutions Architect / Consultant à IBM (Global Business Services), Dublin, Ireland
  • Ireland
  • août 2006 à juillet 2009

Major Achievements
• Vodafone Ireland:
Role: Project Manager:
1) Managed web development team, Business As Usual queue, CMS queue, as well as resources working on both queues.
2) Managed information/request flow between web development team and demand/business.
3) Managed information/request flow between web development team and other technical teams including test, deployment and TIBCO services.

• Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Online Services):
Role: Architect/Systems and Oracle Administrator:
1) Delivered the operation model/architecture for the whole solution.
2) Installed, configured and managed Oracle Application Server 10g in cluster environment and Oracle Database Server 10g.
3) Installed and configured CyberFusion Platform Server to use SSL/Digital Certificate.
4) Developed online backend interfaces using XML Schema, XSLT, Java and UNIX shell scripting.
5) Supported the Digital Certificate for the solution.

• Department of Justice (Asylum and Immigration Strategic Integration Programme):
Role: Business Analyst:
1) Delivered detailed specification for internal reports.
2) Delivered logical date model.

Technical Manager for Enterprise Solutions à STS
  • Jordanie - Amman
  • septembre 1999 à septembre 2005

• Jordan e-government Portal:
Technologies: IBM Websphere Portal V5, Websphere Application Server, DB2, IBM Lotus workplace web content management, J2EE.
Role: Architect/Technical team leader:
1) Technical proposal preparation.
2) Business requirements gathering.
3) Prepared Software/hardware architecture (cluster, load balancing, high availability).
4) Installed IBM Websphere portal V5, DB2, Websphere application server, IBM lotus workplace web content management on AIX and windows.
5) Enterprise directory design (J2EE application).

• Jordan Telecom Portal:
Technologies: IBM Websphere Portal V5, Websphere Application Server, DB2, IBM Lotus workplace web content management, J2EE.
Role: Architect/Technical team leader:
1) Technical proposal preparation.
2) Business requirements gathering.
3) Prepared Software/hardware architecture (cluster, load balancing, high availability).
4) Installed IBM Websphere portal V5, DB2, Websphere application server, IBM lotus workplace web content management on AIX and windows.
5) Integrated Portal with Jordan Telecom pre-existing systems, including Oracle HR, Oracle CRM, CITRIX.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Industrial Engineering
  • à University of Jordan
  • août 1999

Specialties & Skills

IT Strategy
Enterprise Architecture
Project and product management
Software and Web Development
Solutions Development
Product Management
Project Management
IT Strategy
Infrastructure Architecture
Solution Architecture
Enterprise Architecture
TMF, eTOM framework
Cloud Architecture

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert

Formation et Diplômes

Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
May 2019
IBM IT Hybrid Cloud - Level 1 Certified (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2016
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
SOA Certified Architect (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
May 2014
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
ITIL Foundation Certified in IT Service Management (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
May 2014
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
TOGAF V9 Certified (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
May 2014
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
Sun Certified Programmer For Java 2 Platform 1.4 (SCJP) (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2003
Valide jusqu'à:
January 2003
Oracle8i/9i Certified Professional Database Administrator (OCP DBA) (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2003
Valide jusqu'à:
January 2003
Sun Certified Web Component Developer for J2EE Platform (SCWCD) (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2003
Valide jusqu'à:
January 2003
IBM Certified Solution Developer (IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V4.1 Implementation) (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2004
Valide jusqu'à:
January 2004