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SUMMARY
- Profile: Male, 46, married
- Current location: Istanbul, Turkiye
- Current position: Consultant
- Languages: Arabic, English
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a challenging environment where I can contribute to organizational growth and success. I aim to leverage my extensive experience with systems integrators and telecom companies to drive quality products and services, exceed goals, and support continuous innovation.
STRENGTHS
- 20+ years of experience with IT partners, system integrators, and ICT providers in KSA.
- Expertise designing integrated solutions that meet international standards across diverse industries.
- Proven ability to deliver best‑practice designs covering cloud, smart solutions, data‑center services, managed services, compute & storage, IoT, VDI, and disaster recovery.
- Strong background in smart digitalization and innovative industry solutions.
- Skilled at designing high‑end solutions for organizations of all sizes.
- Excellent communicator: can articulate complex designs to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Leadership, critical thinking, and workshop management.
- Strong troubleshooting instincts and initiative.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 – 2023 Kyndryl – Solution Manager (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
- Delivered cloud‑managed services for hybrid multi‑cloud environments, reducing IT complexity for clients.
- Provided consultancy for capacity planning and modernization of legacy infrastructure.
- Enabled secure enterprise mobility for remote‑work transitions across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid settings.
- Designed data‑protection and business‑continuity solutions (BaaS, DRaaS, cyber‑resilience, ITRO).
- Co‑created transformational solutions with a broad partner ecosystem, overseeing design, build, management, and modernization.
2015 – 2021 STC Solutions – Senior Solution Architect (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
- Built strategic partnerships, recommending managed services, data‑center services, and smart solutions.
- Led Smart Cities, digitalization, and IoT projects, delivering traffic management, public safety, utility management, and integration with operation centers.
- Supported sales with pre‑sales technical assistance, solution demos, and proposal/tender development.
- Conducted pilots/prototypes to win major contracts and assisted in project delivery.
2012 – 2015 Etihad Etisalat Company (Mobily) – Senior Presales Engineer (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
- Partnered with Virtustream to deliver enterprise cloud services in KSA.
- Provided technical design, sizing, and consultancy for multi‑tenant public cloud, IaaS, and hybrid solutions.
- Managed tenders, technical workshops, demos, and solution costing to maximize ICT revenue.
- Designed comprehensive enterprise cloud offerings, including DRaaS, BaaS, and data‑center migration.
2008 – 2012 IKKGROUP – Infrastructure Department Manager (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
- Led an infrastructure team supporting 2,500+ users.
- Implemented ITIL framework for structured service management.
- Managed identity & access (Active Directory), networking/security (Juniper firewalls, Cisco MPLS/VPN), data protection (Symantec, CommVault), and high‑availability clustering.
- Oversaw unified communications, DellEMC storage, and hosting (MX, DNS, domain records).
2001 – 2008 Arabic Computer Systems – Presales Consultant (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
- Designed end‑to‑end IT solutions: hardware sizing, OS (Microsoft), high‑performance application delivery, HA/DR, network design, and virtualization.
- Delivered technical consulting for directory services, Exchange, clustering, AD migrations, backup solutions, and security patch testing.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems (CIS)
Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan — 1995 – 2001
TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS
- Google Certified Cloud Digital Leader
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ‑900)
- VCE Certified Converged Infrastructure Associate (VCE‑CIA)
- NetApp Accredited Technical Sales Professional (NATSP)
- NetApp Systems Engineer Professional
- VMware Certifications: VCP, VSP, VSP‑SV, VSTP
- Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist
- Citrix XenApp for Windows Administration
- Veritas Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
- Udemy – AWS Certified Solutions Architect (CSA) online training