Architect / Senior Consultant
Microsoft
Total years of experience :20 years, 7 Months
pre-sales Associate Architect, Microsoft Services Pursuit Team, Microsoft Middle East and Africa
o I assisted in building service proposal for multiple RFPs (Contractual, Technical, Project plan, resourcing, timeline, risk identification)
o I assisted in Partner Solution evaluation
o I assisted in the Sales strategy and pre-sales workshop for several opportunities
o I was involved in several Quality assurance and Review iterations
Senior Consultant for the following solution :Virtualization, Cloud, exchange 2010, Lync, OCS, Forefront, System Center
I covered the following activity:
Pre-sales and Technology Strategy
Architecture and Design
Quality assurance and Review
Deployment and security hardening
Team Leader
Hosted Messaging and Collaboration design and implementation
Exchange 2007, Windows SharePoint, OCS 2007, SQL 2008 (capacity planning, design, implementation)
Hyper V design and implementation
IT Consultancy and ROI analysis
RND to improve the service of the Data center (Archive solution, Auditing implementation, Xenserver 4.1)
Networking design and configuration (IPS, CSM, LMS, ASA, pix, router and switch)
Hardware assessment and HP blade configuration
Cluster design and configuration, Exchange 2003 & 2007 configuration and troubleshooting
DATA Center Operation (DNS configuration; Veritas and NT Backup, Operating system configuration)
Project design and implementation (AD, ISA, Exchange, Citrix solution, Disaster Recovery)
Thesis: As part of the requirement for my MBA, I submitted: A grounded theory research approach for building and testing “TQM” in operations management for an IT service company scored 620 on My GMAT exam
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