Syed Riaz Ali

January 2012 - Present
Business Development Manager
AWS Technologies, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
About AWS Technologies: AWS Technologies provides world-class IT Solutions, Management and Technical services to both national and international clients.
Responsibilities: ➢ Maintain strong relationships with key contacts in existing accounts and develop new accounts
➢ Liaise between the technical team and clients, as well as senior management and stakeholders
➢ Identify market trends, gaps and niches
➢ Leverage my technical and industry-specific knowledge to develop strategic business development plans and B2B sales strategies
➢ Develop incentive and marketing programs for customers
➢ Business prospecting and bidding
➢ Conduct client presentations and negotiations
➢ Provide quotes on major projects and manage account transitions

➢ Exceeded sales targets by over SR 23.4 Million
➢ Broadened client base by 30 per cent
➢ In consultation with Web developers, oversaw the development of our new company website and social media presence, which resulted in a 250 per cent increase in traffic, increased profile and improved branding for the business

April 2000 to May 2010, IT Designer,
Link Technologies, Hyderabad, India


About Link Technologies: Link Technologies is into Call Center business and they planned to setup their own Data Center and my responsibility was to Design and Implement the Data Center and Networking devices.


Responsibilities:
➢ Understand the requirement after site visit and the proposal was put forth for approval.
➢ Design Data Center and implemented the devices.

Involved in Network Solutions and Manage in house networking.
• Give Network Solutions.
• Install, configure, operate and troubleshoot complex routed LAN, WAN and switched LAN Networks.
• Understand complex networks such as IP, IGRP, RIP, VLSM, BGP, EIGRP, Frame Relay ISDN, X.25, DDR, PPP, VLAN’s Access-List (Standard and Extended), 802.10, transparent bridging. Route Distribution and Route Summarization.
• Install/configure a network to increase bandwidth, fast convergence and improve reliability and Quality of Service.

Since Jan 1990 to Dec. 1996, Business Development Executive
Saudi Consulting Services, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

About SaudConsult: SaudConsult was a construction company.