Solution Architect
Bank Aljazira
Total years of experience :16 years, 2 Months
● Working as the Solution Architect to design in-house development projects and new initiatives on-
premises and private Cloud services for the Bank.
● Transform Business requirements into Technical Solution.
● Help the Bank business team to identify problems and document it in the Business Requirement
Document.
● Convert Business Requirement Document (BRD) into absolute solution (Business Solution Design
Document - BSD) for better understanding for the technical team to implement.
● Discuss the Business Process team on innovative ideas and transform those ideas into Technical
Possible solutions.
● Help the Bank to understand new initiatives from a technical point of view to identify gaps and
required stakeholders/channels.
● Design Technical Solution (Solution Specification Document - SSD) with depth description to make it
easy for the technical team to implement.
● Help the Technical team to transform their IT architecture, infrastructure and cloud development
technical requirements for better understanding for Business Analyst and Bank decision makers.
● Leading the Solution Architecture and design of AWS Cloud services for regional opportunities.
● Leading the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) and Mobilize, Migration including Modernization Activity for Customers.
● Assessment and Discovery of customer environments for Cloud readiness using tools like Cloudamize and
CART.
● Design and Implement Multi-Cloud orchestration solutions including Flexera, VMware, IBM and others
● Design and implement cloud migration strategy and stream/waves.
● Acting pre-sales Technical Solution Architect by preparing and presenting customer focused Product and
Technical overview to identify gaps and Statements of Compliance (SoC) for customer professional
services and solutioning
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● Lead the Solution Architecture and design for AWS and IBM Cloud services in territory.
● Played as a key player for taking initiative for Cloud solutioning and implementation of on-prem
cloud/hybrid solutions.
● Implemented several Cloud ready hyper converged solutions.
● Understand the customers relevant business challenges while functioning as a trusted advisor for best
practices and drive adoption of VMware solutions within your assigned accounts
● Sizing & designing the solution based on key factors like performance, application workload behavior,
platform supported, total cost & TCO.
● Coordination with professional services & project team for solution integration, delivery, implementation
& sign-off.
● Design and implement VMware VSAN, NSX, Vsphere, Mobility and HCI
● Empowered technology teams to focus on capability development to accelerate cloud adoption within
their organizations with cloud jumpstart programs, accelerators and big data discovery.
● Accelerated the development of a cloud competency center by acting as Solution Advisor, using my
extensive experience of both the AWS platform, plus IT infrastructure, application and cloud architecture
to assist clients’ to rapidly develop new capabilities and deliver their cloud programs.
● Design and Implement VMware, NUTANIX, Cisco and IBM Hyper Converged systems and Cloud ready
solutions..
● Meetings with the Clients for better understanding of the need and requirement to design and provide
solutions to fulfill their needs.
● Implement VMware Telco Cloud Platform within customer’s lab and pilot environments; understand all
aspects of deployment automation from infrastructure deployment automation to VNF/CNF orchestration
including NSX.
● Led regional project team to architect, design and implement global cloud based email and collaboration
application, based on Lotus Domino and IBM Smart Cloud
● Experience in design and implement Software Defined Datacenter and latest Virtualized Technologies
including VMware and Citrix.
● Business insight and problem-solving skills with the ability to influence change.
● Data Center Networking Infrastructure, Managed Services, Hosted Data Center & Enterprise IT
Infrastructure using IBM, Lenovo and VMware technologies.
● Vast experience of IT Project Management including Data Center Designing, Re-location, Migration, Risk
Assessment, Risk Reporting and Planning for corrective actions.
● IT-IS Systems Commissioning, Installation, Configuration and testing for an IT and Telecom industry.
● Demonstrated track record of strong consulting skills and experience to bridge the gap between
technology and business operations to enable organizations to make effective decisions.
Working as vital and vibrant part of Cloud, Storage and Tivoli consultant as part of dynamic Team and have implement huge number of solutions around GCC.
Together with members of the pre-sales team, investigate, understand and articulate customer Service Management, CLOUD, Virtualization and Datacenter requirements.
In-depth understanding and knowledge of CLOUD delivery concepts (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and technologies.
In-depth knowledge of Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation, Administration, Troubleshooting; v 5.4, v5.4, v61, v6.2, v6.3, v6.4 & 7.1.
Experience of Managed IT Services and Hosted Data Center and Public Cloud Computing.
Knowledge in brocade FC switching as well as Cisco MDS, Analysis of performance stats and configuration across a range of storage solutions including NAS, SAN & VTL’s.
Understanding of WAN/LAN/SAN(fc) constraints related to centralized storage in virtualized environment (Cisco UCS)
In-depth knowledge of Fiber Channel, FCIP, FCOE or iSCSI concepts and technologies
Experience in UNIX - AIX, Linux and Windows Operating Systems with Data Migration and Administration.
Virtualization, VMware ESX 4 &4.1, 5.1 vCenter, VMware vSphere Hypervisor, VMware CLOUD Computing &Virtual DC
Data Center Networking Infrastructure, Managed Services, Hosted Data Center & Enterprise IT Infrastructure
In-depth Knowledge of Storage Boxes SAN/NAS.
Experience with LANFREE/SAN Backup TSM configuration, Netapp technology SNAP copy, IBM DS storage, FLASH copy, ProctecTIER
Design the architecture and implementation of IBM Software, Infrastructure and service management solutions for different customers; this includes the POC, competitive workshops (against competitors), hardware, sizing, reliability and ensuring compatibility of solutions
Script writing for different products to integrate with infrastructure for integration when required.
Architecturally worked with the Hardware teams to select an appropriate software and storage management solution for Environments to fulfill customer business needs.
Monitoring and guiding the operations team
Change Management, Problem Escalation, incident logging and resolution.
Enforcing the processes related to datacenter operations.
• Designing & Proposing solution and Technical Services for IBM CloudBurst 2.1; Give on-site and remote demos to the clients on IBM Tivoli, Virtualization & Cloud Solutions.
• Leading the IBM Tivoli and IBM Cloud Pre-sales and Implementation engineering process, deployment and post implementation support. Designing the SAN, Storage, Virtualization, Infrastructure and Network Management & Monitoring solutions for different customers, this includes the POC, competitive workshops (against competitors), hardware, sizing, reliability and ensuring compatibility of solutions. Meetings with the IBM International and IBM Pakistan Officials on IBM Software Products Presales and on their Implementation Services.
• Designed and implemented different Backup Recovery/DR solutions for various customers. Including products; IBM TSM; Symantec Storage Foundation
• Installed, Configured, Upgraded IBM TSM Architecture on LINUX, AIX and Windows, including implementing TAPE Configuration, integration of TDP for SAP, SQL, ORACLE with Database and Application. Script writing for different IBM Storage, Management and Monitoring products to integrate with ORACLE, SAP for integration .Installation & Configuration of TDP for Exchange and LOTUS Domino.
• Managed Applications, Systems and Network Deployment Solutions using various IBM Tivoli products which includes ITM, ITNM, TPC and Open source Products as well.
• Installation and Configuration of various IBM Tivoli Products; ITNM, ITM, IBM TPC, TPM.
• Designed and implemented a complete VMware vSphere (Esx/Esxi) at various customers allowing for features such as High Availability (HA), Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS), VMotion, VMware Consolidated Backups, and VMware converter.
• Architecturally worked with the SAN and Backup teams to select an appropriate backup tool for Virtualized Environments.
• Conducted in-depth official training sessions for Different Products to administrators and business users.
• Hands-on experience leading all stages of system development efforts, including requirements definition, analysis, design, architecture, testing, and support.
• Responsible for managing the Internal IT, including ISP web servers, DNS and mail servers.
• Manage and Configure Cisco Routers and Switches;
• Research and development of IT optimized solutions to customers. Also responsible for pre-sales engineering process.
• Administration and configuring windows 2003 and windows 2000 servers Active Directories.
• Monitoring & management of Business Critical Servers and Network using several monitoring tools.
• Assist with problem isolation and technical escalation.
• Research and development of IT optimized solutions to logging efforts to ensure network and data integrity. Also responsible for requirement engineering process.
• Responsible to monitor assistance efforts periodically and provides assessment reports to management.
• In charge of applying and configuring new maintenance levels, update packs, backup and maintaining the Microsoft based infrastructure.
• Assist with problem isolation and technical escalation
• Troubleshoot network, systems, and applications to identify and rectify malfunctions and other operational difficulties.
• Disaster Recovery Planning and Supervision of periodic Backups & restores of mission critical application and servers.
• Plan and Implement Network Security Policies, access lists and disaster recovery plans.
• Configure and administer DXX and DSL Internet Services.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of Windows Server 2000/2003, ISA, and IIS Servers.
• Management of Squid Web Cache/Proxy Server.
• To communicate and liaison with Data Center/ISP staff for ensuring reliable, smooth and stabilized network connectivity.
• Upgrading Routers using Network Modules and Wan Interface Cards.
• Installation and configuration of Voice Logging Systems.