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

Shahid Ali

Cloud Solutioning Lead (MEA) & Solution/Enterprise Architect

IBM - Saudi Arabia

Lieu
Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
Éducation
Doctorat, Business Administration
Expérience
29 years, 9 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :29 years, 9 Mois

Cloud Solutioning Lead (MEA) & Solution/Enterprise Architect à IBM - Saudi Arabia
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • Je travaille ici depuis juillet 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 à TakaMoL Business Services Holding Co.
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • avril 2014 à juillet 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 à Jeriasy Computers and Communications Co.
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • juin 2012 à mars 2014

Establishing EA Department and establishing the performance management system.

IT Consultant à SBM
  • Autre
  • juin 2003 à mai 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 à computer sciences corporation (csc)
  • Arabie Saoudite - Riyad
  • février 2002 à mai 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 à KFUPM
  • Arabie Saoudite - Province de l'Est
  • septembre 1994 à janvier 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.

Éducation

Doctorat, Business Administration
  • à Northcentral University
  • avril 2013

Specialization in Management of Engineering & Technology

Master, Computer Science
  • à KFUPM
  • juin 1994

with Thesis option

Baccalauréat, Computer Systems Engineering
  • à NED University
  • novembre 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

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Arabe
Débutant

Adhésions

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

Formation et Diplômes

McKinsey Management Program Certificate (Formation)
Institut de formation:
McKinsey
Date de la formation:
January 2015
Durée:
50 heures
COBIT 5 (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2013
CGEIT (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
December 2013
Valide jusqu'à:
December 2019
TOGAF 9 Certified (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
February 2008
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
ITIL Expert (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2008
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999
CISSP (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
March 2007
Valide jusqu'à:
March 2007
PMP (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
April 2007
Valide jusqu'à:
January 9999

Loisirs

  • Sports
  • Squash
  • Reading
  • Swimming