Shahid Ali,  Cloud Solutioning Lead (MEA) & Solution/Enterprise Architect

Shahid Ali

Cloud Solutioning Lead (MEA) & Solution/Enterprise Architect

IBM - Saudi Arabia

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Doctorate, Business Administration
Experience
29 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :29 years, 9 Months

Cloud Solutioning Lead (MEA) & Solution/Enterprise Architect at IBM - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since July 2017

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)

Director, Enterprise Architecture at TakaMoL Business Services Holding Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2014 to July 2017

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;

Chief Enterprise Architect at Jeriasy Computers and Communications Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2012 to March 2014

Establishing EA Department and establishing the performance management system.

IT Consultant at SBM
  • Other
  • June 2003 to May 2012

Establishing EA Office; working as EA consultant; working on IT projects; development of RFPs for large-scale projects; development of strategic plans; etc.

IT Consultant at computer sciences corporation (csc)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2002 to May 2003

Provide IT Consultations services on projects, security architecture, establishment of PMO, adoption of ITIL, LAN, WAN, Infrastructure services, etc.

Computer Science Faculty & IT Center Lead at KFUPM
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • September 1994 to January 2002

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.

Education

Doctorate, Business Administration
  • at Northcentral University
  • April 2013

Specialization in Management of Engineering & Technology

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at KFUPM
  • June 1994

with Thesis option

Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Engineering
  • at NED University
  • November 1991

Position holder throughout 4 years of engineering and achieved 2nd Merit Position in the batch for the final year.

Specialties & Skills

Enterprise Architect
IT Services Management
Solutions Architect
Security Consultant
Strategic planning and execution
Security Consultant
IT Services Management
IT Project Management
Enterprise Architect
Solution Architect
IT Consultant
Strategic Planning and Development
Performance Management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Business Process Management

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Project Management Institute
  • Member
  • March 2007
ISACA
  • Contributor
  • July 2013
Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA)
  • Member
  • January 2006
ISC2
  • Member
  • January 2004

Training and Certifications

McKinsey Management Program Certificate (Training)
Training Institute:
McKinsey
Date Attended:
January 2015
Duration:
50 hours
COBIT 5 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
CGEIT (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2013
Valid Until:
December 2019
TOGAF 9 Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
ITIL Expert (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
CISSP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2007
Valid Until:
March 2007
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Sports
  • Squash
  • Reading
  • Swimming