Senior IT Project Manager/Consultan/Head of IT
Samvruddhi (Sam-Tech) Technologies
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :40 years, 9 أشهر
\[Decade old Dubai Based IT System integrator supporting more than 200+ clients in Finance Govt, Retail, Consulting, Real Estate etc )
Senior IT Project Manager Responsible for Major Projects, Solution Architecture, Team Management, Pre-Sales Consulting
Key Achievement: ✓ Provide Technical strategy and vision and assist in client engagement ✓ Handled various project related to IT Infrastructure, IT Security, Application development etc ✓ Improve Customer Satisfaction - Engage with clients, Gather and Analyse feedback, Implement improvement ✓ Project to develop RFP template for major semi-govt entity - Template for VAPT, ISO 27001 and ISO 20000-1 ✓ Project to Improve on Sales - Define Goal/Objective, Identify Audience, Develop and Implement Sales Strategy, Train the team, Invest in Marketing
Responsible for managing a team of up to
15 engineers and an infrastructure of 1200+ servers in more than150+ Sites,
2 Enterprise Data Centres and 10+ medium sized Data centres (total >20, 000 sq.ft. area)
holding 300TB+ of Enterprise Storage and Backup; Budgetary control of ~AED 15MN+ and Managing multiple Vendors
Handled various multiple project ranging from Storage and Server Virtualization, Building Datacenter from Scratch and Managing complex business projects
\[Top UAE-based, family-owned large conglomerate with diverse businesses in Luxury Retail, Automotive, Real Estate, Engineering, Travel, Logistics etc\]
IT Data Centre Manager Responsible 4500 users, 100+ applications, 3 core business areas, 6 regional sites (200 Retail Stores with 3 Dept Stores and 25 Motors Locations), 1200+ servers (physical/virtual), more than 850 TB data storage
Key Achievements: ✓ Key member of IT Management and part of thought leadership to accomplish business goals ✓ Define key infrastructure goals to align with business vision e.g., Secure IT, reduce Cost and improve efficiency ✓ Ensured major reduction of CAPEX by introduction cloud, virtualization, outsourcing etc. ✓ Achieved minimum savings of ~15%-20% annually by successfully managing and negotiating contracts/AMCs ✓ Enhance business satisfaction in terms of System performance, Availability and Cost savings ✓ One of the first enterprise in UAE to Introduce major benefits and cost savings o Cloud SAAS (O365) for emailing, SharePoint and Collaboration (Team) o Storage Virtualization and optimization using IBM SVC Storage o Microsoft and VMware Private Cloud to reduce Physical Hardware sprawl (reduce by more than 80%) o ISO 270001, CIS framework rollout to ensure compliance and readiness requirements ✓ Collaborated with business/vendor to provided requirements based on scope, cost and ensured on time delivery ✓ Assessed different cloud providers (Amazon, Azure and Oracle) as part of Cloud Strategy ✓ Achieved Business transition for outsourcing of key IT functions to external partner (Wipro). ✓ Led the work stream on IT Asset Management efficiencies and manage the end-to-end lifecycle ✓ Planned Technical Reference Model and Infrastructure Roadmap to accomplish set objectives. ✓ Collaborated with vendor to analyse and oversee the scope and requirements, tools-based audit, leading to DC readiness designs, standard build documentation, design architecture standards, and 3rd Party connectivity. ✓ Supported massive Back-Office project involving server setup to support upgrade of Oracle JDE, Hyperion, and BI ✓ Worked with Retail BU to establish the technology infrastructure coverage for multiple Department Stores.
\[~40 year-old, UAE based leading System Integrator and ICT Solution Provider supporting 1000+ clients across GCC\]
Team Leader - Enterprise Responsible for leading a team of 10+ engineers, supporting 50+ key enterprise customers for Infrastructure projects for Datacentres, Hardware and Software and assisting Sales Team for solution architecture and design.
Key Achievements: ✓ Responsible for enterprise clients implementation and major Projects ✓ Achieved setup of ITIL based Service Desk project for Banks, Government and Educational entities. ✓ Provided solutions and presales support for sales team in terms of solution architecture, BOQ etc ✓ Projects: Successfully delivered projects involving migration of DCs, Server, Storage and networks ✓ Major customer - ADIA, ADIC, ADIB, NBAD, Borouge, ADNOC FOD, National Power (UK) etc