SUMMARY

• 20 years of experience in complex, mission - critical and matrixed IT and Emerging Technology environments within Govt, Regulatory, Healthcare, Telecom, Banking, Retail and Consulting Services industry
• Led pre-sales solutioning, RFI, RFP, Proposal, Business Case, PoC, Prototype and Go-to-Market Initiatives
• In-depth knowledge and experience in IoT, Smart City and Cloud Use cases, Products, platform, and Solutions
• Experience and solid understanding of digital landscape, cloud Native solutions, SaaS/ PaaS/ IaaS, BSS, OSS
• Experience in Business Solution Architecture, Product Management, Project Management and Transformation
• DevOps, SDLC, PLM, Project Management, and Development Frameworks / methodologies (Agile, Lean, Scrum ..)
• Proficient in creating Product Strategy, Vision, Requirement Gathering, Portfolio, Architectural artifacts, Budget, Governance, Service Management, best practices, Product Lifecycle, and Vendor Management
• Strong team player with problem solving, negotiation, collaboration, and stakeholder relationship management
• Good understanding of integration architecture concepts and patterns, including Microservices, Service Oriented Architecture, Batch Integration, RESTful services, Event Driven Architecture, IT/ IoT ecosystem
• Experience and understanding of solution architecture, API lifecycle, technical documentation, including logical and physical architecture, and design artifacts
• Experience in managing onsite/ virtual/ offshore and managed services resources and working environment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support clients in Telecom, Banking and Government domains for providing leadership on enterprise technologies and platforms including the ecosystems, integration, implementation and service management
• Business requirement gathering, functional design, testing, validation and approval of solutions
• Manage Product Design and Development of Bespoke and slandered Solution Design
• Lead Project delivery, workshop and facilitate the communication and alignment between technology, internal and external partners, vendors, business and cross-functional groups
• Own the technical responsibility for assigned projects, to deliver solutions based on individual client needs
• Support Business Case, RFI, RFP, Proposal, Prototype/ PoC, Go-to-Market and optimization of value chain
• Manage the product life cycle, solution presentation, evaluation of technology, ecosystem, and partners
• Support strategy, roadmap, profitability, and compliance within the IoT and Smart Cities portfolio
• Define suite of IoT product and solutions including Infrastructure, Security, Microservices, API, integration

Principal Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with business, architects, partners, vendors for designing end-to-end IT, IoT cloud and smart city products and solutions
• Lead the design for pre-sales solutioning, RFI, RFP, PoC/ Prototype, Proposal and Go-to-Market Initiatives
• Provide guidance and recommendations on project direction such as setting priority of work packages, resource allocation, and work package scheduling Create product roadmap, Portfolio, vision, and requirements to support business cases and strategy
• Lead IT / IoT product design, assessment and approval of solutions and ensure that delivery of the offerings and solutions is of high quality and meets client needs.
• Provide technical expertise and serve as an advisor to both client and executive decision makers
• Review, analyze, evaluate ideas, projects, and opportunities to develop new products and business solutions
• Lead project architecture, mobile integration, authentication flows, data integration, and any other custom technical integrations
• Requirement gathering, solution design, assessment, testing, validation and presentation of solutions.
• Act as the bridge between Business and IT to understand the requirements and ensure proper delivery
• Assess and analyze technology, partners, ecosystem, standards and market trends for designing best product
• Provide expert day-to-day direction and guidance to team members, including providing oversight and management on projects and tasks and liaison with executive management and internal and external teams.
• Provide architecture solution at project / program level and ensure architecture solutions follow standards
• Collaborate Solution Architects, Technology Partners and Business to prepare design, proposal and estimation
• Lead the engagement with Infrastructure, Security, Big Data, Microservices, API, AI, IoT, edge, Blockchain, Cloud/IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, Network
• Support innovation team for development of product, project portfolios and business / departmental roadmaps
• Ensure the project delivery and deployment based on define timeline and quality. Support SDLC and PLM.
• Manage budget planning and realization (Operations, Capital), strategy and roadmap, capacity planning, software/hardware procurement, license management and vendor management.
• Lead effort to work on all phases of systems development, design, testing, implementation, maintenance, SLA Service Level Agreement), OLA (Operating Level Agreement), DR (Disaster Recovery), BCP (Business Continuity Plan), Change Management (Remedy, Service Now) and Audit/PCI/SOX compliance
• Manage global, virtual, offshore IT resources including 3rd party managed service provider (MSP)
• Manage people management responsibilities including performance management, training, and development.
• Design and deployment of Smart City (ICT Infrastructure, connectivity/data platform) for Dubai city to support Government initiatives to have one technology and data platform, IoT (Cumulocity and SAP PLAT.ONE), Connectivity (4G,5G, LoRa/NBIoT) to support all smart (IoT, AI) and data use case and digital roadmap
• Act as technology SPOC to work in partnership with Smart Dubai Government executives and senior management in planning, developing, managing and supporting ICT Platform, Services and applications.
• Serve as Principal Architect for Dubai Silicon Park ($500 million), Scope: ICT infrastructure, data & connectivity platform, Smart use cases for Living, Wellbeing, Security, sustainability, Energy management.

Director, IT Solution Delivery

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage the requirement analysis, design and delivery of IT/ Cloud infrastructure and application solutions
• Act as the bridge between Business and IT to understand the requirements and ensure proper delivery
• Collaborate with technology, business and cross-functional groups for requirement and feasibility analysis
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Developers, Testers and Vendors to deliver the IT solutions
• Support Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Product Line Management (PLM)
• New technology rollout, Implementation, Migration, Operations of business systems (Billing, ERP, EDMS, CRM, EAI, GIS, POS, Data warehouse, Content Portal, Self-Care, Trouble Ticketing- Service center, Remedy)
• Manage lead effort to work on all phases of Infrastructure and systems lifecycle, development, design, testing, User Acceptance, time to market, implementation, SLA, OLA, DR, BCP, Change Management and compliance