Cloud Solutioning Lead (MEA) & Solution/Enterprise Architect
IBM - Saudi Arabia
Total years of experience :29 years, 9 Months
Leading Hybrid MultiCloud Solutioning (design, build, move & manage) for deals across MEA covering technologies such as:
• AI and GenAI Solutions, Watsonx Assistant, Watsonx.ai, Watsonsx.data, Watsonx.governance
• IBM, AWS and Azure Public Cloud including VPC, IaaS & PaaS on IBM Public Cloud, AWS and Azure
• Private Clouds like IBM Cloud Satellite, AWS Outposts, Azure Stack, and VMWare Shared/Private/Dedicated Cloud
• Cloud native solutions including Red Hat OpenShift (Containers), ROSA, ARO & Cloud Native Storage Solutions
• IBM Cloud Paks Solutioning (Integration, Business Automation, Data, Network Automation)
• RH Virtualization & OpenStack, Open RAN, NFV, NFVI, VNFs, MANO, Terraform, Ansible, DevSecOps, SDLC
• Solutioning for all industry types: Travel, Health, Financial, Oil & Minerals, etc.
• Multi-zone Highly Available Solutions; Out of Region DR Solutions; Backup Solutions on private and public clouds
• Complex public cloud networking solutions including network connectivity to private clouds
• Storage solutions on Public and Private Clouds (File, Block Object and Software Defined Storage solutions such as Portworx & ODF)
Established EA Department and helping the company in startup; working with subsidiaries; solutions development; UAT; business process management; providing leadership; managing large-scale projects; managing ERP implementation; establishing enterprise architecture practice;
Establishing EA Department and establishing the performance management system.
Establishing EA Office; working as EA consultant; working on IT projects; development of RFPs for large-scale projects; development of strategic plans; etc.
Provide IT Consultations services on projects, security architecture, establishment of PMO, adoption of ITIL, LAN, WAN, Infrastructure services, etc.
Computer Science Faculty & Manage college network and staff with around 2500 users and 12 labs including services such as email, internet, educational applications, research applications, etc.
Specialization in Management of Engineering & Technology
with Thesis option
Position holder throughout 4 years of engineering and achieved 2nd Merit Position in the batch for the final year.