Farhan Ghafoor, Cloud Solution Manager | Certified (amazon, Oracle, Azure and Nutanix)

Farhan Ghafoor

Cloud Solution Manager | Certified (amazon, Oracle, Azure and Nutanix)

4Data Information Technologies

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunicaiton and Networks
Experience
6 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :6 years, 10 Months

Cloud Solution Manager | Certified (amazon, Oracle, Azure and Nutanix) at 4Data Information Technologies
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2017

Onboarding: Consulting major client domain (banking, government, education, health care) cloud application hosting, Providing IaaS and PaaS consulting services, architecting resilient HA models, perform scaling, setting security and analytics tools
▪ Plan: and lead multi-cloud infrastructure accelerator engagements, implementations, roll-outs, and migrations, including hands-on implementation of VCF deployments.
▪ Delivering: cutting-edge demonstrations and PoCs both cloud-based and on-site while taking ownership of the project life cycle starting by identifying the requirements until the successful conclusion and customer acceptance.
▪ Manage post-sales escalations by understanding customer concerns, identifying gaps, engaging the right resources and stakeholders internally and externally, and finally bring the escalation it to a satisfactory conclusion.
▪ Provide consistent field reporting, and data input via SFDC, Provide input for proposals, statement of work, and supporting documents for prospects. Guide customers to build a business case by collecting financial and infrastructure data and creating of customer ROI/TCO reports.
▪ Assessments: use case requirements and creation of low-level designs while functioning as an advisory resource for “Best Practices” and driving adoption of VMware solutions.
▪ Designing and implementing governance models through (Azure, AWS, Vmware, and Oracle) and help the customer with resilience, supervising testing, and ensuring production environment deployment goes with agreed timeline
▪ Migrations: Helping customer in migrations (server, DB, applications, lif, and shift/re-factoring) study feasibility for microservices and Kubernetes deployments and operations, Testing failover, failback, adjust RTO/RPO per criticality
▪ Leading data modeling Azure Synapse for E-Commerce customers and enterprise analytics services to insight across data warehouses and big data systems bring together the best of SQL technologies used in enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies used for big data, Pipelines for data integration and ETL/ELT, and deep integration with other Azure services such as Power BI, CosmosDB, and AzureML.
▪ HCI: Implementing hyper-converged solution from EMC, Nutanix end to end delivery, presales, post-sales Support
▪ Work in a diverse team of customers to implement sophisticated SDDC solutions comprising VMware product stack including vCloud Foundation.
▪ Lead the on-prem migration to azure, multiple BCDR models, and testing replication between On-prem to cloud, cloud to On-Prem, and On-Prem to On-Prem
▪ Security: Managing permissions, maintenance, administration, capacity planning, and monitoring, and assist in backup and data recovery, Documenting, troubleshooting, and resolving associated change requests and incidents tickets
▪ Managed Services: adjusting transitions with customers on OLAs and SLAa, managed the infrastructure on behalf of customers (network, application, data, DBs, security, etc) and train their resources to handle daily operations with excellence.

Senior Project Manager at Huawei
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2019 to August 2020

5G deployment planning and delivery
Critical towers "Aspiration"
Energy projects with Tawal
Core & IP RAN fixed network delivery to ZAIN

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunicaiton and Networks
  • at Comsats Institute Of Information Technology
  • December 2008

Computer Programming Network management Electronics Robotics, and IOT

Specialties & Skills

National Account Management
New Business Development
Program Delivery
Customer Facing
Customer Satisfaction
project closing
infrastructure
project planning

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Nutanix Hyperconverge DC and Cloud Solution (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2020
Microsoft Azure Solution Architect (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2020
Microsoft Azure Solution Architect (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
June 2020
Duration:
100 hours
HCIE Cloud Architect (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2020
OCI - Cloud Solution Architect (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2020
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2020

Hobbies

  • critical thinking